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DIASPORA DIALOGUES ISSUES 2008 OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Looking for emerging writers of short stories, poetry and drama in the GTA
Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual
publishing/mentoring program from emerging GTA writers of short stories
or creative nonfiction less than 3,000 words in length; plays of any
length; or up to 5 poems, with each poem being no more than 75 lines.
(See below for definition of "emerging.") Applicants are welcome to
enter more than one category, but no more than one submission per
category please.
Diaspora Dialogues is committed to supporting a literature of Toronto
that is as diverse as the city itself. Writers are encouraged to keep
this mandate in mind, but addressing this theme directly is not
essential in the submission. The setting of the works must be, at least
in part, the greater Toronto region. First and second-generation
immigrants, and First Nations writers are especially welcome.
Through an adjudicated process, a shortlist of approximately 15 writers
will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established
writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity to gain feedback on their
work. All short-listed writers will be given an opportunity to read
their work in Diaspora Dialogues' popular multi-disciplinary performance
series, which takes place across the city throughout the year in
partnership with venues like Luminato, The Word on the Street, Nuit
Blanche, Harbourfront, Toronto Public Library and others. The plays
chosen for the program will be given public readings using professional
actors and directors.
A selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora
Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto, available in
bookstores across the country.
The 2008 Diaspora Dialogues mentors include Anar Ali, Ken Babstock,
Lawrence Hill, Daniel David Moses, and Antanas Sileika.
Diaspora Dialogues supports the creation and presentation of new
stories, poetry and drama that reflect the complexity of the city back
to Torontonians through the eyes of its richly diverse writers. Please
see http://www.diasporadialogues.com for further details about us.
Submission Guidelines
* The greater Toronto region must exist in the story, poem or play
in some way. This can mean using the city as a physical setting. It can
mean exploring what the city means to you in a psychological or
metaphorical way. It can mean writing about a person, issue or
geographic location that is Toronto-specific. The definition is broad,
but Toronto must be somehow present in the work.
* The work must be original and not previously published or produced.
* Submissions must be in English.
* Fiction or creative nonfiction must be 3,000 words or less.
* Up to 5 poems may be submitted, with each poem being no more than
75 lines.
* Plays can be short or full length. A staged workshop reading will
be part of the dramaturgy cycle.
* Only one submission per category, but you may submit to more than
one category. (Example: You cannot submit two short stories, but you can
submit a short story and a play.)
* Submissions must include a short biography in paragraph form.
* The writing sample must be free of any identifying marks (no name
or contact information).
* A completed submission form must be included (attached, or
download it here).
* Submissions will not be accepted electronically. If you wish your
submission returned, please include a self-addressed envelope with
correct postage.
* Commentary/feedback is not available on submissions not selected
for the short-list.
Eligibility
* Writers and poets must not have been previously published in a
full-length manuscript of their own (although appearances in magazines
and/or anthologies are acceptable).
* Playwrights must not have had a full-length play (greater than 75
minutes) professionally produced.
* You must not have participated in the Diaspora Dialogues
mentorship program within the last 2 years.
* Those submitting must be living in the greater Toronto region,
which includes York, Halton, Peel and Durham.
We welcome your submission! Deadline is May 9, 2008. Early submissions
are encouraged. Submissions will not be accepted after the deadline.
Successful applicants will be notified in early June 2008.
These guidelines and submission form are also available here.
Please distribute widely!
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>DIASPORA DIALOGUES ISSUES 2008 OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS</span>
Looking for emerging writers of short stories, poetry and drama in the GTA
Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual publishing/mentoring program from emerging GTA writers of short stories or creative nonfiction less than 3,000 words in length; plays of any length; or up to 5 poems, with each poem being no more than 75 lines. (See below for definition of "emerging.") Applicants are welcome to enter more than one category, but no more than one submission per category please.
Diaspora Dialogues is committed to supporting a literature of Toronto that is as diverse as the city itself. Writers are encouraged to keep this mandate in mind, but addressing this theme directly is not essential in the submission. The setting of the works must be, at least in part, the greater Toronto region. First and second-generation immigrants, and First Nations writers are especially welcome.
Through an adjudicated process, a shortlist of approximately 15 writers will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity to gain feedback on their work. All short-listed writers will be given an opportunity to read their work in Diaspora Dialogues' popular multi-disciplinary performance series, which takes place across the city throughout the year in partnership with venues like Luminato, The Word on the Street, Nuit Blanche, Harbourfront, Toronto Public Library and others. The plays chosen for the program will be given public readings using professional actors and directors.
A selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto, available in bookstores across the country.
The 2008 Diaspora Dialogues mentors include Anar Ali, Ken Babstock, Lawrence Hill, Daniel David Moses, and Antanas Sileika.
Diaspora Dialogues supports the creation and presentation of new stories, poetry and drama that reflect the complexity of the city back to Torontonians through the eyes of its richly diverse writers. Please see http://www.diasporadialogues.com for further details about us.
Submission Guidelines
The greater Toronto region must exist in the story, poem or play in some way. This can mean using the city as a physical setting.
It can mean exploring what the city means to you in a psychological or metaphorical way. It can mean writing about a person, issue or geographic location that is Toronto-specific. The definition is broad, but Toronto must be somehow present in the work.
The work must be original and not previously published or produced.
Submissions must be in English.
Fiction or creative nonfiction must be 3,000 words or less.
Up to 5 poems may be submitted, with each poem being no more than 75 lines.
Plays can be short or full length. A staged workshop reading will be part of the dramaturgy cycle.
Only one submission per category, but you may submit to more than one category. (Example: You cannot submit two short stories, but you can submit a short story and a play.)
Submissions must include a short biography in paragraph form.
The writing sample must be free of any identifying marks (no name or contact information).
A completed submission form must be included (attached, or download it here).
Submissions will not be accepted electronically. If you wish your submission returned, please include a self-addressed envelope with correct postage.
Commentary/feedback is not available on submissions not selected for the short-list.
Eligibility
Writers and poets must not have been previously published in a full-length manuscript of their own (although appearances in magazines and/or anthologies are acceptable).
Playwrights must not have had a full-length play (greater than 75 minutes) professionally produced.
You must not have participated in the Diaspora Dialogues mentorship program within the last 2 years.
Those submitting must be living in the greater Toronto region, which includes York, Halton, Peel and Durham.
We welcome your submission! Deadline is May 9, 2008. Early submissions are encouraged. Submissions will not be accepted after the deadline. Successful applicants will be notified in early June 2008.
These guidelines and submission form are also available here.
Diaspora Dialogues
DIASPORA DIALOGUES ISSUES 2008 OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Looking for emerging writers of short stories, poetry and drama in the GTA
Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual
publishing/mentoring program from emerging GTA writers of short stories
or creative nonfiction less than 3,000 words in length; plays of any
length; or up to 5 poems, with each poem being no more than 75 lines.
(See below for definition of "emerging.") Applicants are welcome to
enter more than one category, but no more than one submission per
category please.
Diaspora Dialogues is committed to supporting a literature of Toronto
that is as diverse as the city itself. Writers are encouraged to keep
this mandate in mind, but addressing this theme directly is not
essential in the submission. The setting of the works must be, at least
in part, the greater Toronto region. First and second-generation
immigrants, and First Nations writers are especially welcome.
Through an adjudicated process, a shortlist of approximately 15 writers
will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established
writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity to gain feedback on their
work. All short-listed writers will be given an opportunity to read
their work in Diaspora Dialogues' popular multi-disciplinary performance
series, which takes place across the city throughout the year in
partnership with venues like Luminato, The Word on the Street, Nuit
Blanche, Harbourfront, Toronto Public Library and others. The plays
chosen for the program will be given public readings using professional
actors and directors.
A selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora
Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto, available in
bookstores across the country.
The 2008 Diaspora Dialogues mentors include Anar Ali, Ken Babstock,
Lawrence Hill, Daniel David Moses, and Antanas Sileika.
Diaspora Dialogues supports the creation and presentation of new
stories, poetry and drama that reflect the complexity of the city back
to Torontonians through the eyes of its richly diverse writers. Please
see http://www.diasporadialogues.com for further details about us.
Submission Guidelines
* The greater Toronto region must exist in the story, poem or play
in some way. This can mean using the city as a physical setting. It can
mean exploring what the city means to you in a psychological or
metaphorical way. It can mean writing about a person, issue or
geographic location that is Toronto-specific. The definition is broad,
but Toronto must be somehow present in the work.
* The work must be original and not previously published or produced.
* Submissions must be in English.
* Fiction or creative nonfiction must be 3,000 words or less.
* Up to 5 poems may be submitted, with each poem being no more than
75 lines.
* Plays can be short or full length. A staged workshop reading will
be part of the dramaturgy cycle.
* Only one submission per category, but you may submit to more than
one category. (Example: You cannot submit two short stories, but you can
submit a short story and a play.)
* Submissions must include a short biography in paragraph form.
* The writing sample must be free of any identifying marks (no name
or contact information).
* A completed submission form must be included (attached, or
download it here).
* Submissions will not be accepted electronically. If you wish your
submission returned, please include a self-addressed envelope with
correct postage.
* Commentary/feedback is not available on submissions not selected
for the short-list.
Eligibility
* Writers and poets must not have been previously published in a
full-length manuscript of their own (although appearances in magazines
and/or anthologies are acceptable).
* Playwrights must not have had a full-length play (greater than 75
minutes) professionally produced.
* You must not have participated in the Diaspora Dialogues
mentorship program within the last 2 years.
* Those submitting must be living in the greater Toronto region,
which includes York, Halton, Peel and Durham.
We welcome your submission! Deadline is May 9, 2008. Early submissions
are encouraged. Submissions will not be accepted after the deadline.
Successful applicants will be notified in early June 2008.
These guidelines and submission form are also available here.
Please distribute widely!
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>DIASPORA DIALOGUES ISSUES 2008 OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS</span>
Looking for emerging writers of short stories, poetry and drama in the GTA
Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions to its annual publishing/mentoring program from emerging GTA writers of short stories or creative nonfiction less than 3,000 words in length; plays of any length; or up to 5 poems, with each poem being no more than 75 lines. (See below for definition of "emerging.") Applicants are welcome to enter more than one category, but no more than one submission per category please.
Diaspora Dialogues is committed to supporting a literature of Toronto that is as diverse as the city itself. Writers are encouraged to keep this mandate in mind, but addressing this theme directly is not essential in the submission. The setting of the works must be, at least in part, the greater Toronto region. First and second-generation immigrants, and First Nations writers are especially welcome.
Through an adjudicated process, a shortlist of approximately 15 writers will be chosen and each assigned (free of charge) to an established writer or dramaturge in a mentoring capacity to gain feedback on their work. All short-listed writers will be given an opportunity to read their work in Diaspora Dialogues' popular multi-disciplinary performance series, which takes place across the city throughout the year in partnership with venues like Luminato, The Word on the Street, Nuit Blanche, Harbourfront, Toronto Public Library and others. The plays chosen for the program will be given public readings using professional actors and directors.
A selection of finished pieces will be published in the annual Diaspora Dialogues anthology, TOK: Writing the New Toronto, available in bookstores across the country.
The 2008 Diaspora Dialogues mentors include Anar Ali, Ken Babstock, Lawrence Hill, Daniel David Moses, and Antanas Sileika.
Diaspora Dialogues supports the creation and presentation of new stories, poetry and drama that reflect the complexity of the city back to Torontonians through the eyes of its richly diverse writers. Please see http://www.diasporadialogues.com for further details about us.
Submission Guidelines
The greater Toronto region must exist in the story, poem or play in some way. This can mean using the city as a physical setting.
It can mean exploring what the city means to you in a psychological or metaphorical way. It can mean writing about a person, issue or geographic location that is Toronto-specific. The definition is broad, but Toronto must be somehow present in the work.
The work must be original and not previously published or produced.
Submissions must be in English.
Fiction or creative nonfiction must be 3,000 words or less.
Up to 5 poems may be submitted, with each poem being no more than 75 lines.
Plays can be short or full length. A staged workshop reading will be part of the dramaturgy cycle.
Only one submission per category, but you may submit to more than one category. (Example: You cannot submit two short stories, but you can submit a short story and a play.)
Submissions must include a short biography in paragraph form.
The writing sample must be free of any identifying marks (no name or contact information).
A completed submission form must be included (attached, or download it here).
Submissions will not be accepted electronically. If you wish your submission returned, please include a self-addressed envelope with correct postage.
Commentary/feedback is not available on submissions not selected for the short-list.
Eligibility
Writers and poets must not have been previously published in a full-length manuscript of their own (although appearances in magazines and/or anthologies are acceptable).
Playwrights must not have had a full-length play (greater than 75 minutes) professionally produced.
You must not have participated in the Diaspora Dialogues mentorship program within the last 2 years.
Those submitting must be living in the greater Toronto region, which includes York, Halton, Peel and Durham.
We welcome your submission! Deadline is May 9, 2008. Early submissions are encouraged. Submissions will not be accepted after the deadline. Successful applicants will be notified in early June 2008.
These guidelines and submission form are also available here.
Diaspora Dialogues