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hasta el próximo telarañazo!
tatiana de la tierra
Sus writings "El Recibo Social" y "Speech at the LUST Conference" were published inThe New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading, edited by Eileen Myles & Liz Kotz (Semiotext(e), 1995). También participó en The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies'
"Queer Theater: A Conference with Performances" en NYC. Actualmente está escribiendo un screen play in progress con filmmaker y sister Ela Troyano. Carmelita also brought her "milk of amnesia" to south beach's black box last fall, where she exposed her childhood toilet y politics.
Achy Obejas will have her very latina novel, Memory Mambo published this fall by Cleis Press. Su collection of short stories, We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? ha vendido over 12,000 copies (alabao!)... Ahora está teaching creative writing at Columbia College in Chicago for one more semester and gearing up to work full time at the Chicago Tribune as "Cultural Critic."
Monica Palacios, writer and performer, was awarded a 1996 Fellowship from the Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theatre Initiative Program to develop a play. Her writing is published in Latina: Women's Voices From the Borderlands (Simon & Schuster). También está teaching writing and performance classes at UCLA through the Chicana/o Studies Program y es la Project Director de Teatro VIVA.
Marga Gomez is premiering "A Line Around the Block," a performance piece she wrote about her father, at NY's Shakespeare Festival this March.
Susana Cook, una escritora y performance artist de Argentina que vive en Nueva York performed "Gender Acts" con Kate Wilson durante el "genderplex" series del Puffin Foundation. Sus gender-questioning obras incluyen "I Dress Therefore I am," "Genderless Angel," "American Lifestyle" y "Proverbial Provenance". Susana's original performance includes stints with toaster-genitalia & tango-lesbiango.
Juanita Diaz-Coto will have her new book, Gender, Ethnicity and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics published by SUNY Press this spring.
Novelist Terri de la Peña, who's had Margins and Latin Satins published by Seal Press, is on her second draft of her third novel, Faults.
Elena Martínez está estrenando su nuevo libro Lesbian Voices From Latin America (Garland Publishers).
Mariana Romo Carmona is teaching en el programa de M.F.A. in Writing de Goddard College y sigue on COLORlife's editorial team. Mariana fue one of the judges for ASTRAEA's 1995 Lesbian Writers Fund.
Cherríe Moraga se está preparando for her springtime world premiere of "Watsonville," a play stocked with earth quakes, floods, a cannery strike and politics, por supuesto. Brava! for Women in the Arts! received a TCG National Artist Residency Award which will allow Cherríe to teach an advanced playwriting workshop. "Watsonville" will inaugurate the Brava Theatre Center, an old vaudeville house transformed into a state-of-the-art 250-seat theater & training facility. Meanwhile, Cherríe está taking a break from directing the DramaDivas, a writing-for-performance workshop for queer youth of color that she founded & directed for five years. Las DramaDivas are now working on a new show under the leadership of Pomo Afro Homo Brian Freeman. Latina lesbian Yvette Gomez is the outreach coordinator for las DramaDivas.
Claudia Von Bacano, una writer & artista que nació en Bolivia, had "Buscando" publicado in The New Fuck You. Hace un par de años Claudia had poems, stories & fotos published in NY Riot Grrrls newsletters & in her Letras de Sangre/Tongues of Fire. Ahora esá finishing up her BA in Art & Spanish Literatura at Oberlin College.
Xicana-Mexicana-India Teresa Mendoza had her "Dyke on Heels" poem published in The Femme Mystique, an anthology edited by Lesléa Newman (Alyson, 1995).
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez is having her "Tomboy Gone Butch" story published in Shattering the Myth (Women's Educational Press, 1996) and "Dina Ruled the Playground"in conmoción's identity issue. Karleen está writing & writing at San Diego State University's M.F.A. Creative Writing Program.
tatiana de la tierra: estoy writing morbid sonnets, putting the final touches on conmoción's identity edition, taking technical & visionary pasos to edit a totally fresh collection of writings by latina lesbians & waiting for las diosas to send me to grad school (to write & write). cosas most recently published: "Chocolate" en Perra! La Revista, "Never" in Queer View Mirror (Arsenal Pulp, 1995), "A Latina Lesbian Combat Femme" in The Femme Mystique, "Achy Obejas" en Baneke & "Journey Through the Fog" in Viva Arts Quarterly.
Latina lesbian writers published in conmoción in 1995: om ulloa, Lesley Salas, Rosamaría Roffiel, Josi Mata, María Luisa Masqué, MIC, Luz Maria Umpierre, Carmen Vazquez, tatiana de la tierra, Amy Concepcion, Rosita Angulo Libre de Marulanda, Patricia Pereira-Pujol, Terri de la Peña, Hilda Gutiérrez Baldoquín, Maria Medina Serafin, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Marcia Ochoa, Maya Alba, Tina D'Elia, Ana Inés Rubinstein, Herlinda E. Arellano, Miriam E. Lavandier, Bessy Reina, Ocan, Doralisa Goitía, Mireya Corona, Loana dp Valencia, Mercedes Palmar, Carmen Corrales, Juana Benites Arriola, Ana Montero, Lori Cardona y Erotiza Memaz!
if you want conmoción's identity edition and you're not a
subscriber.
send $7 más o menos to: conmoción identidad,
1521 Alton Road #336,
Miami Beach, FL 33139.
Residentes de
américa latina por favor
envíen $2 (total $9) adicionales para cubrir los gastos de
correo.
Lesbiana latina writers que participarán at A Different Light
Bookstore's Third Annual Readers & Writers Conference in April in San
Francisco: Cathy Arellano, Lea E. Arellano, Kleya Forté-Escamilla,
Odilia Galván-Rodríguez, Yvette Gomez, Karla Rosales &
Carla Trujillo.
Latinas published in VIVA Arts Quarterly: Jeanne Córdova, Terri de la Peña, Hannah, Bleier, tatiana de la tierra, Ophelia Navarro, Lisa Ann Gonzales, Gina Acuña, Monica Palacios, Cindy Gomez & Teresa Mendoza. Be an Arts Angel for $25 and receive the Quarterly, VIVA, 4470-107 Sunset Blvd. #261, Los Angeles, CA 90027. tel: (310) 301- 8035.
Latinas published in The Arc of Love, An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems, edited by Clare Coss (Scribner, 1996): Magali Alabau, Gloria Anzaldúa, Avotcja, Maya Islas, Cherríe Moraga, Bessy Reyna, Karla E. Rosales & Ana Sisnett.
conmociónes available
send $5 in the U.S. or $7 correo internacional for conmoción #3 identidad. Back issues (#1 activismo & #2 erótica) cuestan $6 in the U.S. & $8 internacional cada una.
conmoción, 1521 Alton Road #336, Miami Beach, FL 33139 notas lesbianas from conferencias que ya pasaron
Outwrite, the 6th National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Writers Conference, was held this february. Entre las pocas latinas presente estaban Tina D'Elia, who co-coordinated the First National Lesbian & Gay Poetry Slam and performed "Would Your Girlfriend Mind" during the Poetry Slam Preliminaries; Yvette Colón, una dominicana who read poetry as part of the OutSpoken reading series; tatiana de la tierra, who read "never" at the Queer View Mirror book launch & a handful of latin participants. El 7th Outwrite will be on March 21-23, 1997 in Boston. Outwrite, 29 Stanhope St, Boston, MA 02116. tel: (617) 262-6969.
"El Frente: U.S. Latinas Under Attack and Fighting Back, a Conference on
U.S. Latina Feminists" was hosted by Cornell University on October, 1995.
La keynote speaker fue Cherríe Moraga. También
participaron la filósofa María Lugones, la sociologa Juanita
Ramos, la literary critic Yvone Yarbro-Bejarano y Ela Troyano, la creatrix
de la película Carmelita Tropicana - Your Kunst is Your Waffen,
entre otras.
Lesbiana puertorriqueña Juanita Ramos-Diaz presentó "Coalitions and Conflicts in International Lesbian-Feminist Organizing: A Latin American's Perspective" en the "Identity Space Power: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Politics Conference" that was organized by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at The City University of New York en Febrero.
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Her Life and Times" fue una conferencia attended by scholars from México, Europa and EEUU last February at UT-Austin. The event commemorated the tricentennial of the death of Sor Juana, the seventeenth-century poeta mexicana.
Unspoken Rules: Sexual Orientation and Women's Human Rights, edited by Rachel Rosenbloom (International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 1995) is a book that was prepared for the United Nations Fourth Women's Conference, which was held in Bejing last year. The book documents human rights violations in 31 countries around the world, incluyendo a Argentina por Alejandra Sarda, Brazil por Míriam Martinho, Colombia por Elsa Rondón, México por Gloria Careaga Pérez and Patria Jiménez, Nicaragua por María Bolt González y Uruguay por Ana Martínez. It's available for $15 plus $3 shipping & handling. Write: IGLHRC, 1360 Mission St. #200, San Francisco, Ca 94103. Tel: (415) 255-8680. Email: iglhrc@igc.apc.org, < a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~arenal/Homepage.html">Web page < a
notas sobre conferences que haven't happened yet
CLAGS' LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE CONFERENCE will bring together gay and lesbian writers, scholars, artists and activists from Latin America and the U.S. in the fall of 1996. Organizers include Elena Martínez y Carmen Vazquez, the Director of Public policy for NYC's Lesbian & Gay Community Center. Write: CLAGS: 33 West 42 St. Room 404N, New York, NY 10036-8099.
Looks like las Lesbianas Latinas de Tucson are planning on hosting the 2nd encuentro nacional de lesbianas latinas. No se sabe como, cuando, etc.
cosas that didn't fit into any other category
El escritor colombiano gay Jaime Manrique tiene un new book de poesía published: My Night With/Mi Noche Con Federico García Lorca (Groundwater Press, 1996). felicidades!
Arenal: una cosa electrónica latina. Arenal es una
lista de
discusión...para los que han dejado atrás la homofobia y
miran el futuro como un lugar en el que la igualdad de derechos no conoce
color, raza, credo ni orientación sexual...Si usted desea unirse a los
250 actuales miembros de Arenal escriba a listserv@mx.gw.com En el
cuerpo de su mensaje incluya el siguiente texto: sub arenal
THE FLIGHT OF THE MIND: Thirteenth Annual Summer Writing Workshop for
Women June 14-21 and June 23-30. Portland, Oregon. Week-long workshop
intensives on Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Memoirs, etc. by Evelyn C.
White, Valerie Miner, Naomi Shihab Nye, Judith Barrington, Ursula K. Le
Guin, Elizabeth Woody, Lucinda Roy, Charlotte Watson Sherman and Andrea
Carlisle. The workshops offer formal instruction, time for work, and the
opportunity to exchange ideas with other writers...Costs from $595 to
$785, depending on accommodations. Hay limited partial scholarships. The
Flight of the Mind, 622 Southeast 29th Ave., Portland, OR 97214.
Phone: (503) 236-9862. Email:WomenWriter
The University of Arizona Poetry Center offers a writer who has not
published more than one full-length work a place to work for one month
between June 1 and August 31. Send three copies of a manuscript of 10
pages of poetry or 20 pages of fiction or literary nonfiction. Deadline:
March 15. University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1216 North Cherry Ave.,
Tucson, AZ 85719.
Artistas, scholars y scientists can apply for 4-week residencies at the
Bellagio Center on Lake Como in Italy to work on a book, article or other
creative project. Rockefeller Foundation, c/o Bellagio Center Office, 420
Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10018-2702.
Damas Gracias is a writers' retreat in the northern Catskills. Allegra
Vida, Grant Road, Gilboa, NY 12076.
Free one- and two-week retreats available from July 21 through August 3.
Deadline: May 15. Winton Zweigart, 1901 S. Point Lookout Rd., Stockport,
OH 43787. Email: wl_mwinton@seovec.ohio.gov
Writing workshops for women in the summertime at: Fly Away Home, P.O.
Box 593, Myrtle Creek, OR 97457.
ASTRAEA LESBIAN WRITERS FUND. Awards for Emerging Lesbian Writers in
Fiction and Poetry. Winners receive $10,000. To be eligible you must be a
lesbian writer who resides in the U.S. and you have to have at least one
piece of writing published and not more than one book. Send up to 30 pages
of fiction or 10-15 pages of poetry. $5 entry fee. Deadline: March 8.
Lesbian Writers Fund, Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation, 116
East 16th St., 7th floor, New York, NY 10003 Tel: (212) 529-8021.
The Short Story Award for New Writers offers prizes of $300-$1200 for
unpublished short stories by writers whose fiction has not appeared in a
nationally distributed publication with a circulation over 5,000. Entry fee
is $11. Deadline: March 31. Glimmer Train Press, 812 Southwest
Washington St. #1205, Portland, OR 97205.
The Ruth Cable Memorial Prize offers prizes of $500 and $50 plus
publication for poetry. Entry fee is $8 for 3 poems. Deadline: March 31.
Ruth Cable Memorial Prize, ELF, P.O Box 392, Tonawanda, NY 14150.
The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award offers $1000 plus publication for an
unpublished sonnet. $3 entry fee. Deadline: June 15. Howard Nemerov
Sonnet Award, The Formalist, 320 Hunter Dr., Evansville, IN 47711.
The Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction offers $100-$250 & possible
publication for essays on any subject. $5 entry fee. Deadline: April. Annie
Dillard Award in Nonfiction, Mail Stop 9053, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA 98255.
The Mississippi Review Prize in Short Fiction offers $1000 plus
publication for an unpublished short story. $10 entry fee. Deadline: March
31. 1996 Mississippi Review Prize, University of Southern Mississippi,
Box 5144, Hattiesburg, MS 39406.
The American Short Fiction Competition offers $200-$1000 plus possible
publication for unpublished short stories. $20 entry fee. Deadline: May 15.
Joe Krupps, ASF Contest, Universty of Texas, PAR 108, Austin, TX
78712.
Lesbian Girl Scouts Anthology. Looking for lesbian Girl Scouts for an
anthology on the role of lesbians in Girl Scouting and the role of Girl
Scouts in the lives of Lesbians. Essays, interviews, poems, stories and
photographs. Deadline: May 1. Nancy Manahan, Minneapolis Community
College, Minneapolis, MN 55403-1779.
Funny That Way: A Queer Teen `Zine With a Lit Fuse (as in literary) is
accepting submissions of all kinds_"anything that can fit ona page" _by
queers who are under 21 years of age. Submissions can be in any language.
Funny That Way, which is edited by Rebekah Eisenberg, is a project of
Brava's Drama Divas, which has a Writing for Performance Workshop and
paid job training for people under 17 years of age. Sample copies of the
`zine can be ordered for $2.50. Brava, Funny That Way, 2180 Bryant St., San
Francisco, CA 94110. Tel: (415) 641-7684.
Lesbian of color performers & visual artistas are sought for an interactive
cd-rom being created by Claudia Von Bacano. Singers, teatreras, divas &
slammers can contact Claudia at: Oberlin College, Box 210, Oberlin, OH
44074. Email: scv9300@alpha.cc.oberlin.edu
Breaking the Chains: Latinas, Criminal Justice, Jails & Prisons (An
Anthology): Poems, journal entries, art work and oral histories by and
about latina experience with the criminal justice system in the U.S. with a
focus on jails and prison. To be edited by Juanita Diaz-Ramos. P.O. Box
678, Binghamton, NY 13905-0678. tel: (607) 777-4916.
You Don't Look Latina! Latinas Negras Anthology. Latinas of African
descent are welcome to submit art, autobiography, essays, photos, poetry,
etc. Can be in English, Spanish or bilingual. Extended Deadline: December.
Maria Cora, 680 De Haro St. #3. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Hot & Bothered: An International Anthology of Short Short Stories of
Lesbian Desire: Editor Karen X. Tulchinsky is accepting short short fiction
(1000 words or less) for a new anthology of lesbian erotic stories to be
published in Autumn of 1997 by Arsenal Pulp Press (Vancouver, Canada).
Deadline: August 31. SASE to: 1036 Odlum Dr., Vancouver, BC, V5L 3L6
Canada. Email: kxt@descon.mlnet.com
Queer View Mirror II: Lesbian & Gay Short Short Fiction: Co-editors Karen
X. Tulchinsky and James Johnstone are accepting submissions for the
second in a series of international anthologies of short short fiction by
lesbians and gay men to be published in Spring of 1997 by Arsenal Pulp
Press (Vancouver, Canada). Deadline: April 30. SASE to: 1036 Odlum Dr.,
Vancouver, BC, V5L 3L6 Canada. Email: jamescjn@descon.mlnet.com
Romantic Love Between Women. An anthology to be edited by Irene Zahava.
Previously unpublished work preferred. SASE to: Irene Zahava, 307 West
State St., Ithaca, NY 14850.
The New Fuck You Too, Adventures in Lesbian Reading is accepting
writings in all formats for an anthology to be published in 1997. Deadline:
June 1, más o menos. Kotz-Myles, 172 Rivington St. #16, New York,
NY 10002.
Queer Sex: Blurring the Boundaries: An anthology of essays and fiction
about gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgenderists
having sex with member of the opposite sex. Deadline: August 15. Diane
Anderson, Editor, 106 Esplanade Dr. #167, Pacifica, CA 94044.
Home: Women Writing. Seeking essays. "This anthology will gather
different voices to explore the many ways that we are at home." Deadline:
April 1. Susan Fox Rogers, Box 23, Bard College, Annandale, NY 12504.
(518) 392-7820. Email: girlrogers@aol.com
A View From The Loft considers articles related to creativity and writing
up to 3,000 word length. A View From the Loft, c/o Ellen Hawley, Pratt
Community Center, 66 Malcolm SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
Rising Tide Press is seeking short stories for three new anthologies:
Cruising Stories (true or fictionalized); Coming-together Stories (about
the love of your life) and Favorite Dyke Pick-up Lines. Deadline: September
30. Short Fiction, Rising Tide Press, 5 Kivy St., Huntington Station, NY
11746. (516) 427-1289.
"Looking for funny, dark, obsessive, compulsive, anxiety-ridden, giddy, gay
and just plain damn queer work for anthology, Best American Neurotica, to
be published by Cleis Press, Spring, 1997." Deadline: May 1. Mabel Maney,
P.O. Box 420984, San Francisco, CA 94142-0984. (510) 464-1122.
Out On Campus, a collection of stories from current college students &
recent graduates is seeking "insightful stories that describe...coming out
& being out in college." Deadline: May 10. Annie Stevens & Kim Howard,
8207 Garland Ave #1, Takoma Park, MD 20912. Email:
as154@umail.umd.edu
One Thousand and One Kisses seeks 1000 words or less stories for a
kisses anthology. "Not just romantic first kisses, but mutilated and
murderous kisses, Judas kisses, stolen kisses..." Deadline: April 16. Anna
Livia, Dept. of French, University of Illinois, 707 S. Mathews Ave., 2090
Foreign Languages, Urbana, IL 61801.
HERS: brilliant new fiction by lesbian writers volume 2 is seeking
"innovating, well-crafted literary works". Deadline: April 1. Terry
Wolverton, 3359 Garden Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039-2130.
Dog Poems by Queer Pups seeks poems for a book that "will shed light on
the varied intersections between canine culture and queer sensibility.
Deadline: March 31. Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, 399 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY
11217.
Malachite and Agate seeks lesbian poetry. Malachite and Agate, P.O. Box
283, Brockport, NY 14420.
Cream City Review seeks fiction, poetry, essays, reviews and interviews.
Cream City Review, English Dept., Custin Hall, P.O. Box 413, University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201.
100 words seeks short prose and poetry on dream. Deadline: March 7. 100
words, 473 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Many Mountains Moving seeks fiction, poetry and essays. Many Mountains,
430 22nd St., Boulder, CO 80302.
Membrane seeks experimental writing. Membrane: 4213 12th St. Northeast,
Washington, DC 20017.
Manuscripts Wanted: Javelina Press seeks manuscripts by women writers
on a range of topics, including feminist and lesbian fiction, spirituality,
politics, sexuality and culture. Javelina Press, P.O. Box 42131, Tucson, AZ
85733. Tel: (520) 326-1286.
the above information is compiled at whim from mail received by
conmoción, el correo de las brujas and from extracts published in
A View From the Loft ($40 annual membership fee, Pratt Community
Center, 66 Malcolm Ave Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55414) and the
International Women's Writing Guild Newsletter ($35 annual membership
fee, Caller Box 810 Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028).
Quiere ser telarañera?, send $7 in the U.S. or $10 in
América Latina to: telaraña, 1521 Alton Road #336, Miami
Beach, FL 33139.
gracias to the Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation, the Chicago
Resource Center, Mama Cash & the Funding Exchange for partial funding for
el telarañazo!
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a
Arenal la unica
lista dirigida a la comunidad Lesbigay por correo
electrónico
Escándalo en mayami: MiAmbiente, una columna gay publicada por
la revista mainstream latina éxito, has been demoted from
semanal to monthly por los publicadores. La columna, escrita por el
publisher de Perra! La Revista Eduardo
Aparicio,
causó polémica y gay diálogo en la comunidad
latina de este pueblo. Pero a los bigots de &EACUTE;xito el tema gay
resultó too much. Exito, 8323 NW 12th St. #212, Miami, FL 33126
leave-home-and-write opportunities,p>
Cottages at Hedgebrook, a writing retreat for women in Langley,
Washington, is accepting applications for residency. "Since its inception,
Hedgebrook has emphasized the necessity of providing an atmosphere of
privacy and solitude for residents. By creating an environment free of
external demands and interruptions, Hedgebrook allows a writer to focus
on her work in a singular way." Writers stay in solid wood cabins, get
home-cooked lunches brought to the door and share outdoor space with
rabbits, berry bushes & wild trees. Deadline: April 1. Hedgebrook, 2197
East Millman Road, Langley, WA 98260. tel: (360) 321-4786.
writing concursos & awards
calls for submissions
Oh No! Not Another Anthology! Si, es la verdad, pero this is a latina
lesbian one, to be edited by tatiana de la tierra. I want good writing. Raw,
real and surreal. Creative Writing, including autobiografical
ficción & experimentos accepted. Deadline: May 14.
note: this is a real deadline. if you want to submit algo but don't have it
totalmente together by el 14th (mi cumpleaños, how cosmically
correct) contact me anyway. otra note: personalmente estoy on anthology
overload_I hate them and I hate being one of the few latinas in them. this
collection of stories that I'll be editing will have a glimmering lot of us
preserved eternamente. Antología, 1521 Alton Road #336, Miami
Beach, FL 33139. tel: (305) 751-8385. Email:
Conmocion
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