FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical,
pedagogical and creative works in the realms of SF, fantasy, magical
realism, and other supernatural genres is soliciting material for upcoming
issues.
DEADLINES:
For consideration for the second issue: April 10, 1999
For consideration for the third issue: September 20, 1999
These deadlines will be our permanent deadlines in future. The FEMSPEC
office is not staffed during the summer, so submissions arriving in June,
July or August will probably not be reviewed until September.
GENERAL GUIDELINES:
If you are interested in speculating, theorizing, creating and questioning
gender across the boundaries of what is real and what is not real, consider
submitting your work to FEMSPEC. We are interested in interdisciplinary
approaches, and encourage work on teaching as well as literary and cultural
criticism and creative material. We hope an approach to pedagogy will bring
in work from a wider area of disciplines. We are interested in a variety of
feminist approaches, and aim to be inclusive of ethnic and cultural
diversity in an internationalist perspective.
We invite work between genres as well: coverage of conferences, personal
essays, non-fiction, media critiques, analysis of popular culture,
transcripts of dialogues on relevant topics, interviews with authors, art,
photography, work by or about girls of any age.
We are considering future theme issues, including feminism and SF or sf,
girls' power figures in contemporary SF/Fantasy animation, multicultural
fantastic literatures, shamanism, and invite forums by readers on such
topics as the role of I-330 in WE and the relevancy of Delany's Trouble on
Triton for the contemporary transgender movement.
The first scheduled "theme" issue will focus on the intersections between
"feminism," "multiculturalism," and "speculative fiction." The deadline for
that issue will be September 20, 2000. Contact Robin Anne Reid (address
below) for further information on that issue.
Please submit proposals for other possible themes to the editors.
FORMAT:
Please send FOUR hard copies of your submission by regular mail. Your name
and address should be included only on your cover letter; the work itself
should have only the title. If you wish the hard copies returned, please
include an SASE with postage. Fewer copies submitted will mean that the
reading/review process will take longer.
Articles (15 pages, MLA style) or abstracts (250-500 words) will be
considered.
Creative writing is accepted: short fiction, 15 pages or less; poetry, 3
poems per submission.
Reviews (art, books, television shows, movies, animations, conferences,
conventions)of 1000 words or less also welcome.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Editorial Office: Department of English
Cleveland State University
Cleveland OH 44115
Phone: 216-687-6870
Fax: 216-687-6943
Email: femspec@popmail.csuohio.edu
Editor: Batya Weinbaum, b.weinbaum@csuohio.edu
Associate Editor: Robin Anne Reid, Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu
SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
We plan to publish two issues a year, with the first issue due out in
spring, 1999.
If for some reason we are unable to meet this schedule, a 'year's'
SUBSCRIPTION will still cover two issues.
FEMSPEC will depend completely upon submissions to continue publishing.
Send United States cash, check, or money order, or credit card information, to:
FEMSPEC, Department of English, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH,
44115. Charter and Sustaining memberships include listing on the magazine
editorial page.
Regular & institutional subscribers.....$30/year
Students, low income....................$20/year
Charter membership......................$50/year
Sustaining membership...................$75/year
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