Rio Grande Review accepting Imposters

Buen día amigos de Río Grande Review.
A escasos días del lanzamiento de nuestra revista Fall 2010, abrimos de nuevo nuestra convocatoria para la nueva edición Spring 2011. Esta vez únicamente estamos solicitando trabajos relacionados con nuestro tema central dedicado a Los Impostores.

De igual manera estamos recibiendo trabajos en artes visuales, en blanco y negro, relacionados con la misma temática

Esperamos sus colaboraciones.

Fecha de cierre: 5 de febrero de 2011
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Good day, friends of Río Grande Review.

As we launch our Fall 2010 issue, we open again our call for submissions for the Spring 2011 edition. This time we are only asking for work related to our thematic dossier dedicated to The Imposters.

We are also receiving work in visual arts, in black and white, related to the same theme.

We look forward to your contributions.
Deadline:
Feb. 5, 2011.

Kindly,
The Editors
Daniel Centeno
& Daniel Ríos

Río Grande Review
University of Texas
at El Paso
PMB 671
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, Texas 79968

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New Yorker latino. Call for subs. Woman in Afghan

Great news from Daniel Alarcon.

Hi everyone: Second Lives, an excerpt from my novel-in-progress is in this week's issue of The New Yorker. / Un fragmento de la novela que estoy terminando se ha publicado en el New Yorker de esta semana.

I met criollo guitarist Walter Goyburu last week here in Lima, and recorded a few things for La Pelanga. / Conocí al guitarrista criollo Walter Goyburu aquí en Lima la semana pasada. Grabé algo de la conversa para La Pelanga.
abrazos, d

Rio Grande Kitch & Camp

Río Grande Review abre de nuevo su convocatoria para la edicion de otoño de 2010. Esta vez, además de recibir trabajos tanto escritos como visuales de tema libre, abre un dossier temático dedicado al kitsch y al camp. Puedes ver el video siguiendo el link.

Río Grande Review is calling for submissions for its fall 2010 edition. This time, in addition to accepting both written and visual open-themed work in any genre, we’re featuring a thematic dossier dedicated to kitsch and camp. Follow the link and watch the video.

Río Grande Review
University of Texas at El Paso
PMB 671, 500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, Tex.
www.riograndereview.com
editors@riograndereview.com
www.facebook.com/TheRGR

Here Be Dragons

Ann Jones approaches Afghanistan and the American war effort from quite a different perspective. She’s proven a rarity in the way she’s reported back in these years. She arrived in Kabul in 2002, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, to work with Afghan women on their problems. Unlike almost any other American who wrote about the experience, she embedded herself in an Afghan world. Her moving book Kabul in Winter offered us a window into Afghan lives and worries, not American ones.

Now, she’s arrived at a U.S. military base, bringing Afghan eyes with her. Among all the reporters who have embedded with the U.S. military, that may make her unique--so prepare yourself for a look at the American way of war on the ground that won’t be like anything you’ve read.

Ann Jones: "In the eight years I’ve reported on Afghanistan, I’ve 'embedded' regularly with Afghan civilians, especially women. Recently, however, with American troops 'surging' and journalists getting into the swing of the military’s counterinsurgency 'strategy', I decided to get with the program as well. Last June, I filed a request to embed with the U.S. Army."

Literary newsbits: Obsessions, Nymphos, Cosmos Latinos

Rio Grande Review is accepting submissions for its upcoming spring issue with the theme of Obsession / Aversion:

"Obsessions can be plaguing and oftentimes, dictate the direction and content of our writing. Here at the RGR office we are especially fascinated with the idea that to some degree, all writers are 'obsessionists.' What we find even more interesting though, is that at times we become obsessed with our aversions. With this in mind, we're asking that texts submitted for our Spring 2010 edition consider this dynamic in some fashion. Whether this means writing about an obsessive aversion, an aversion, obsession, or how the two complement and direct/enhance/or inform one another, that's up to you.

"We accept writing of all kinds, including but not limited to: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, memoir, flash fiction, translation, essays, screenwriting, and plays. We accept texts written in English, as well as texts written in Spanish. Texts are published in the language they were originally written in.

"We encourage the submission of art (all mediums), photography, experimental texts, visual poetry, etc. Animations and audio files are only considered for our online edition. Deadline for this spring issue is February 5, 2010. Contributors receive two copies of the magazine, S&H paid.

"RIO GRANDE REVIEW is a non-profit bilingual publication run by students of the MFA in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso. RGR has been promoting creative writing in El Paso, the US-Mexico border, and worldwide for over ten years. Our intent is to publish excellent quality work, but at the same time, attract diverse and daring texts that experiment with form. We are striving to forge an identity as a cutting edge review that exists as space for diverse voices: writers who may be multilingual, cross-genre, or experimenting with narrative and poetic form. We also want to be a starting place for new writers."

Over at the Biting Edge, Mario Acevedo of vampire Felix Gomez fame blogs about his great news:
"I'm proud to say that my debut novel, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, was named by Barnes & Noble as one of the Best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of 2000-2009. I share the limelight with the big kahunas of urban fantasy such as Kim Harrison, Laurell K Hamilton, Jim Butcher, and Charlaine Harris."

Over at SciFiLatino, you should check out the major book review (in two parts) of Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (edited By Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Wesleyan University Press, 2003)

"There are many Science Fiction authors that write in Spanish, but unfortunately few are translated into English (especially short stories) so Cosmos Latinos was a surprising find. Besides 27 short stories, it contains an interesting introduction about the development of science fiction literature in Latin America. I’ll sum up the intro here since it has some interesting points and in the next post I review the actual stories.

"The second post briefly describes the 27 short stories in the book without spoilers, except for the first two essay-type stories. The 27 were selected to represent different authors and different “eras” of Latin American science fiction. Each story is preceded by a short biography."

To check out the entire review, click here.

es todo, hoy
RudyG