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| Robert Paul Moreira, editor of Arriba Baseball! |
VAO Publishing invites submissions to the forthcoming anthology
We are seeking submissions for a collection of the best
Latino/a fiction that both celebrates and complicates the American pastime
tentatively entitled Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latino/a Baseball
Fiction.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of
America," wrote historian Jacques Barzun, "had better learn
baseball." The first of its kind, Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of
Latino/a Baseball Fiction, seeks
to challenge established paradigms within literary baseball fiction, a genre
traditionally sustained by works from predominantly white, male authors (such
as Bernard Malamud, Lamar Herrin, Eric Rolfe Greenberg, and W.P. Kinsella), and
one which has historically excluded the Latino/a voice and other writers of
color.
We invite such fiction (up to 5,000 words) concerning the
game of baseball which challenges any and all exclusionary ideologies that have
historically delimited the sport, and that meditates on the Latino/a
contributions and experiences both on and off the field of play. While climactic
home runs and strikeouts are okay, we prefer scoreboards but upside down. We
also invite works that confront any of the issues surrounding baseball today,
such as (but not limited to) the use of performance-enhancing drugs, queer and
female performativity in baseball, the globalization of the sport, and
baseball's legacies of white privilege, racism, and male exclusivity in the
United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and other countries throughout Latin
America where the game continues to flourish.
All fiction must be previously unpublished and of literary quality. Translations and works in Spanish will also be considered. We particularly encourage fiction from Latina and LGBT authors.
Contributors will be paid $25 upon acceptance and a
percentage of the net sales over the first two years.
Questions/comments may be directed to baseball@vaopublishing.com.
Please send fiction submissions to vao.submittable.com/submit.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS AUGUST 31, 2012.
Acceptances announced no later than October 1, 2012.
About the Editor: Robert Paul Moreira received his MFA from the University of
Texas-Pan American in 2010. Currently, he is an English Ph.D. candidate at the
University of Texas-San Antonio researching alterity and constructed identities
in sports fiction, films, and performance. His fiction, interviews, criticism,
and scholarship have been published in a variety of venues, including Aethlon:
Journal of Sports Literature, Storyglossia, Breakwater Review,
Emprise Review, Metazen, and the anthologies SOL: Vol. I (SOL,
2012) and New Border Writing (Texas A&M Press, 2013). He is the
recipient of two graduate fiction awards from the Texas Association of
Creative Writing Teachers in 2009 and 2010, as well as the Wendy Barker
Creative Writing Award in 2011. He serves as a Contributing Editor for Dark Sky Books and head
intern for American Letters and Commentary.
IN OTHER NEWS…
◙ Justin Torres is the winner of the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for his outstanding debut novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). You may see the list of semifinalists here (okay, okay, I admit it...I was on that list). Congratulations, Justin!
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Michael Jaime-Becerra
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◙ The June issue of Somos Primos
is now live. Edited by Mimi Lozano, Somos Primos is dedicated to “Hispanic Heritage and Diversity
Issues.”
◙ Richard Yañez is interviewed
about past and current literary projects over at The Latino Author.
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| Richard Yañez |
All done. So, until next
Monday, enjoy the intervening posts from my compadres y comadres at La Bloga. And
don’t forget: ¡Lea un libro!
1 comment:
Qué lástima, Dan, that you didn't make the cut.
But remember: you can win a lot of them, pero no todos.
Also remember to, ¡Escribe otro libro!
RudyG
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