Deadline Extended for Stories on Theme of "Blackness" [1]
Fiction International [3], a California-based journal emphasizing both literary innovation and progressive politics, has pushed its June 1 contest deadline [4] to August 31. Through the remainder of the summer, the magazine is accepting submissions of short stories on the theme of "Blackness" for a one-thousand-dollar prize, and all entries will be considered for publication.
According to contest coordinator Joel Cox, the theme is "deliberately elastic," encompassing, for instance, "skin; sleep; death; meditation; apocalypse; birds falling from the sky, blanketing the sun; love unloved; the obverse of white."
"Contestants can take 'Blackness' wherever they choose," Cox says. The editors, including final judge Harold Jaffe [5], "will cede to them."
In the video below, Jaffe presents one of his latest texts, Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2010) at Google's San Francisco office.