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Hunger and Thirst
                                                                                                     
Accepting submissions for food anthology.

                   Send us work that pushes the boundaries:  consider food as metaphor, memory, culture, ritual, and sustainer.  Recipes, yes. Explore thirst. Drinking.  Thirsting.  Investigate hunger, politics, power, poverty, and addiction. 

Details:  link to recipes or not.  Fiction and creative nonfiction, 3000 word max.  Poems, 3 max.  Art and photography, 3 each, max.

                    
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 17th                    2007

                   Send to:
FOOD--City Works Press
1313 Park Blvd., A-8
San Diego, CA  92101

or cwpfood@gmail.com

Hunger and Thirst
                                                                                                     
Accepting submissions for food anthology.

                   Send us work that pushes the boundaries:  consider food as metaphor, memory, culture, ritual, and sustainer.  Recipes, yes. Explore thirst. Drinking.  Thirsting.  Investigate hunger, politics, power, poverty, and addiction. 

Details:  link to recipes or not.  Fiction and creative nonfiction, 3000 word max.  Poems, 3 max.  Art and photography, 3 each, max.

                    
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 17th                    2007

                   Send to:
FOOD--City Works Press
1313 Park Blvd., A-8
San Diego, CA  92101

or cwpfood@gmail.com

Fundraiser!!!!! November 28th***

Dear Mills colleagues, friends, and allies,

Felicia Martinez and I are hosting a fundraiser (see flyer below) to
support immigrants in San Diego County who have been grossly mistreated
and underserved during the recent firestorm.

This issue is close to our hearts, as I am from south San Diego, and
Felicia was born there. We hope it is close to yours, too.

Please join us. Spread the word. No one will be turned away for lack of
funds.

We hope to see you there!

Best,

Jennifer Derilo
Writing Center Director
Mills College Department of English

*****

Vibes&Scribes: A Hip Hop Cabaret
SAN DIEGO FIRESTORM RELIEF FOR THE FORGOTTEN
Support the Immigrant Victims of Fire & I.C.E.!
Wednesday, Nov. 28 at VELVET 9pm to 2am
Hosted by DJs Young Deezy (Daniel Alarcón) and DJ Flava Fav
$5-$10 DONATION @ door

In The Mix! Spinning Hip Hop, Salsa, 80's & more!

DJs YOUNG DEEZY, DJ FLAVA FAV, DJ LA CHINGONA & DJ MAX CHAMP

You've heard of the San Diego firestorm. Close to a million residents
evacuated. Thousands of homes destroyed. But there is a story that's
being suppressed. Immigrants, many without documents or legal recourse,
left to fend for themselves in the canyons. Bodies of migrants found
charred. People deported from evacuation centers. Families denied their
fair share of relief supplies.

This holiday season, give to those who have suffered the loss of homes
and loved ones due to fire and ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement).

Proceeds will go to the American Friends Service Committee, which
has hooked up with the Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales
to set up this emergency fund to work directly with the immigrant
victims of injustice and fire.

You can donate directly here: http://afsc.org/give/sandiegofire.htm

For more information, see: http://tinyurl.com/39m7oo

VELVET is a bar for Women 7 days a week and is located at 3411 MacArthur
Blvd at 35th Ave in Oakland's Laurel District.

Internship/Intersection for the Arts

This looks amazing.

http://www.theintersection.org/resource_classes.php

Arts Training Internships
Our Arts Training Internship Program provides: an opportunity to work in a creative atmosphere with artists, writers, and performers; experience in the non-profit arts world; the chance to build contacts and working relationships in the Bay Area art community; school credit; and recommendations. Intersection can be a resource for the intern to learn about any and all facets of arts and nonprofit management. He or she will gain skills that can be used in future positions. The Intersection staff is happy to assist with resume development and future job placement.

Hecho en Califas Festival

Yosimar Reyes & He(R)evolution

Friday November 16, 2007

$10 adv. $12 dr. - 8pm

Yosimar Reyes

A San Jose, CA-based poet, he migrated to the United States at the age of 3, yet he continues to maintain strong cultural roots, and uses both English and Spanish to express himself in his poetry. His poetry stems from his experiences, his neighborhood and the social political issues that affect him and the greater community. He holds the title of the 2006 South Bay Teen Grand Slam Champion, and has performed all over the Bay Area. He is currently developing an autobiographical poetic collage that not only lets you see his true colors, but those of the people that surround him.

He(R)evolution

Written and performed by Julia Grob. He(R)evolution is a one-woman biographical show of a young woman struggling to understand her identity, both personal and political. Raised by her Jewish-American mother, the playwright searches to understand her roots to Chile and her relationship with her Chilean father. The actress weaves the narratives of six distinct characters in her show, including her mother, father, a female political activist, a comical "Gringo" solidarity worker, her namesake, Julia, subject of Lillian Hellman's story "Julia," and finally herself. Ultimately the show explores themes of political activism, womanhood, and fate, as the playwright/performer places herself in an honored tradition of female revolutionaries living a radical, life-centered vision of activism. For more information on this artist please click here.

Atticus Finch Books

Atticus/Finch is honored to announce the release of our newest chapbook, Snow Sensitive Skin, a collaborative long-poem by San Francisco authors Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern. While Atticus/Finch commissioned this work back in 2005, the collaboration didn't begin in earnest until June of 2006, in the midst of the (most recent) martial conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Taking as their point of departure Lebanese musician and visual artist Mazen Kerbaj's composition "Starry Night" (see below for a link), an improvisation between Mazen and the Israeli airforce for "trumpet and bombs," the authors challenged themselves to face the violence of war with the deactivating non-force of the poem, drawing into stark contrast notions of responsibility, praxis, and the labor of poetry during times of war. The authors write in their acknowledgements, "if we want to give ourselves to a present that is something other than the debased 'now,' and to a future that will not have been terminal, every second language must be taken up as an act of love." As such, Brady and Halpern took the very notion of collaboration to task, demanding that the composition unfold together, in the same room, in real time, in order to undergo and occupy this second language (in all of its difficulty) in a present foreign to the terminal 'now.'

In the meantime, for those of us happily residing elsewhere, the book can be purchased now using credit card or check. And, as is the case with all Atticus/Finch books, this volume will sell out relatively quickly, so order while you've got it on your mind!    

To obtain a copy, use your credit card at our website (www.atticusfinch.org <http://www.atticusfinch.org> )

Marin Headlands Residencies

Headlands rents day studio space at subsidized rates to Bay Area artists and arts professionals in multiple disciplines-visual, literary, performance, interdisciplinary, film and video-for terms up to two years.

The Affiliate Artist program provides local artists with a place for self-directed investigation and an opportunity to engage with the local, national and international Artists in Residence who live on site each year.

The Affiliate Artist studios are located in a historic former World War I military warehouse, Fort Barry Building 960, in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

http://www.headlands.org/article.asp?key=40

CLICK HERE to download a PDF version of our 2007 Affiliate Application.

Literary Exhibit

BJE Jewish Community Library Exhibit

What is Remembered: An Exhibit of Gertrude Stein/Alice B. Toklas Memorabilia

Exhibit runs October 14 - December 20 all regular Library hours

Tel. 415-567-3327 ext 703
Email What is Remembered: An Exhibit of Gertrude Stein/Alice B. Toklas Memorabilia
Website

Fence Books

Fence Books
Motherwell Prize
A prize of $5,000 and publication by Fence Books is given annually for a first or second book of poetry by a woman. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 60 pages with a $25 entry fee during the month of November. Send an SASE or visit the Web site for the required application and complete guidelines.
(See Recent Winners.)
Fence Books, Motherwell Prize, New Library 320, 1400 Washington Avenue, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222. Rebecca Wolff, Editor.
fence@albany.edu
www.fencebooks.com

Conference

International Women's Writing Guild Conference The 24th annual Early Spring in California "Voices" Conference, sponsored by the International Women's Writing Guild, will be held from March 14 to March 16, 2008, at a 67-acre retreat center in Santa Cruz, California. The program offers workshops and lectures for women poets and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poet Mary Reynolds Thompson, fiction writer Gayle Brandeis, and creative nonfiction writer Rachel de Baere. The cost of the conference, including room and board, is $375. The cost for Saturday or Sunday only is $70, and both days is $150; meals are not included. IWWG members receive discounts. Call, e-mail, or visit the Web site for more information. International Women's Writing Guild Conference, P.O. Box 810, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028. (212) 737-7536. Hannelore Hahn, Executive Director. iwwg@iwwg.org www.iwwg.org

Hedgebrook Residency

ABOUT HEDGEBROOK

OUR MISSION
Hedgebrook invests in women who write by providing them with space and time to create significant work, in solitude and community, and by developing an international network to connect writers and audiences.

THE RETREAT
Hedgebrook is on Whidbey Island, about thirty-five miles northwest of Seattle. Situated on 48-acres of forest and meadow facing Puget Sound, the retreat hosts women writers from all over the world for residencies of two weeks to two months, at no cost to the writer. Residents are housed in six handcrafted cottages, where they spend their days in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property, on nearby Double Bluff beach or trails around the island. In the evenings, they gather in the farmhouse kitchen to share a home-cooked gourmet meal, their work, their process and their stories. The women who come to Hedgebrook are writing in all genres, and are of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and levels of writing experience.http://www.hedgebrook.org/

Salt Hill Submission

Salt Hill Call for Submissions

/Salt Hill/ is published by a group of writers affiliated with the
Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. 

We are currently looking for contributors to add to our 21^st issue. 
The editors welcome submissions of poetry, prose,
translations, reviews, essays, interviews and artwork submitted by April
1.  We do not accept electronic submissions.

We'd love to see your stuff. All we ask is that it's good. You could
read an issue of /Salt Hill/ to get a feel for what we
like, or you could be James Joyce and send us your autograph. To submit
address your work to the appropriate editor
(poetry, fiction or nonfiction) at:

/Salt Hill/
Syracuse University
English Department
Syracuse, NY 13244

Or if you just want a copy of the journal check out our website:
SaltHillJournal.com

With+Stand

With + Stand

[1619, 'the whole creation, the universe,' from L.L. systema 'an
arrangement, system,' from Gk. systema 'organized whole, body,' from
syn- 'together', (sun- 'with') + root of histanai 'cause to stand']

A new journal of letters. Seeks submissions of emergent poetry & prose
which gestures/thinks in around with through against histories (of
capital & labor flows global markets trade agreements arts forms
bodies states cities societies resistances migrations movements
ideologies ideas etc.) & systems.

First issue will be handsomely photocopied & distributed as widely as
funds allow in the first month of 2008.

Reading period: now through December 1st, 2007.

Send submissions of 1-10 pages as word .doc attachments to
withplusstand@gmail.com

Elixir Press

A prize of $2,000 and publication by Elixir Press is given annually for a poetry collection. A second prize of $1,000 and publication is also awarded. Submit a manuscript of at least 48 pages with a $25 entry fee by October 31. Send an SASE, e-mail, or visit the Web site for complete guidelines.

Three Candles Journal

Three Candles Submission Guidelines, Poetry:

We look for well crafted poems that speak to the human experience. We generally prefer lyric poems in any form or length that exhibit a strong sense of voice, but we also read and publish formal and experimental poems. The only real criterion is excellence. No previously published poems or simultaneous submissions. We accept submissions of any topic or length, provided the poems are not overtly religious, sexist, racist, pornographic, or otherwise unartful. Please don't ask for a critique—we rarely comment on poems.

  How to submit: Send 3 - 5 poems in the body of an email message to threecandlesjournal@gmail.com

GlitterPony

At GlitterPony we accept submissions all year, but will not respond to submissions from May to July. Please use the form to the right to submit three to five poems. All files must be in .txt (plain text) format with ".txt" at the end of the file name. Emailed submissions will be ignored. Don't like plain text? Check back in July— our system should be able to work with rich text (.rtf) files.

We're sorry but simultaneous submissions are not accepted.

Queries should be sent to:
    editors@glitterponymag.com

(please note that "GlitterPony" must be included in the subject of the email for us to receive it.)

Ecotone

The journal Ecotone emphasizes the deep importance of place in contemporary writing. We hope to break across genres, and across disciplines, to discover writing that is new, dangerous, and refuses to stay safely in a single place. Our goal is an ambitious one: to reclaim landscapes, to remap and reimagine place in writing that is vital, thorny, and alive.

Ecotone is published by the Creative Writing Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. We publish high-quality works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with new and established authors about the idea of place in literature.

Ecotone welcomes unsolicited works of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry with a specific focus on the idea of place.

Mail submissions to:

Ecotone
  Creative Writing Department
  University of North Carolina Wilmington
  601 South College Road
  Wilmington, NC 28403-3297

Idiolexicon

Poetry is huge. We're interested in poetry's ever-morphing relationships with language, grammar, rhythm, metaphor, image..., but we're interested in its relationship with other things, too: politics, economics, theatre, video games, opera, popular music, religion. The most compelling poetry is argumentative without being didactic, political without being dogmatic.

Our hope is that as Idiolexicon grows, it will become a harbor for serious argument and dialogue through poetry. Send responses to other poems that have been featured in Idiolexicon. Send responses to other poems that have not been featured in Idiolexicon  Send your notes from yesterday's football game. Send your annotated version of the State of the Union address. Send the rejection letter you'd send Harold Bloom if you had the chance.

• Poetry and short prose pieces, mainly poetry.
• Slam poets are welcome here. Just don't break anything.
• Send 3-7 poems, or one long poem. We're interested in doing longer stints with sets of poems that we like, so it might be good to send poems that fit together well.
• Previously published is fine, if you tell us that it's been previously published, and where. Simultaneous subs are fine, just let us know if someone good accepts it.
• If at all possible, send your poems in the body of your email. If that's not possible, send your poems as a PDF file. If that's not possible either, explain in your email why we should trust your Word document not to have a virus in it.
• We're also interested in mp3 recordings of featured poems (studio-quality or live performance). Send files via yousendit.
• Send submissions to submissions at idiolexicon dot com.
• This is all an experiment. If we don't take your piece, it's not because we don't like it. It just might not fit with what we're trying to do right now.
• Idiolexicon is licensed under Creative Commons (non-commercial, attribution, share-alike). You retain all rights.

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CALYX

 A forum for women’s creative work—including work by women of color, lesbian and bisexual women, young women, old women—CALYX Journal breaks new ground. Each issue is packed with new poetry, short stories, artwork, photography, essays, and reviews.

CALYX, Inc.

PO Box B

Corvallis OR 97339

1-888-336-2665

FAX 541.753.0515

There Journal

There, an online literary journal published on a more or less quarterly basis, is currently accepting poetry and other work for its third issue. There seeks to collect innovative or avant-garde works of poetry with a focus on issues of land use, the environment, development, politics and people, facts and fictions, ambiguity and ambivalence, as well as essays on the intersection between activism and poetics.
Contact: therejournal@gmail.com

Eleven Eleven

Call for Submissions

Now accepting work in all genres (or work that challenges genre) for its third issue, to be published in the spring of 2007.
Reading period ends Dec. 15th.

Send submissions, along with a SASE to:

Eleven Eleven
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107