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Calls For Submissions
The following are the scheduled topics for future issues of White Crane. In an effort to remain as topical as a quarterly publication can be, the order of this schedule may be changed so that we may be responsive to the "zeitgeist."
Fall
2009
Freethought
We honor the lives of those who follow
a humanist, agnostic or atheist path in life. What is the place of reason
in life and how does one construct a life without the need for certainty
about or belief in a God.
Deadline
for Fall 2009:
August 1, 2009
Winter 2009:
Fathers
We invite an exploration of our relationship
with fathers. How are we fathered? How do we father? Conflict and resonance?
The man who set a role we rebelled from or grew to resemble? Tell us your
story of Father.
Deadline
for Winter 2009:
November 1, 2009
Spring 2010:
Got any ideas?
Let us know...email us at submissions@gaywisdom.org
Writer's Guidelines for White Crane
White Crane is committed to the certainty that Gay consciousness plays an integral and unique role in the evolution of life on Earth. We explore and document the variety of the manifestations of the spiritual search among contemporary Gay men.We are a journal. A "journal" in the sense of both the small private book that you write your thoughts and experiences in every day, as well as a record of philosophical, academic and scholarly thought. As such, we are most interested in personal stories, personal journeys and personal discovery. We are equally interested in submissions by academics doing work in GLBT studies. We are interested in all perspectives and backgrounds and seek to present the broadest possible collection of ideas as exist.
We are descriptive, not prescriptive. We prefer personal statements to universal statements. We prefer “I” statements spoken from the heart to generalized declarations of “how things are.” We come from a tradition of sharing of these stories in a circle and believe in honoring personal experience as it reflects how the world is for you, your “individual light.” It bears repeating that we would like to describe and record the diversity of experiences and take pride in our ability to coexist while we may disagree, sometimes profoundly. The world clearly needs a model of this, now, more than anything.
For work by scholars, please include your affiliations if possible and other credentials that might be important to our readers. We appreciate a bibliography, but footnotes are not necessary. We prefer references to be contained in the body of the article.
Our understanding of “spiritual” is directly related to the Greek term “eros” or life force. As such we are interested in the erotic as it moves us beyond the pleasurable, beyond the altered state of consciousness, beyond the personal healing, beyond the mystical to the truly deeper experience—expanding ones ability to be whole, generous, and loving, and enriching and grounding one’s relationship with self, others, and the environment. Any and all subjects, therefore, can fall within this purview of “spiritual.”
We want your stories, your essays, your poems, your artwork, and your book reviews.
We invite you to add your voice to the conversation.
Submitting Your Work to White Crane
Email submissions are preferred at submissions@gaywisdom.org Mail submissions to
FORMATS
Send manuscripts as an attached file in Microsoft Word or RTF format (titled "yourname.rtf" or "yourname.doc" --obviously inserting your last name) OR paste the entire text into email. Be sure to include your name and mailing address in the file with the article, along with a one sentence bio.
Artwork
is currently limited to those that reproduce well in one color such as
line drawings, charcoals, cartoons, computer graphics, woodcuts, and photographs
(including color photos that can be gray-scaled and adjusted for brightness
and contrast). Please do not send original images or artwork. If copies
are reduced or enlarged, indicate the size of the original. Send artwork as a .gif, .bmp, or .tif format with the largest resolution available to you.
Compensation and rights: We provide all of our artists and writers with a one-year subscription to the magazine. Because we are a nonprofit organization, we are able to offer only this modest honorarium for authors and artists. No monetary compensation is offered at this time.
We regularly grant editors, teachers, and others permission to reprint White Crane and we distribute our articles and images via various electronic services, including posting each issue on our website. Because we are eager to spread the message of White Crane as widely as we can, your submission to White Crane will we signify your permission to reprint your work in these ways.
Length of the contributions We prefer articles (essays) to be between 1500 to 2500 words in length. We will consider shorter and longer pieces for inclusion in an issue. Most articles run about 1500 words. If the submission is related to the topic we will be more likely to consider it for inclusion in White Crane. We are trying to fit in as many articles and perspectives as space will allow, so we have a preference for more tightly written pieces.
Copyright While you retain copyright of your contribution, by submitting your work, you grant White Crane perpetual license to re-use your work in its pages, website and archives. You may decide to re-sell or later re-use your work, which is perfectly acceptable under the terms of this license, but you may not revoke the original license to the White Crane.
Editorial Review By submitting your work you grant White Crane the right to make grammatical and editorial corrections to your work. Due to limitations of space, your work may be edited for length to fit into the publication.
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