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Call for Creative Writing Submissions


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Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social is an interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, biannual publication of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). This feminist Chicana/Latina and Indigenous Studies academic organization is dedicated to building bridges between community and university settings, transforming higher education, and promoting new paradigms and methods. As the publication of a diverse association that aims to provide space for those historically marginalized, the Journal publishes academic and creative works by and about Chicanas/Latinas and Indigenous women of the Americas and is receptive to all scholarly methods and theoretical perspectives that examine, describe, analyze, or interpret our experiences.

Creative Writing Submissions are now open for Chicana/Latina Studies

C/LS publishes short stories, poems, and imaginative essays in the field of Chicana/Latina Studies. Submissions are accepted year-round, but for best consideration for Fall 2016 issue submit by May 16, 2016. All submissions should be typed, and all prose should be double-spaced. Use standard fonts and formatting, including margins of at least one inch, and include your name on cover page (no where else on document). We do not consider work that has been previously published anywhere, including online publications, and we do not read simultaneous submissions. Creative works may be written in Spanish, English, Spanglish or any combination of languages. Contributors are required to be paid members of MALCS.

For poetry, send a selection of 5-7 poems contained within a single document. For fiction and essays send only one selection at a time. All manuscripts must be submitted through email or regular mail in hard copy. E-mail submissions to gro.sclamobfsctd-52e855@ollijurtp/archive-2017

We prefer electronic submissions, but we also accept hard copy submissions. Hard copy submissions should follow the above guidelines, and should be printed single-sided. A self-addressed, stamped envelope, must accompany the submission, which may be sent to the attention of the creative writing editor at:

Patricia Trujillo, C/LS Creative Writing Editor
Northern New Mexico College
921 Paseo de Oñate
Española, NM 87532

We encourage you to read C/LS before you submit. Or why not become a member, which comes with a subscription to C/LS? Or, consider purchasing back issues, sample copies, or the current issue. Authors whose work is accepted for publication grant C/LS first North American serial rights, and in return, contributors receive three copies each of the issue in which their work appears, in token payment.

Deadline Extended!: MALCS 2016 Summer Institute Call for Papers

UWsign2University of Wyoming

August 3 – 6, 2016

Laramie, Wyoming

 

Conference Theme: “Deconstructing the Equality State: Remnants of Colonialism, Trauma, and Invisibility”

The state of Wyoming is known as the Equality State, a moniker that belies a much less beautiful truth. The history of this land encompasses the stories of multiple bands and Indigenous tribes, the shifting borders of colonization and frontier wars, the growth of immigrant populations, and the subjugation of several native peoples. This history is not well known because the story of this land is the story of the cowboys of the collective American imagination, which is a colonial narrative of the conquering white male. This invisibility of women of color in Wyoming leads to a sense of disconnect to our home and our history and a continuation of abuse across the centuries. The trauma that lingers in the native peoples of Wyoming is a constant retelling of the pressure to give up traditions and lifeways and assimilate, often at the threat of violence. This onset of trauma resonates through the generations and replays itself as self-harm. These cycles affect native communities and communities of people brought to our state to toil toward the betterment of a society in which they could not truly participate.

The 2016 MALCS Summer Institute will showcase new historical research on the centrality of multiple identities and experiences in Chicana, Latina, Afro-Latina, Native American and Indigenous women in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements, emphasizing entangled histories and comparative and cross-cultural analyses. This scholarship redefines national and collective communities in the American West.

Potential areas of interest include:

  • Colonization and decolonization
  • Cultural and Cross-cultural practices
  • Narratives of violence, trauma, and Hate Speech in mixed-blood and Indigenous youth
  • Addressing the colonial legacy
  • Racism and whiteness
  • Indigenous and traditional knowledge
  • Contemporary Indigenous politics
  • Oral traditions, stories and history
  • Community work and community development projects
  • Media and technology
  • Language recovery and revitalization
  • Nationalism, citizenship and border crossings
  • Issues of national identity, race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality and ability
  • Land reclamation, use and environmental protection
  • Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health

Submission Requirements:

For individual speakers: a 200-word proposal and a 1 page CV

For full academic panels: a 200-word panel rationale, plus name of each panel participant along with their individual short bio.

For roundtables and workshops:  a 200-word proposal with names of each moderator along with their individual short bio.

Please include any AV needs for individual speakers, panels, and workshops.

All panel/workshop participants must pay for their MALCS membership and conference registration fees.

Send all submissions to: gro.sclamobfsctd-35fdec@6102sclamoywu/archive-2017

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2016

Extended Deadline: April 15, 2016

Acceptances of papers to be announced: April 4, 2016

Acceptances of papers submitted by April 15 to be announced: May 2, 2016

Statement of Resolution and Respect: MALCS is open and affirming to those who identify as women and gender-non-confirming people.

 

CFP: 2015 MALCS Summer Institute at UNM

In honor of the intersectionality of our lives and our whole selves, the 2015 MALCS Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico invites proposals that showcase the work we as activists, artists, community members and scholars create. In this way, we honor the intersectionalities of all parts of our research, movement building work, community organizing and varied educational experiences.

 

Please send a 250-word abstract to the following e-mail address: moc.liamgobfsctd-4a60e2@mnu5102sclam

In addition, please let us know if you will need any audio/visual equipment.

Deadline: April 19, 2015

More information here

CFP: 2015 MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social invites your participation at its MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop at the University of New Mexico, July 29 to August 1, 2015. Two sessions focusing on academic articles will take place on Wednesday, July 29, and Friday, July 31, 2015.

Those interested in participating must submit electronic copies of a letter of application and a final draft of a manuscript by June 19, 2015 at 5:00 pm to ude.astuobfsctd-8f4230@etergeNzedneM.eisoJ. This two-day workshop has space for no more than ten participants who are current paid members of MALCS and who must register for the Summer Institute.

More information about the MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop can be found at https://www.malcs.org/archive-2017/summer-institute/summer-institute-writing-workshop/

CFP: Exploring Collaborative Contestations (Nov 1, 2014 deadline)

 

Hypatia Conference

Exploring Collaborative Contestations

May 28-30, 2015

Villanova University

Villanova, Pennsylvania

***A Special Invitation to MALCS Members***

 

MALCS has received a special invitation from Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy to its 2015 Conference. Two slots have been reserved for MALCS members to form panels. Instead of directly submitting to the Call for Papers found on the Hypatia Conference website, MALCS will be coordinating the submissions and organizing the panels, which will then be forwarded to Hypatia.  Organizers and referees for the panels on behalf of MALCS are Seline Szkupinski Quiroga (Arizona State University) and Sandra Pacheco (California Institute of Integral Studies).

We envision 3 presentations/papers per panel (20 minutes each) with time for a moderated discussion. We are aiming for the papers to be submitted for publication, so we have expectations that the work submitted be of high quality, and well developed. To this end, we will be requesting panel participants to submit a draft of their papers for comment prior to the conference.

The theme this year, Exploring Collaborative Contestations, aims to create space for diverse perspectives, difficult conversations, and marginalized voices within feminist philosophy. Per their announcement:

 We welcome papers and panel proposals on topics that address: a commitment to

diversity, broadly construed; openness to disagreement among feminists on difficult

issues; and opportunities for collaboration among feminist philosophers within and

across various disciplines, subfields, and theoretical orientations. 

 Within the suggested conference themes, we have selected and elaborated on the two that most closely reflect MALCS’ mission and scholarship. The panel themes are as follows:

Panel 1: Exploring intersectionality and embodiment: race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, social class, disability

 Panel 2: Exploring feminist theorizing from the ground up through a Chicana/Latina/Indigena lens: activism, youth movements, transnational and other alliances

Because we will be implementing an internal process, we have created a separate set of deadlines. Please review below for information on proposal format and dates.
 Proposal Information

Submit a 250-500 word paper proposal by November 1st. Please indicate your name, affiliation (if applicable), contact information, paper title, and which panel relates best to your work.

Email your paper proposal to both Seline Szkupinski Quiroga (gro.sclamobfsctd-3593a3@eniles/archive-2017) and Sandra M. Pacheco (ude.siicobfsctd-38a790@ocehcaps),with LAST NAME – MALCS HYPATIA SUBMISSION in the subject line.

Any MALCSista wishing to gain feedback and support in strengthening their proposal should submit by October 10th.

 

Internal MALCS Deadlines

Proposal deadline for early consideration: October 10th, 2014

Proposal deadline for regular consideration: November 1st, 2014

Acceptance notification to participants: January 10th, 2014

Presenters confirm participation: January 20th, 2014*

Draft papers submitted: March 30th, 2015

Papers returned with comments: April 28th, 2015

Revised papers sent to panel co-presenters: May 15th, 2015

Hypatia Conference, Villanova University, Pennsylvania: May 28th-30th, 2015

 

 

* Modest travel grants from Hypatia are available for presenters in need.

MALCS 2014 Summer Institute- Call for Papers (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 7, 2014)

MALCistas,
The deadline to submit proposals for the 2014 MALCS Summer Institute has been extended! The new deadline is Monday, April 7. Please send proposals or questions to moc.liamgobfsctd-2fb178@ocixemwen.4102sclam.
We look forward to seeing you this summer!
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Mapping Geographies of Self: Woman as First Environment (July 30th -August 2, 2014)

Northern New Mexico College //  Española, New Mexico

Call for Papers Announcement 

 Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) invites submissions for its annual Summer Institute to be held this year at Northern New Mexico College in Española, NM from July 30-August 2, 2014. This year’s theme is “Mapping Geographies of Self: Woman as First Environment.”  MALCS invites conference participants to submit proposals for papers, workshops, posters, and performances that relate to this year’s theme.

Española, New Mexico is ninety miles from Albuquerque to the El Rito campus of Northern New Mexico College. To the West is the Rio Grande; to the East are the Sandia and Sangre de Cristo mountain ranges. These mountains cradle the entire route as it snakes North into the geographic landscape of northern New Mexico. Four sacred peaks mark this landscape, tracing P’o (water and time). Etched into the countless volcanic rocks surrounding the trails of the North are millions of images recording time immemorial –histories of the Old Ones and the Mother from whom they emerged. She is the origin; she is the first environment. While this concept is not particular to northern New Mexico, to the Southwest or to the Americas, it is a critical component of our experiences and our stories as Chicana, Afro-Latina, Asian- Latina, and Indigenous women.

Northern New Mexico has remained a rural and heavily agricultural area of the U.S. Southwest. Consequently, farming and sustainability are key elements of our lifeways. At the same time it has also engaged in the complexities of technological and health advances that have driven the U.S. economy. We are a sited people, whose spirit of place influences our work, our art, our communities, our lives. Attentive to Nambi Nava (our land), mind, body and spirit and carrying on the tradition of Las Vegas, New Mexico partera Doña Jesusita Aragón, we choose “Mapping Geographies of Self: Women as the First Environment” for the 2014 Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social Summer Institute theme. We bring together Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept “the geography of self” and Mohawk activist and mid-wife Katsi Cook’s “woman is the first environment.”

We invite proposals focused on, but not necessarily limited to, the following topics:

Agriculture

Health (physical and emotional)

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Health (STEM-H)

Trauma (physical and emotional)

Knowledge in the Digital Age

Education, Literacies, and Critical Pedagogies

Migration and Technology

Healing, Religion, Spirituality and Indigenous World Views

Access and Inequality

Identities, Hybridity, Intersectionality and Invisibility

Career Pathways

Power, Community, Social Activism and Decolonial Politics

Environmental Justice

Sustainability Practices

Latinas & Indígenas in Transnational and Global Contexts

Theater and Social Performance

Research Focused on Underrepresented Populations in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Health/Medicine

Gender, Sexualities, Queer and Trans Movements and Belonging

Support Networks and Best Practices

Interdisciplinary Work

 

All materials must be electronically submitted via email to: moc.liamgobfsctd-471b6a@ocixemwen.4102sclam

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 7, 2014

Notifications of acceptance will be made by April 30, 2014
Questions about the submission process may be sent to: moc.liamgobfsctd-81f183@ocixemwen.4102sclam

 

Proposals must include the following:
1) 100-word abstract suitable for publication in the conference program book

2) 250-word proposal narrative
Submissions for Panels must include proposals and abstracts for each paper
and the name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address, and affiliation of each participant
3) Audio/visual needs
4) Contact person’s name, address, phone number(s), e-mail address, and
affiliation (if applicable)

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: 2013 MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshops

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social invites your participation in the Writing Workshop at the 2013 MALCS Summer Institute at The Ohio State University, July 17 and 19, 2013.
One Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:

The Academic Article: A Writing Workshop, facilitated by
Prof. Karen Mary Davalos, former editor of Chicana/Latina Studies.

BOTTOM LINE: The deadline for submission for the Academic Article is postmark June 15, 2013.

WHEN: July 17 at 2:00-4:00 p.m. and July 19 at 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Participants may arrive on Tuesday July 16, but must contact the Site Committee to arrange housing.

WHAT FOR: Feminist collaboration for publication!
The Writing Workshop is one of the Journal’s formal methods of creating a feminist editorial process. Following the spirit and mission of MALCS, the journal’s editors offer the workshop in order to energize through collaboration, programmatically link scholarship and leadership, and institutionalize mentorship. Participants bring their work-in-progress and depart with clearrecommendations for meeting internal criteria of Chicana/Latina Studies, specific direction about revision, andfirst-hand knowledge about our feminist editorial production process.

To create an intellectual community, prior to the workshop, participants read and commented on the material of the other writers. Attending both two-hoursessions (the first on Weds. July 17, and the second on Friday July 19) is required.
WHY: It really works!
Past participants who have been published in the journal are: Dora Ramirez-Dhoor (5:1), Rosalia Solorzano Torres (5:1), Ann Marie Leimer (5:2), Patricia Trullijo (6:1), Carmelita “Rosie” Castañeda (7:2), Marivel Danielson (7:2), M. Bianet Castellanos (8: 1 & 2), Rosa Furumoto (8: 1 & 2), Irene Mata (10:2), Ella Diaz (11:1), Marci R. McMahon (11:1) and more!

WHO: The editors encourage applications from writers at all professional levels, including tenured or mid-career professors.
Due to the goals of the workshop, we cannot accept submissions of dissertation chapters. Dissertation writers are not suited for the workshops since the dissertation style, genre, and goals are distinct from those of the academic article. Ideally, graduate schools and faculty should offer the type of mentorship offered in MALCS Writing Workshops. Facilitators of the workshopstrongly urge dissertation writers to demand, negotiate, and mobilize for such support.

HOW MANY: The workshop has space for 8 participants, who must register for the Summer Institute and be current MALCS members.

FINE PRINT: Acknowledge the labor of others.
Although participation does not guarantee publication, the information and experience facilitates the submission and double-blind-peerreview process. Our track record speaks for itself—see above partial list of workshop participants who have been published in the journal.

Although MALCS supports the publication activities of its members, it cannot misappropriate the labor of its editors. Therefore, participants are required to sign an agreement that guarantees the journal’s Right of First Review of the material developed through the workshop. The agreement allows authors to compensate participants and editors for their labor and guarantees that the author will formally submit the work to Chicana/Latina Studies for consideration of publication. It also requires the author to acknowledge the assistance of the participants if the work is published elsewhere. The Right of First Review is understood as an aspect of feminist practice, accountability, and leadership and scholarship.

HOW TO APPLY FOR
The Academic Article: A Writing Workshop

DEADLINE: Postmark of hardcopy package: June 15, 2013.

WHERE: Postal and email of documents to

Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, Prof. and Chair
Chicana/o Studies Dept.
Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Dr., University Hall, Ste 4400
Los Angeles, CA 90045
ude.umlobfsctd-1fceb5@solavadk

WHAT TO SEND:
Please submit a cover letter describing the project and the author’s goals for publication (audience, timeline, etc.), the author’s contact information for various media and technology or the lead author’s contact information, and one copy of the scholarly article of 5,000 words or 25 pages (not including tables, notes, or references). All submissions should conform to the journal’s style and the text must be double-spaced.

Also send the package via email.

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