Are you a woman, lady, dame, womyn, broad, chick, butch, babe, femme, and\/or girl in your 20s or 30s of South Asian origin?<\/p>\n\n
Is writing a hobby, passion, interest, craft and\/or obsession of yours?<\/p>\n\n
Are you creative, intelligent, insightful, and dedicated enough to write your own damn<\/strike> words?<\/p>\n\n
Do the words “Opal Mehta” make you want to hibernate in cold storage for at least a year while hooked up to an IV of ros\u00c3\u00a9?<\/p>\n\n
If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions then, girl, it is time to get yours! Boys, you get to cheer loudly (including, but not restricted to, well-meaning tapori<\/em> whistles). Zubaan<\/a>, an independent feminist publisher based in New Delhi is accepting submissions for their “Book of New Writing by Young Women”, via Zigzackly<\/a>, their criteria are as follows: Emphasis on that brilliant sentence is mine. All submissions (along with a short bio) are to be emailed as word attachments to either Zubaanwbooks[at]vsnl.net<\/strong> or contact[at]zubaanbooks.com<\/strong> with the subject line reading “Submission for Young Writers Anthology”. Submissions are due by July 31st, 2006<\/strong>. That\u00c2\u2019s one week less than three months from today\u00c2\u2026plenty of time to fix up some old pieces, create new ones, or turn that excellent blog entry of yours into short fiction. These SM pages are rife with prime examples of women whose writing deserves to be displayed within the pages of a freshly bound book. You know who you are, I am waggling my finger suggestively in your direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you a woman, lady, dame, womyn, broad, chick, butch, babe, femme, and\/or girl in your 20s or 30s of South Asian origin? Is writing a hobby, passion, interest, craft and\/or obsession of yours? Are you creative, intelligent, insightful, and … Continue reading
<\/p>\n\n\u00c2\u2022 The focus of the book will be on young writers in the 20s and 30s.
\n\u00c2\u2022 The writers should be women of South Asian extraction, but may be based anywhere in the world. We are interested in non-resident Indian writers as well as those based in India.
\n\u00c2\u2022 Stories can be of any length up, ideally anywhere between 2-5,000 words and should be complete stand-alone narratives.
\n\u00c2\u2022 All submissions must be in English.
\n\u00c2\u2022 The anthology will be of fictional writing, and we are keen to include a variety of genres \u00c2\u2013 from humorous pieces to science fiction, fantasy, detective stories, and other forms which may fall under the general rubric of \u00c2\u2018speculative fiction\u00c2\u2019.
\n\u00c2\u2022 Preference will be given to unpublished stories<\/strong>. [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n