Linkspam: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Personal Essays...

[davidgillon]

"Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Personal Essays Editor Nicolette Barischoff Wants Your Essay Pitches!

As you know, the Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine is taking over the Destroy series from Lightspeed Magazine. The current plan is to run the Kickstarter for Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction in July 2017. The issue will be written and edited entirely by disabled people.

Personal Essays Editor Nicolette Barischoff is currently looking for short personal essays (ideally between 500-800 words) to run during the Kickstarter and eventually be included in the special issue. These pieces will explore the writer’s connection to disability and genre fiction in a deeply personal way, as a writer, an editor, an activist, or a consumer. We’re defining these terms (connection, genre) as broadly as possible to give you as much space as you need to tell your story.

Uncanny is offering a flat $15 on acceptance for these short essays. If you’re interested, please email Nicolette Barischoff and Editor-in-Chief/Nonfiction Editor Elsa Sjunneson-Henry at uncanny@uncannymagazine.com with your idea for an essay as soon as possible. If you have any questions, you may tweet them to @NBarischoff and @snarkbat. The deadline for completed essays is July 17th. We are particularly looking for disabled writers of color."

Comments

[sovay]

All of the above.

+1.

Or I will have before I go to bed, because Nicolete Barischoff just announced that tomorrow is the last day for pitching personal essays

Also, yikes.

The first and third of your planned pitches sound best to me, but I would be happy to read any personal essays from you, so I hope Barischoff feels the same.

[davidgillon]

The first and third are the ones that appeal most to me too, and I shifted them to be first and second, but Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, who's editor in chief for the non-fiction stuff, actually noted in a tweet to me "I certainly hope that someone submits an essay on the term crip and the language of disability", so I thought I'd better cover that base.

I may actually have strayed a little too far from the 'personal essay' brief into overtly political, but I'd happily settle for sticking ideas in their heads as they work on this.

[sovay]

I may actually have strayed a little too far from the 'personal essay' brief into overtly political, but I'd happily settle for sticking ideas in their heads as they work on this.

The personal is political You sound like you are very good for the brainstorming.