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Call for Submissions: Asian American Anthology

Posted on: 04/09/2006

Call for Submissions: Asian American Anthology

Call for tangible, earthy, edgy poetry by Asian American female ethnic writers to include poets with Middle Eastern, East Indian, and Pacific Islander heritage. Editor thrilled by vibrant, diverse voices and subjects, special surprises in approaching the page, and how you beat the drum of language.

Please use the following submission guidelines:

Send up to three poems. The manuscript should total no more than seven pages. Each poem must be 20 lines or more. Poems should be typed in Times New Roman, 12-point font on white paper.
All margins should be set at 1.25. Please include your name, address, phone number, and a working email address on EACH poem submitted. The email address is very important so that we can correspond if necessary. Include a biography of no more than 50 words on a separate page. (Biographies are subject to revision by editor for space considerations.) Include a short statement of your heritage as an Asian American poet.  Be sure to include a stamped self-addressed envelope for response.  Submissions without the required SASE cannot be considered. If you are living abroad, please be sure that your SASE has return U.S. postage. If you
wish to be notified of receipt of your submission, include a stamped,
self-addressed postcard (U.S. Postage only). Submissions must be postmarked no later than December 31, 2006 (early submissions are very much appreciated and strongly urged). Simultaneous submissions will not be accepted. All work must be original, written in English, and unpublished unless submitting previously published work by special invitation. Translations not accepted for this anthology.

Decisions will be made and notifications sent by the end of June 2007.  Please do not request status until after 15 July 2007.

Please mail submissions to:

Asian American Anthology
c/o Anne Marie Fowler
P.O. Box 9543
Cheyenne, WY 82003

No email submissions will be accepted. However, questions about this project can be emailed to: annemariefowler@hotmail.com. Please indicate „anthology‰ in the subject line to avoid deletion of your email.

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