Call for Submissions: Divergence
***CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS***We're working on the website (well, the web developer is), which will feature more specific guidelines, and suggestions for work/s. For example, the last line of the first paragraph has a subtext of 1) 'less academic' (not that we're not open to academic work/s) and more 'conversational'/'informal', and 2) documentation of things (readings, events, chapbooks, people) which are in the now. One of the things i'd like to see is submissions on what is little written about: that reading series, that micropress, that poet who lives in the sticks who few know about; i'm interested in seeing a light brought to the interstices (creative or otherwise).
You are invited to submit to the first issue of Divergence, an electronic publication of text/image/sound/video. We are interested in receiving poetry, articles, essays, text-art, animated text, as well as hybrids and paratexts (poetics, sketches, works-in-progress, rewritings), etc. Divergence aims to be a critical and creative platform/forum for work that is variously referred to as, and encompasses, 'innovative', 'experimental', 'avant-garde', 'post-avant', etc. We encourage debate, manifestos, commentary, notes and reactions which look at the present and to the future, not the past.
Divergence will be international in scope, with an editorial board composed of significant practitioners and academics in the field, including Robert Sheppard, John Hall, Geof Huth, David Miller, Jeff Hilson, and others. It is edited by Keith Jebb and Kevin Doran out of the University of Bedfordshire, and supported by the Research Institute for Media, Art and Design.
All correspondence and submissions should be sent to divergence@beds.ac.uk; we welcome proposals. The deadline for submissions is 15 September, 2009. Enquire at this address if hardcopy submissions are absolutely necessary.
Please forward this to any interested parties.
29/6/09: Send us a statement of your poetics.
2/7/09: Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/uob_divergence.
25/9/09: There's a rumour that we're accepting late submissions till the end of the month, if you want to try squeeze through the door.