- Call for Games: DIY Games Room at Canzine!
- Call for Stories: TRH at WorldFest
- Call for Submissions: The Proof Newspaper
- Call for Submissions: Centre Sagamie
- Flash Fiction Contest: Gemini Magazine
Call for Games for the DIY Game Room at Canzine Toronto
Broken Pencil magazine and their DIY tech columnist skot deeming (aka mrghosty) are planning something special at this year’s Canzine. Toronto has a rich creative community of DIY game makers working with various formats. We want to show them off at Canzine Toronto 2012. We’re looking for a number of people who have made DIY games to come down to the games room and demo them, allowing Canzine attendees to experience DIY game culture first hand.
If you’re a board game, card game or a digital game maker, we want to bring you in, share your work and come play with us on October 21st!
The Hand Eye Society will be providing their Torontron Game Cabinets, and we’ll be supplying tables and chairs for everyone to gather around and play. If you’re a DIY digital game maker, bring down your laptop and show people what you’re up to. If you’re a board game maker and want some play testing of a prototype, this would be a great chance for that too!
Send all inquires and registration info to [email protected]. Please include your name, the title of your game and a brief description. All those selected to demo games at Canzine will get free admission and the latest issue of Broken Pencil magazine.
Call for Submissions: This Really Happened at WorldFest 2012 (Calgary, AB)
Montreal’s storytelling series, This Really Happened (TRH), is coming to WordFest in Calgary on October 9, 2012. TRH is a nonfiction storytelling evening presented by the literary magazine carte blanche. All stories are told in front of a live audience without notes.
We’re looking for stories on the theme of FAMILY TIES. We want to hear your stories of attachment, both figurative and literal, from the stepsister who made your life hell, your grown-up children who won’t move out of the house, to the new family that was created when a surrogate carried a baby for you and your gay partner.
To submit a story, please send a rough outline of the story you wish to tell as well as a brief description of who you are to: [email protected] by September 3, 2012. (You do not need to be a seasoned performer – you just need to have a good story to tell.) Chosen storytellers will receive an honorarium from WordFest for their performance at the festival. Selections lean heavily towards well-developed narrative with insight. Stories do not need to be funny (though funny is good), but keep in mind this is for a live audience. To listen to stories from our last TRH events, please go to our website.
Call for Submissions: The Proof Newspaper (Chicago, IL)
The Proof is a newspaper bursting with pictures and words. You can pick it up for free from piles around Chicago, or subscribe and have it delivered each month, mixed in with the junk mail you were going to carry to the recycling bin.
The Proof is an experiment. What if we had our own newspaper? Could it be free but support itself? Could it increase instead of decrease the space for comics? Could it treat its contributors like human beings? Could it survive without advertorials, junket interviews or content outsourced to robot aggregators?
We want drawings you’re ashamed of, doodles you’re sure we won’t like, photos you put on Twitter but nobody fav’d or retweeted, first-try comic strips, text pieces by people who don’t write, drawn pieces by people who don’t draw, and things drawn with your weak hand. The only reason to get into this business is to see and read new things, so we will never get tired of clicking on what you’ve got to show us. Don’t be afraid, e-mail us.
The deadline for the September issue is August 30, 2012.
Call for Submissions: Centre SAGAMIE (Alma, QC)
Artists, authors and curators are invited to submit proposals for residency, publication and exhibition projects. New deadline: September 30, 2012.
(Please note that there will not be a call for projects in January)
Art Residencies: Within a context of research and the creation of Actual Art, these residencies aim to provide support for artists developing new works centered on the concerns of contemporary image-making. We offer artists technical and financial support for innovative artistic projects specifically incorporating an exploration of digital imaging and experiments in large-scale digital printing.
Publications: We undertake publication projects in close collaboration with artists and authors in order to promote creative research and theoretical reflection. Our publication program considers books as spaces of artistic and literary creativity and has included artists’ books, monographs and books presenting analyses of specific issues in contemporary art.
Exhibitions: Located in the heart of Alma, our exhibition center offers the general public an enlightened look at recent developments in Actual Art. It is an experimental space open to all visual artists, promoting the blending of techniques and the exploration of imagery and the various contexts in which image-making can be integrated.
Submissions must include:
1- Your Curriculum vitae (maximum: 3 pages).
2- An artist’s statement (maximum: 1 page).
3- A description of the proposed project (maximum: 1 page).
4- Visual documentation (maximum 20 images).
Please provide a print version (including visuals) of your submission together with a digital, CD or DVD, version. Please indicate which program you are applying for.
Please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you wish your submission returned. Mail no later than September 30, 2012 (the Monday, October 1 postmark providing proof) to:
Centre SAGAMIE
50, rue St-Joseph, C.P. 517
Alma, Québec, Canada
G8B 5W1
For further information on this call for projects, visit the centre’s website.
Flash Fiction Contest: Gemini Magazine (Onset, MA)
The deadline for Gemini Magazine’s Fourth Annual Flash Fiction Contest is
August 31, 2012. The grand prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and the third place prize is $50. There will also be three honorable mentions. All six
finalists will be published online in the October 2012 issue of Gemini.
Maximum length: 1,000 words. No restrictions on content, style or genre.
Writers of all levels are welcome. Both new and established writers have won our
fiction contests. Entry fee: $4 ($3 for each additional entry).