Call for Contributions: Madyaas Journal of Aklanon Literature

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Call for Contributions: Madyaas Journal of Aklanon Literature

 

 

Contributions are being accepted for the inaugural issue of "Madyaas: Journal of Aklanon Literature," a new online, multilingual publication intending to feature the best of the current generation of writers from Aklan or with immediate Akeanon lineage, wherever the Akeanon diaspora has taken them to.

 

John Barrios, Melchor F. Cichon, and Phillip Yerro Kimpo Jr. are the journal's editors. The journal's first issue will be launched tentatively in June or July 2011, with a minimum of three issues per year.

 

Submission guidelines:

 

- The journal is open to writers who (a) are residents of Aklan, or (b) have Akeanon parent/s, or (c) can write in Akeanon.

 

- Works in Akeanon, Filipino, and English are accepted. (In the future, works in Hiligaynon will be considered.) 

 

- Works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction (personal essays), drama, literary criticism, and graphic novels are accepted. Multiple submissions are okay, but please limit poetry submissions to five (5) and each work of prose to 5,000 words.

 

- Akeanon photographers and artists are encouraged to submit their works, which will occupy the journal's cover page.

 

- Submissions must be emailed to madyaaslit@gmail.com. The email subject should contain the language, genre, and author surname. (Example: Akeanon Poetry - Cichon.) Works submitted on or before May 29, 2011 will be the ones considered for publication in the journal's first issue.

 

The editors reserve the right to include works from invited non-Akeanon guest writers, provided the works give a deeper understanding of Aklan, its history, its culture, or its people to the rest of the nation.