This seems really important –
Dead Ink have decided to ‘open submissions for EXILE, a series of subscription eBooks, seeking to explore how we attach ourselves to land, how we form, or lose, a sense of belonging. How culture and identity relate to geography and cartography. And, perhaps most importantly, how we ourselves shape and form something invisible and intangible.
We want stories between 5,000 and 30,000 words in length. Short-to-long stories. Authors will be paid with a set net percentage royalty. We may also anthologise the series as a print book in the future and produce an audio series. These submissions are also open to poetry, for which there is no lower word-limit.’
It’s easy to feel helpless in the face of vast public events, especially if we didn’t support them, as the majority of the UK population (‘remain’ voters + abstainers) did not. My question is one that I’ve been asked several times since Friday: what can writing do in the face of this situation? Joanna Walsh in 3: AM
MORE ON SUBMITTING HERE
DONT MISS – Tomorrow – on Bastille Day, Isabel Costello, author of Paris Mon Amour will be my guest here – talking about her love affair with France
