Samar South Asian Magazine: Redesigned Website and Call for Submissions

01 June 2011
Samar South Asian Magazine: Redesigned Website and Call for Submissions
The editors/ staff at Samar Magazine are pleased to share the fruits of their labor: www.samarmagazine.org. Be sure to check out some of the new features:

• NEW DESIGN A sleek (and image-filled) new front page that highlights our featured articles. Instead of being an ‘issue-based’ magazine, we will now be able to give you articles on an ongoing and timely basis;

• ARTS SECTION A new section where you will find poetry, photosessays, fiction and more;

In thri current launch, you will find these exceptional new articles, photoessays and interviews:

• The Arab World’s Forgotten Rebellions: Foreign Workers and Biopolitics in the Gulf by Ahmed Kanna asks: Why have the struggles of the migrant workers in the Gulf, which have been underway for some time, been deleted from the discourse around the Arab Spring? How can the plight of these workers inform our understanding of the struggle for rights in the region?

• On the Erasure of Violence and Violence of Erasure by Aisha Ghani wonders if in the aftermath of the death of Osama Bin-Laden, have we erased a decade of warfare, with countless casualties on both sides, or does the national celebration signal the erasure of something else?

• And, RADIO SAMAR features Rana Dasgupta, in conversation with Naeem Mohaiemen, recorded at Asian American Writers Workshop, New York in January 2011 in conjunction with the US launch of Dasgupta's second novel SOLO. SOLO won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was described by Salman Rushdie as "a novel of exceptional, astonishing strangeness."

Sink into SAMAR! Give us feedback on the site, join a discussion on an article, share the magazine with your networks, and please submit your writing, photos, illustrations, audio and video work.

Submission guidelines:

SAMAR Magazine accepts articles, editorials, fiction, poetry, artwork, photography, and reviews (and are open to other mediums) on a range of issues related to South Asia and the diaspora (and other communities that may have links). Articles/reviews should be written as a social analysis and critical engagement with the topic. We ask that you avoid academic language, jargon or reportage. Our audience is definitely progressive-to-left and so your content should be as well. The best way to know if your work would fit is to look at our current and past issues.

Now the logistics. We accept submissions on a rolling basis. If you have an idea but haven’t written it, send us an abstract (200-250 words) or if you have something already written, do submit. All submissions must be previously unpublished. Word limits: 1500-3000 for features/articles, 750 for reviews/editorials (but these are flexible). You may submit your manuscript as plain text in the body of an email, or as a Microsoft Word file, to the email address below.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: submissions at samarmagazine dot org

For submissions: submissions at samarmagazine dot org

Website: http://samarmagazine.org
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