We are now accepting submissions for Tribes Magazine Issue 14.
A Gathering of the Tribes seeks submissions for its 14th issue. Our focus is on outstanding literary and critical work from emerging and established writers with an emphasis on multiculturalism and alternative viewpoints. All genres and styles considered though we generally do not publish “genre” fiction (romance, science fiction, children’s literature, etc.) or metrical poetry or rhyme unless it is exceedingly contemporary/experimental. Writers documenting alternative forms of experience or from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to submit. Submit manuscripts (under 20 pages) to: A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES, P.O. Box 20693, Tompkins Square Station, New York, NY 10009 or email your submission to info@tribes.org with “Submission” in the subject.
Website
We publish poetry, fiction, essays and interviews on our website year-round. Please email us with Subject Line: Web Submissions with your attachment in a Word doc only.
General : Due to the massive number of submissions we receive, we do not guarantee response to, or return of work that is not accepted for publication.
You are guaranteed a response only if your work is selected for publication.
The Journal of Lesbian Studies will be devoting a special issue to the topic of LESBIANS, SEXUALITY, AND ISLAM, edited by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu.
There has been very little published work on lesbians and Islam. Possible topics and methods include, but are not limited to religion, Quran, Hadith, Sharia, personal experiences of Muslim women, ethnic and regional diversities, oral histories, feminist theory, research, fiction, and poetry. Authors may use a pseudonym if they prefer.
Please send a one-page abstract of your proposed contribution to Huma Ahmed-Ghosh at ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu by July 1, 2011. Proposals will be evaluated for originality and writing style, as well as how all the contributions fit together. Potential authors will be invited to write full articles in the range of 5,000 to 7,500 words.
We hope you will consider writing about your scholarship or experiences, so that this important topic receives the attention it deserves.
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor Department of Women's Studies Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Advisory Board Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Advisory Board San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Tel: 619-594-3046 Fax: 619-594-5218
The Sultan Qaboos Centre for Islamic Culture, Diwan of Royal Court and Islamic Information Centre at the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque have announced an essay contest on “Mohammed — The Messenger of Peace”. The contest, in which the winners will be awarded cash prizes of RO 400, RO 200 and RO 100 each in three categories, is open to all people, including citizens and Muslims and non-Muslim residents. Participants are asked to write the essay in English within 1,200 words.
The last date for submission of the essay is June 10. The essay should be submitted only by e-mail to grouppositive@yahoo.com, grouppositive@hotmail.com or islamiccentre@yahoogroups.com. There will be four categories of contestants: under 16 years Muslims, under 16 years non-Muslims, above 16 years Muslims and above 16 years non-Muslims.
The essay should be original and not lifted from the Internet and journals but contestants can give proper references for quoting someone. For more information, one can contact Said Muferji (99425598), Aftab Kola (92288410) or Hafidh M Kindy (99341395).
Contact Information:
For inquiries: contact Said Muferji (99425598), Aftab Kola (92288410) or Hafidh M Kindy (99341395)
For submissions: grouppositive@yahoo.com, grouppositive@hotmail.com
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles, interviews, and creative writings on the literatures, the histories, the politics, and the arts whose focus, locales, or subjects involve Britain and other European countries and their former colonies, the now decolonized, independent nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Something New out of Twenty-First-Century Africa?
A call for essays for a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies announces a special issue on new writing from Africa, to be guest-edited by Simon Lewis (College of Charleston) and Lindsey Green-Simms (American University), and published in spring 2013. The editors are looking for articles that address the ways in which the economic, political, and technological changes of the early 21st century have affected the modes of writing on the African continent.
While this theme may be broadly interpreted, the editors are especially interested in articles that engage the following types of questions:
* How is 21st-century African writing reconfiguring the debates about tradition vs. modernity? * How are new media and communication technologies affecting literary expression and readerships? * Has the internet created space for the vernacular, the original, and the local? * How are new geopolitical formations shaping literary production and distribution? * How are new political alignments within the Global South affecting the production of African literature? * Are new strands of nationalism and/or pan-Africanism emerging, or is African literature more profoundly marked by cosmopolitanism, and narratives of migration and/or entrapment? * Does it make sense any more to think of African writing as postcolonial? * How are new trends in environmentalism and new biotechnologies affecting understanding of (human) nature, sustainability, and individual and collective right-living? * What is the relationship between the African novel and modes of popular culture such as Nollywood, hip-hop, or self-help manuals?
Please send substantial, completed essays of 5,000 to 8,000 words to Lindsey Green-Simms and Simon Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu before November 30th, 2011. Essays must be written in English, using MLA format for style and citations. In order to facilitate blind review, please do not include your name or affiliation in the body of the essay, but provide a separate cover-sheet with that information.
Firstly we would like to thank all those who submitted work to the anthology, we greatly appreciated your entries. We congratulate the following writers whose work has been selected:
Poetry: Abigail George, Yemi Soneye, Tinashe Muchuri, Vivid Gwede, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, and Dami Ajayi.
Interviews: Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Eric Nzaramba.
We have re-opened submissions until the 29th February 2012, and will be publishing (if all goes well) on Marechera's 60th Birthday next year.
We are looking for excellence in essays, reviews, short stories, poems, and interviews, which show new insights into Marechera's works and life. Fun, interesting, and probing works that feature Marechera, directly or indirectly, as a major theme. What effects did he have personally, socially, in literature, academically, historically, contemporary, and what effects did they have on him? What drove his demons and saints, etc.?
Guidelines:
You are invited to enter your submissions until the 29th of February 2012.
Editors:
Emmanuel Sigauke – Poetry
Tinashe Mushakavanhu – Essays/interviews
Ikhide Ikheloa – Reviews
Ivor Hartmann – Short Stories
Poetry (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 10-1000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
7) Deadline: 29th of February 2012.
Essays/Interviews (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 1000-5000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
7) Deadline: 29th of February 2012.
Reviews (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 1000-5000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
7) Deadline: 29th of February 2012.
Short Stories (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 1000-5000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
Penplusbytes in association with Highway Africa announces first Pan African New media essay completion. The competition aims at increasing journalism students’ knowledge and understanding of the importance of new media in our changing world.
Languages: French and English
Topic:
In a quest to define Africa’s sustainable future in ten years time (2021), through critical thought in the media. Discuss what role will new media play in the social, political and economical transformation of the African continent? And how can we get there?
Who is eligible?
Student enrolled in public and private journalism, mass communications and media schools at the under graduate level on the Africa continent still in school by September 2011. Students must submit original essay and have a sponsoring lecturer preferably head of department signed entry form.
Format
The essay should be 800-1000 words typed and must be double spaced. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry form downloaded here.
Entering
Send all entries (essay and forms) via email to training@penplusbytes.org
Prizes
The winners of this pan Africa Award will receive very attractive prizes.
1st Place: Fully paid participation in Highway Africa Future Journalists Programme workshops in Cape Town South Africa, September 2011 plus $300 (Three Hundred US dollars) spending money.
2nd Place: iPad 2 3rd Place: Net book laptop 4th place – Small format video recorder 5th to 10th Places– certificate of commendation
Dates to remember:
Entry Deadline: 15th July 2011 Notification of Awards: 15th August 2011
“Many Cinemas” is a forthcoming e-magazine (1st Issue announced: Spring 2011). It will dedicate its bi-annual issues the many cinemas of the non-western world, namely Asia, Africa, Latin America and other small cinema traditions.
“Many Cinemas” will be a magazine for film aesthetics, theory and analysis beyond the main stream film studies. Every issue will focus one specific topic, and we hope to publish different articles from each continent. The editors will select the proposals and accompany the publishing process. Afterward, “Many Cinemas” will be open peer reviewed, respectively commented.
CFP TRAVELLING
MANY CINEMAS seeks for articles on cinema which focus on travelling – and just like our maxim – in the non-western cinemas of the world like Asia, Africa and Latin America. Holiday, business, private matters. There are several reasons for travelling. The autumn edition of MANY CINEMAS will dedicate its issue to the topic “Travelling”.
Travelling: People undertake a journey to places, strange and not familiar to them. How do they act or behave in an unfamiliar environment and how does it take an impact on them? Cinema is close connected with travelling. It is a window to the world, both real and imaginary. The lights turn off and pictures appear which bring you to places far away.
We are interested in every aspect of travel in cinema.
Some possible topics are:
* How to travel in film, reasons, way of travelling, genre-questions? * Travel in search of relatives, lovers or someone/something else? * Exploring own roots – Culture and Identity * Thoughts of travels * Vehicles of voyage * Travelogues * Images of appearing and vanishing landscapes and people * Travel and interruption * Travelling Cinema
And for our rubric BEYOND THE SCREEN we are looking for articles which are loosely connected to film like music, dance, performance, visual culture…
We would like to invite you to participate to our second issue of our e-journal MANY CINEMAS. This time we are looking especially for participants writing on African, Arabian, Latin American, Chinese, or Japanese cinema.
After our first issue which will be published in End of May 2011, the second issue will take place in autumn 2011.
Please send us your proposal (300-500 words) and a brief CV until 15th May 2011. Do not hesitate to mail us, if you have some questions.
The later articles should have a length of 3000 to 4000 words. Please send your proposal to Helen Staufer and Michael Christopher.
For the past few decades, the Islamic banking and finance industry has grown significantly in the global market. We believe that R & D in Islamic Finance are vital to be further developed. Hence, we at KLIFF 2011 are extremely proud to organize this essay competition to encourage in-depth research competitively. We are pleased to invite and encourage everyone to participate in this essay competition by writing to us a well-grounded essay on Islamic banking and finance topics. The winning essays receive awards totaling to USD6, 000.00. We will begin accepting essays starting from 25 April 2011.
ELIGIBILITY
• This contest is open to all (Malaysian or others from all countries of the world)
ENTRY FORMAT
• An English essay of 5,000 to 10,000 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography. • Submissions can be sent via our online submission form (strongly encouraged!), via e-mail to mazlita@cert.com.my. Each entry must be accompanied by a submission form and short CV. • Essays must be in the .doc format, 1 ½ spaced and 12-point Times New Roman font. • Quotes and references must be clearly marked throughout the essay and properly attributed.
PROCEDURES
• Each contestant may submit more than one entry, but each winning contestant will be entitled to only one prize. The prize will be awarded to a winning contestant for his/her highest-scoring entry. • All submissions must be original. A contestant must confirm that his/her entri(es) has /have not been published or entered in other competition . • A winning entry will not be allowed to enter into any other competitions.
COPYRIGHT
• CERT reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to adapt, edit, modify, reproduce and use the entry (ies) for any promotional or educational purposes without the prior consent from the contestant or providing any payment whatsoever to the contestant . • CERT reserves the right to present no awards, or to reduce the number of awards if an insufficient number of deserving entries is received.
JUDGING CRITERIA
• Presentation skills, including the language, coherency and readability. • Completeness of the essay, including background information, products (s), relevant to the essay development. • Usefulness of the essay to others. • Any form of plagiarism will result in automatic disqualification. • Judges’ decision is final and is not subject to an appeal.
TOPICS
Topics for the essay competition should be focused mainly on the following themes :
1. Islamic Banking & Finance 2. Islamic Economics 3. Islamic Equity & Investments Products 4. Governance in Islamic Finance 5. Shariah Methodology & Fatwa in Islamic Finance 6. Risk in Islamic Finance 7. Takaful & Retakaful 8. Legal and Regulatory Issues in Islamic Finance 9. Accounting in Islamic Finance 10. Shariah Audit in Islamic Finance 11. Legal & Shariah Compliance 12. Islamic Capital Market 13. Islamic Treasury Products 14. Islamic Structured Product & Islamic Derivatives
BIG REWARDS AWAIT THE WINNERS OF THIS YEAR’S ESSAY COMPETITION!
Prizes of the winners
1st Prize: USD2,000 Cash, USD250 CERT Book Vouchers 2nd Prize: USD1,500 Cash, USD150 CERT Book Vouchers 3rd Prize: USD1,000 Cash, USD100 CERT Book Vouchers 3 Consolation Prize: USD300 Cash
• The winner will be given the complementary seat to attend 2-day 8th Kuala Lumpur Islamic Finance Forum (KLIFF 2011).
• Submit your essay with a cover page including your name, address, phone number, organization, email address, essay title.
All entries must be submitted together with duly completed entry forms and sent by mail or e-mail to:
Send all correspondence to: Centre for Research and Training (CERT), 277, Jalan Bandar 11, Metro Melawati, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Any queries please call: +603 4108 1439
Fax the Form below to: +603 4106 1549
Send your details by email: mazlita@cert.com.my
We will send you a confirmation note on receiving your registration form.
Paradigm Shift is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal of essays that challenge the basic assumptions underlying much research about peoples of African descent, particularly, but not limited to legacy Black Americans. The research under investigation may be in the social and behavioral sciences, the life and biomedical sciences, or the arts and humanities. Paradigm Shift is published once a year, in March, through the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The journal seeks electronic submissions of essays of 4000 to 5000 words that present novel alternative explanations, insights, and perspectives on various topics of relevance to research on African Americans. Authors are encouraged to send their essays to iaar@unc.edu,attention Paradigm Shift Editor. The first issue of Paradigm Shift is scheduled for e-publication on June 30, 2011 with prospective submissions due at IAAR by April 30, 2011.
Are you interested in the role of education in developing countries? Are you interested in winning £100 or more?
NUHA is launching its first essay competition which is open to all. Whether you’re from Sri Lanka, Sweden or South Africa, we would like to hear what YOU have to say about how you think education should function in your country and across the world.
The competition has been established with the twin aims of:
* Creating an international platform to debate issues relating to education and development * Creating an opportunity to publish the work of students and of people who want to be heard
Who can enter?
Absolutely anyone! There are two prizes this year:
* NUHA Blogging Youth Prize (for those born in 1993 or after): £100 * NUHA Blogging Prize (for those born before 1993): £150
It doesn’t matter whether English is your first, second, third or fourth language: your article will be judged first and foremost on the quality of your argument and the originality of your ideas. What should I write?
Taking education and development as your starting point, write an essay of between 500 and 1,500 words in response to one of the statements below.
Youth category:
1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela 2. Education is worth paying for. 3. In the 21st century, it is better to give a child a computer than a book.
General category:
1. “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus 2. The State should encourage access to private education. 3. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler
When should I enter?
As soon as you like! The Editor will read every essay she receives, which may then be posted on the NUHA blog and we hope that you will respond to these postings with further debate.
The deadline for all entries is 16 September 2011 and we may post your article on the NUHA blog until 30 September 2011.
You then have until 31 October 2011 to vote for your preferred articles by liking or re-posting them on Facebook, tweeting about them or emailing them to your friends. You also have until 31 October 2011 to continue debating about the topics above.
On 1 November 2011, the Editor will announce which 9 published articles have been shortlisted for the Prizes. For each Prize, 3 articles will be shortlisted on the basis of your vote, 3 other articles will be shortlisted on the basis of how much you have been debating them, and 3 more articles will be shortlisted on the basis of their intrinsic quality.
On 1 November 2011, the Editor will also unveil the panel of judges for each Prize, who will focus on the quality of the argument and the originality of the ideas of the 9 shortlisted essays.
The winners for both the Blogging Youth Prize and the general Blogging Prize will be announced on 1 December 2011.
The Black AIDS Institute is looking for 30 Black Americans 30 years old or younger to share their views about HIV/AIDS. You could be one!
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in the United States. Who would have thought that a strange disease first identified among a small group of gay men in Los Angeles would turn into the leading health issue of our time, killing tens of millions across the globe and threatening the national security of countries all over the world.
This June, the Black AIDS Institute will publish its 2011 State of AIDS in Black America report commemorating 30 years since the first AIDS cases were diagnosed in the United States. The report will include a supplement featuring 30 essays from Black Americans age 30 and younger. We want to hear from this unique generation of Black Americans who have never known life without HIV/AIDS. We invite you to share your thoughts about HIV and AIDS.
Today, Black America bears the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, accounting for nearly 50% of the estimated 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS, nearly 50% of the 56,000 new cases each year, and almost 50% of AIDS related deaths to date.
What do you think about the HIV/AIDS epidemic? How has it impacted your life? Even if you’ve not been touched by the disease or don’t know anyone who has, we want to know what your think. What do you think should be done to end the epidemic in Black communities? Have you’ve been tested for HIV? How was that experience for you? Have you ever met someone living with HIV/AIDS? Do you talk about HIV with your friends or partners? What do you talk about? Write to us. Share your thoughts. The world wants to know what young Black America thinks about HIV/AIDS.
Submission requirements: Submissions must be no longer than 800 words. All contributors must be age 30 or younger on June 1, 2011. Submit essays EMBEDDED within your email to 30under30@blackaids.org . Please include a short bio (one paragraph please), a high resolution photo of yourself, and a contact phone number. Due to the high volume of submissions, we can only respond to submissions we intend to publish. Submission deadline is May 1, 2011.
Critical essays and creative pieces are sought for an interdisciplinary book on African immigrant women in the United States. African immigrant women comprise 45.6% of African immigrants in the United States and represent the second most educated group of women in the United States. This demographic profile is yet to grab the critical attention of US immigration and new African diaspora scholars. The edited volume seeks to bring to visibility the hitherto untapped critical mass of African immigrant women in the United States.
The influx of African immigrants into the United States in the last three decades is steadily leaving marks on the nation’s ethnic and cultural landscape. Federal data for 2010 shows that African nations are now the largest suppliers of immigrants in places like Minnesota where Asians and Latin Americans traditionally formed the immigrant stock. Similarly such recent and expanding enclaves as “Little West Africa” or “Little Senegal” in Harlem, ”Fouta Town” in Brooklyn and “Little Somalia” in Minneapolis assert the unequivocal formation of a new African diaspora in the United States.
Scholars have been catching up with this new African diaspora, as shown by numerous essays on cultural and racial negotiations, translocal and transnational practices, and entrepreneurship. However substantial and comprehensive studies, in the form of books, have been slow in the making. To date, the most significant studies include John Arthur’s Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States (2000), Paul Stoller’s Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City (2002), Jacqueline Copeland-Carson’s Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World (2004), Jacob Olupona and Regina Gemignani’s African Immigrant Religions in America(2007), Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu’s The New African Diaspora (2009), John Arthur’s African Women in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders (2009), and Zain Abdullah’s Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem (2010).
With the exception of John Arthur’s African Women in the United States, which focuses exclusively on West African women and adopts a sociological methodology, this emerging body of scholarship falls short on gender analysis. Yet critical theorists of migration have now established that a sophisticated reading of immigrant processes necessitates gender-sensitive and gender-specific approaches. The lack of such approaches in existing studies of the new African diaspora has rendered African immigrant women invisible despite a unique demographic profile that identifies them as an important critical mass of both the African immigrant experience and the woman immigrant experience in the United States. Data from the 2000 US Census indicate that African immigrant women, 68.4% of whom are in their childbearing years, represent 45.6% of African immigrants. According to the same data, African immigrant women represent the second most educated group of women in the United States. In light of this demographic profile, the invisibility of African immigrant women in both the emerging scholarship on the new African diaspora and the more established scholarship on immigrant women in the United States strikes us as a major epistemological gap.
African Women in Motion: Gender in the New African Diaspora in the United States seeks to fill the above-mentioned gap. To this effect we welcome critical essays and creative pieces that reckon the centrality of African immigrant women as a site of analysis and an epistemological window to the new African diaspora in the United States. We are particularly keen on contributions that resist the traditional “deficit-framing” of immigrant women by dominant discourses. The book is in an interdisciplinary study. As such we welcome contributions from all disciplines as well as contributions that adopt interdisciplinary methodologies. We also seek to represent immigrant women from different parts of the continent.
Possible topics might include (but are in no way limited to) the following:
• Creation and negotiation of new gender roles and identities • African immigrant women and the discourses of diaspora, transnationalism, translocalism, postnationalism, cosmopolitanism • African cultural scripts that feed and sustain the subject-positions of African immigrant women • Role of African immigrant women in developing and sustaining such places a “Little West Africa” in Harlem, “Fouta Town” in Brooklyn, or “Little Somalia” in Minneapolis • Literary perspectives on African immigrant women; African female artists of the new African diaspora • Reading the Bodies of African Immigrant Women • Historical perspectives on African immigrant women in the United States • Motherhood • Relations between African immigrant women and other Black women; African immigrant women and race • African Muslim women in post 9-11 America • African immigrant women in the professions, in academia, as entrepreneurs • Undocumented African Immigrant women • African immigrant women and domestic violence/abuse • African immigrant women and their relationships to home • African immigrant women as activists and community organizers • African immigrant women and dating • African women students in US higher education • African women refugees • African women in US prisons • African women sex workers
Please send a 300-500 words article proposal, accompanied by a short bio-biographical statement listing your institutional affiliation, before June 15, 2011 to the editors: Ayo A. Coly (ayo.a.coly@dartmouth.edu) and Marame Guèye (gueyem@ecu.edu). Deadline for complete submissions: November 15, 2011
Contact Information:
For inquiries: ayo.a.coly@dartmouth.edu, gueyem@ecu.edu
For submissions: ayo.a.coly@dartmouth.edu, gueyem@ecu.edu
Coming out of the closet and announcing your sexual orientation is a process that affects and impacts individuals in very different and specific ways. This process of coming out can be both positive and negative depending greatly on the circumstances and the audience. For some professors who are teaching in the classroom, one constant stressor can be the continual struggle of the repetitive sharing and opening of one’s sexual orientation with new students. This process may change with the content being taught by the professor, however, it is a process that can have very specific repercussions depending on the space and time occupied by that individual who chooses or is forced to “come out” in the classroom.
But what if you were a faculty member? Should coming out to students even be a choice? Is there a place for coming out to ones students at all? What are some possible repercussions/responses/attitudes to faculty members coming out in the classroom? Is an individual's choice to come out one that has to take into account college/university policies, the institution's denominational affiliation, and/or the communities surrounding and being served by the institution? What about the discipline in which you teach - how can what you teach students lead to a 'need' to come out in the classroom? Should coming out to students be legislated by the administration, departments, or even colleagues? Is the experience different and more complicated as you consider racial/ethnic, class background, and gender composition of students and faculty?
We are seeking ethnographic essays that focus on the experience(s) of LGBTQ faculty of color coming out, or choosing not to come out, in the classroom. While you are the subject of the essays, you should also be able to engage academic approaches to the analysis of your own experiences. Submissions are opened to all disciplines and types of institutions.
If interested, please send a 250 word abstract and short bio. A 15-20 page essay should be sent electronically by October 1, 2011 to emoralesdiaz@wsc.ma.edu
Dr. Enrique Morales-Díaz Associate Professor of Spanish, Ethnic & Gender Studies Chair, Liberal Studies Westfield State University Westfield, MA 01086 413-572-8193
The contest will be known as the “Mahdiya Essay Writing Contest,” and the awards will include US$1,000 in cash prizes for the 4 winners of two short essays. The name Mahdiya has been chosen in recognition of the first capital city of the Fatimids which was founded in North Africa by Imam al-Mahdi, the 11th Ismaili Imam and first Fatimid Caliph.
The prizes, distributed in the form of money order/draft, are in addition to the original prizes of the first edition of “The Memoirs of Aga Khan”, the autobiography of Aga Khan III and “Animal Voyage” by Prince Hussain Aga Khan. The exact prize distribution is specified in the contest summary and rules below.
The writing contest will become an annual feature beginning with this 2011 initiative.
The closing date for the two contests has now been extended to April 30, 2011. No further extensions will be made. The winners will be selected by a team of judges from around the world by mid-May, 2011. The winning essays will be announced and published on this Web site soon thereafter. The winners will also be announced on Ismailimail, the highly popular independent Ismaili blog which has become the best and most dependable reference source for news related to the worldwide Ismaili Muslim community.
This contest provides a wonderful opportunity for students, the youth as well as adults to develop and write their thoughts about the iconic projects that are being built on Wynford Drive in Toronto, Canada, by the 49th Ismaili Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan. Please read the guidelines below, and share your grandest aspirations or imagination about this “Gift to Toronto” and, indeed, our world by His Highness the Aga Khan. Participate in this exciting contest where you can contribute meaningfully, simultaneously being recognized for your creative and thoughtful writing skills and talent.
Finally, in addition to the $1000.00 being offered as cash prizes to the winners, a total of upto six entries deemed as honourable mentions by the judging panel will each receive a gift card or cash in the amount of $US 50.00. Canadian and USA honourable mentions will receive a gift card from Chapters and Barnes & Nobles respectively, and overseas entries will receive the amount in the form of a money order.
We look forward to reading your entries and being part of your thoughtful world to ignite and open our eyes on multiple levels about the historic creation of “The Aga Khan Museum, the Ismaili Centre and Their Park.” To assist you in this endeavour, we have provided links to numerous articles and speeches.
SUMMARY
1. The first will be a short essay of 300 – 500 words on the topic, “Why I am Excited about The Aga Khan Museum, The Ismaili Centre and Their Park.”
2. The second will be a short description where, in no more than 125 words, the participant will describe “Why I like this photo” for any one photo the participant chooses from the photo essay (see the link below).
3. There will be two age categories for each essay – a youth category (ages 18-24) and an open category (25 years and over).
4. The winner of the youth category for the essay competition, “Why I am Excited…” will receive a cash prize of $400.00 as well as an out of print copy of “The Memoirs of Aga Khan” (UK, 1954, 1st edition). A DVD of the Aga Khan Museum will also be included.
5. The winner of the open category for the essay competition “Why I am Excited…” will receive a cash prize of $300.00 as well as an out of print copy of “The Memoirs of Aga Khan” (UK, 1954, 1st edition). A DVD of the Aga Khan Museum will also be included.
6. The winner of the youth category for “Why I Like this Photo” will receive a cash prize of $175.00 as well Prince Hussain Aga Khan’s enchanting photo book “Animal Voyage.” A DVD of the Aga Khan Museum will also be included.
7. The winner of the open category for “Why I Like this Photo” will receive a cash prize of $125.00 as well as Prince Hussain Aga Khan’s enchanting photo book “Animal Voyage.” A DVD of the Aga Khan Museum will also be included.
RULES
1. The competition is free to enter.
2. Youth (18 to 24) and adults (25 and over) are invited to participate.
3. We encourage the participation of youth and adults from diverse cultural backgrounds and geographical locations.
4. The essay “Why I am excited about the Aga Khan Museum, the Ismaili Centre and their Park,” should be between 300 and 500 words.
5. The photo essay, “Why I Like this Photo,” is limited to 125 words. A participant may only select one photo of his/her choice from the entire photo essay, and describe why he/she likes it. The photo slide show may be viewed by clicking any one of the following links:
PHOTO ESSAY: PDF presentation (Recommended)
PHOTO ESSAY: Powerpoint Presentation
PHOTO ESSAY: Regular Web Pages
6. All submissions must be in the English language.
7. Entries should be emailed to simergessay@aol.com or simerg@aol.com in one of the following formats: WordPerfect, Word, PDF, RTF or as an email.
8. Entries should include the following information:
a. A short biographical note (to introduce the applicant – limit it to 75 words). Participant’s age, birth date, school, and (OPTIONAL) a small photo are also required.
b. Participant’s full contact details (email address, telephone number(s), complete postal address, town, country). This information must be provided in the body of the email
9. The e-mail subject should read “Entry for Essay Contest.”
10. Entries should be submitted by April 30, 2011.
11. Winners will be declared on this Web site sometime during the latter half of May 2011.
12. The decisions made by the panel of judges (see list below) will be final.
13. The participants will ensure that their essays do not infringe on anyone’s copyright material when developing the essays.
14. All participants in this contest implicitly accept the rules presented in this document.
AIMS OF THE CONTEST
1. To use Albert Einstein’s quote, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world,” one of the primary aims of the essay will be to encourage everyone to discover the joy and power of writing creative, intelligent, and persuasive essays.
2. To promote a culture of writing and reading among youth and the public.
3. To make the viewers at large more engaged in these projects, by both reading the essays and commenting on them.
4. To enhance and enlighten the readers’ views of what other people are thinking about these three projects.
WINNERS
1. The winners will be announced sometime at the end of May, 2011, on this Web site, www.simerg.com.
2. The winning essays will be published on www.simerg.com.
3. Winner of the best essay, “Why I am Excited…” for each of the two age groups (i.e. 18 – 24 and 25 and over) will receive a cash prize as mentioned above, a good used copy of “The Memoirs of Aga Khan”, and a DVD of the Aga Khan Museum.
4. Winner of the photo description, “Why I Like this Photo” for teach of the two age groups (i.e. 18 – 24 and 25 and over) will receive a cash prize as mentioned above, a brand new copy of the photo book “Animal Voyage” by Hussain Aga Khan (2008), and a DVD of the Aga Khan Museum.
Note: To read more about the two books shown above, please click here.
5. Also, upto six entries deemed as honourable mentions by the judging panel will each receive a gift card or cash in the amount of $US50.00 plus a DVD of the Aga Khan Museum. Canadian and USA honourable mentions will receive a gift card from Chapters and Barnes & Nobles respectively, and overseas entries will receive the amount in the form of a money order.
6. Thus the total maximum cash amount available for the contest will be $1300.00 ($1000.00 for winning essays, and $300.00 for honourable mentions).
SELECTION CRITERIA
The judge’s selection for the essays will be based on the following:
1. Originality and personal vision.
2. Relevance of the essay to the three projects.
3. Quality of language (engaging writing style, good spelling and grammar etc.)
4. Demonstration of a thorough understanding of the three projects.
AN INTERNATIONAL PANEL OF JUDGES
The following individuals have kindly agreed to judge the competition:
1. Mr. Bruni Freschi, O.C. (Order of Canada), Vancouver, Canada – Architect, Ismaili Jamatkhana and Centre, Burnaby 2. Dr. Aziz Kurwa, London, UK – Medical Professional 3. Professor Arif Babul, Vancouver, Canada – Astrophysicist 4. Mr. Zulfikar Khoja, Ottawa, Canada – Educator 5. Dr. Navyn Naran, New York, USA- Medical Professional 6. Mr. Jim Bowie, Toronto, Canada – Hobbyst Photographer and Realtor 7. Mr. Iqbal Motani, Ottawa, Canada – Accountant/Auditor 8. Ms. Shellyza Moledina, London, UK – Pharmacy Student, Writer and Singer
DISCLAIMERS AND EXCLUSIONS
Simerg reserves the right to not award the prizes if the number and quality of the entries do not meet the jury’s expectation. This decision will be made by the judges.
Simerg looks forward to a good participation, and interesting responses.
SELECTED RESOURCES
Aga Khan Museum articles at AKDN
The Aga Khan’s speech at the Foundation Ceremony
Aga Khan Museum collection - article at theIsmaili.org
Article in Nomeancity.net
Ismaili Centres – A special coverage at theIsmaili.org
Urban Toronto article
The above list is by no means complete. Numerous other articles are posted on the internet.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: simergessay@aol.com or simerg@aol.com
For submissions: simergessay@aol.com or simerg@aol.com
Saraba, an electronic literary magazine, currently based in Ile-Ife, Nigeria is in its 8th Issue. In these issues, we have exlpored themes as diverse as Family, City Life, Economy, Niger Delta, Religion/God,Technology, and Fashion.
Our goal, from the onset, has been to encourage young emerging writers - although our contributors have ranged from unknown writers to well-known ones. We are proud to assert that our contributors are mainly young writers, whose writing are previously unknown, and whose talent and promise are overt in their works.
We have published writers mostly from Nigeria. But in addition, our contributors are writers resident in London, Paris, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, USA, Zimbabwe, Russia, Cameroun, Australia, and so forth.
Our 8th Issue, which is our most recent, was released on 15th April 2011. It is our proudest effort till date. In the Issue, we explore the knotty issue of fashion, and state that "... we failed in securing a unanimous perspective for fashion; how we succeeded in multiplying the richness, the effusiveness, the feverishness and sometimes agonizing details of fashion."
Writers in the issue include Yemi Soneye, Donald Molosi, Michael Lee Johnson, Chitzi Ogbumagba, Emmanuel Uweru Okoh Luso Mnthali, Lauren Henley, Victor Olusanya, Yolanda Mabuto Sokari Ekine, Damilola Ajayi, Tola Odejayi, Emmanuel Iduma Karen Chandler, and Kesiena Eboh.
The issue can be downloaded from http://sarabamag.com/featured/issue-8-fashion/
Our Issue and Chapbooks are published on www.sarabamag.com and can be downloaded free. We call on literary enthusiasts and the general reading public to explore the wide talent on offer. More importantly, we encourage readers to subscribe to the magazine. From our next issue, only subscribers would have access to the full content of the magazine. Subscription is free.
Submissions
Entries are received only for the e-magazine and chapbooks. Our site is improved continually to represent and reflect the best of emerging writing from Nigeria, Africa and the world. Interested contributors should read the following guidelines carefully.
Saraba’s staff is a small number of committed and enthusiastic but busy professionals. As such, entries that do not conform to these guidelines would not be considered. Our goal is to give emerging writers a voice and confidence, to give them the opportunity of having their works published.
For the magazine, we would, from the June Issue, publish content in two ‘portfolios.’ The first portfolio would be theme-based. Please see our themes for the year. We would publish, also, content of a general literary nature, but this portfolio would be smaller in size than the first.
Please send your work in an attachment in any of our three major categories: Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction. Send no more than one work at a time, and wait for our response before you send another. Word count for fiction works is 5,000, except otherwise announced. We’d accept no more than 3 poems at a time. For Non-fiction, we expect a broad range of new creative writing, including short memoirs, interviews, reviews, creative non-fiction, creative journalism, etc. Word count for this is 2,500.
We are also open to digital art including photographs, illustrations, paintings and so forth. Please send in high resolution jpeg files (not larger than 4 MB).
Please send alongside a bio of not more than 50 words (in third person).
Unsolicited poetry would not be considered for the chapbooks. If interested, please send a query and we would reply accordingly. Poems submitted would be generally considered for the magazine, on either of the portfolios.
Although we strive to highlight the talent and hard work of contributors, please note that we cannot afford to pay contributors.
Jadaliyya is an independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab Studies Institute), a network of writers associated with the Arab Studies Journal (www.ArabStudiesJournal.org).
Jadaliyya has launched its culture section; an open space for creative, original, and critical texts about culture(s) in Arabic and English. We seek to support cultural expression in a wide variety of sites and contexts, media and genres. To this end, we are interested in contributions dealing with literature, theatre, music, cinema, visual arts and design, photography, TV and Radio, video art, social media and Internet expression.
Specifically, we welcome:
1. Creative writings (in English or Arabic)
2. Translations (of poems, short stories, excerpts from novels or plays, critical essays)
3. Critical essays and commentary about cultural issues, figures, debates, and various cultural phenomena (1000 words minimum)
7. Photo essays or single photographs with commentary
8. Video clips
9. Travel essays
10. Quickies (shorter pieces on a cultural phenomenon, figure, or event) [500 to 800 words]
We publish new material every Monday. We welcome your contributions, support, and feedback. For more information, read our Call for Posts below, or contact us at culture@jadaliyya.com
"Something New out of Twenty-First-Century Africa?"
A call for essays for a special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies announces a special issue on new writing from Africa, to be guest-edited by Simon Lewis (College of Charleston) and Lindsey Green-Simms (American University), and published in spring 2013. The editors are looking for articles that address the ways in which the economic, political, and technological changes of the early 21st century have affected the modes of writing on the African continent.
While this theme may be broadly interpreted, the editors are especially interested in articles that engage the following types of questions:
-How is 21st-century African writing reconfiguring the debates about tradition vs. modernity?
-How are new media and communication technologies affecting literary expression and readerships?
-Has the internet created space for the vernacular, the original, and the local?
-How are new geopolitical formations shaping literary production and distribution?
- How are new political alignments within the Global South affecting the production of African literature?
-Are new strands of nationalism and/or pan-Africanism emerging, or is African literature more profoundly marked by cosmopolitanism, and narratives of migration and/or entrapment?
-Does it make sense any more to think of African writing as postcolonial?
-How are new trends in environmentalism and new biotechnologies affecting understanding of (human) nature, sustainability, and individual and collective right-living?
-What is the relationship between the African novel and modes of popular culture such as Nollywood, hip-hop, or self-help manuals?
Please send substantial, completed essays of 5,000 to 8,000 words to Lindsey Green-Simms and Simon Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu before November 30th, 2011. Essays must be written in English, using MLA format for style and citations. In order to facilitate blind review, please do not include your name or affiliation in the body of the essay, but provide a separate cover-sheet with that information.
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles, interviews, and creative writings on the literatures, the histories, the politics, and the arts whose focus, locales, or subjects involve Britain and other European countries and their former colonies, the now decolonized, independent nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.
WHIRLWINDS: Emerging Communities of Sexual Minorities in Africa will be an anthology that will examine the ways that sexual minorities are organizing themselves in new ways to create groups, networks, organizations, and movements across sub-Saharan Africa. By sexual minorities, we understand not only lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex groups but also localized endogenous sexual minorities, such hungochani, gor jigeen, dan daudu, and infinitely many others.
Scholars, writers, and activists are invited to submit abstracts for chapters that will contribute to an upcoming book project entitled WHIRLWINDS: Emerging Communities of Sexual Minorities in Africa, edited by Mark Canavera and Charles Gueboguo.
Editors’ Biographies
MARK CANAVERA is a writer, humanitarian aid worker and activist who works primarily in West Africa. His humanitarian efforts focus on youth empowerment and child and family welfare in settings impacted by conflict such as former child soldier reintegration in northern Uganda, small arms control in Senegal, girls education promotion in Burkina Faso, and child welfare system reform in Côte d’Ivoire and Niger. Mark was a founding editor of the Harvard Africa Policy Journal and served on the editorial staff of the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. He writes features and op-ed pieces on African affairs and writes for The Huffington Post, America’s most widely read online newspaper. He received Harvard University’s prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Award for Public Service in 2008 and the Best Feature Writing in 1996 from the South Carolina Press Association.
CHARLES GUEBOGUO is an African scholar and author whose has developed pioneering research around sexual identity in French-speaking West Africa. His first book, La Question homosexuelle en Afrique: le cas du Cameroun (The Issue of Homosexuality in Africa: The Case of Cameroon), published in 2006, was the first French-language book-length study of African homosexuality and the first of its kind published by an African scholar. It was followed in 2009 by Sida et homosexualité(s) en Afrique: Analyse des communications de prévention (AIDS and African homosexualities: An analysis of preventive communication strategies), a critical reflection on the lack of appropriate HIV-prevention communication strategies for sexual minorities. He recently co-edited a special edition of the Canadian Journal of African Studies, which presented cutting-edge research and perspectives on sexualities in Africa. He was the recipient of the 2007 Fraser Taylor Award of the Canadian Association of African Studies and the 2009 International Resource Network Africa Simon Nkoli Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in the study of sexuality in Africa.
Overview
WHIRLWINDS: Emerging Communities of Sexual Minorities in Africa will be an anthology that will examine the ways that sexual minorities are organizing themselves in new ways to create groups, networks, organizations, and movements across sub-Saharan Africa. By sexual minorities, we understand not only lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex groups but also localized endogenous sexual minorities, such hungochani, gor jigeen, dan daudu, and infinitely many others.
As the book will be primarily descriptive and analytic in nature, the chapter abstracts submitted should not take the form of personal narratives or descriptions of the activities of a single organization. Rather, they should provide a descriptive, critical analysis of groups, organizations, or movements. While remaining accessible to a wide readership, WHIRLWINDS will be grounded in empirical research and thorough investigation.
The book will bring together chapters about both country-level studies and transversal analyses of major themes or trends across countries.
The editors have identified the following countries as likely chapters in the book and are seeking submissions for chapter abstracts related to them:
Writers submitting chapter abstracts about the above countries should include the following in their abstracts: a basic overview of the way that groups, organizations, communities, and networks are emerging among sexual minorities in the country; a description of the methods that the writer will use to gather the relevant data (e.g., how will she or he write about the given topic with a sufficient and credible evidence base?); and key points of analysis about the current state of communities of sexual minorities in the countries. If writers would like to submit an abstract for a country not currently identified on the above list, notably in the Maghreb, she or he is welcome to do so.
Transversal themes for which the editors are seeking submissions include:
* HIV/AIDS and communities of sexual minorities * The interplay of Western and African organizations * The role of women’s groups and organizations in sexual minority movements * Transgender issues * Historical precursors to current-day movements, groups, or organizing efforts
Writers submitting thematic chapter abstracts should include the following in the abstracts: a brief presentation of the major issues to be considered in the chapter; a description of the data set (e.g., which countries, movements, or groups will be considered in the analysis) and of the methods that the writer will use to gather the relevant data; and key points of analysis that will be undertaken. If writers would like to submit a transversal theme that is not included in above list, she or he is welcome to do so. Writer Profiles
Given the book’s analytic nature, the editors are seeking writers with strong skills in research, critical analysis, and argumentation. Writers with journalistic and activist backgrounds are welcome to submit chapter abstracts although they must clearly lay out how they will ground their analyses in rigorous research and investigation and how they will make links to the wider body of literature around sexual minorities in Africa.
Strong preference will be given to writers from African countries and research institutes although writers of any background are welcome to submit. As the book must present a common tone, writers whose abstracts are selected for the book project should expect to work closely with the editors to revise their chapters as the project progresses. At the current time, the editors cannot guarantee any payment for work related to this book. Instructions for Submission
Chapter abstracts should be sent by May 31, 2011 to whirlwinds@rocketmail.com.
Chapter abstracts can be submitted in either English or French although French-language writers should know that the editors will seek to publish the book through an English-language press. (Both editors speak French and will work with French-language writers on translation.)
Abstracts should be no longer than one page long, and they should be accompanied by a brief biography of the author. Writers are welcome to revise former speeches and presentations for submission as chapter abstracts as long as they have not been previously published.
Potential writers should note that the language of the chapters should avoid jargon as the book will seek to present nuanced ideas in clear, straightforward language that will appeal to a broad readership beyond academia.
Opon Ifa Review (ISSN 2040-8838) Call for Papers for Volume 3, Number 2 Contemporary Trends in Drama and Performance
Opon Ifa Review is a quarterly publication of CentreSTAGE-Africa. CentreSTAGE-Africa is an acronym for ‘Centre for the Study of Theatre and Alternate Genres of Expression in Africa’. Its aim is primarily to serve as a studio and research centre for the arts. It provides a forum for researching into indigenous dramatic forms, as well as other expressive traditions.
In our next issue of Opon Ifa Review, we would like to explore various aspects of contemporary drama and performance in English / translations. Submissions may be made on the following topics/areas. At the same time we welcome suggestions for inclusion of any topic on the theme:
· Emerging Practitioners in Africa · African Performances in the Diaspora · New Developments in Screen Performances · Drama and Performance in a Digital World · New Forms of Performance and New Tools for Communication: Electronic Drama and the Digital Tools · Discussion of major trends in a particular region · Discussion of major dramatist(s) of a particular region
In addition, submissions are also requested for our general sections:
Creative Works – short stories, plays (or extracts)
Poetry
Interviews
Play Reviews
Book Reviews
Submissions should be accompanied by a short abstract and bio data. Please, use MLA referencing style in your submission. Length for articles and essays should not ideally exceed 5,000 words. Except in poems, format your writing in Times New Roman 12.
CONTACT: The Editor, Opon Ifa Review, oponifareview@gmail.com
In decades gone by, research and academic representations on, and engagement with, society, state and politics in Gambia have been fairly steady and encouraging. In the past few years however, transformations in Gambia have been many and varied, occasioning in the production and recreation of avenues for research and epistemological curiosity. Although elements of these have been documented in some research outlets, research in other areas remains thin and far between. It is essential that their nuances in the broader context of Gambia’s present and future be appropriately explored. This is more so because Gambia is at a critical junction, faced by choices and struggles, dilemmas and uncertainties. The challenges this conjures need to be interrogated and their impact contextualised. It is in light of these and related factors, that a call for papers on a special issue on Gambia is being issued.
This special issue will be published by the Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal (LGD) of the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK. The special issue aims to cover a wide range of interdisciplinary research themes that accommodate possible research areas that have been either under-represented or virtually ignored. The assumption is that transformations Gambia has recently experienced have been profoundly expansive, if not defining. Yet, their exacting ramifications in the context of law, governance, politics, social justice and global development have been scarcely explored. The special issue hopes to provide the outlet through which to interrogate these interfaces. The theme for the special issue is:
Gambia in a Global World: Challenges of Law, Politics, Social Justice and Development.
Contributors wishing to be considered for publication are urged to submit abstracts of not more than 250 words before May 5th 2011. However, although the LGD strives to accommodate interdisciplinary research, it is imperative that contributors capture a representation of the thematic focus of the special issue.
All abstracts should be sent by email to Dr Ebrima Ceesay (Guest Editor)
Email: ebrima_ceesay@hotmail.com and gambiaspecialissue@gmail.com
Contact Information:
For inquiries: ebrima_ceesay@hotmail.com, gambiaspecialissue@gmail.com
For submissions: ebrima_ceesay@hotmail.com, gambiaspecialissue@gmail.com
