CFP: The Disabled and Higher Education (5/1/01; collection)

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    Call for Submissions

         We are seeking submissions for an edited collection in disability
    studies. It's our intent that this collection will advance those projects
    designed to illustrate the socially and culturally constructed nature of
    disability. It is our hope that this publication will make obvious at least
    some of the obstacles faced by people with disabilities as they enter
    institutions of higher education, and in this manner serve as a resource and
    dignify the strength of people with disabilities. This collection will
    privilege experience and autobiography in an effort to provide a community
    through which future students can gain the courage, strength, and hope
    they'll need for their journey. We would like to hear from people with
    disabilities who have faced the challenges that accompany any form of
    scholastic endeavor, whether you feel your efforts were successful or not.
    Keep in mind that we are interested in your personal story the obstacles and
    challenges you faced, how you faced them, and how the experience has changed
    you and/or others.

         Since people with disabilities obviously express their talents and
    creativity through diverse media, it is our goal to represent that diversity
    of talent in this collection. We envision the representative function of our
    collection to be both multi-genre and autobiographical, welcoming submissions
    from the following areas: creative nonfiction prose/poetry, both traditional
    and nontraditional essays and memoirs, artwork, and photography, as well as
    submissions that combine and blend genres. We are asking that you limit
    yourself only by your imagination.

    Submission Guidelines:
        The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2001

            Submissions should not exceed 30, double-spaced, 12 pt. font pages.

            Enclose two (2) copies of your submission with your contact
    information on a
            separate cover sheet.

            No submissions will be returned, so please do not submit your
    original work and do not enclose a SASE.

            No email or fax submissions will be accepted.

            Questions or comments may be addressed to:
                   Cindy Linden at clinden@syr.edu
                   Anne Cipri at accipri@syr.edu, or

            Provisional acceptances will be mailed no later than November 1, 2001.

            Submissions should be addressed as follows:
                   Anne Cipri
                   Syracuse University
                   Department of English
                   401 Hall of Languages
                   Syracuse, NY 13244-1170

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