The Knives Forks and Spoons Press: Call For Work

Alec Newman:

The Knives Forks and Spoons Press needs two poets to exploit in a draconian manner. If you are interested in putting out a chapbook, please send a manuscript of between 16 - 30 pages to theknivesforksandspoonspress@hotmail.com. Illustrations and anything else are welcome, but please note we cannot publish sound recordings, as this buggers up our VAT.

If we like your work, we will get in contact to discuss our unreasonable terms.

Transgression and Its Limits Conference

Saturday 29th - 30th May

Plenary speaker Prof. Fred Botting

Reading and Q & A Iain Banks

Is transgression more than the tradition of subverting tradition? Have the conditions of post-modernity exhausted our ability to be shocked?

The aim of this conference is to provide an interdisciplinary forum to consider transgressive tactics in literature, film, critical theory and other cultural productions. To what extent has transgression helped shape sexual, cultural and artistic landscapes of its own period?

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers focusing on transgressive, taboo-breaking and politically resistant acts in literature and the arts. Please send a 300-word abstract and a 50-word biography to Aspasia Stephanou, Matthew Foley and Neil McRobert at transgression@stir.ac.uk by 19th March.

University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA

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FREAKLUNG Submissions

A message from Nat Raha and Linus Slug:

there will be 2 editions of FREAKLUNG published this year:

In May a special "Odes" edition commemorating the 10th anniversary of Barry MacSweeneys death.

Submissions for Odes to be received by March 31st.

Issue 2 in September is on the theme of insects - hence, insect themed submissions by July 31st please!

All work should be sent to the Editor [Linus Slug] at: ninerrors@googlemail.com for consideration.

FREAKLUNG is available via http://ninerrors.blogspot.com/

Readings will accompany the publication.

Charles Olson, Centenary Conference

Saturday 13th – Sunday 14th November, 2010

2010 marks the centenary of the birth of the American poet Charles Olson. As poet, critic and theorist, Olson extended the possibilities of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael to The Maximus Poems he probed the relation between language, space and community, providing radical resources for the re-imagining of place and politics. Aiming, in Robert Creeley’s terms, to hear all that Olson still provokes at the beginning of the Twenty-First Century, this conference seeks to re-assess the scope of his legacy. It will provide an opportunity to consider Olson’s value through and across a range of disciplines, with particular attention to be given to his influence on British and European writing.

Proposals for papers (title with 300-word abstract) should be sent to David Herd at d.herd@kent.ac.uk by Friday 19th March, 2010.

Centre for Modern Poetry, University of Kent

CLEAVES

Cleaves is a new journal collecting poetry from the United Kingdom and Europe. Each area will have an editor, who selects another editor after their issue is complete.

Areas and Editors identified so far include:

London – Sean Bonney
Brighton
Liverpool/Manchester – Richard Barrett
Midlands
North East
South-West (Bristol, Dartington & Plymouth)
Cork, Ireland – David Toms
Denmark, Poland and Turkey – Marcus Slease

If you would like to suggest/discuss an area or volunteer to be an editor, please go to Cleaves and email poet and webmaster Harry Godwin using the link provided on the site.

Here is the guidance for editors that is posted on the website:

3 to 4 pages (this is not strict) of 3 poets (2 + your work, though you don’t have to include your work), from your local area and/or scene of poets.

You may create/commission your own cover of the issue for your area – all covers will be displayed online in a separate document. You may just choose to use the online cover. Anything goes.

Once you have edited your selection together send it to the webmaster (me for the time being: h j g o d w i n @ g m a i l . c o m).

When I have received all of the expected collections I will collate them and send them out to all editors.

You can print the journal any way you see fit – in booklet form (by using Adobe Reader – print as booklet, then you’ll have to print half of it, turn it over manually and print the other half – I have a good method of doing this, e-mail me for help), or as an A4 document or…

Distribute the journal – either through the associated reading series, or at any reading series you attend. You can charge for it to cover your printing costs and the cost may vary depending on how large it is. If there is any profiteering, I would love to see some.

Choose the next editor wisely, and ask them to e-mail or call me.

Thank you for donating your editing time to Cleaves!

Women's Parliamentary Radio Books

Women’s Parliamentary Radio, an online radio station designed to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues and female parliamentarians, is proud to announce the launch of Women’s Parliamentary Radio Books. ... WPR Books is calling for submissions of poetry, fiction or prose, from female writers whose work explores issues affecting women with creativity and originality. The project aims to be a platform for writing which helps to position the feminist agenda outside of the established political arena, in order to enhance an understanding of how feminism and politics can affect women in new and unexpected ways.

More information is available here. Full details of how to submit are here.

if p then q: Allen Fisher

James Davies:

if p then q 4 is at the printers. As a taster click on THIS LINK to sample Allen Fisher’s Proposals 26 & 27. This will be the final issue of if p then q magazine so I can concentrate solely on full length collections – a bumper, fun packed issue to end of with. More soon. For more if p then q downloads click this LINK

Followed by:

I am therefore encouraging more manuscripts to be sent. Please see the lowdown at www.ifpthenq.co.uk or more specifically at http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/contact.html for what the house style is. Replies will be reasonably quick although there is no definite time proposed. At the moment I only publish around two/three collections a year; so please bear that in mind but I’d love to see stuff.

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Black Market Review

The Black Market Review, Edge Hill University’s international literary e-journal, invites submissions of poetry (3-5 poems), fiction, creative nonfiction and essays (up to 6000 words), art, photography, translations and book reviews for its second issue. Our reading period is September 1 to December 1. Unsolicited work outside those dates will not be read. Please email submissions and a brief bio to blackmarketreview[at]googlemail[dot]com

via Robert Sheppard

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streetcake 6

Now open for submissions:

submissions for issue 6 are still open! Closing date 20th July. We're looking for fiction (short story or an extract), poetry and imagery- all of a innovative or experimental style! Check out the site for past contributors.

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Adorno - 40 Years On

The Centre for Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex) is hosting a one-day conference on the 6th August 2009 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the death of Theodor W. Adorno. ... The deadline for receiving abstracts or paper proposals has been extended until the 30th June 2009. Time allocations for presentations will be 45 minutes (25-30mins for the paper, with an additional 15-20mins for questions). We have four keynote speakers confirmed for the conference. They are Prof. Max Paddison (University of Durham), Prof. Alexander Duettmann (Goldsmiths), Drew Milne (University of Cambridge), and Nicholas Joll (Open University). As before, please send abstracts/proposals via email to either Simon Mussell s.p.mussell[at]sussex.ac.uk or Chris O'Kane co41[at]sussex.ac.uk

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