Announcing the 2010 Theme Issue: Working
by Fringe Magazine • 10.12.2009
Fringe Magazine seeks submissions for its fourth anniversary theme issue, “Working.”
To paraphrase a children’s classic, everybody works. Work crosses barriers between race, class, and gender, and sometimes (but not always) describes a person’s place in the broader social order. Now, with the economy just beginning to recover from its catastrophic collapse, working has assumed a great-than-usual prominence in national and international conversation, and not just because it helps people survive fiscally. People often define themselves through their jobs and, through useful labor, find value in themselves.
We’re looking for writing about how and why working—or not working—defines who we are, whether working brings dignity or humility to its doers, how it stratifies and sometimes defies our ideas about social class and who is or is not worthy of attention. We’re particularly (although not exclusively) interested in writing from a blue-collar perspective.
Submissions close January 1, 2010. Please send us your best work—see our guidelines on how to do so— and add “Working” to your subject line.
Fringe Magazine was founded in 2005 by an all-women group of editors dedicated to political and experimental literature. The quarterly online journal has published work by 120 writers and artists since its first issue in February 2006. Each month, the magazine receives 15,000+ unique users.
Sincerely,
The Editors of Fringe
www.fringemagazine.org
I took a personal poll of women I work with, friends, acquaintances this year. I asked about their rights in the work place and in general as ‘women’. What I found amazed me! Only a few in college at the time knew about the ‘Lilly Ledbetter Act’ of Jan. 2009 signed by President Obama. I was out front in the 70’s as an activist for women’s rights in this country in my home town. No one should give up and take what’s offered – stand up and be counted! Marcia
I found this magazine while perusing the Writer’s Market 2010 Online issue. Currently, I’m “scratching an itch” from childhood by finally taking creative writing classes at the local community college. I really like it. The instructor loved the instructions with the use of the term “slush.”
I’ll be playing about here in the computer lab to solidify ideas into a submitted piece. Thanks!
i am a poet that is trying to break into getting my work submitted for possible print. i am also a novice on the computer. i could not find the place where i would submit some of my work for review.
thank you for your time and response. happy new years
i recently stumble on your site which came handy and a very good port to showcase my literally work. i am a poet, do you give remuneration for poems or works submitted and if yes, let me have the modalities.
thanks.
peter