Call for submissions: 2010 Robert Watson Poetry Award

Spring Garden Press and storySouth invite submissions for the 2010 Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook competition. Submission must be received by April 2, 2010. The winning manuscript will be announced in October 2010 and will be awarded with $500 and the publication of a beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook. The edition is limited to 500 copies, twenty-five of which are reserved for the author and the remainder of which will be offered for sale through Spring Garden Press.

Submission guidelines

Please submit a collection of poems not exceeding 24 pages—including title page, dedication, epigraph, brief bio, and acknowledgments. Each page may contain a maximum of 30 lines of copy, including stanza spacing. The cover page should contain, on a single detachable page, the manuscript title, author's name, address, phone number, and email address. The author's name should not appear on any of the poems. Please provide a table of contents.

NOTE: Poems may have appeared in journals or anthologies but not as part of a book-length collection.

There is a $12 entry fee.

Submitting

To enter the contest, use the Spring Garden Press Submission Manager.

Small print

Contest manuscripts are screened by the editors of Spring Garden Press as well as qualified readers appointed by the Press. The final selection is made by a poet of distinguished achievement, who remains anonymous until the winner is announced in October.

Spring Garden Press subscribes to the principles laid out in the Contest Code of Ethics adopted by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP):

CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to:

1. conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;
2. to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and
3. to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public.

This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.

For more information:

2010 Passager Poetry Contest
FOR WRITERS OVER 50

Submit work: September 1, 2009 - April 1, 2010
Results announced for 2009 contest (projected date): July, 2009

Winner receives $300 and publication.
Honorable mentions will also be published.

• Reading fee: $20, check or money order payable to Passager
  Reading fee includes a one-year, two-issue subscription to Passager.
• Submit 3-5 poems, 50 lines max. per poem
• Introduce yourself with a cover letter and brief bio.
• Include name and address on every page.
• Include a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope (SASE) for notification of winners.
• Poems will not be returned.
• No previously published work.
• Simultaneous submissions to other journals are okay, but please notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
• No email submissions, please!

If you need more information, send us an email: passager@saysomethingloudly.com, or call: 410.837.6047.  

Send all submissions to:
Passager
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5779

 

 

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Winter 2010 OPEN ISSUE for Writers over 50

Submit work: June 1 - September 1, 2010 (postmarked date)
No reading fee for Open Issue submissions

• fiction or memoir only: 4,000 words max.
• Include cover letter and brief bio.
• Include name and address on all pages.
• No previously published work.
• Simultaneous submissions okay, but notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere.
• No email submissions, please!

If you need more information, send us an email: passager@saysomethingloudly.com, or call: 410.837.6047.  

Send all submissions to:
Passager
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-5779

 

 

international online photography magazine edited by diederik meijer

Detroit Is A Bankrupt City

CLICK ON PHOTO ABOVE TO START SLIDE SHOW.

Curator Statement by The Black Snapper

Most of Daimon’s work focuses on Africa, he has made strong documentary work in Uganda, working as a freelancer with Trouw newspaper for a number of years. The work presented here was created in cooperation with the VPRO radio network. It really shows the strength of audio slideshows. Due to its nature, photography needs a second medium to contextualize it. To me, there is no better way then to allow the people portrayed to tell their own stories. Daimon has done that extremely well, the Detroit work is heartbreaking.

 

Detroit

by Daimon Xanthopoulos (the Netherlands, 1979)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Detroit has been in decline for thirty years now. Its population has been halved and most of the people left behind are poor and demoralised. One third of them live below the poverty line, 22% is unemployed.

Detroit is a bankrupt city with no hope of addressing the problems of its distressed neighbourhoods, where the only chance of positive change comes in the form of local self-help initiatives.

Everyday families are being evicted and an increasing number of people find themselves homeless on the street.

With the economy still going down the situation worsens and everyone is holding their breath, trying to overcome the crisis that struck this once famous industrial automotive city.

 

 

 

 

Schwarzfahrer (with English Subtitles)

 

 

Just a short bit of context. The title has a literal meaning but also a slang meaning. In Germany, there is an honor system for public transportation. Agents randomly check to see if passengers have tickets—if you don't there are stiff penalties. People who ride without purchasing a ticket are called "schwartzfahrer." The word literally means "black rider."

Ok, got that? Now one other bit of context. Blacks are viewed in a negative way by some Germans—the film implies it's mainly "old" Germans but there is a contemporary anti-black, anti-immigrant movement that is quite violent. In fact, if I can find it online, I will post another short film that deals with a black man being chased and assaulted by German youth. In any case, blacks are not the only ones assaulted, Turkish people also have major problems in Germany. The three youth on the bus, one of whom speaks up, are Turkish.

Watch the whole movie or you will miss the message. The ending is totally unexpected and at the same time "satisfying." ;->)

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFQXcv1k9OM&feature=player_embedded

A gruesomely funny video directed by Chris Milk ranks high on my list of favorite music videos. What you think?
>http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/11/love-stinks-video/?icid=main%7Cwelcome%7Cdl...

Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing

I'm into video and especially enjoy well done music videos. Here is one for you that takes the visual element to another level with the use of "words" as a major visual element—except they use words on clothing. It's funny. It's effective.

"Good Luck" featuring Lisa Kekaula is another Basement Jaxx video, this time with an emphasis on narrative—telling a story. This also is innovative in its presentation of the "revenge fantasy" theme.

ENJOY!

Black Harvest Film Festival 2010 submissions announcement

By Sergio, on January 6th, 2010

 

HEAR YE! HEAR YE! It’s that time of year when we announce that we are actively looking and asking for submissions for this year’s Black Harvest Film Festival which takes place during the entire month of August at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago. Last year’s festival, in which we celebrated our 15th year incduing several big hits such as Pressure Cooker, Black Dynamite, Family, Complexion, If You Love Me, The Prince of Broadway just to name a few, broke all previous attendance records and this year we aim to either match that record or beat it. So it’s up to YOU! If you have a film that you’ve completed either last year or will by May of this year and that hasn’t been screened in Chicago we want to take a look at it. 

It can be in any genre, from any country, in any length feature or short, narrative, documentary or experimental,  in any format. The only requirements are that it deals with some aspect of black life and culture from anywhere in the world and that it’s good! (Hopefully…) The deadline for submissions in June 2. Please check the website www.siskelfilmcenter.org to download the official 2010 Black Harvest submission form which will be soon located on the homepage of the site at the banner at the top of the page and also beneath the calendar in the left hand column of the homepage. And there is NO fee to submit a film. (You can also submit your film now and send in the submission form later as well) So let’s get going!

Bill T Jones Talks Abraham Lincoln With Bill Moyers

By Tambay, on February 18th, 2010

via AIAC

Multinationals on trial

February 17th, 2010 Sokari Leave a comment Go to comments

Shell, Chevron in the Niger Delta, Texaco/ Chevron in the Ecuadoran Amazon – both examples of militarisation of commerce and corporate theft and violence against communities. In 1993 the communities of Lago Agrio in Ecuador sued Chevron / Texaco for $27 billion [Aguinda v. Texaco] for environmental damage. Judgment on the case has been pending since 2003…

The case turned a corner in 2003 when it moved to the Ecuadorian superior court; recently, another milestone was reached when the court’s independent expert report assessed the environmental damage at $8 billion and recommended that Texaco (now folded into Chevron) pay damages of up to $16 billion.

Chevron / Texaco is still using dirty tricks to delay making any payments by asking for international arbitration with a view to avoiding payments and shift responsibility for environmental clean up to the Ecuadorian government.

The case brought by 4 farmers in the Niger Delta against Shell for similar environmental damage, has just begun in the Hague. I hope the plaintiffs will hold out for justice – however long it takes – and not for settlement as in the recent Ken Saro Wiwa Jr and Ogoni 8 v Shell.

The film Crude documents Texaco’s grab and run and the subsequent class action suit against the oil company by indigenous people of the Ecuadoran Amazon.

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