Sunday, February 10, 2008

the skinny

It's that time of the quarter. Nudge Arts Journal (http://nudgearts.blogspot.com)is accepting submissions until March 7, and has the details for you on how to submit.

The short of it:

THEME

DANCE PARTY
Hedonism, paganism, drugs - do these features of youth
culture signal the coming apocalypses or are they a necessary postmodern
catharsis? Will disco rise again in the 2010s to consume Western culture
with hyper-sexual courtship? Is disco mindless aestheticism? Don't we
all just want to dance?

Approach this theme valiantly. Create new work that addresses it however you see fit. Take your old work and make it fit the theme. Do what you think you need to do to get your point across in this context.

SUBMISSIONS CATEGORIES

Same as last time: Fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, film, music, visual art, and photography.

DEADLINE

March 7. This will be a rolling deadline, meaning that you can submit at any point during this quarter. All submissions will go online (http://nudgearts.blogspot.com) for review. After the deadline passes, three cuts will be made, and 5 submissions per submission category will be chosen for publication.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions will be sent to nudgearts@gmail.com. The format for sending them is as follows:

Subject for all emails containing submissions: type of submission (fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, poetry, film, music, visual art, photography)
Naming for all submission files: typeofsubmission_artistsna
me_worktitle.extension

For more specific info, check out this link: http://nudgearts.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7

You have to scroll down a little bit, but the necessary information is there. The only thing that will change is that the publication will hopefully be in color this time around.

Nudge is making some pretty significant and very exciting changes, and our community is really starting to form. Consider coming to the Parnassus Presents Emerging Artist events on Wednesdays at 5:30, and also next Friday at 5:30 to listen to a reading from Stray. Watch out for announcements on more events -- our theme is Dance Party, after all.

More detailed info on submissions is written below. It's not completely necessary to read, but you may find it helpful.

Questions: Email nudgearts@gmail.com or visit http://nudgearts.blogspot.com.

The long of it:

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Nudge Arts Journal is looking for people who are willing to push themselves beyond their limits for the sake of pursuing originality in their work. Nudge wants you to risk elitism and irrelevance with your submissions for the sake of creating a bolder arts community here at the UW.

That said, we'll have a fairly rigid structure when it comes to the physical publication and editorial details. Nudge is still a journal, and we will still accept submissions in the same categories: fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, poetry, visual art, music, and film/video. All of these submissions will focus on our theme (DANCE PARTY). Instead of publishing all of our choice submissions, however, we will put an additional restraint on the print publication: we will only publish five submissions from each category. This will hopefully encourage people to be especially creative with their work and will also free up some funds so we can make the publication really sweet-looking. Also, instead of just being a print publication, Nudge will have an influential online component: a blog (http://nudgearts.blogspot.com) where all submissions will be posted with space for reader and editor
comments. This will allow people to submit as many pieces of work as they want and allow many people to see what kind of work is being produced by UW undergraduates.

Our final deadline will be March 7, but it will be a rolling deadline, so people can submit their work at any time during the quarter. All submissions will be sent to nudgearts@gmail.com, and one person will take the names off all submissions and post the anonmymous submissions online. After the March 7 deadline passes, editors will make three final cuts. First cut in all sections is made as a collective group. Second cut will be made by section editors, and once this cut is made, feedback will be provided to the remaining contributors on their work. Final cut will be approval of editor and managing editor.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

-Claire

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