Call for Submissions: '25 Tanka Prose Pieces' an Atlas Poetica Special Feature
Topic: Call for Submissions: '25 Tanka Prose Pieces' an Atlas Poetica Special Feature
- Atlas Poetica <atlaspoetica@gmail.com> Nov 07 05:53PM -0500 ^
25 Tanka Prose Pieces: Call for Submissions
The Special Features section of the Atlas Poetica (ATPO) website is seeking
submissions for a collection of '25 Tanka Prose Pieces' to be edited by Bob
Lucky. Tanka Prose is not necessarily a new genre, as Jeffrey Woodward
points out in his introduction to *The Tanka Prose Anthology *(Modern
English Tanka Press, 2008), though in English it dates back only to 1983 and
the appearance of Sanford Goldstein's “Tanka Walk.”
Since it is a relatively new form in English, with limited venues and a
limited number of practitioners, we are looking for unpublished work from
both established writers and writers new to the form. Tanka prose is easy to
describe – combinations of tanka and prose – but difficult to define. Those
new to the form would benefit from reading the publications that regularly
publish tanka prose, *Atlas Poetica *and *Haibun Today*, as well as *The
Tanka Prose Anthology*. We are open to subject matter and treatment;
shocking is fine, but material that is offensive (racist, pornographic,
etc.) is not wanted. Please send us your best work.
*Submissions*: Poets are invited to send up to three tanka prose pieces
each, but only one, if selected, will published, in keeping with the theme
and format of the ’25 Poems’ features on the Atlas Poetica website. Send to:
tankaprose [at] gmail[ dot] com, with a subject line of ‘Tanka Prose.’
Before submitting, please go to http://www.AtlasPoetica.org. All the usual
guidelines for Atlas Poetica apply. Potential contributors should
familiarize themselves with the Special Features and the full ATPO
guidelines.
*Deadline*: Deadline for submitting to ’25 Tanka Prose Pieces’ is January
31, 2011. The planned publication date is Spring 2011. Special Features are
published on an irregular schedule.
Email address for submissions: tankaprose [at] gmail [dot] com — subject
line: Tanka Prose.
—
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka
AtlasPoetica.org
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