[Reader-list] Fw: [faowmeetings] Call for submissions: Anthology Of South Asian Queer Erotica [1 Attachment]

[kabi cubby sherman]

for all those who feel this call......

kabi
 
Meter Down - काली पीली की कहानी
blog: http://meterdown.wordpress.com
podcast: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/meterdown




----- Forwarded Message ----
From: shruti . <shruti.egroups at gmail.com>
To: queerotic.stories at gmail.com
Sent: Wed, 15 June, 2011 5:35:46 PM
Subject: [faowmeetings] Call for submissions: Anthology Of South Asian Queer 
Erotica [1 Attachment]

  
[Attachment(s) from shruti . included below]
Please circulate widely

Call for submissions: Anthology Of South Asian Queer Erotica [title forthcoming]
To be published by Tranquebar Press in 2012
 
The spaces for expressing queer concerns have increased across South  Asia in 
the last decade. Much is being written about sexuality, rights and queer lives. 
Yet, in all of this, sex itself doesn't get written about very much and there is 
a dearth of queer erotica from South  Asia. Contemporary queer erotica with a 
South Asian focus would make these queer lives apparent in newer and compelling 
ways. This anthology is an attempt to present queer, sexual, regional literature 
that pleasures and satisfies. It is about queer sex lives, erotic experiences 
and passions. Queer in this anthology represents non-normative genders, 
sexualities, lives and perspectives. It aims to bring out voices that have been 
limited to smaller groups or never heard before.

What we want:
We want stories of queer love, lust and craving. Sex, however you may define it, 
should be a big part of the story. We want gender play, auto-eroticism, dark 
fantasies, monogamous and non-monogamous sex, stories of bondage, domination, 
sadism and masochism. We are looking for stories of deep passions, stories that 
complicate sex. We want stories of desire, fulfilled and unfulfilled. Stories 
that defy the gender binary. Stories of how you sexed up your aids and 
appliances. Stories on masturbation or the pleasures of paid sex. Stories of how 
you steamed up a bus ride, ended a clandestine affair or fucked with sex toys. 
Share with us stories that confront, redefine, dispute and reclaim what sex is. 
Let your stories queer erotica itself. 

 
We invite you to write short stories with South Asian themes, characters and 
places reflected in them. We are looking for a wide expression of experiences 
across age, region, class, ability, gender and sexual identities. Stories can be 
fictional, semi-fictional and non-fiction, but we are not looking for academic 
or solely autobiographical writing on sexuality. Your stories will shatter the 
silences around queer erotic lives and encompass their diversities, so let us 
have them. 


Who can write:
We want to foreground the queer voices of people living in or originally from 
South Asia. Queer includes but is not restricted to identities like lesbian, 
bisexual, gay, transgender, intersex, hijra, kothi, questioning, genderqueer, 
genderfluid and pansexual. Authors do not necessarily have to identify with one 
or more of these identities but the stories they submit should reflect 
non-normative genders, sexualities, lives and perspectives. 

 
How to submit:
·         We are looking for short stories with a word limit of no less than 
3000 words. We regret that we are unable to include poetry. 

·         All submissions should be in English. Translations from other 
languages are allowed as long as the author owns the rights to the translation 
as well.
·         Please submit the story as an email attachment on a word document. 
Please include a title and word count. 

·         Do not include your name or any other identifiers in the word 
document. As weare using a blind submissions process, we will have to reject 
submissions that indicate the author’s identity in the body of the story.
·         Authors will be informed whether their work is selected by 
mid-October. At that time, we will request you to provide a name under which you 
wish to be published and a short bio.
·         All selected authors will receive a one-time payment. The copyright of 
the story will remain with the author.
·         The deadline for submission is 15th September 2011.
·         Send your stories to queerotic.stories at gmail.com
 
Now get writing about the kind of sex you have wanted to read about. And get us 
swooning!
 
About the editors: 
Meenu is a queer feminist activist. She has been involved with issues of gender 
and sexuality through women’s rights organisations and autonomous collectives 
for the last six years. She lives in Delhi and is an avid reader of erotica.
 
Shruti is currently based in Bombay. In the last eight years, she has actively 
engaged with the women’s and queer movements in the country. Over the years, she 
has worked as a researcher, social worker and counsellor. 


-- 



__._,_.___Attachment(s) from shruti . 
1 of 1 File(s)  
 call for submissions- anthology of south asian queer erotica.doc
Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic 
Messages in this topic (1) 

Recent Activity:  
Visit Your Group 
MARKETPLACE
Find useful articles and helpful tips on living with Fibromyalgia. Visit the 
Fibromyalgia Zone today! 


________________________________
 
Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the 
Yahoo! Toolbar now. 

 
Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use
. 

__,_._,___