Deadline June 25 | Call for Submissions from Playwrights - Gay Play Day: a Festival of LGBT Theater (Canada)

Deadline: 25 June 2012

Gay Play Day is a festival of short plays by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered playwrights, running in Toronto on September 29 & 30th, 2012 (venue TBA). We are accepting submissions until June 25th at gayplayday@gmail.com

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Gay Play Day is now accepting submissions from playwrights and/or directors for the inaugural Gay Play Day festival which will take place at a downtown Toronto venue on September 29 & 30th, 2012. Gay Play Day is a festival of short plays written by LGBT writers about the LGBT experience.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Each playwright and/or director may submit only one script—send us your best!
• We are only accepting electronic submissions in Word format.
• We are looking for short plays that run less than 15 minutes. Less is fine, longer is not. Ten minutes would be ideal.
• The title page should include the playwright's name, the character list and a brief synopsis of the play.
• The title page must also include the company's contact name (if different from playwright), address, phone number and email address.
• Plays should contain no more than 4 characters.
• Set and technical requirements should be fairly simple. We are talking basically lights up and lights down. Your set should also be minimal – a table and two chairs, for example. Nothing is even better!
• Musicals, children’s shows, and any unsolicited longer one-act or full-length plays are not accepted and will not receive a response.
• If selected, each company is responsible to cast and rehearse their own play.
• A tech person will be provided by Gay Play Day for the tech rehearsal and performances.
• Companies are not offered any financial compensation for their involvement, however the festival is a great format to showcase your creative talents.
• A cash prize will be awarded to the play that wins the audience favourite award.
• Gay Play Day is not associated with the Canadian Actors' Equity Association.
• Applicants will be notified of inclusion in the festival by July 10th, 2012.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: gayplayday@gmail.com

Website: http://gayplayday.blogspot.ca/

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Deadline June 18 | Call for Papers: Childhood and its Discontents (ESC Journal | Canada/ worldwide)

Deadline: 18 June 2012

ESC: English Studies in Canada invites submissions for a Special Issue on "Childhood and Its Discontents," guest edited by Nat Hurley.

No figure more fully embodies the paradoxical demands of civilization than the child. At once beloved and overdetermined, the child figures nothing less than our most treasured cultural fantasies and so also becomes the repository of our worst fears. Scholars across the fields of children’s literature, queer theory, gothic studies, critical pedagogy, gender studies, and critical race studies increasingly highlight the ways children—and representations of them—exceed (and so flag the limits of) the utopianism governing their very conceptualization. In effect, childhood has become a fascinatingly unruly object of study.

To the extent that discontentment indexes a dissatisfaction with prevailing social and cultural conditions, this special issue on Childhood and Its Discontents invites essays that reflect on childhood’s unruly resistance to the norms, genres, and cultural regimes that aim to normalize it. In the same spirit in which Freud brought to light the counterintuitive instincts that underwrite and undermine the very idea of civilization, so too do we seek essays for this volume that highlight the central tensions at the heart of childhood and its representations.

ESC invites papers for this special issue on “Childhood and its Discontents” from scholars, writers, artists, and activists with an interest in the historical conditions, theoretical implications, and emergent potentialities of the concept of childhood. We accept submissions from any geographical location. The journal seeks to publish a diversity of historical, national, and theoretical perspectives. We warmly welcome interdisciplinary approaches to this topic and are happy to consider essays informed by critical race studies, feminist theory, ethnographic studies, philosophy of education, film studies, queer studies, postcolonial studies, political economy, critical pedagogy studies, and ecocriticism as well as relevant others.

Deadline for submission of articles (maximum of 8500 words) is 18 June 2012.

Note to contributors: ESC normally accepts black and white images, up to a limit of six per article. Contributors are responsible for securing permissions.

Please forward completed essays, in MLA format, along with a 100-word abstract and a 50-word bio to Nat Hurley, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Please send electronic submissions to nhurley@ualberta.ca. The journal’s style sheet is available at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~esc/submit.php.

ESC: English Studies in Canada is a quarterly journal of scholarship and criticism concerned with the study of literature and culture. Recent special issues include “Traffic” (Eds. Cecily Devereux and Mark Simpson), “Guilt” (Ed. J. Faflak), “Sound/Poetry/Event” (Eds. L. Cabri, A. Levy, P. Quartermain), and “Skin” (Ed. J. Emberley).

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: nhurley@ualberta.ca

Website: www.arts.ualberta.ca/~esc

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Call for LGBTQ Submissions: Plenitude Magazine's Inaugural Issue (paying market | Canada/ worldwide)

Deadline: 10 July 2012

Plenitude Magazine is currently accepting submissions for the inaugural issue. Issue 1 will be launched in August, 2012. In order to be considered for Issue 1, we recommend submitting before July 10, 2012.

ABOUT PLENITUDE MAGAZINE

Plenitude Magazine aims to promote the growth and development of LGBTQ literature through a biannual publication of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative and short film by both emerging and established LGBTQ writers.

We define queer literature and arts as works created by LGBTQ people, rather than works which feature queer content alone. That said, we recognise that Plenitude readers are hungry for exceptional work that reflects queer histories, cultures, experiences, and sensibilities. We consider every submission with critical analyses, sometimes turning to an advisory editorial board of writers, academics, and community advocates.

WHAT WE PUBLISH

Plenitude aims to complicate expressions of queerness through the publication of diverse, sophisticated literary writing, graphic narrative and short film, from the very subtle to the brash and unrelenting.

We are not interested in genre writing, political essays, or rants. We are only interested in literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative and short film at this time. If you are interested in writing political essays, or other critical analyses, please contact us about contributing to our blog – we would love to hear from you.

Fiction: Please send up to 2 stories per submission, double spaced, paginated, 12 point font, maximum 8,000 words per story.

Nonfiction: Please send up to 2 pieces per submission, double spaced, paginated, 12 point font, maximum 8,000 words per piece.

Poetry: Please send up to 10 pages of poetry, single spaced, paginated, 12 point font.

Graphic Narrative: Please send up to 10 pages of graphic narrative.

Film: Please send us short film of no more than 10 minutes.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Email submissions to editor@plenitudemagazine.ca. Please place cover letter with your name, contact information, name of piece(s), and brief bio in the body of the email. Please title the files with your name, followed by name of piece. For example “ROUTLEY, ANDREA – HABITAT”

Attach text submissions as BOTH docx AND PDF file; this is to ensure we are seeing what you are seeing (especially for poetry submissions).

Attach graphic submissions as JPG or PNG files, bounding volume of 1600 x 1600, 96 ppi.

Attach short film as Quicktime movie file with H264 compression, or send us a link.

All unsolicited submissions should be unpublished, original works.

We accept simultaneous submissions; in the event that your submission is accepted elsewhere, please let us know right away.

We are still working out our budget and confirming sponsors, so pay is still to be determined right now. We will let you know our rates as soon as we can!

Plenitude Magazine buys first serial rights; copyright remains with the author/creator.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: editor@plenitudemagazine.ca

Website: http://plenitudemagazine.ca

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Call for Poetry: 'Work It' Queer Hip-Hop Night (Toronto)

Deadline: 2 June 2012

Call for submission: Calling all QUEER, inspired, creative, hip-hop lovers!

Want to start your PRIDE 2012 in style? Here is your chance to strut your rhymes, lyrics, poetry at this one of a kind QUEER HIP-HOP night we like to call... WORK IT! Rhyme over a beat, or shock the crowd with some serious slam poetry, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Did we mention the cash prize that will be given to the winner chosen by our fabulous judges?

Here’s what you need to know:

1- Submission deadline June 2nd, 2012

2- WORK IT! will be held on June 22nd, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (hosted by MC Jazz and DJ Nix as part of the Queer Hip Hop Movement)

3- ONE song/ piece per performer

4- Submit one piece for consideration for entry. Email your name, and description of the piece (mp3, youtube, soundcloud, myspace, bandpage, etc. link or recorded sound clip) to mcjazzmusic@gmail.com

5- Final contestants will be emailed by mid June of details regarding sound check and show time.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: mcjazzmusic@gmail.com

Website: http://www.themarsbar.com/

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Deadline June 1 | Call for Submissions: Poetry is Dead's Queer Issue (Canada)

Deadline: 1 June 2012

For the sixth issue of Poetry Is Dead we welcome submissions from Queer writers, with a strong emphasis on Queer Canadian contributions. As always, Poetry Is Dead is interested in work that runs the gamut of forms—from spoken word to experimental language-focused work.

In 2011, what are the questions asked of Queer writers? What new vocabularies need to be recorded today?

We welcome writing that engages the contemporary, the daily, and the seemingly trivial. Digital networks — spaces of emotional anomie and unintended intimacies — now mediate and organize many Queer experiences. You are invited to experiment with the erotic gaze of the webcam, to reformulate the confessional booth of the Craiglist Missed Connections posting, to explore the poetic lineation inherent in Gmail Chat logs, to otherwise fuck with and foreground the language of online identities.

We invite contributions that question categories of sexuality and gender, that indulge what is otherwise taboo, that speak to the diversity, rather than the homogeneity, of sexual experience.

In recognition of the fact that many of Canada’s foremost practitioners and pioneers of experimental prose have been Queer or lesbian — including Nicole Brossard and Gail Scott — this issue welcomes texts that exist between poetry and fiction.

Guest Editor: Alex Leslie (alexleslie.wordpress.com)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We publish poetry. How you define poetry is up to you.

To submit poems use the link below to reach our Submishmash form. Include your name, email and home address with your submission. If you would like comments on your submission, please note that, and we will get back to you. Please send no more than five poems.

If possible, send us links to digital versions of your self.

Please check our website for the current call for submissions. If you are wanting to write a review or essay, please query the editor first. The editor can be reached at editor@poetryisdead.ca. We do not accept submissions via email. Please use the form linked below.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: editor@poetryisdead.ca

For submissions: submit online here

Website: http://poetryisdead.ca

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A Queer Story: Author Reading and Writers' Workshop (Canada)

Deadline: 11 August 2011

Another Story Bookshop and Queer West Fest present an intimate evening of reading and writing with authors Farzana Doctor, Vivek Shraya, and Zoe Whittall

Thursday, August 11 at 7pm

Pay what you can. All proceeds go to the authors. Catering by Cardinal Rule

Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author and is the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's prestigious Dayne Ogilvie Grant for an emerging gay Canadian author (2011). Her first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. She is currently touring her second book, Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn 2011), which Publishers Weekly has praised as “..a paean to second chances.” In her spare time, she provides private practice consulting and psychotherapy services and is a co-curator of the Brockton Writers Series.

Vivek Shraya is a Toronto-based artist. Winner of the We Are Listening International Singer/Songwriter Award, Vivek has released albums ranging from acoustic folk-rock to electro synth pop, driven by powerful vocals, incisive lyrics, and tight pop hooks. God Loves Hair, his first collection of short stories, was a 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist, won the Applied Arts Award for Illustration in 2010, and is currently being used as a textbook at several post-secondary institutions. Seeking Single White Male, his first short film, debuted in the fall of 2010, and is being screened at film festivals throughout 2011.

Zoe Whittall is the author of two literary novels - the Lambda award-winning Holding Still For As Long As Possible (House of Anansi, 09/10) and Bottle Rocket Hearts (Cormorant, 07) which was named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year, made the CBC Canada Reads Top Ten Essential Novels of the decade, translated into French and optioned for film. Holding Still for as Long as Possible was shortlisted for the Relit Award, and named an American Library Association Stonewall honor book. She has published one short novel for adults with low literacy skills called The Middle Ground (Orca Books, 2010.) She won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Award in 2008. Her poetry books include The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life (McG, 01) and The Emily Valentine Poems (Snare, 06) and Precordial Thump (Exile, 08). She edited the anthology Geeks, Misfits & Outlaws in 2003. She lives in Toronto.

Another Story Bookshop
315 Roncesvalles Avenue
Toronto, ON | M6R 2M6
tel: 416-462-1104

Contact Information:

Website: http://www.anotherstory.ca/

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Femenace Creative Writing Workshop at the Centre for Women and Trans People (Ontario)

Deadline: 26 June 2011

Join us at the Centre for Women and Trans People to celebrate the launch of Femenace, hosted by the new Femenace Blog.

Do you want to write, have ideas that you can't get down on paper or into a blank word document? Are you unsure about how to get started? Thoughts and feelings and no outlet for them?

Overcome these barriers in a workshop led by writer, teacher and arts educator Dianah Smith. Get advice on how to generate ideas and creative flow.

Everyone is welcome. Free to attend, but limited space. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm

Address: 563 Spandina Avenue, Room 100, North Borden Building, Toronto, Ontario

We are wheelchair accessible through Bancroft Avenue (back entrance)

Contact Information:

For inquiries: femenace@gmail.com

Website: http://womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca

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Job Opening: National Managing Editor for Xtra, Canada's Premiere Gay and Lesbian Media Group

We need an ambitious, experienced managing editor to oversee national operations of our website and three community newspapers --immediately. We will fill this position as soon as we meet the right candidate.

Passionate about reporting, you embrace advocacy journalism, and are committed to fairness and accuracy. Highly organized, you're an eager team player and a natural leader of creative people.

You're up for the unique challenge of managing the fast-paced editorial content generation for our website and packaging process for print publications in Ottawa, Toronto Vancouver.

Experience in a similar leadership or management role in mainstream or alternative journalism is a great asset.

A proven background in professional journalism, strong news judgment and writing skills, and knowledge of editorial standards and defamation law are essential.

We strive for 'web first' content. You will coordinate assignments and manage the work of a diverse team of staff reporters and freelance contributors. You will draw from website content to produce engaging news packages in print editions.

You will compile issue line-ups and coordinate content elements, and then shepherd content through the production process, ensuring each issue is completed on time and to the highest professional standard.

We're Canada's premiere gay and lesbian media group, Xtra -- but being gay isn't a requirement for the job.

Familiarity with our publications and the gay and lesbian communities and their politics is a tremendous asset.

We offer an energetic, progressive work environment filled with enthusiastic, creative professionals. This full-time salaried position includes a generous benefits package and three weeks annual vacation.

If you're qualified, want a new and exciting challenge, and know you are the right, send us your resume today.

EMAIL: Brandon.Matheson@Xtra.ca

MAIL or DROP OFF:

Brandon Matheson
Publisher & Editor-in-chief
491 Church Street
Suite 200
Toronto, ON
M4Y 2C6

Location: Toronto, Church & Wellesley

Compensation: Salary + benefits + 3 weeks annual vacation

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Brandon.Matheson@Xtra.ca

For submissions: Brandon.Matheson@Xtra.ca

Website: http://www.xtra.ca

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Call for Submissions: Queer Magic (Slash Books)

Deadline: 25 June 2011

Slash Books is looking for short stories (500 - 20K words) that explore gay, lesbian, or alternative lifestyle romance. Be creative!

Sword and Sorcery. Supernatural creatures. Magic. S3xy and s3nsuous, the characters in "Queer Magic" live in worlds where the supernatural is sometimes hidden, sometimes well known, but always real. Each story in this anthology includes aspects of magic or the supernatural, from time travel to ex0tic realms.

The chosen stories will be published in print and e-book form, and all authors will be compensated based on story length as well as per item sold, with a typical fee of approximately $100 CAD per story. Each author will also get up to three printed copies of the full anthology free of charge. Your story should focus on the relationship and its evolution. While sex is a part of a healthy relationship, we're looking for plot and characterization, not simple PWP (Plot? What Plot?). Intriguing characters and interesting situations are the ticket to success here. Be creative! All genres (humour, action, angst, etc) welcome. For this anthology, we're aiming for happy endings.

Approximate release date: July 31 2011

About Us

Slash Books is a publishing company dedicated to printing novels and anthologies that are focussed around gay, lesbian, and alternative lifestyles. "Queer Magic" will be our third anthology and we're eager to get it into print!

We are located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and we're always on the lookout for excellent stories, so please pitch!

Slash Books Submissions Guidelines – “Queer Magic”

Submission of Stories

To submit a story, please contact submissions@slashbooks.ca. Make sure that your email account has slashbooks.ca on your whitelist to avoid missing our response. In your subject line, place the keywords “Submission: ”.

Stories must be submitted in softcopy in one of these formats: .txt, .doc, .rtf, .wps, or .odt. Please format the story in Arial or Times New Roman font, 10 or 12 point.

Your story document must contain the following information on your title page:

1. Your real name
2. Your pseudonym (if applicable)
3. Your story title
4. Word count

Each page of your story should contain the following information (header or footer):

1. Story title
2. Your name
3. Page number

The final page of your story should include an indication that it is complete such as ‘the end’ or some other clear ending mechanism.

Story Guidelines

1. The theme of the anthology is the supernatural. Thus, each story is required to include at least one supernatural element, whether it be setting (a magical realm, an alternate magical universe), a character (werewolf, vampire, succubus, etc), or some other story element.
2. All stories must be a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 20 K words in length.
3. All main characters must be over 18 at the time the story takes place if there is any sex involved. Mentions of sex at earlier ages is fine.
4. All stories must include full consent. In other words, no non-consent please. All stories must be original (no fanfiction – sorry!) and involve fully fictional characters. No real people cameos or celebrity inclusions please.
5. The primary relationship in the story must be same-sex. Relationships including three or more people is acceptable, as long as there is a same-sex component.
6. All stories must contain a storyline. Explicit sex is fine as a part of the story, but not as the whole point of it.
7. Happy endings aren't required but they are preferred.
8. Have fun with the writing and be creative! All genres are welcome.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: submissions@slashbooks.ca

For submissions: submissions@slashbooks.ca

Website: http://www.slashbooks.ca

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Call for Submissions on Homophobia: Dialogue Spring 2012 "Diversity" Issue

Deadline: 10 May 2011

We welcome your ideas and article proposals on how schools are addressing diversity, our new theme for the 2012 issue of Dialogue. The growing concerns about discrimination, racial prejudice, homophobia, religious intolerance, gender-based violence and (cyber)bullying in our diverse school communities make this issue more urgent than ever before. Read more on why private schools need to start a national dialogue on diversity.

Spring 2012 issue: Diversity

How is your school responding to the needs of an increasingly diverse community through your curriculum, policies, programs, guidelines, teacher training, practices, lessons and teachings inside and outside the classroom?

Submit your ideas & article proposals on Diversity:

* Cultural, racial, religious.

* Social, Socioeconomic

* Special needs and disabilities

* Body image and appearance

* Gender or sexual orientation

Contribute:

* an article proposal

* blog post

* e-newsletter article

Do you have an article idea that fits with this theme?
 Article proposals for Dialogue should be brief—one type-written page or less—and include your full name; current position; home and work addresses; work and home telephone numbers; email address; and a brief bio that includes any qualifications. Email your proposals to EDITOR@OURKIDS.NET. We are accepting proposals for the 2012 edition of Dialogue until May 10, 2011. All articles after May 10 will still be considered for publication online and in the e-newsletter throughout the year.

Editorial procedure

Our Editorial Advisory Board review all submissions. All reference to your identity, organization or school will be removed from article proposals prior to reviewing. After notification of your article acceptance, the editor will work with you to establish a detailed article outline, finalize the length and deadline details before you proceed with the actual writing. The subsequent editing process will involve at least one more conversation, copy-edit, final review and sign-off by you, the author. We will do our best to reply to all proposals in a timely fashion.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: EDITOR@OURKIDS.NET

For submissions: EDITOR@OURKIDS.NET

Website: http://www.dialogueonline.ca/

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Call for Submissions: Pink Ink Zine (Canada)

Deadline: 9 May 2011

NO ONE CAN TELL YOUR STORY BUT YOU. PINK INK’s 2011 Zine wants you!

We are looking for queer and trans youth who want to submit their writing and/or art (about any subject) to our annual zine.

We are accepting submissions from queer, trans, and questioning youth (14-29 years old). No writing experience necessary!

We are going to have our zine launch at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on June 15th. This is very exciting! We are getting a brand new incredible space that will be open the week of our launch. (The event will be all ages, free and is wheelchair accessible.)


It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been to Pink Ink before and it does not matter if you identify as a writer or not - we’re still interested in having your work in our zine.

The deadline for submissions is Sunday May 9th, 2011

Important:

-Please send all submissions or inquiries to ksilverwoman@hotmail.com
-put ZINE SUBMISSION IN THE SUBJECT HEADING
-include a short BIO or/and the name you want to use for yourself in the zine.

Or mail it to:

SOY
Attention: Pink Ink Zine Submissions
333 Sherbourne St, 2nd Floor
Toronto, ON
M5A 2S5

Pink Ink is a writing group for queer, trans, and questioning youth from around the Greater Toronto Area.Pink Ink is a program through Supporting our Youth (SOY) www.soytoronto.org.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: ksilverwoman@hotmail.com

For submissions: ksilverwoman@hotmail.com

Website: http://www.soytoronto.org/current/pinkink.html

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Trans Inclusive: Women’s Worlds 2011 Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest (3 winners of $1,500/ Canada)

Deadline: 25 March 2011

Women’s Worlds 2011 - Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest

Calling all Young Aboriginal Women across Canada ages 16 to 29! Do you want to be part of one of the biggest gatherings of women in the world happening in Ottawa July 3rd to 7th?!

The Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Circle for Women’s Worlds 2011 invites young Aboriginal Women across Canada to submit their written, artistic, or otherwise creative submissions to attend Women’s Worlds 2011. We greatly value the participation of young Aboriginal women and would like to hear directly from YOU about why you want to be there!

10 winners in total will be selected

3 grand winners to be awarded an honorarium of $1,500 (one young First Nation woman, one young Inuit woman and one young Métis woman) plus the opportunity to present their essay at Women’s Worlds 2011.

7 winners to be awarded an honorarium of $1000

Who: Young Aboriginal Women (trans, Two-Spirit, gender non-conforming inclusive). First Nations, Métis, Inuit. status and non-status identified. Ages 16-29

Deadline to submit: Friday March 25th, 2011

Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2011

What is the Aboriginal Women’s Leadership Circle?

Women’s Worlds 2011 aspires to be a powerful celebration of voices and diversity. As Canada is host to this important event, the meaningful participation of Aboriginal women and the prominence of Indigenous women's issues are essential. WW 2011 participants should come away with a deeper understanding of Aboriginal women and Indigenous women, and with recognition of their immense knowledge and leadership as inspiration for a better world. This is why we identified the value of creating an Aboriginal Women's Leadership Circle, a volunteer advisory body comprised of Aboriginal [First Nations, Inuit, Métis] women. Just as the event's content and program should challenge colonialism and neo-colonialism in its various forms, the internal organizing process should, too. We believe the non-tokenistic involvement of Aboriginal/Indigenous women is vital to feminist organizing and convening.

More information about Women’s Worlds 2011 can be found on www.womensworlds.ca

Contest Guidelines

With your submission please also provide covering letter or email which tells us in 300 words or less why you would want to attend Women’s Worlds 2011 and how you plan on using the experience of Women’s Worlds 2011 within your life, work, or community?

WRITTEN:

In 800 to 1200 words max, tell us:

1) What does Aboriginal women’s leadership mean to you?

Some additional guiding questions to help you (however do not feel limited to just these):

1) When you think about the word “leadership” what does this personally mean to you? “Leadership” does not necessarily mean being an elected official or winning awards – it means different things to different people. Talk about this and how you feel about it.

2) Do you know any strong Aboriginal women? Who are they? Why are they strong to you?

OR ARTISTIC:

You may alternatively choose to answer the above by creating an artistic piece of your choosing that expresses how you feel. For example; visual art, photography, dance, video, theatre, etc. If you choose to do this, you can opt to submit the piece itself (if possible) by e-mail, taking a photograph, or sending it in the mail, or send us the link to your video if you choose this type of medium (preferably on www.youtube.com). A 200 to 400 word max description that references the piece and the two questions must accompany the artistic submission.

Submissions will be accepted in English, French, and Inuktitut. If you would like to submit in another Aboriginal language please let us know and we will do our best to ensure translation.

Email your written submission in a Word doc. attachment OR artistic submission by Friday March 25th to youngaboriginal@womensworlds.ca with your:

Name, E-mail address, Phone number, Age and Aboriginal identity (First Nations, Inuit, Metis status or non-status)

You can also send us your application by mail to:

Young Aboriginal Women’s Creative Essay Contest
Women’s Worlds 2011
55 Laurier Av. East , DMS 3192
Ottawa , Ontario, K1N 6N5

This award contest is in partnership with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network to ensure direct Aboriginal youth leadership and outreach

More information here.

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Call for M/M and F/F Story Submissions: Nau9hty Nights Press

Deadline: 30 April 2011

For more information on submissions and formatting please go to our website at http://naughtynightspress.com

Please email submissions as per our specific guidelines to submissions@naughtynightspress.com

Male/male – gay: Stories are to be between 5000 and 8000 words long. Submissions are due no later April 31st 2011

Female/female – lesbian: Stories are to be between 5000 and 8000 words long. Submissions are due no later than April 31st 2011

M3nage – 3 or more participants: Can be m.f.m or f.m.f or f.f.f or m.m.m or f.m.f.m or f.f.f.m or m.m.m.f and so on, your choice so long as it is three or more! Stories are to be between 5000 and 8000 words long. Submissions are due in no later than April 31st 2011

Fireworks and female/female fun: To coincide with the opening of nau9hty nights press and Canada day and the fact that NNP is owned by 2 of the most d3sirable and s3xiest women in Canada, we are looking for stories between 5000 and 8000 words involving st3amy, h0t, female on female acti0n. It can be mistress/slave; friends’ discovering each other etc but the setting needs to be one where there are fireworks involved, like they have to celebrate Canada day.

Submissions are due in no later than April 31st 2011

More information here.

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Call for Submissions: Just Love, a Collection of Queer Er0tic and Er0tic R0mance Short Stories and Poetry

Deadline: 1 May 2011

Are you LGBTQ, or do you consider yourself an ally? Do you have the occasional moment of dlrty-mindedness? Then Fredericton Pride 2011 needs you!

Fredericton (NB, Canada) native er0tica author Madeline Elayne is looking for submissions for two queer er0tic/er0tic romance anthologies, the proceeds of which will go toward funding the best Pride celebration yet in Fredericton in 2011.

Just Love (and Lvst) will be a compilation of two s3xy books:

-In Love With Lvst, a collection of queer er0tic and er0tic r0mance short stories by writers from Fredericton and around the world.

-In Lvst With Love, a showcase of local Fredericton and Atlantic Canadian queer er0tic poetry. Fredericton is well-known for its poets, find out why here!

This call for submissions is open to established and new writers alike. If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at s3xy writing, then this is a perfect opportunity! Please note that since all profits from this collection go toward Fredericton Pride, this is not a paying call for submissions.

Intrigued? Check out the nitty gritty details below:

Er0tic Poetry:

-All poems must have both er0tic and LGBTQ content. Currently accepting single poems (up to 4 pages single spaced) and small collections. Authors selected for the anthology will also be asked to provide a short bio. Pseudonymous submissions accepted, but please include your real name in the submission for legal purposes.

Er0tic/ Er0tic Romance Short Stories:

What we want:

- Smart, s3x-positive, LGBT-themed er0tica and er0tic r0mance short stories between 1000-9000 words, with a preference for stories between 2500 and 5000 words.

- Works by authors who are 18 years and older, which follow our Just Love theme. We want stories that feature love or the potential for love, with a happy-ever-after (or happy for now) ending.

-Clean, polished, literary works (not rough/first drafts) with an er0tic focus. Following the norms of the genre, please avoid heavy euphemisms when describing s3x.

-Electronic submissions only, double-spaced, 12-pt. times new roman font, in .doc (NOT .docx) or .rtf format.

-Previously published works considered, provided you have the rights to allow our publication in ebook and POD formats. We ask only for non-exclusive anthology rights.

What we don’t want:

-Anything with a negative attitude toward s3x.

-Horror, gore, b3stiality, or other squick factors. (please note that tastefully-depicted consensual BD SM is just fine)

-non-er0tic, or exclusively heterosexual er0tic works. These could be wonderful stories, but they don’t fit our theme, thank you.

Please send all queries and submissions to Anthology2011@frederictonpride.org.

Submission Deadline for both collections is May 1st, 2011, for publication in early summer. Multiple submissions accepted.

More information here.

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Call for Queer Short Films: OUTeast Film Festival (Canada)

Deadline: 25 March 2011

OUTeast Film Festival Association is currently seeking short queer film and video submissions for our One Year OUT launch, April 8th, 2011. One Year OUT will be OUTeast Film Festival’s inaugural event, celebrating queer film, showcasing new work and beginning the one year countdown to Halifax’s first OUTeast Film Festival.

Please submit films to:

OUTeast Film Festival
2583 Creighton Street
B3K 3S3

Submission must be received no later than March 25th 2011. A small artist fee will be paid to selected films.

Submission Guidelines

* films must be queer-themed, include queer content or provide a well-deserved break from heteronormative culture
* films can be up to 15 minutes in length
* non-english films should include english subtitles
* original format of the work may be either film or video
* work may be submitted on an ntsc formatted dvd or as .mov, .avi, .mp4 files.
* please include the following information: film title, director name, total running time, contact info and a brief synopsis of the film

About OUTeast:

OUTeast Film Festival Association is dedicated to presenting the very best in queer independent cinema from Atlantic Canada, across the country and around the world. We are committed to showcasing work that will challenge, educate and unite our audiences, and to celebrating artistic excellence in the medium of film.

More information here.

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Call For Multi-media Submissions: ‘Resilience’ A Queer Collaborative Art Installation (Canada)

Deadline: 14 February 2011


Call For Submissions: ‘Resilience’ A Queer Collaborative Art Installation in partnership with Mayworks

What: a collaborative visual art installation (photography, short video and multi-media arts) that celebrates Toronto’s LGBTTQ2SIA spectrum people as working people, as bodies of resilience and resistance, and as storytellers. This installation will be part of the Mayworks Festival this year (exhibiting from May 12-19th) (www.mayworks.ca),

Why: As queer people, it often feels like we are either resisting outright homophobic and transphobic violence, or we are resisting being sucked into the mainstream. We can do better.

This exhibit aims to celebrate queer resistance, express struggles in the workplace, challenge ideas of heteronormativity, identity roles, and much more.

Who: The People Project is an organization that believes in the power of arts and culture-building to empower communities against homophobic and transphobic violence. This exhibit is being curated by the People Project, the Hispanic Development Council and the Mayworks Festival. And hopefully features you!

We are encouraging young queer artists of Toronto to send us submissions by Monday February 14th, 12am.

8-10 selected artists will have their work exhibited during a Community celebration (likely at the raging spoon) and will receive a $100 honorarium.

If Interested, please follow these five easy steps and email (peopleprojectsubmissions@gmail.com)

1) 50-100 words about why you think your art fits into the theme of the exhibit
2) Photos of your work (1-4 pieces)
3) Your preferred name, size, materials, year of creation
4) *optional: artist’s statement for each piece/ entire collection
5) *optional: Short Bio and picture. Please tell us if you would like to be featured on the Mayworks Website (http://www.mayworks.ca/artists.html)

Contact Email: peopleprojectsubmissions@gmail.com

More information here.

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Call for Submissions: Somewhere Under the Rainbow Queer Zine (The Northern Pride Centre Society, Canada)

Deadline: 1 March 2011

The Northern Pride Centre Society is in the process of producing our first Queer Zine, tentatively titled “Somewhere Under the Rainbow,” Prince George’s first queer zine. This zine will be distributed around town and made available as an E-zine on our website. We are accepting any LGBTQ* stories, articles, pictures, poems, etc. As long as it’s queer-related and here by March 1st (late arrivals will be included in the next zine publication).

Submissions or questions to be sent to pride@unbc.ca, Attn: Queer Zine.

Further Information:

Reeanna Bradley
Northern Pride Centre Society
NUSC Building
UNBC
3333 University Way
Prince George, BC
pride@unbc.ca
(250) 960-6461
http://northernpridesociety.com

More information here.

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Call for Submissions: Lesbian Er0tic Romance Anthology "Fireworks & Female Fun" (Nau9hty Nights Press)

Deadline: 1 April 2011

"Fireworks & Female Fun" Lesbian Er0tic Romance Anthology, Call For Submissions

Would you like join Nau9hty Nights Press as one of our Next Generation of Undeniably Passi0nate Er0tic Romance Authors?

Where our writers are encouraged to use their insatiable drive for creativity to push the boundaries to the edge of that intense craving for spicy er0tic r0mance so tempting our readers simply can’t resist…

We are currently seeking submissions to coincide with two big parties in Canada on July 1st 2011; Canada Day and of course, the launch of Nau9hty Nights Press!

So keeping with the theme of the Canada Day Festivities and the reality that Nau9hty Nights Press is co-owned by two of the s3xiest and undoubtedly most d3sirable women in Canada, we are looking for short stories between 3500 and 5000 words about Fireworks and other Canada day fun for our lesbian lovers to contribute to our “Fireworks & Female Fun" Anthology!

Additionally there is still a possible opening or two for our "Some Like It H0t" Female/Female M3nage Summer Special Anthology! The general criteria are the same with the exception of the word count of 5000-8000 words.

So here are two great chances to have your writing published with Nau9hty Nights Press. Do not miss out on this exciting chance!

Work up those Muses, fire up those word processors and get writing!

Please have your submissions in to nnp@mistressjournals.com no later than April 1st 2011. For submission and formatting requirements, please go to the Nau9hty Nights Press “How To Submit to NNP” page here.

Nau9hty Nights Press reserves the right to modify due dates for submissions at their discretion.

More information here.

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Call for Shorts: The Rainbow Reels Queer Film Festival (Canada)

Deadline: 1 February 2011

The Rainbow Reels Queer Film Festival is calling for short film submissions to be part of the Shorts program during the festival, which will take place March 2-6, 2011.

Rainbow Reels is dedicated to featuring queer works that present images of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans lives and issues. We look for films that emphasize issues of multicultural diversity and gender and encourage local artists, critics and audiences to participate in the discussion of cultural identities and aesthetics. It is our goal to present the public with an opportunity to see and discuss the thematic, aesthetic and political concerns raised by the work of queer filmmakers.

* Films must be queer-themed or include queer content. That is, they must include images of gay, lesbian, bi & trans lives and issues.
* Films must be 3-15 minutes in length
* Films may be fiction, documentary, animation, experimental or music videos
* Films may have been shot on film, video or HD video
* Films must be submitted on NTSC DVD (the DVD will not be returned)
* Films may be in any language but if not in English must have English subtitles
* Films must have been produced from 2008-2011
* Preference will be given to films that have not been screened at festivals previously
* Films should be submitted with a press kit including information on the film, filmmakers and performers. Electronic press kits can be submitted to info@wpirg.org
* Be sure to include contact information with submission
* Submissions must be received no later than February 1, 2011 to be considered for entry
* Awards will be given to short films in the following categories:
o Peoples’ Choice (short)
o Best Student Film (short)
o Best Animated Film (short)
o Best Foreign Language Film (short)
o Best Documentary Film (short)
o Best Fiction Film (short)
o Best Music Video (short)

More information here.

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Call for Films: Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival

Deadline: 21 February 2011


Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival
21st Annual Festival
May 19-29, 2011

Inside Out, presenter of the Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival, invites you to join us for the 21st annual celebration of Canada’s pre-eminent exhibition of queer film and video from around the world. Inside Out hosts one of the largest queer film festivals internationally, highlighting the diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgendered film and video making in documentary, shorts, features and installations.

Our 2010 Festival screened 200 works from 30 countries, with sold-out screenings daily. We had more than 150 guest filmmakers and artists attend the Festival from all over the world. Programming highlights included many Canadian, North American and World premieres, including Howl (USA) and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (UK).

Industry came out to the Festival in greater numbers with Showcase, CBC Television, BRAVO, the Independent Film Channel, Out TV, Mongrel Media, CFMDC, VTape, MTV Logo and other distributors all sending buyers and distribution representatives to look at our selections and secure work for theatrical distribution and broadcast. As well, representatives from more than 40 Canadian and international festivals attended Inside Out to seek out new works for their programming.

Toronto is a major film centre and home to one of the most vibrant queer communities in the world. Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival is renowned for its innovative programming, enthusiastic audiences, comprehensive media coverage and hospitality. Our venues offer state-of-the-art exhibition facilities in the heart of downtown Toronto, making the Festival an ideal place to launch new work. Inside Out hosts numerous parties, receptions and special events that provide excellent opportunities to network with industry professionals and other independent film and video makers.

Media coverage of the Festival has included features, festival round-ups, cover stories, previews, reviews and artist profiles in: Variety, IndieWire, Canadian Press, The Toronto Star, The Globe And Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Sun, Fab, Xtra, Now, Eye Weekly, CTV, City TV-Movie Television, CBC Television’s The Hour, Sing Tao Daily, The Independent Film Channel, OUT TV, Film Festival Channel, MTV Canada, CFRB, Le Métropolitain, L’Express, Radio-Canada and CBC Radio.

The Festival is produced by Inside Out, a non-profit charitable arts organization dedicated to showcasing the best and most diverse film and video work produced by and about the lives of queers in Canada and around the globe.

AWARDS

Inside Out has the most extensive awards program of any queer film festival in Canada, honoring work in many categories. Juried awards are given for both Canadian and international work. Our three audience awards are open to all works presented at the Festival and are chosen by post-screening balloting. In all, more than $5000 in cash and prizes is awarded annually.

For more detailed information about what Inside Out does in the community, please visit www.insideout.ca

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

1. Only DVD (All regions) will be accepted for preview. DO NOT send master tapes or film prints for preview screening. Please ensure that DVDs submitted are not defective, and are labeled correctly including: title, running time and contact information (including name, address, phone number and email), you will not be contacted to resubmit a new DVD. Please email jason@insideout.ca with questions.

2. Works submitted in languages other than English must be subtitled or accompanied by an English transcript.

3. Works-in-progress and rough cuts can be submitted only if a completed exhibition copy will be available for final approval by March 15, 2011.

4. Inside Out reserves the right to excerpt programmed works (up to 3 minutes) along with photographic stills for promotional and marketing purposes.

5. All submissions must be received by either December 17, 2010 or January 31, 2011* (Please email jason@insideout.ca with questions. You will be notified of programming decisions by April 1, 2011)

6. *If submitting to the second deadline of February 21, 2011, please make the $25 submission fee payable by cheque to Inside Out.

7. All preview DVDs will be added to the Inside Out archives unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (for submissions from outside Canada please use International Postal Coupons) and a request for return.

8. Please make a copy of this submission form for each entry, if submitting multiple works.

9. If you are sending work from outside Canada, please indicate on the package, for festival preview only, no commercial value or you may be required to pay customs duties. Declared value should be $0 on the package. (Inside Out will not pay customs fees).

10. Acceptable screening formats at the Festival are 35mm, 16mm, BetaSP and DigiBeta.

Inside Out does not screen DVDs at the Festival.

PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING WITH EACH SUBMISSION:

 DVD (All regions)
 Completed and signed submission form.
 B&W and/ or colour stills. (Images on CD and emailed stills are acceptable. If emailing, please send to submissions@insideout.ca in the following format: eps, tiff or jpg files with a dpi of 300 or higher. Good stills can make a difference in press coverage and festival prominence).
 Synopsis/ press kit. (If it is a non-english language film, please send press materials in original language as well, if available).

Note: If you are sending work from outside Canada, please indicate on the outside of the package for festival preview, no commercial value and declare less than $20 in value.

SEND TO:

Inside Out
Attn.: Jason St-Laurent, Director of Programming
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 219
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 3A8 CANADA
Tel: 416.977.6847
Fax: 416.977.8025

For submission extensions, please contact jason@insideout.ca

More information here.

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