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.
Call for Submissions: Papirmasse
Papirmasse is a service/creationlab that sends out original art and writing to subscribers every month for the paltry fee of $5! They are currently accepting submissions from artists and writers. What a wonderful opportunity to have your work sent around the world. For more information, go to their website. Deadline is August 1, 2013.
Call for Submissions: The Hilt
Do you collect weird things and want to talk about it? Or large amounts of various things? (I pause to gaze askance, guilty but also proud, at my collection of salt and pepper shakers that look like small woodland animals…) The Hilt magazine is looking for you! True narratives only. Length: 500-1500 words. Deadline: August 16, 2013. Learn more here.
Call for Submissions: Sad Mag
Vancouver’s Sad Mag is looking for submissions for its first-ever fantasy fiction contest. The first prize is $250 and includes publication in the issue. There’s a $25 entry fee that includes a subscription. Deadline is August 16, 2013. For more information, visit their website.
Call for Submissions: Round Up Writer’s Zine
This online e-zine is looking for unpublished new literary voices. Currently they’re on the hunt for anything and everything: “short stories, both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, quirky essays and personal musings.” They also request that submissions be “laced in humour and darkness, or both.” Sound like your cup o’ tea? Visit their webpage for submission guidelines. Deadline August 9, 2013.
Call for Submissions: Poly: And Other Adventures In Non-Monogamy Zine
Sheena Swirlz (the brains behind the Radical Montreal zine series and website) is putting together a zine on polyamoury and non-mongamous relationships. If you have a story, a poem, an experience or anything else you want to share related to this topic, she’s accepting submissions for the zine until August 10, 2013. More info at her website.