Rebel Satori Press and Ashé Journal are proud to be sponsors of the 2008 Project QueerLit contest. In addition, your’s truly will be on the Advisor and Review Committee for this round. The submission period opened Sept. 1 and continues through the end of the year.
The Project: QueerLit contest celebrates and brings media attention to unpublished authors of queer writing and opens doors for publication of their work. The contest is open to any unpublished author of an English-language novel with queer and/or bent content.
Authors may not be previously published or contracted to be published for a novel in any form. Previously published chapbooks, nonfiction, shorter fiction and collections of short fiction, and other work published in multi-author collections, magazines, etc. does not disqualify them. A novel with queer or bent content refers to a novel of any genre or blending of genres with LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer), or with alternative themes, situations, voice, or characters. The author (and the novel) does not have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexed, or queer to be considered. Queer in this context can also mean a bent or outsider worldview.
All novel submissions are “blindly” reviewed (without knowledge of author’s identity) and rated (on originality, storyline, voice, and, characterization) by members of the Project: QueerLit Advisory and Review Committee, and another applicant.
From these ratings, the top-rated group of twenty-five Semi-Finalists, three Finalists, and a Winner(s) are selected and awarded.
Additionally, aside from the ratings, at least one novelist will be selected from all of the submissions as the Grand Prize winner(s) and awarded.
For more information visit the contest’s official site: www.projectqueerlit.com
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