Arachne Press: Call for submissions for UK resident writers of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage
From Arachne Press:
Arachne Press is planning an anthology of fiction and poetry from UK resident writers of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage. Publication will be October 2021. We will pay royalties. Once published in an Arachne anthology you may be invited to submit a collection or novel.
Laila Sumpton [recently the Keats House poet in residence who has edited poetry anthologies for the University of London, the Royal Free Hospital and Ministry of Stories] will be our poetry editor, and Sandra A. Agard [Professional storyteller, poet, short story writer, playwright, cultural historian, literary consultant, resident writer/reader and creative writing facilitator for over forty years] will be our fiction editor.We look forward to receiving new work from across the country and are excited to discover voices new and familiar.
- Poets can enter two poems maximum of under 50 lines.
- Short story writers can enter one story of up to 2000 words.
- All work in English and unpublished
- We will accept translation if it is of your own work.
- All entries will be read by the editors.
- No entry fee.
- We have an overarching theme for all our anthologies for the next 12-18 months of ‘maps and mapping’. You do not need to take this in any way literally – ‘the map is not the territory.’
Consider new lands, homelands, boundaries – real or imaginary; journeys, ideas of territory and ‘your place’. Landmarks and directions, roots and routes, (dis)location and getting lost – the possibilities are (almost!) endless.
Deadline for submissions 14th April 2021
final decisions will be made by 14th May 2021
