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| Robert Paul Moreira, editor of Arriba Baseball! |
VAO Publishing invitessubmissions to the forthcoming anthology
We are seeking submissions for a collection of the bestLatino/a fiction that both celebrates and complicates the American pastimetentatively entitled Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latino/a BaseballFiction.
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind ofAmerica," wrote historian Jacques Barzun, "had better learnbaseball." The first of its kind, Arriba Baseball!: A Collection ofLatino/a Baseball Fiction, seeksto challenge established paradigms within literary baseball fiction, a genretraditionally sustained by works from predominantly white, male authors (suchas Bernard Malamud, Lamar Herrin, Eric Rolfe Greenberg, and W.P. Kinsella), andone which has historically excluded the Latino/a voice and other writers ofcolor.
We invite such fiction (up to 5,000 words) concerning thegame of baseball which challenges any and all exclusionary ideologies that havehistorically delimited the sport, and that meditates on the Latino/acontributions and experiences both on and off the field of play. While climactichome runs and strikeouts are okay, we prefer scoreboards but upside down. Wealso invite works that confront any of the issues surrounding baseball today,such as (but not limited to) the use of performance-enhancing drugs, queer andfemale performativity in baseball, the globalization of the sport, andbaseball's legacies of white privilege, racism, and male exclusivity in theUnited States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and other countries throughout LatinAmerica where the game continues to flourish.
All fiction must be previously unpublished and of literaryquality. Translations and works in Spanish will also be considered. Weparticularly encourage fiction from Latina and LGBT authors.
Contributors will be paid $25 upon acceptance and apercentage of the net sales over the first two years.
Questions/comments may be directed to baseball@vaopublishing.com.
Please send fiction submissions to vao.submittable.com/submit.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS AUGUST 31, 2012.
Acceptances announced no later than October 1, 2012.
About the Editor: Robert Paul Moreira received his MFA from the University ofTexas-Pan American in 2010. Currently, he is an English Ph.D. candidate at theUniversity of Texas-San Antonio researching alterity and constructed identitiesin sports fiction, films, and performance. His fiction, interviews, criticism,and scholarship have been published in a variety of venues, including Aethlon:Journal of Sports Literature, Storyglossia, Breakwater Review,Emprise Review, Metazen, and the anthologies SOL: Vol. I (SOL,2012) and New Border Writing (Texas A&M Press, 2013). He is therecipient of two graduate fiction awards from the Texas Association ofCreative Writing Teachers in 2009 and 2010, as well as the Wendy BarkerCreative Writing Award in 2011. He serves as a Contributing Editor for Dark Sky Books and headintern for American Letters and Commentary.
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