The submission period for the food and drink anthology has ended. We will post updates on the anthology’s progress here. Many thanks to everyone who submitted writing and art. We look forward to reading and viewing your work!

Red Claw Press Announces
A Writerlicious Anthology About Food:
Literal, Poetic, Imagined

Call for Contributions
We invite the submission of works about Food and Drink in all their meanings:  stories, poems and art work that celebrate food, or decry it; the joy of eating, or not; foods you love or hate now, or did as a child; cooking experiences bad and good; foods you ate recently or a long time ago; cooking recipes with commentary; food for thought, recipes for disaster, recipes for love.  When in doubt, query first at editors@redclawpress.com.

Formats
We want to include a variety of art forms.  Contributions can be in any one or a combination of these formats: short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction (e.g. recipe, memoir, essay, travel piece), graphic essay, or comic.  Other formats could be photographs, or photos of painting, sculpture, collage, or work in glass, ceramics, textiles, metal, wood or jewellery.

Details
All works must be unpublished.
Poetry: Maximum of five unpublished pages of 36 lines per page or fewer, title and stanza breaks count as lines.
Prose: Maximum 1500 words in 12 pt. font, double spaced.
Artwork: Maximum of five JPEG’s in black and white or colour at 72dpi with a maximum pixel dimension of 2000 x 2000 and a minimum pixel dimension of 500 x 500.  If accepted, you must be able to send high resolution images at 300dpi.  An artist’s statement, maximum 200 words, linking the art to the theme, should accompany all images.
Multi-media: Maximum of five pages total of illustration and commentary.  See above.

Deadline
Submissions must be pasted into the body of an email, or in the case of artwork sent as JPEG’s, and forwarded to editors@redclawpress.com by midnight Tuesday June 1st, 2010, for publication in the spring of 2011.

The Anthology
A perfect-bound book of 150 pages, with artwork in both colour and black and white, and a dazzling cover.  Payment will be one copy of the book.

Update: Please note that we will now be including colour artwork in the anthology.