Last Day To Submit Art for Fall 2013 Contest: The “Hybrid” Book
Click to Submit Your Work NOW!
Click to Download Contest Guidelines
Submissions Period Closes March 15th, Midnight EST for Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry
Filed under: Announcements, Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Fall issue features our annual Fiction contest. For more information on how to enter our contests, please see the contest submission guidelines.
Submissions
We only accept submissions through our Submission Manager. Please submit your work electronically. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as we are notified if a submission under current consideration is accepted elsewhere.
How to Submit
Please use our online Submissions Manager and send a submission that provides:
- A single .doc or.docx document (excepting art submissions) that contains your Cover Letter, followed by your work. Please read the Genre Guidelines for information about formatting your work.
- Your Cover Letter should include your name, address, phone number, email address, how you heard about So to Speak, and brief bio describing your background as a writer or artist and any applicable awards or publications.
- Any applicable contest fees will also be paid online.
We will also notify you about the status of your submission electronically.
Genre Guidelines
Poetry
- Please send up to 5 poems at a time, not exceeding 10 pages total.
- Poetry submitted during the August 1 – October 15 reading period will be considered for our Spring annual poetry contest & must be accompanied by a $15 reading fee. See contest guidelines.
- Poetry submitted during the January 1 – March 15 reading period will be considered for our Fall issue & requires no reading fee.
Fiction
- Please submit one prose piece at a time, not exceeding 4,500 words.
- All fiction submissions should be double-spaced with numbered pages.
- Fiction submitted during the January 1 – March 15 reading period will be considered for our Fall annual fiction contest & must be accompanied by a $15 reading fee.
- To enter, submit a manuscripts not exceeding 4,500 words (with double-spaced and numbered pages) and a cover letter through our Submission Manager.
- All entrants will receive a free copy of our Fall 2013 issue.
- Judge: Asali Solomon
Nonfiction
- We welcome submissions of personal essays, memoir, profiles, and other nonfiction pieces not exceeding 4,500 words.
- All nonfiction submissions should be double-spaced with numbered pages.
- Nonfiction submitted during the January 1 – March 15 reading period will be considered for our Fall Issue & requires no reading fee.
Visual Art
- Fall 2013 Art Contest: The “Hybrid” Book
- Visual Art submit from January 1-APRIL 15
- click here to view full 2013 contest guidelines.
- Jurors: Helen Fredrick, Alice Bailey, Brigette Reyes.
Call for Entry: 2013 All-Media Visual Art Competition The Hybrid Book
DOWNLOAD CALL FOR ENTRY FLYER “THE HYBRID BOOK”
WHAT: Call for Entry: 2013 All-Media Visual Art Competition The Hybrid Book
WHEN: Entries submitted on-line by April 15, 2013; winners notified June 1, 2013
WHERE: Submissions Manager
WHY: To promote all superlative art forms, share a broadened interpretation of ‘book,’ and address issues of significance to women’s lives, voice, power,and equality in contemporary culture.
2013 all-media visual art competition: The Hybrid Book Increasingly digitalized, culturally iconic in its historic codex forms, and valued always from Kindle to library as an experience, is the book. What this actually means to each reader/viewer/handler is at a time of highly fluid interpretation, as art/object/installation as “book” come to constitute an expanding area of contemporary art.The So to Speak 2013 visual art competition, then, seeks entries in all media which the makers consider to represent – in any and all ways – today’s book experience, and which articulate issues of significance to women’s lives, voice, power, and equality in contemporary culture.Jurors Brigitte Reyes, Helen Frederick and Alicia Bailey welcome submissions in all media, including performance, digital and new media, photography and all 2D and 3D visual art forms, as well as sculptural book objects and artist’s books, whether or not incorporating text.All entries must be received by April 15, 2013, on-line only through our Submission Manager. The submission fee is $15 and can be paid through our Submission Manager. All entries must be in jpg or tif formats at 300 dpi.P lease submit individual entries as LastName_Title, and include dimensions if applicable, the materials used as applicable, a brief description of the submission, and a brief artist’s bio. One submission per artist, please.Winning entries will be notified by June 1, 2013, and have images of their work published in the Summer 2013 on-line issue of So to Speak.
Jurors:
BRIGITTE REYES is founder/director of Reyes + Davis, art consultants in Washington DC, which since 2008 has curated and produced independent exhibitions for emerging and mid-career artists who work in different media.A native of New Mexico, she is a senior Washington art community artist, teacher, gallerist and advocate. She attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design and has served on the boards of non-profit art centered organizations including Transformer, the Arts Coalition for the Dupont Underground,the advisory council of Save the Corcoran, and curates annual art auctions for Project Create,an organization that works with homeless and at-risk children by using art education to promote positive development. See more at reyesdavis.com.
HELEN FREDRICK: Visionary artist, educator, curator,entrepreneur and collaborator Helen Frederick is internationally recognized for art which is both outer witness and inner lense to natural and man-made catastrophic events of culture,history and soul.She is Director Emeritus of Pyramid Atlantic, Curator of Breakthrough Art Organization, Director of Navigation Press, and Professor and Coordinator of Printmaking at George Mason University. Her work is in the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Yale University, and art collections around the world. See more at helenfrederick.com
ALICIA BAILEY has served as independent curator, juror,instructor, creative consultant,mentor and visiting artist throughout the U.S. for 30 years. She is owner/director of Denver’s Abecedarian Gallery,exhibiting book arts, works on paper, assemblage and collage.Since 1998 she has served on the executive committee of the Guild of Book Workers.In her studio she acts as record keeper for moments both ordinary and obscure, utilizing a broad range of material and method to create works that incorporate object, image and text. Her work has been featured in dozens of solo and group exhibits throughout the world and is held in numerous public, private and special collections. See more at aliciabailey.com andabecedariangallery.com.
2013 Spring Issue & Call for Submissions
Filed under: Announcements, Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Happy Spring Issue! We are proud to announce the arrival of So to Speak‘s Volume 22 No. 1! This issue features cover art by Susan Cutts. StS is honored to announce Lucy Bryan Green‘s Melt as our nonfiction contest winner, and Lauren Koshere‘s Shoshone and Lynn Casteel Harper‘s Playing the Numbers as our nonfiction runners-up chosen by Julie Marie Wade. We are also pleased to honor Rebecca Dunham‘s “Glass Armonica” as our poetry contest winner, and Laura Grothus‘s “Baba Yaga in Conversation with Her Home” and Caitlin Cowan‘s “Every Creeping Thing” as our poetry runners-up chosen by Danielle Pafunda.
To purchase a copy of the issue please visit our Subscribe page or click here for a subscription form to mail to:
So to Speak
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 2C5
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Please make all checks out to George Mason University. Follow us on Twitter@SoToSpeakJrnl and let us know what you think of the new issue with the hashtag #StS2013.
Look forward to guest posts by our awesome feminist contest winners beginning January 28th! Show them your love and spark conversation by commenting on their blog posts!
And while you’re in the typing on the computer mood, consider submitting your best art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry through our Online Submissions Manager.
This issue will feature the winners of our annual art and fiction contests, along with our open reading periods for poetry and nonfiction. For more information of open submissions and contest details please visit our Submit Page and Contest Page. We are excited to see your work!
Fiction Contest
This year’s fiction contest judge is Asali Solomon, the author of Get Down: stories. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35″ in 2007. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, O the Oprah Magazine, Essence, Vibe and in the anthologies Philadelphia Noir, Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts and Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums that Changed Their Lives. She has a PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Haverford College near Philadelphia.
To enter, submit a manuscripts not exceeding 4,500 words (with double-spaced and numbered pages) and a cover letter through our Submission Manager. The reading fee is $15 and can be paid through our Submission Manager. All entrants will receive a free copy of our Fall 2013 issue.
Art Contest: The “Hybrid” Book
In our 2013 visual art competition we seek entries in all media which the makers consider to represent – in any and all ways – the book experience.
We welcome submissions to this competition including performance, digital and new media, photography and all 2D and 3D visual art forms, as well as sculptural book and artist’s book objects, whether or not incorporating text.
Increasingly digitalized, culturally iconic in its historic codex forms, valued always from Kindle to library as an experience, is the book. What that actually means to each reader/viewer/handler is at a time of highly fluid interpretation. Art, object, and installation as “book” also is a rapidly expanding area of contemporary art.
All entries must be received on-line only (with a cover letter) through our Submission Manager. The submission fee is $15 and can be paid through our Submission Manager. All entrants will receive a free copy of our Fall 2013 issue.
All entries must be in jpg or tif formats at 300 dpi. Please submit individual entries as LastName_Title, and include dimensions if applicable, the materials used as applicable, a brief description of the submission, and a brief artist’s bio. One submission per artist, please.
Open for Submissions + December News Round-Up
Filed under: Announcements, Art, Fiction, Monthly News Round-Up, Nonfiction, Poetry
So to Speak is pleased to open the reading period for our Fall 2013 issue! Submit your best visual art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry pieces to our online submissions manager from January 1st to March 15th. This issue will feature the winners of our annual art and fiction contests, along with our open reading periods for poetry and nonfiction. For more information of open submissions and contest details please visit our Submit Page and Contest Page. We are excited to see your work!
Fiction Contest
This year’s fiction contest judge is Asali Solomon, the author of Get Down: stories. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35″ in 2007. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, O the Oprah Magazine, Essence, Vibe and in the anthologies Philadelphia Noir, Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts and Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums that Changed Their Lives. She has a PhD in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Haverford College near Philadelphia.
To enter, submit a manuscripts not exceeding 4,500 words (with double-spaced and numbered pages) and a cover letter through our Submission Manager. The reading fee is $15 and can be paid through our Submission Manager. All entrants will receive a free copy of our Fall 2013 issue.
Art Contest: The “Hybrid” Book
In our 2013 visual art competition we seek entries in all media which the makers consider to represent – in any and all ways – the book experience.
We welcome submissions to this competition including performance, digital and new media, photography and all 2D and 3D visual art forms, as well as sculptural book and artist’s book objects, whether or not incorporating text.
Increasingly digitalized, culturally iconic in its historic codex forms, valued always from Kindle to library as an experience, is the book. What that actually means to each reader/viewer/handler is at a time of highly fluid interpretation. Art, object, and installation as “book” also is a rapidly expanding area of contemporary art.
All entries must be received on-line only (with a cover letter) through our Submission Manager. The submission fee is $15 and can be paid through our Submission Manager. All entrants will receive a free copy of our Fall 2013 issue.
All entries must be in jpg or tif formats at 300 dpi. Please submit individual entries as LastName_Title, and include dimensions if applicable, the materials used as applicable, a brief description of the submission, and a brief artist’s bio. One submission per artist, please.
In other December StS news:
We had a fun month of interviews, lesson plans, and nominations!
We sent our gorgeous 2013 Spring Issue to the printers and look forward to sending all you feminists an amazing journal!
Guest Blogger Sarah Marcus shared her This I Believe inspired lesson plan and showcased 3 of her amazing female student’s brilliant essays here!
Poetry Reader Alicia P interviewed poet Moira Egan. Poet Egan gave us lovely insights into her favorite feminist writers and encouraged us to “(f)ollow your gut, honor your duende, and don’t let other people tell you what you should write or who you should be.”
Congratulations, again, to Robert Kostuck with “If I Had the Wings of a Dove” (fiction), Lauren C. Ostberg with “On Hair” (nonfiction), Adriana Paramo with “QuarterLife of Love” (nonfiction), and Sheila Black with “Migrant” (poetry) who are StS‘s 2012 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series nominees! Good Luck!
Best to you and your families in the New Year!
Current Issue
Spring 2013
-
Subscribe
Sample Copy | $7
Fill out our Subscription Form
1 Year Subscription | $12
2 Year Subscription | $22
Send a check or money order to: ATTN: Managing Editor
So to Speak
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 2C5
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Please make checks payable to George Mason University.Sister Journal
Sister Press
Cousin Pub
