Deadline: 1 July 2013
A multinational and multicultural team of editors, who pledge to make our choices based only on artistic merit, invites all writers to submit their works of poetry and prose to a new anthology on the topic of “Family Matters.”
Why? Family matters individually, socially and politically. Our most important relationships begin, run their harmonious or inharmonious race and end in the family. They may explain our deepest feelings, wildest dreams, or most unsettling nightmares. In the final analysis, family relations often make or break our personalities, partnerships or careers.
Yet how much do we really know about family life in other countries, other cultures? How much of our cultural knowledge is based on hearsay or worn out clichés? Literature in all its subjectivity, can open up unique emotions as well as rational passages to the family affairs of different cultures, thus enabling us to understand ourselves and others much better. So why not share some of your best family poems or short stories?
GUIDELINES:
Frank Joussen is a German school teacher who writes poems, short stories and essays in English. His work has appeared in print and online magazines worldwide. In India, he has edited and published one selection of his poetry and an anthology containing the poetry of three Indian authors. At the school where he teaches, Frank works in a One-World group with volunteers from India and Brazil. His great interest in having and maintaining contact with authors from different cultures initially stems from attending a number of conferences on "The New Literatures in English".
Christina Cowling is the author of two poetry books titled “Flexing my Muse” and “Soulground for Women.” She has had her poetry and short stories published in magazines, anthologies and newspapers such as: Storyteller, New England Writers, Evangel, Purpose Magazines, Assemblies of God, Captains of Consciousness Journal, The Millbrook Times, The Herald and Valley News. Along with Link—a church newsletter she edited for several years—she has co-edited and edited anthologies for the Canadian Authors Association and the Canadian Federation of Poetry.
Nivedita Narsapuram—born in Hyderabad, India, works with Thomson Reuters full time and freelances with Young World—The Hindu, an Indian Newspaper and Hyderabad-based Wow Magazine. She also contributes to Hillpost.in—a Himachal Pradesh based independent news portal. Apart from freelancing and working fulltime, her poems have also been featured in a couple of anthologies. Nivedita blogs at roughebook.blogspot.com and nnivedita.com. Her poems have been selected in the recently released, Inklinks where Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam among other dignitaries and peers are published.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: submit@nivasini.com
Website: http://nivasini.com/
A multinational and multicultural team of editors, who pledge to make our choices based only on artistic merit, invites all writers to submit their works of poetry and prose to a new anthology on the topic of “Family Matters.”
Why? Family matters individually, socially and politically. Our most important relationships begin, run their harmonious or inharmonious race and end in the family. They may explain our deepest feelings, wildest dreams, or most unsettling nightmares. In the final analysis, family relations often make or break our personalities, partnerships or careers.
Yet how much do we really know about family life in other countries, other cultures? How much of our cultural knowledge is based on hearsay or worn out clichés? Literature in all its subjectivity, can open up unique emotions as well as rational passages to the family affairs of different cultures, thus enabling us to understand ourselves and others much better. So why not share some of your best family poems or short stories?
GUIDELINES:
- Poems: Send 1-3 poems in the body of an email.
- Short Stories: maximum word count 800 – 2,000 sent in the body of an email or as an attachment (.doc; .rtf).All Submissions must be written in the English language; translations into English from different languages will be accepted, but must be accompanied by a written statement clearly indicating the author´s consent.
- Send submissions and queries by e-mail
- Deadline for Submissions:1st July, 2013
- Reward: 1 complimentary copy.
- The profits from the book would be diverted towards a noble cause.
Frank Joussen is a German school teacher who writes poems, short stories and essays in English. His work has appeared in print and online magazines worldwide. In India, he has edited and published one selection of his poetry and an anthology containing the poetry of three Indian authors. At the school where he teaches, Frank works in a One-World group with volunteers from India and Brazil. His great interest in having and maintaining contact with authors from different cultures initially stems from attending a number of conferences on "The New Literatures in English".
Christina Cowling is the author of two poetry books titled “Flexing my Muse” and “Soulground for Women.” She has had her poetry and short stories published in magazines, anthologies and newspapers such as: Storyteller, New England Writers, Evangel, Purpose Magazines, Assemblies of God, Captains of Consciousness Journal, The Millbrook Times, The Herald and Valley News. Along with Link—a church newsletter she edited for several years—she has co-edited and edited anthologies for the Canadian Authors Association and the Canadian Federation of Poetry.
Nivedita Narsapuram—born in Hyderabad, India, works with Thomson Reuters full time and freelances with Young World—The Hindu, an Indian Newspaper and Hyderabad-based Wow Magazine. She also contributes to Hillpost.in—a Himachal Pradesh based independent news portal. Apart from freelancing and working fulltime, her poems have also been featured in a couple of anthologies. Nivedita blogs at roughebook.blogspot.com and nnivedita.com. Her poems have been selected in the recently released, Inklinks where Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam among other dignitaries and peers are published.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: submit@nivasini.com
Website: http://nivasini.com/
