Thursday, January 19, 2006

Still open for submissions: 'Best Sex Writing 2006'

I got this from my publishers at Cleis Press:

Call for submissions: Best Sex Writing 2006
edited by Felice Newman and Frederique Delacoste
Publication date: May 1, 2006
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2006

Cleis Press is the publisher of Best Sex Writing, the new series featuring exciting, arousing, and most importantly, intelligent nonfiction sex writing. We are looking for personal essays and reportage for inclusion in the 2006 edition, which will hit stores in May 2006.

As of January 2006, the 2006 edition features an impressing (and growing) roster of authors: Stephen Elliott, David Amsden, Shalom Auslander, Susannah Breslin, Susie Bright, Emily DePrang, Virginia Vitzthum, Mark Pritchard, Eli Sanders, and Paul Festa, among others.

Best Sex Writing 2006 will be edited by Cleis Press publishers Felice Newman (author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book) and Frederique Delacoste (editor of Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry). This is the first book to be co-edited by the two publishers since 1980.

We invite your submissions for Best Sex Writing 2006:
LENGTH: Up to 7000 words; please include bio note and information on
previous publication. SEND: Paste text into the body of an email (no attachments and no snail mail submissions) EMAIL: fnewman at cleispress com and fdelacoste at cleispress com. SUBJECT LINE: BSW06 . DEADLINE: February 15, 2006

2 comments:

Myfanwy Collins said...

Fantastic! Is this for that essay you posted on here? I thought that was superb.

Mark Pritchard said...

Yeah, that's the one. But I posted this not to blow my horn about its inclusion in this antho but to get others to submit to it.