UPDATE: Feminist SF (9/20, 4/10 & others; journal)

From: Robin Reid (Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 09:15:53 EDT


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:
 
September 20, 1999
APril 10, 2000
 
These deadlines will be permanent deadlines for in-house issues in the future.

Special theme issues have different deadlines (set by editors). Please see
the list below for further information.

The FEMSPEC office is not staffed during the summer.

 
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.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS:
 
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, 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

SCHEDULED THEME ISSUES:

If you are interested in serving as a guest editor, please send a full
description of your proposed theme, a vita, and a writing sample to the
FEMSPEC office.

LATINA/LATIN AMERICAN

Latin American/U.S.Latino/a science fiction, fantasy, speculative literature
and art--critical articles, fiction, poetry, reviews, and visual art.

Deadline for completed works: August 31, 1999
Queries, questions, more information: beatrizb@ibm.net

Beatriz Badikian
1867 N. Bissell
Chicago IL 60614-5012
beatrizb@ibm.net

SURREALISM Contact editor between September and December

Gloria Orenstein
11284 Montana Avenue Apt. 10
Los Angeles CA 90049
orenstei@rcf.usc.edu

ASIAN AMERICAN

Duangrudi Suksang
Department of English
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston IL 61920

FILM

Tricia Melzer
Women's Studies
Clark University
Worcester MA 01610

GENDER UTOPIA-DYSTOPIA

Commentary on gender in utopian/dystopian literature from feminist
perspectives. Submissions on any aspect of the subject should be complete,
including any substantive notes, and list of works cited in MLA Style.
Essays will be accepted either in hard copy, or on disk in IBM-compatible
format in WordPerfect or Word, any version up to 7.0.

Do NOT send submissions via e-mail or as attached files, as these cannot be
read.

Guest Editor:
Carol D. Stevens
Department of English
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston IL 61920

DEADLINE: Submissions must be received by November 15, 1999 to be
considered for publication in this issue.

JEWISH-ISRAELI

FEMSPEC is planning a special issue focusing on international Jewish women's
magic realism, fantasy and speculative works. We are looking for works that
explore and transcend the boundaries between dream and reality in any media
and form--from poetry and photography to personal essays and critical
interpretations. Contact the guest editor, Ruth Knafo Setton, directly for
more information:

RKSetton@aol.com. Submission deadline: March 1, 2000.

INTERSECTIONS: FEMINISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND SF

Robin Anne Reid
Department of Literature and Languages
A&M-Commerce
Commerce TX 75429

Robin_Reid@tamu-commerce.edu

Deadline: September 20, 2000

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