Emanations 7
Emanations is an anthology series featuring fiction, poetry, and essays. The emphasis is on alternative narrative structures, new epistemologies, peculiar settings, esoteric themes, sharp breaks from reality, ecstatic revelations, and vivid and abundant hallucinations.
The editors are interested in literary writing. We seek fiction and poetry that present unworldly ways of seeing, feeling, and describing. Recognizable genres -- science fiction, fantasy, horror, political dystopia, satire, mystery, local color, romance, realism, surrealism, and postmodernism -- are fine, but the chief idea is to make something new, and along these lines the illusion of something new can be just as important.
If a story or poem makes someone say, “Yes, it is good, but what is it?” then it is right for Emanations.
Essays should be exuberant, daring, and free of pedantry. Accounts of unusual travels will fit well into Emanations 7. Length is a consideration in making publication decisions, but in keeping with the spirit of the project contributors should consider length to be “open.”
Our editorial vision is evolving. Contributors should see themselves as actively shaping the “vision” of Emanations. While there are no set themes, volume-to-volume we have found that certain subtle and indirect tendencies are at work characterizing each new production. Hence, in Emanations: Foray into Forever, the readers can detect nuanced glimpses into conceptions of Eternity. In Emanations: 2 + 2 = 5, the tenor is vaguely dystopian. Most recently, Emanations: I am Not a Number encourages transcending the limits of our utilitarian civilization and its compartmentalized identifications. The tone of the volume is appropriately shadowy.
In anticipation of Emanations 7, the editors have
been discussing the Pleiades as a point of departure. When you look directly at
the Seven Sisters you can’t make out detail, just a blur, but if you look
slightly to one side of them they become visible in peripheral vision. Their
number and positioning relative to each other can be clearly discerned. This peripheral
field compares to the literary task of describing experience in a space and a
time outside of the collective semantic illusion; as in glancing slightly
askance, the Pleiades appear in all their sisterhood, in the
stream-of-continuity, as a formless non-self that thrives in that transparent
moment that is as boundless as it is elusive. In counterpoint to the sixth
volume’s darkness, we should like to see Emanations 7 arouse
intimations of affirmation and light.
Email files with brief cover note to:
IAsubmissions@hotmail.com
Review of Submissions begins May 1, 2018
Contributors should place their name in the subject heading, and they should include their name and contact information in the submitted file.
Emanations is a not-for-profit literary project
and contributors cannot be compensated at this time. All proceeds from the sale
of Emanations will support the efforts of International Authors to
publish new voices from around the world. Contributors receive a copy upon
publication. Only one complimentary
copy will be
sent to each contributor; the fortunes of the mail, particularly international
mail, is beyond the control of International Authors.
The project is a collaborative effort, and as we share ideas the “vision” transforms, evolves, and grows. When we write stories and poems we hope to bring to bear the entire battery of modern and postmodern literary devices. More simply: we like good, strong writing. Our essays are incisive, precise, keen, challenging, and driven by the writer’s desire to advance an intelligent audience’s understanding of exotic subjects.
The project is a collaborative effort, and as we share ideas the “vision” transforms, evolves, and grows. When we write stories and poems we hope to bring to bear the entire battery of modern and postmodern literary devices. More simply: we like good, strong writing. Our essays are incisive, precise, keen, challenging, and driven by the writer’s desire to advance an intelligent audience’s understanding of exotic subjects.
The Fine Print:
1) Submit files as follows: double space, Microsoft Word, Times New Roman size #11. Set Tabs for .2” and set spacing at 15. Use smart quotes. This will help reduce the workload as the editors format book for publication.
2) No simultaneous submissions (contributors should get fairly quick feedback anyway, especially if their submission meets our needs). Material that is obviously pulled from a file and has nothing to do with the goals of the anthology won’t get any feedback beyond the initial acknowledgement.
3) Word count/line count? See details above. We’re flexible, but contributors should be sensible when considering what they send in. A novella? Well, maybe, and so on.... Rules of thumb: a) Stories: very short to 20-30 pages. b) Poems: send in 5-10 pages. c) Essays: 5-10-30 pages.
4) Published as hard copy only -- Emanations will be available on Amazon. Participants who make a substantial contribution of material, editorial work, or art will get a copy. It can take some time to get copies to contributors outside of North America. In the case of our first anthology, for example, it took forty-five days to get a copy to a contributor in to Nepal. As described above, only one copy will be sent to each contributor; the fate of the mail, particularly international mail, is beyond the control of International Authors.
5) International Authors is a consortium, and as such every contributor is a “member” of our community, and contributors are encouraged to help promote the anthology by sending review copies to newspapers, journals and relevant Web sites.
6) Copyright “reverts” to contributors upon publication. That is, after an accepted piece appears in Emanations, the contributor can publish their piece elsewhere. Contributors should understand that Emanations will remain for sale on Amazon indefinitely. All materials appearing in Emanations are under the exclusive copyright of the contributing writers and artists.
7) Note to poets: Please do not send poems as individual files. All poetry submissions should be sent as a SINGLE MircosoftWord file formatted in Times New Roman, size 11. Please submit three to ten pages.
8) Note on calendar: The editors will not review submitted files until May 1, 2018.
Contributors submitting work to Emanations agree
to these points.
Published by International Authors
Board of Editorial Advisors
Ruud Antonius, Netherlands/UK/Switzerland
Michael Beard, US
Jason W. Ellis, US
Cedric Cester, Spain
Mike Chivers, UK
Sushma Joshi, Nepal
Vitasta Raina, India
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