Forum / Birkensnake 6

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    brian warfield
    Aug 22, 04:28am

    This is a call for submission to Birkensnake 6. William Ambler and Brian Warfield will be co-editing one issue of this prose journal on the them of liminality. You can read more about the project and journal at Birkensnake.com.

    "Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise." ~Victor Turner

    We are interested in stories that fall outside traditional story-telling tropes. Liminal stories of people who do not consider themselves writers or who write primarily for themselves. We are also interested in the public facet of street art, writing that belongs to everyone. We want to take these stories not meant to be published and publish them. How does a work change when considering intention, exposure, alteration of audience?

    Some of our influences which exemplify the kind of writing we are looking for are: Henry Darger (http://www.folkartmuseum.org/darger) Hipolito from Amelie, Simon Grim from Henry Fool, early internet websites that played with infinite space (eg: schwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_(art)), old radiohead sites (http://radiohead.com/memoryhole/ )), indie-pressed vinyl, found writing, Toynbee tiles (http://www.resurrectdead.com/tile-gallery/), Charles Crumb (http://www.benett-o-matic.blogger.com.br/CharlesBookTres[1].jpg), Tao Lin's top 10 unpublished articles (http://www.vice.com/read/top-ten-unpublished-articles-2011), lost writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_work), etc.
    We are looking for pieces that have emerged from each author's unique structural conditions, currently exist in a liminal state based on lack-of-intention-to-publish or percieved-otherness, and will now take their place within the unique structure that they form together that we will dub Birkensnake 6.

    If you just want to contact us for further information or to discuss the project, feel free to email us at liminalbirkensnake@gmail.com
    Submit through Submittable (http://liminalbirkensnake.submittable.com/submit).

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    Jane Flett
    Aug 27, 07:59am

    Best list of influences ever.

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    brian warfield
    Aug 28, 05:49am

    Thanks, Jane.
    Hopefully they'll generate some interesting submissions.

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