[NetBehaviour] Semina -- where the novel has a nervous breakdown - call for for artists and writers.

[marc garrett]

Book Works
Semina -- where the novel has a nervous breakdown

call for for artists and writers
We are looking for artists and writers interested in experimental prose 
fiction, drawing inspiration from art as much as it does from literature.

Think of the ways in which time and space died yesterday, how 
acceleration exceeds accumulation, the dead city and the perpetual 
twilight of technology: Georges Bataille, Henri Michaux, Alexander 
Trocchi, William Burroughs, Ann Quin, Clarence Cooper Jr, Claude Cahun 
etc. Above all we’re looking for artists and writers willing to take 
risks with their prose and who demonstrate total disregard for the 
conventions that structure received ideas about fiction.

Semina takes its inspiration from a series of nine loose-leaf magazines 
issued by Californian beat artist Wallace Berman in the 1950s and 1960s.

The series is commissioned and edited by artist and writer Stewart Home. 
The series will publish nine books, six of which will be selected from 
open submission, two commissioned by the editor, with /Blood Rites of 
the Bourgeoisie/ by Stewart Home the final title in the series.

The selection from open submissions will be made by Stewart Home and 
Book Works. The series is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.

Deadline for applications is 30 May 2008.

Deadline: 30/05/08

Contact:
Book Works
19 Holywell Row
EC2A 4JB London
U.K.
gavin at bookworks.org.uk
http://www.bookworks.org.uk/asp/home.asp
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