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Bawajigan: Stories of Power
Dreams (Bawajigan) have always played a powerful role in Indigenous
cultures across Turtle Island: they have changed the course of history, and served as
warning, insight, guidance, solace, or hope. In Bawajigan (Anishinaabemowin
for Dream) – and the 17th volume in the Exile Book of Anthology Series – we
are gathering fictional
stories about what it means to dream and be Indigenous, how dreams weave
their way through our realities, how they impact history, lived
experience, and the stories we tell each other and the world. These can
be lucid daydreams, waking trances, hallucinations,
reveries, reoccurring nightmares, revenge-fantasies, fever-induced
delirium, coma, sleep-paralysis visitations, sleep-walking disorders or
sleep deprivation, communication
with non-human entities, messages from beyond the grave, cybernetic
ghosts, vision-quests, ceremony, or ghost-dancing hopes for the future,
all while you just try
to make it through the week. We want to hear your stories about the
strength and power of dreams!
Are dreams merely wish fulfillment? Can they
offer healing, guidance or insight through psycho-analysis? What do
dreams reveal or
conceal? Are they another level of reality? Do computers, AI entities,
or androids dream?
Are we living inside of a holographic universe? What do animals or
monsters or
ghosts or devils dream about? What if two people had the same
dream? What if there were predators that stalked our dreams? What if
designer-dreams became just another product to sell? Do dream-worlds
exist? Are dreams multi-dimensional or cross-dimensional realities? Who
is that dream-man or dream-woman? What if a dream came true? What if
they always came true? Do places incite specific times of dreaming? Are
we our ancestors’ wildest dream come true?
What
are we looking for?
We prefer stories to be by Indigenous writers - which means anyone who identifies as First
Nation, Inuit, Metis, Status and Non-Status (including those of mixed heritage/ancestry). We’d also love to consider Indigenous
writers who are not Canadian, but keep in mind that at least
90% of the authors must be Canadian, or who continue to pay taxes in Canada while living abroad.
We also encourage submissions from New-generation
(18-30 years of age) and Two Spirit / LGBTQIAP folk.
Submissions including Indigenous languages are
also welcome, although please include English translations.
The stories can be influenced by cultural understanding, traditional
knowledge, set in modern day/historical/or futuristic settings, but
filtered through a fictional lens. Stories can be in any genre,
including but not limited to magic realism, alternative history, literary fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, horror, romantic comedy, erotica, urban-fantasy, mystery,
and graphic-forms
(comics and/or illustrations; we can even consider including a link to an online animation) — they can also be based on mythical creatures, supernatural entities, or technologies that do not exist in real life, so long as the story is in some way about drawing
strength from the power of dreams.
Tropes to Avoid: Think of The Wizard of Oz “it was all a dream”
ending, and unless you think your story is particularly awesome, try to steer
clear of this sort of ending, it can come across as a trick played on the
reader at their expense.
Submission
Details:
Original unpublished work up to 5,000 words, fictional
stories only. No novel excerpts, poetry or essays. If you have something that
almost-but-not-quite fits the criteria as it is laid out here, but it’s burning
a hole in your pocket and you are certain of its awesomeness, please do submit
it anyway. Legible 12-point font. Please list your name, contact info, and word count on the first
page.
Call
open from: Dec. 2nd – March 15th
Payment:
.05/word CDN
Editors:
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
& Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith
Rights:
non-exclusive English World, no re-prints for one year.
Expected
Publication Date: November 2017
Submit via submittable: https://exilepublishing.submittable.com/submit/72583/bawajigan-stories-of-power-call-for-submissions
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