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Date: 17 Oct 2012
From:Nicholas Skidmore <nl6144638 at gmail.com>
Subject:Asymptote: Free Online Translation Journal

Dear All,

Asymptote’s Fall Issue went live today at
http://asymptotejournal.com/.  For those who are unaware of Asymptote,
it’s a free online translation journal that has featured poetry,
fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from more than 70 countries and
over 50 different languages. Their new issue features new poems by
Ruth Padel and Cole Swensen, new Urdu fiction by Aamer Hussein, a
video by Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, an excerpt of Paco Roca's
award winning Spanish comic "Wrinkles," the second installment of the
Sinophone "20 under 40" Feature, and a PEN Translation Grant winner
spotlight with an excerpt from the journals of Hervé Guibert.

For its first special feature in the April 2013 issue, Asymptote is
inviting submissions of fiction by African writers, whether translated
or in English, as well as writings on the subject of Africa as a place
and an idea. Does it make sense to talk about such a thing as Africa?
Is it a place or an idea? If it is an idea, is it merely so? As a
concept, is it limiting or liberating? The journal is looking for work
from and about Africa that goes beyond the anthropological, the
idealizing, and the dystopic: work that takes nothing, even the
substantiality of its subject, for granted. Submissions of poetry and
essays by African writers are also very much encouraged, and will be
considered with higher priority in the regular sections. For those
interested there’s a deadline of 15 Feb 2013

Best,

Nick

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