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Walang Hiya … literature taking risks toward liberatory practice
Will be published by Arkipelago Press Spring 2009

• Walang Hiya … literature taking risks toward liberatory practice is a literary anthology committed to using the narrative as a departure point for personal and political transformation. We seek to challenge the boundaries and cultural norms, sharing our stories without shame.
• Walang Hiya believes in the idea of Cultural Work or the use of artistic expression as a form of education and community mobilization.
• We feature emerging Pilipina/o artists, works that capture the spirit of innovation and contradiction.
• We pay homage to the literary roots of our Diaspora and with this offering hope to embrace the future tense. 
• Walang Hiya seeks submissions in the form of prose, poetry and short story.

We are interested in the stories that move beyond the identity politic to embrace other forms of coming to oneself as individuals and as a people. We've read the stories of Filipino pride and reclaiming our culture, but what's next? We are familiar with characters caught in the culture clash hovering around notions of identity and homeland that helped shape the literature of our Diaspora, but what is on the horizon?

We seek submissions exploring the space of contradiction where our stories live:

• What are the resiliency stories borne out of our legacy of colonization? 
• How do we as Filipinos transform accepted norms, whether positive or negative, in  religion/spirituality, language and culture?
• How do we practice a healthy forgiveness in order to sustain relationship and community?
• How do we practice everyday acts of resistance?
• How do we keep our humanity in the face of unequal power dynamics … At work?  With the people you love?  With institutions intending to help, but do more harm? 

We are interested in utilizing prose and poetry to creatively teach and speak our experience as first, second, third (and beyond) generations of Filipina/o's in the Diaspora. Walang Hiya will feature a study guide in the back of the anthology for educators and community groups to use as an entry point for dialogue and political engagement.

Guidelines
All submissions will be read thoroughly and with respect.  If selected for the Walang Hiya anthology, additional editing may be required.  The author(s) will be contacted directly for input.

• Submission Deadline: December 5, 2008 
• Submissions should be no more than 3,000 words, double-spaced, single-sided, 12-point font
• Please include a bio of 100 words or less
• Send works via email as an attachment in Microsoft Word to walanghiya2009@gmail.com
• Questions can be directed to Lolan Sevilla or Roseli Ilano at walanghiya2009@gmail.com

Contributors retain all rights to their work and will receive two complimentary copies as compensation.





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"they are even afraid of our songs of love."
- carlos bulosan