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Issue # 9 Editorial Board
Los Angeles
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2001 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - DISORIENT JOURNALZINE-ISSUE 9
Disorient, an Asian Pacific American literary arts publication invites
submissions for an upcoming issue devoted to Pilipina/o American writers &
visual artists from Los Angeles. This issue's aim is to provide a showcase
for the diverse and emerging talents of writers and visual artists from the
LA Pilipina/o American community. Submissions will be accepted through
e-mail and postal mail.
DEADLINE
Submissions must be postmarked/sent to Editorial Board member's e-mail In
Boxes by May 1st, 2001. Targeted release date is July 2001.
CATEGORIES
1) Poetry & Prose
… We invite traditional and experimental work and highly encourage
submissions from new voices & emerging writers.
… Submit two typewritten copies of each prose or poetry submission if sent
by post.
… Prose maximum word count: 2,500 words
2) Critical essays, commentaries or nonfiction narratives
Reviews of poetry publications, performances, or performance spaces
Interviews of poets or organizers of poetry events
… All submissions should ultimately help illustrate the diversity as well
as the distinctiveness, comprising the landscape of Pilipina/o poetics in
Los Angeles.
… Submissions are encouraged to address any of these topics: Histories,
Evolution and/or adaptation, Specific styles, genres and themes, Diversity
and/or "common threads," Poetry in the context of margins and mainstreams.
3) Black and White Art (photographs, sketches, drawings, paintings, graphic
art, doodles on napkins)
… Visual Artists & Photographers must submit original work.
… Photographs/Photocopies of artwork are acceptable, as well as high res
scans (please no 72 dpi jpegs).
… Submissions must lend themselves to black & white reproduction.
… Please attach title(s) to your submission(s).
4) Special Section - Discourses is a literary project that seeks to
de-essentialize questions of Asian Pacific American identity though
collaborations between APA writers and those beyond the APA community.
Because this issue of the journal is devoted to LA Pilipina/o American
writing, Discourses will reflect the breadth of our diasporic communities
by encouraging a global dialogue.
… Emerging and established writers and artists dealing with issues related
to the local and global Pilipina/o community are encouraged to submit work
that addresses any of these topics: Place, Body, Time, Masters & Slaves,
Possession, Imagining, Emergence, Memory, Territory, Labor, Gender &
Protest. There can be numerous sites of address & the themes merely serve
as an interstice between texts from one side of the globe and another.
… Writers and artists must be from either Los Angeles or outside the United
States.
… Please specify which topics the submission addresses.
… All fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry submissions under 3000 words
will be considered.
… Visual Art (to be published in black and white) may be submitted
electronically.
… Preference will be given to unpublished material. Simultaneous
submissions to other publications are unacceptable.
… Please send submissions to:
Michelle Dizon
Discourses Editor
Disorient Journalzine
2008 S. Robertson Boulevard #1
Los Angeles, CA 90034
GENERAL GUIDELINES
… Geographic restrictions: writers and visual artists must be from Los Angeles.
… Non- English writing is welcome if accompanied by English translation.
Work will be published in both original language and translation.
… Unpublished material is preferred. Simultaneous submissions to other
publications are unacceptable.
… Submissions must include a cover letter stating your name, category of
submission, the title(s) of your piece(s) contact address, telephone
number, e-mail address (if applicable) and a brief 2-4 sentence author bio.
… Materials will be returned if a self-addressed envelope and appropriate
postage accompanies the submission, otherwise it will be recycled.
… Rights revert to the author upon publication with the provision that
Disorient receives credit.
… Please allow six to eight weeks for editorial consideration of submissions.
… As a non-profit journal, we do not offer payment for accepted submissions
but will provide contributor's a complimentary copy of Issue 9.
CONTACT INFORMATION
… E-mail submissions by category/editor:
Allan Aquino
Non-Fiction
arevalo1905@...
Rebecca Baroma
Prose
rebecca.e.baroma@...
Michelle Dizon
Discourses
discourses@...
Wendell Pascual
Visual Art
wpascual@...
Irene Suico Soriano
Poetry
isoriano@...
… Please send all submissions (except Discourses submissions) and general
correspondence to:
Disorient - Issue 9
Editorial Board
PO Box 486
Glendale, CA 91209
… For general inquiries about Issue 9, advertisement space, etc. please use
AisaremaLit@...
Disorient is sponsored by Aisarema, a non-profit Asian Pacific American
literary arts organization made possible through funding from the
California Arts Council (CAC).
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