Call for Anthology Submissions: Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada

Call for submissions: “Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada: An Anthology”

Editors: Carlo Matos (City Colleges of Chicago) and Luis Gonçalves (Princeton University)

“Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada: An Anthology” will be published later this year. For the purpose of the book, we identify writers of Portuguese descent as those writers from Portugal living in the United States and Canada (regardless of the length of time spent in country) and descendants of Portuguese immigrants. The editors are seeking new and exciting literary work by authors of Portuguese descent in the United States and Canada that explore the Portuguese migrant experience in all its various manifestations. This book is designed to acquaint English-speaking readers with representative literary works of Portuguese-Americans and Portuguese-Canadians writing in English or Portuguese (the latter works will be accompanied by English translations). Readers will be introduced to aspects of Portuguese-American and Portuguese-Canadian literatures and cultures in order to heighten their critical awareness and sensitivity to cultural nuances of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada, which are too often ignored.

We are looking for original Poetry (up to 5 poems), Fiction and Creative Nonfiction (up to 2,000 words). We are searching for new and previously published work in English or Portuguese. (Submissions must not have been previously collected in an anthology.) Please attach documents as .doc, .docx or .pdf to:

wdfanthologyATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Work must be complete. Contributors will receive one print copy of the book.

Include all of the following information with your submission:
1. Name
2. Pseudonym (if applicable)
3. Address
4. Phone Number
5. Email Address
6. Short Bio

Deadline: June 1, 2013. (This deadline is final. We will be moving forward with publication soon after the deadline.) You will receive an email to let you know that we received your submission.