[van-announce] SUBMIT TO UPPING THE ANTI- pitches due May 15, 2009

[Caelie Frampton]

[[[ SUBMIT TO UPPING THE ANTI ]]]

Pitches due May 15, 2009; first draft due July 5, 2009

*WHO WE ARE*

UPPING THE ANTI: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND ACTION
is a radical journal published twice a year by a pan-Canadian collective
of activists and organizers. We are dedicated to publishing radical theory
and analysis about struggles against capitalism, imperialism, and all
forms of oppression.

In our first eight issues, we've published articles by and interviews with
renowned activists and intellectuals, including Aijaz Ahmad, Himani
Bannerji, Grace Lee Boggs, Ward Churchill, Michael Hardt, John Holloway,
Sunera Thobani, and many more.

We have covered a wide variety of topics including Palestine solidarity
activism, the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary anti-war
movement, trans politics and anti-capitalism, Indigenous solidarity,
contemporary feminist organizing, and activist burnout.

In every issue, activists and organizers reflect on the state of
contemporary organizing in Canada and beyond. We publish theoretical and
critical articles, interviews and roundtables. UPPING THE ANTI also
includes a book review section where activists assess new writing on the
Left.


*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS*

We are currently looking for story ideas for ISSUE NINE, which will be
released in OCTOBER of 2009. If you have an idea for a story you would
like to see published in our journal, please send us a one page pitch by
Friday, May 15, 2009. In addition to the pitch, please submit a short
writing sample (max 1,000 words).

In your pitch, please provide a brief description of the topic of your
investigation, your main questions, an account of how you will address
these questions, as well as a brief biographical note.

Before submitting a pitch, we encourage you to read back issues in order
to familiarize yourself with the kind of writing that we publish. We also
encourage you to have a look at the UPPING THE ANTI writer's guide, which
can be downloaded at http://uppingtheanti.org.

Pitches should be for original stories that have not been submitted or
published elsewhere. Please do not send us a pitch that you have
simultaneously sent to another publication.

Although we will consider all pitches, we are especially interested in
stories about the current economic crisis, contemporary labour organizing,
feminism and women's struggles, dis/ability, international solidarity
work, mobilization strategies, marxism and anarchism in the 21st Century,
activist interventions in art and culture, and struggles around questions
of sex and sexuality.

We will review your pitch and provide you with feedback. After a pitch has
been approved, writers are expected to submit their story by deadline.
Deadline for first drafts for ISSUE NINE is July 5, 2009.

Please submit all pitches and direct all queries to uppingtheanti at gmail.com


*CHECK OUT ISSUE EIGHT*

Our next issue will be available in May 2009. Content will include various
perspectives about the current political moment and social movement
responses, including OCAP activist John Clarke on anti-poverty organizing
and the economic crisis, solidarity activist Shiri Pasternak on the
struggle of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, and Shourideh C. Molavi on
the terrain of struggle for the Palestinian liberation movement in the
wake of Israel's attack on Gaza.

The issue will also feature interviews with David McNally, Leo Panitch and
Sam Gindin on the economic crisis, activist Deborah Gould on ACT UP, and
members of the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM).

To keep Upping the Anti running we need your support. Pick up the latest
issue, and check out our online subscription program.

For more information about UPPING THE ANTI,
visit http://uppingtheanti.org

If the articles in Upping The Anti inspire or enrage you, if they have
been useful (or not) in your organizing work, or if you have something to
contribute to an argument on our pages, please consider writing us a
letter. We print letters up to 1,000 words and reserve to the right to
edit for clarity, spelling, and grammar. Email letters to
uppingtheanti at gmail.com.
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