Submission Guidelines
Howdy, everyone. I know I said the next blog would be about what I'm reading, but this is what I'm hoping to be reading in the next few months. If you're not a writer, point out this blog to someone who is! Thanks!
(i'll be back soon enough with some blather about some books i've read recently.)
Art Stimulates Lit
a fiction anthology about art and artists
neoNuma Arts, publisher of Able to... and The Fatal Gift of Beauty and Other Plays, is soliciting short fiction on the theme of art and artists for an anthology to be published in 2008.
In each story, an artist or work of art must play an integral part. This may be a fictionalized biography, a story of one person’s relationship to an artist or work of art, or some combination or permutation of the same. The artwork may be from any realm of creative endeavor, not only visual art, but dance, theater, music, and other literary figures are equally fair game for stimulating the literary imagination. For models, consider Colum McCann’s Dancer (Rudolf Nureyev), or Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (Virginia Woolf) or Specimen Days (Walt Whitman). Do NOT consider Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
Length is open—shorter than a novella (although neoNuma would be interested in seeing novels and novellas along similar themes). Genre is open. Stories should be human, character driven explorations of art and artistry.
Submit stories to:
neoNuma Arts
P.O. Box 460248
Houston, TX 77056
Authors will be paid a royalty, based on sales. Previously published stories are acceptable, with proof of available anthology rights.
Questions to: neo@neonuma.com
Deadline: March 31
neoNuma Arts is looking for a few good psalms
Here, at the beginning of the 21st Century, life is much different from ancient Israel. The world of electronics and instant communication give us a different set of images to use in expressing our praise and worship, new cultural contexts within which to speak of and to God.
As such, neoNuma Arts is seeking out poets and other wordsmiths to create a modern psalter, one that uses imagery that might draw modern people into worship and praise in new and unexpected ways.
Form is open—free verse or any form known to poetry.
Content may be as broad as the Biblical psalms, which are:
songs of praise and worship to God (Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. –Psalm 41)
songs of despair and lament (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? –Psalm 22)
songs addressed to the faithful (Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. –Psalm 95)
even personal songs (O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. –Psalm 139)
but they are all songs that might be useful in personal devotion and corporate worship. While we don’t expect this book to become standard use in any church’s worship services, the intention is that any of these modern psalms could be used in such a way.
Is there poetry and praise in modern church architecture as the ancient psalmists found in the tabernacle and temple? Can SUVs and jets evoke imagery that draws us to God as chariots and horses once did? What in this 21st Century world brings us to joy and praise and awe? Conversely, what modern imagery might we borrow to express our despair and loneliness and brokenness?
The editors for this volume, Alan Berecka, Jill Alexander Essbaum, and Anne McCrady, will be looking for psalms of high craft and literary worth.
Submissions to: psalter2008@gmail.com
Deadline: February 29, 2008
Projected publication date: November, 2008
(i'll be back soon enough with some blather about some books i've read recently.)
Art Stimulates Lit
a fiction anthology about art and artists
neoNuma Arts, publisher of Able to... and The Fatal Gift of Beauty and Other Plays, is soliciting short fiction on the theme of art and artists for an anthology to be published in 2008.
In each story, an artist or work of art must play an integral part. This may be a fictionalized biography, a story of one person’s relationship to an artist or work of art, or some combination or permutation of the same. The artwork may be from any realm of creative endeavor, not only visual art, but dance, theater, music, and other literary figures are equally fair game for stimulating the literary imagination. For models, consider Colum McCann’s Dancer (Rudolf Nureyev), or Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (Virginia Woolf) or Specimen Days (Walt Whitman). Do NOT consider Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
Length is open—shorter than a novella (although neoNuma would be interested in seeing novels and novellas along similar themes). Genre is open. Stories should be human, character driven explorations of art and artistry.
Submit stories to:
neoNuma Arts
P.O. Box 460248
Houston, TX 77056
Authors will be paid a royalty, based on sales. Previously published stories are acceptable, with proof of available anthology rights.
Questions to: neo@neonuma.com
Deadline: March 31
neoNuma Arts is looking for a few good psalms
Here, at the beginning of the 21st Century, life is much different from ancient Israel. The world of electronics and instant communication give us a different set of images to use in expressing our praise and worship, new cultural contexts within which to speak of and to God.
As such, neoNuma Arts is seeking out poets and other wordsmiths to create a modern psalter, one that uses imagery that might draw modern people into worship and praise in new and unexpected ways.
Form is open—free verse or any form known to poetry.
Content may be as broad as the Biblical psalms, which are:
songs of praise and worship to God (Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. –Psalm 41)
songs of despair and lament (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? –Psalm 22)
songs addressed to the faithful (Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. –Psalm 95)
even personal songs (O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. –Psalm 139)
but they are all songs that might be useful in personal devotion and corporate worship. While we don’t expect this book to become standard use in any church’s worship services, the intention is that any of these modern psalms could be used in such a way.
Is there poetry and praise in modern church architecture as the ancient psalmists found in the tabernacle and temple? Can SUVs and jets evoke imagery that draws us to God as chariots and horses once did? What in this 21st Century world brings us to joy and praise and awe? Conversely, what modern imagery might we borrow to express our despair and loneliness and brokenness?
The editors for this volume, Alan Berecka, Jill Alexander Essbaum, and Anne McCrady, will be looking for psalms of high craft and literary worth.
Submissions to: psalter2008@gmail.com
Deadline: February 29, 2008
Projected publication date: November, 2008
Labels: Alan Berecka, Anne McCrady, art, artist, fiction, Jill Alexander Essbaum, psalms, short stories, submission guidelines
posted by Neil Ellis Orts at 12:13 PM
2 Comments:
This is very interesting. A challenge worthy. Thank you for sharing this. I'll pass this on to the poets at
topcatlive.com
Everett Webb
aka
TopCat
Shreveport, La.
by all means, share it far and wide. next week, I'll be updating the neonuma.com webpage, so the guidelines will be there late next week---just so you know you don't always have to come to this site and scroll down endlessly.
-Neil
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