Birkensnake 6: Wild Conformations is looking for authors who are interested in creating new pieces of short fiction (5,000 words or less) exploring the conventions and organizing principles of established fiction genres (romance, western, crime, horror, or you suggest some) from an outsider’s perspective.
This can, and hopefully will, include bringing different national and cultural perspectives to familiar US commercial genres, as well as providing individual author experiments in a “non-native” genre format.
Pieces published in Birkensnake 6: Wild Conformations may be stand-alone fiction pieces, excerpts, or serial installments. (We do not necessarily know how we would make that work but we are interested in tackling it.) If you would like to be assigned a genre to work in, we can do that. If you know of a genre that is different than the standard American fare and want to bring it to us, we are excited.
We do want writers with humor, but we’re not looking for satire. The goal is to have fun, not make fun. Writers of literary and experimental fiction are encouraged to submit. Ursula K. Le Guin says it’s okay.
If you are an international genre fiction writer, and/or if you are willing to take on conventions outside your usual style and go for broke writing in an unfamiliar genre, we want to hear from you.
Please send a writing sample of no more than five pages, and a proposal for the work for this special issue by October 31st, 2012.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: wildconformations@gmail.com
For submissions: via submittable
Website: http://birkensnake.com
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