CFP: Descant: Barbara Gowdy (3/31/05; journal issue)

Descant's special issue on Barbara Gowdy

We want your essays, fiction, poetry, illustrations, cartoons, musings,
ruminations and sketches on Barbara Gowdy's writing. We want your
impressions of the movies based on her writing. We want interviews with
her, real or fantasy. We want submissions that speak to, reflect from,
are inspired by, or merely exist in a parallel universe with Barbara
Gowdy's writing.

Barbara Gowdy has a deep commitment to the world of animals and the
protection of endangered species. She has said "I believe all females are
female impersonators." Notions of the normal and normalcy are explored in
her books. Barbara Gowdy grew up in Don Mills, Ontario, and the suburbs
and the 1950s and 60s have figured prominently in her writing. When asked
where her interest in the darker side of humanity developed, she adds in
response, "I protest that I do see the brighter side, too; the absurd
side especially." Maternal abandonment, alcoholism, love, oppression,
altruism are part of the darkly humourous sometimes absurd landscape of
Barbara Gowdy's writing.

Expand this landscape.

Submissions of original unpublished work are welcomed.
Deadline is March 31, 2005.
Mail submissions to (email submissions not accepted):
Descant: Gowdy Issue
PO Box 314, Station P
Toronto ON M5S 2S8
416.593.2557
Submission guidelines available on request or visit our website
www.descant.on.ca

Descant has published issues featuring single artists:
Dennis Lee 1982; Michael Ondaatje 1983; Ann Ditchburn 1985; R. Murray
Schafer 1991.

Now Barbara Gowdy.
Books:
The Romantic (2003) The White Bone (1998) Mister Sandman (1995) We So
Seldom Look on Love (1992)
Falling Angels (1989) Through the Green Valley (1988)

Movies based on Gowdy’s writing:
Kissed (1996) Falling Angels (2004)

Guidelines, subscription information, and back issues available at
http://www.descant.on.ca

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