Call For Submissions – King Guise
KING GUISE
Call for visual/ digital / photographic images of self-identified, of ‘Color’ Drag Kings, Genderqueers, Male Impersonators, Masculine Impressionist, Studs, FtMs, Butches and related trans- identities for proposed coffee table book.
This collection of images and accompanying text will focus on and explore the act of putting on masculinity / man / he / h?m. Special consideration for ‘action images’ depicting the putting on, taking off, performance or ‘captured desire’ of the
‘masculinized-self.’ King Guise will use critical inquiry to
investigate the process and execution of these transformations and the eventual outcome, if any, of public display and interaction. Thru dialogue with actual image ‘recorders,’ the subjects/objects themselves and the voyeurs drawn to these particular ‘looks,’ King Guise will delve into the murky palette of ‘gendered desire and play,’ with particular attention given to the operation and influence of cultural, racial and regional ‘ethics/values/norms.’
All submissions, commentary and visual submissions shall be fully considered. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE ACADEMIC, “POLITICALLY APPROPRIATE” or “GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT” I am also accepting portraits, written works, sketches, drawings, digital imagery, reprints, cartoons, erotica and more.
King Guise will be published in English, French, and Spanish!
Word Count/Page Limits:
Poetry/Rhymes – Maximum 3 pages per poem/rhyme and 3 poems per poet/mc
Graphic Stories – Maximum three pages/submission (number of panels up to you) Up to three pieces per ‘artist’.
Photographs/Paintings/Collage/Drawings- 3-5, scanned as B/W only.
Royalties will be paid!
Please send entries as .tif, .jpeg format, word or txt attachments DEADLINE: May 1st, 2007
Collaborative Editors: Drag King Sile Singleton, Erin O’Neill, and Noelle Campbell-Smith.
Publisher: Homofactus Press. (www.homofactuspress.com )
Send submissions to kingguise@homofactuspress.com.