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Call for Submissions: Anthology of South Asian Erotica (Tranquebar Press, India)

16 Wednesday Nov 2011

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. – D. H. Lawrence

Sex. You think about it, dream about it, watch it, do it, wish you were doing it, wish you weren’t, but you’d rather not write it, because it’s not respectable. Because you’re concerned it won’t be taken seriously. Because even when you do try to write about it, you find yourself holding back, out of modesty, or shame, or fear. Because you worry about how your parents or even your friends will react when they read it. Because you think you have nothing to say.

We believe you have something to say, and we want to hear it.

This call for submissions is for the second anthology of South Asian literary erotica to be published by India’s Tranquebar press. Tranquebar’s first erotica anthology, Electric Feather, was a best seller and helped erotica gain recognition in the subcontinent as an important and influential literary genre. With this second anthology, we hope to continue the success of the first one while including a greater diversity of voices and sexual experience.

What we’re looking for: Stories that are thoughtfully written, visceral and honest, involving South Asian characters, settings, and/or themes. Stories can be titillating, dark, shocking, humorous, experimental, subversive; they can involve sex with others, sex with yourself, imagined sex, sexual fetishes—it’s entirely up to you. We’re also interested in translations of erotica written in regional languages.
■ Writers should be from South Asia or the South Asian diaspora
■ Accepting fiction and narrative non-fiction
■ 2,500 – 7,000 words
■ Contributors will receive a one-time payment
■ Please attach your submission as a Word document and include a brief bio in the body of the email

Email submissions to erotica.southasia@gmail.com by January 15, 2012.

Great Deals at the PH stall, Colombo Book Fair, BMICH A 39

19 Monday Sep 2011

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Blue – Stories for Adults – on sale now at all bookshops

20 Thursday Jan 2011

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Book Launch of Blue- Stories for Adults

10 Monday Jan 2011

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Sex and other stuff

13 Friday Mar 2009

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 kajuraho-damsels1CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Perera Hussein Publishing House, –

ANTHOLOGY OF SRI LANKAN EROTICA

What’s your fantasy? In the footsteps of Allen Ginsberg, Ovid, Arthur Rimbaud, Anne Sexton, D.H. Lawrence and many others, we invite you to set your fantasies and perhaps even your real life experiences to paper.

In 2011 Perera Hussein Publishing House will present the first ever anthology of Sri Lankan Erotica … your story could be one of them. Sex is raw, honest, beautiful, embarrassing, shameful, and confusing. Written well, it reveals things about characters that little else can, because sex makes us vulnerable—in those moments, we’re naked in more ways than one.

WE WANT stories rooted in myth and fable and legend, stories that spring from that lore and create something unexpected and true and ultimately erotic. We want to know what happens when a Rakshaya falls for a human or vice versa. We want to know about the contented and dreamy air of the maidens in the Sigiriya frescoes. We want to know what a tree spirit dreams about. We want to be surprised.

WE WANT stories set in today’s world, the Juki girl, the migrant worker, the ambitious executive, the discontented housewife.

 Send us stories set in the future, the past, the present, the imagination.

Send us your most imaginative erotic fiction, and tell your writing friends to do the same!

 We are calling for: short erotic fiction (1-5 pages) and erotic poetry (1-5 pages). The subject can be as hard or as soft as you prefer; straight, gay, lesbian, or bi: the forum is open, as long as the topic gets you going. Please be sure to edit your work for spelling and grammar, as we believe in adhering as closely as possible to the creator’s vision and will try as much as possible to avoid any changes to your work. All copyrights to the work will revert to the original author (even if the work is submitted anonymously). Submitted work cannot be withdrawn, neither during the review period nor once it has been selected for publication. A small payment will be made to the authors whose work has been accepted.

Submissions (by adult writers only) are open until May 31st, 2009. The final decision regarding selection will be made by September 15, 2009. Submissions should be sent via e-mail, to tangalla@sltnet.lk  Please put Anthology Erotica in the subject line.

 I watched as a ray of pale light,
Trapped in the tree outside,
Danced from her mouth
To her breast, like a fly on a flower.

 

Arthur Rimbaud – 1854-1891 (First Evening)

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