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Current Publishing Opportunities, Updated 15 July, 2012 Etudes Irlandaises: French Journal of Irish Studies Writing from the Margins: The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition 2012
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ETUDES IRLANDAISES Etudes Irlandaises is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles in English and French which explore all aspects of Irish literature, history, culture and arts from ancient times to the present. Etudes Irlandaises publishes twice a year on a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects including: poetry / fiction / drama / film / music / politics / economy / social studies, etc. General issues published in the spring alternate with special issues in the autumn. Etudes Irlandaises is aimed at scholars, postgraduate students, institutions specializing in Irish studies as well as people who have an informed interest in the subject. Each number has a comprehensive section devoted to recently published material on Ireland. The Editorial Board of Etudes Irlandaises is seeking submissions for the Spring 2013 issue of the journal. Submission procedure Submissions must be sent by June 30 (in order to be published in the spring issue of the following year). For more information on stylesheet requirements and submission procedure: http://www.pur-editions.fr/pdf/consignes_etudes_irlandaises.pdf (scroll down for English version) Contacts: For history, civilisation, politics For visual arts For book reviews
Writing from the Margins: The Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story The purpose of this anthology will be to examine the history of modernism and postmodernism in the Irish short story. There has been growing interest in the Irish short story in recent times. In her monograph entitled A History of the Irish Short Story, Heather Ingman focuses on the development of mainstream short prose in Ireland since the 19th century but ignores the modernist, postmodernist and paleo-postmodernist contribution of writers such as Samuel Beckett, Aidan Higgins and Tom Mac Intyre. This is a neglected area in Irish literature and the intention of this anthology is to change that situation. The history of experimentation in Irish poetry, drama and fiction has always been been a marginalized one. According to John Goodby the Irish writers who followed in the footsteps of Beckett specifically "reject the issue of family, nation and tradition." Beckett is very much linked to both Aidan Higgins and Tom Mac Intyre. It was Beckett who recommended Higgins's first collection of short stories, Felo De Se, to Beckett's London publisher John Calder. Tom Mac Intyre's short prose work has often been compared to Beckett's. This anthology will explore that sense of the outsider through Beckett, Higgins and Mac Intyre who in very different ways create a rupture in the Irish short story tradition in terms of content, form or both. I am seeking 500 word proposals on the experimental short story work of either of these writers. The deadline for submission is June 30th. The work will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Send proprosals directly to Dr Catriona Ryan, Swansea University
Cultural Remediation: The Role of Literary and Visual Representation in Reshaping Cultural Narratives in Contemporary Ireland Cfp. Special issue of Nordic Irish Studies on Cultural Memory and the Remediation of Narratives of Irishness In recent years, increasing critical attention has been paid to the role of media in shaping experience and cultural memory. While the engagement with the past has been redefined as performative, rather than reproductive, the importance of different media for preserving, retrieving, forming, and producing narratives of nationhood has been emphasised. The special issue of Nordic Irish Studies on Cultural Memory and the Remediation of Narratives of Irishness is devoted to the significance of the mediation and remediation of traditional narratives of the nation for negotiating a sense of Irishness. A key notion for the journal issue is that the dissemination of cultural narratives in literature, films, performances, and visual art more broadly is central to keeping notions of nationhood alive, for engaging with their changing nature, and for critiquing traditional definitions of Irishness. The special issue is concerned with social factors at work in the dynamics of cultural memory-making, but also the "medial frameworks of remembering," what Erll and Rigney have called the "medial processes through which memories come into the public arena and become collective." Narratives of Irishness are considered, in relation to social and medial factors, as a product of cultural memory (an artifact) and as a process, the procedure of how artefacts circulate and interact with the social environment. We invite papers of 5,000-7,000 words which treat the remediation into literature, film, performance, the visual arts, or another digital and/or electronic medium of narratives of Irishness. Contributions may explore – but are not limited to – such aspects of Irish identity as religion and the Church, gender, class, migration, the landscape, home and belonging, memory, nostalgia, imperialism, and revolt. Paper abstracts, of 500 words, should be sent to all three editors by May 15, 2012. By May 30, the editors will send their response to abstracts. Deadline for full paper is September 30, 2012. Irene Gilsenan Nordiin, ign@du.se
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies (JOFIS) – Issue 3 The year 2011 was marked, both in France and in Ireland, by a series of dramatic events that forced the two countries to deal with heavy postcolonial legacies and with the challenges of shifting populations in a globalised world. In Ireland, one of the effects of the dramatic post-Celtic Tiger recession, and of the consequent EU-funded bailout of the country, was the departure of many immigrants who had arrived only a few years earlier from Eastern Europe and Africa. Ireland, a former colony and once known for massive emigration had, during the boom, become a magnet for economic migrants. Now a casualty of the shifting balances of global economy and international financial speculation, emigration is once again a feature of Irish life. Following the 'Arab Spring', some major dictatorial regimes in North Africa fell and others faltered, opening up new hopes for democracy. At the same time, large numbers of people were prompted to cross the Mediterranean in search of a better life in Europe. Many chose France because of its economic and linguistic bonds with its former African colonies. But, at a time of international economic crisis and job losses, new waves of right-wing extremism, xenophobia and protectionism have altered the internal dynamics of the European Union to the point where many are now questioning the open frontiers policy enshrined in the Schengen Agreement. Following on from the success of the 2008 and 2011 editions of JOFIS (Journal of Franco-Irish Studies), contributions from postgraduate students and scholars are invited, for this third issue, to reflect on how the winds of change that have swept France and Ireland over the past few decades have affected literature, the visual arts, history, philosophy, sociology, geography and political science. Contributions are welcome in French or in English. Papers might wish to address issues such as:
Other topics and perspectives will also, hopefully, emerge and be explored. Electronic submissions of 4,000-6,000 words should be sent as Word attachments in Times New Roman, 12 font. Footnotes should not be employed where possible. Author date references to be employed in the main text, followed by a Works Cited at the end. JOFIS (http://www.ittdublin.ie/ncfis/jofis/) is an online peer-reviewed e-journal edited by postgraduate students, which is hosted by the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in IT Tallaght. Please contact guest editors Claudia Luppino from the University of Florence, Italy (claudia.luppino@hotmail.it) and Jeanne Le Besconte from the University of Rennes 2/National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies (lebescontejeanne@hotmail.com) for further submission details.
William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition 2012 FIRST PRIZE: 3,000 EURO (SPONSORED BY WILLIAM TREVOR) 2nd prize: 500 Euro (5 runners up prizes of 200 Euro each.) Mitchelstown Literary Society is pleased to announce the launch of the second William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition. The Society was founded to celebrate the lives and works of two of Ireland's literary greats with Mitchelstown connections. The short story competition evolved as a natural adjunct to our annual literary festival and aims to provide a competitive outlet for new and emerging writers in the short story genre. The continued support of William Trevor includes sponsoring the very generous First Prize. Our two preliminary adjudicators are both well-known short story writers and book reviewers. They will select a short list of approximately 25 stories to be passed on for final adjudication. Drumshanbo born, Dublin resident, Ita Daly, our main adjudicator, was married to writer and editor, the late David Marcus. Educated at UCD, Ita holds a Masters Degree in English. She has published five novels, a collection of short stories and two children's books. Two times winner of the Hennessy Literary Awards and an Irish Times Short Story Award winner, Ita's last novel 'Unholy Ghosts' was long listed for the Impact Award. Details of rules, official entry form(s), payment methods etc. can be had from our official contact points indicated below. There is entry fee of 20.00 Euro per entry and the Closing Date for receipt of entries is last post on Friday, 30th March 2012. The winner and runners up will be notified personally as well as results being posted to the competition website as they become available. Entries, by post only, to: Trevor/Bowen International Short Story Competition, Contact Points: Tel: 025/84969. Email: cusackliam@eircom.net Visit: www.mitchelstownlit.com
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