Call for Submissions: '25 Tanka Prose Pieces' an Atlas Poetica Special Feature

[Atlas Poetica]

25 Tanka Prose Pieces: Call for Submissions

The Special Features section of the Atlas Poetica (ATPO) website is seeking submissions for a collection of '25 Tanka Prose Pieces' to be edited by Bob Lucky. Tanka Prose is not necessarily a new genre, as Jeffrey Woodward points out in his introduction to The Tanka Prose Anthology (Modern English Tanka Press, 2008), though in English it dates back only to 1983 and the appearance of Sanford Goldstein's “Tanka Walk.”

Since it is a relatively new form in English, with limited venues and a limited number of practitioners, we are looking for unpublished work from both established writers and writers new to the form. Tanka prose is easy to describe – combinations of tanka and prose – but difficult to define. Those new to the form would benefit from reading the publications that regularly publish tanka prose, Atlas Poetica and Haibun Today, as well as The Tanka Prose Anthology. We are open to subject matter and treatment; shocking is fine, but material that is offensive (racist, pornographic, etc.) is not wanted. Please send us your best work.

Submissions: Poets are invited to send up to three tanka prose pieces each, but only one, if selected, will published, in keeping with the theme and format of the ’25 Poems’ features on the Atlas Poetica website. Send to: tankaprose [at] gmail[ dot] com, with a subject line of ‘Tanka Prose.’

Before submitting, please go to http://www.AtlasPoetica.org. All the usual guidelines for Atlas Poetica apply. Potential contributors should familiarize themselves with the Special Features and the full ATPO guidelines.

Deadline: Deadline for submitting to ’25 Tanka Prose Pieces’ is January 31, 2011. The planned publication date is Spring 2011. Special Features are published on an irregular schedule.

Email address for submissions:  tankaprose [at] gmail [dot] com — subject line: Tanka Prose.

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M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

AtlasPoetica.org

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