Call for Proposals: Canzine Toronto Art Rooms and Canzine Symposium!
We’re looking for a few good ideas – for art rooms at Canzine 2013 in Toronto on Sunday October 19, and workshop/presentation proposals for our Canzine Symposium, happening Saturday October 18. For the Symposium: Proposals should include a brief 2-3 paragraph description of the proposed workshop or panel including topic to be covered and planned speakers and activity. Panels and workshops should be focussed on skills development for independent creators working in the mediums of self publishing and zine/comic/book/web arts. All panel and workshop participants will receive an honorarium.
For the Art Rooms: The arts rooms at Canzine provide a day long immersive experience to the 800-1000 attendees at the Canzine festival. The intention of the art room is to stimulate, provoke and advance the discussion around the possibilities of independent arts and culture creativity. Past art rooms have included all day jam sessions, DIY board games, mini-film festivals and an all day crocheting lessons drop-in. Proposals should include a brief 2-3 paragraph description of the proposed art room and schedule of activities. Note: Art room occupants pay a fee and the art room creators are able to sell art works, zines, comics, books, t-shirts etc. as well as disperse information to promote their future activities.
Here’s the complete guidelines. Email [email protected] with your proposal by August 20, 2013.
Contest: 3rd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest
Erasure poetry begins with a per-existing piece of text that you transform into a stand-alone poem by removing words, letters and punctuation marks. The work that you begin with is titled, ‘Exhibit 37: Hawthorn Branch’, which is a poem from Cottonopolis by Rachel Lebowitz. First place prize is the Geist Erasure Trophy and $600. Second place is $250 and third place is $150. Contest ends August 31st, 2013. For rules and submission information, visit their website here.
Call for Submissions: Sonorus!
‘Sonorus’ is a zine dedicated to feminist perspectives of the Harry Potter series, including the books, the films, the cultural phenomenon and the fandom. They are currently accepting submissions between 200 and 1000 words on any aspect of the Harry Potter series in relation to feminism. The deadline for submissions is August 1st, 2013. For more information, visit their website here.
Call for Submissions: The Book of Us
The Book of Us is a collective memory project in conjunction with The Gladstone Hotel, which is aiming to assemble a collection of personal stories from all Torontonians. They are looking for anyone who is willing to share your memories of Toronto, whether you are an artist, a neighbour, a visitor, a writer, etc. Any and all Torontonians are invited to think about, ‘How do you see Toronto?’ and ‘What memories do you have of Toronto?’. The deadline for submissions is August 4th, 2013. For more information, visit their website here.
Call for Submissions: A POC Centered Zine Distro
Nyky Gomez, creator of Skinned Heart Zine, has recently created a distro dedicated to the struggles, projects and zines of POC. She is currently looking for zines written by POC from all walks of life and gender identities and expressions. For further details and more information regarding her distro, visit her website here.