Poets Unite Worldwide

WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM

This is from our friend Negar:

" On 16 September 2022, the 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini (#MahsaAmini) was arrested and then beaten to death by Iranian "morality police of Islamic Republic" for not wearing the hijab in accordance with the islamic standards set by the government.
Amini's death resulted in a series of large-scale protests in Tehran and across the country, and even garnered a statement from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees focusing on violence against women in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The government's response to the protest has been brutal: the internet was shut down and the police has opened fire on the demonstrators. Yet the number of people protesting has grown and more and more public figures are supporting us, in Iran and from abroad.

Indeed we can't accept to be silenced because we are #MahsaAminis’ voice.

This is not just a feminist protest, but rather it is a protest for protecting the human rights of everyone: women and men, girls and boys, religious and non-religious people.

This is why I'm reaching out to you: to invite you to write poems and/or short stories about and for the Iranian people, so as to make our message stronger.

Poems and short stories will be collected and published by Fabrizio Frosini & Poets Unite Worldwide: an Anthology for #MahsaAmini, Iran and Iranian people with the title "Women, Life, Freedom" -- it is the slogan of our movement: the Iranian women's movement against compulsory hijab.

Please, help us to make the whole world hear our voice!

(Negar)

To take part in the compilation

Free registration (only the registered poets can submit their poetry) at:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/26-poetry-from-iran

After registration, submit your entries through the GROUP EMAIL:

26-poetry-from-iran@googlegroups.com

Submission :

UP to 3 (three) poems (of any length), and/or 1 (one) short story

DEADLINE : NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Submit only UNPUBLISHED poems

You must state that the poem is unpublished when you submit it

Note:

After the publication of the book, you'll be free to publish the submitted poems/story wherever you like.

The UNFIT POEMS/STORIES will be DISCARDED after deadline, without further notice

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For the new entries: add a BIOGRAPHY no longer than 100 words, written in 1st person

The copyright of the poems will remain in the hands of their Authors, but all Participants will accept to make us free to publish the ebook at no cost and without any other obligation on our part than to publish the poems selected (the acceptance of this point will be attested, by each Participant, by simply sending their poems). To make it clear: by submitting their poems the Authors agree to grant non-exclusive world rights to Fabrizio Frosini and 'Poets Unite Worldwide' for publishing the submitted poems in books, without fee, so long as the Authors are credited --this does not prevent the Authors from publishing their poems anytime, anywhere, by themselves, or from granting others the right to do so.

All participants will receive their own copy of the ebook (file PDF or EPUB).

NO FEES are requested.

A Judging Committee will decide if the poems are worthy to be accepted for publication.

Best regards
Fabrizio Frosini

26. POETRY FROM IRAN

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