Archive for September, 2009
Queer SFF
A call for LGBTIQ SF/F short fiction from Crossed Genres. Submissions close end of September, publication date is 1 November.
To complete our first year of publication, Crossed Genres is producing an oversized issue of speculative fiction wth LGBTQ themes.
Submissions will be open through the end of September. We’re looking for short stories (1000-8000 words), artwork (black-and-white) and related articles and essays (500-3000 words). We’ll also consider other formats we don’t usually consider for publication: b&w cartoons, book reviews, personal stories, etc., so long as they relate to the LGBTQ theme. We may also consider some related online-only content such as video or music (please query).
The issue will be released on November 1, and throughout the month of November we’ll be featuring a number of LGBTQ-friendly organizations on our website in our “Website Spotlight” section (Outer Alliance is featured right now). We’ll also be linking to articles of relevance in the “Headlines” section. If you know a website or blog you think should be included as a Spotlight or Headline, email us a link and tell us about it!
We’re very excited about this issue, and are working hard to make it our best one yet. Our purpose in deciding to use this theme in an issue is to help develop and encourage the conversation around queer speculative fiction, and to present some excellent queer spec fic for everyone to enjoy. Please help make it even better by spreading the word!
LINKS:
More about the theme: http://crossedgenres.com/current-genre
Submission Guidelines: http://crossedgenres.com/submissions/magazine
Submission Form: http://crossedgenres.com/submissions/
[Via OA]
Dead before it had a chance
On the heels of my previous post about Quartet Press calling for editors, I’ve just read that it is closing shop.
Publishers have been dropping like flies over the last 12 months, and QP shouldn’t be news. I guess because it was staffed by very experienced people in the biz, it was expected to take off well. For whatever reasons (not enunciated), they’ve decided not to go ahead with the venture. Good or bad? Overall, better to stop now before contracts were exchanged.
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Sleaze Ball 2009
Almost forgot – Sleaze Ball is coming up. Always held on the first long weekend in October, this year’s theme is Game On.
You’ll see why by the fantastic posters photographed by Bad Behaviour Publishing. (Keep scrolling, there are lesbians in there)
Sweet Afters: 1000+ and counting
ReadTheseLips.com, the project that could, has given away more than a thousand copies of Sweet Afters – the third anthology in the RTL series – in just over a month from release. (We would’ve posted this sooner but we had technical problems)
Thank you to everyone who’ve supported us. Please tell your friends, and do look up the authors who’ve contributed to our free anthologies.
Best spot is where the dog’s sitting
I might’ve mentioned that we had a premature spring in August. Well, we’re officialy in Spring now and the weather has held up, and my allergies remind me of this wonderful season everyday. Activites that underscore Spring for me are wardrobe overhauls, pruning the garden, rolling out the barbeque and people smiling more.
At a backyard barbeque today, it was a people and dogs affair. Nothing like small creatures to break the ice and carry conversations. We had a lovely afternoon with lots of food and no washing up, unending chatter and fantastic weather. The dogs patiently waited, as we stepped about, for us to move off before claiming their patch of sun. While humans are waking with the new wood, cats and dogs are settling in for slower warm days. How do two rhythms live under the same roof?
Porn for women, thank you Sweden
I’ll let you in on a secret – I get quite a few hits on my post about feminist porn, it’s quite the popular search term it would seem.
Anyway, here’s more wonderful feminist porn coming up. Dirty Diaries is a collection of 12 short films directed by Mia Engberg, and funded by the Swedish government.
Mia Engberg
Dirty Diaries is a cell phone project, … involves women directors shooting erotic short films with their phones. The only conditions are that all concerned must be over 18 years of age and that no one is hurt. Engberg’s aim is to redefine pornography and make it “queer, feminist and innovative.” [via Sweden]
