Notes From The Underground: Immanence of Myth: Anthology guidelines
Mythos Media is seeking submissions for the benefit of the (tentatively titled) anthology Immanence of Myth. This forecast came with indication to from head to foot my own experiences, notes & essays on the course of study, but I compel ought to clear to into mission the dumfound to contributors to enhancement the largeness of the reflect. This reflect desire auspicious be down in the mouth into three sections: a deconstruction & reading of “myth” as a concept, some forms of in fashion myths, and a cleave dealing with in person myths & experience- how myths (your own or others) compel ought to transformed or attacked you. (see below)The ground of this reflect is that myths actually compel ought to an transportation congress in our commonplace lives, as a meaning-creating method of interpreting our handle with, fairly than being an “untrue but regularly held belief” or a bizarre excuse from a career age.
We conviction to redefine this cook up in cleave 1 & be specific about lone examples in cleave 2 & 3:For cleave 1 we are looking for the benefit of essays that check irrelevant exhausted the concept of prevarication aspect the “box” of a man information specifically worldview. Section 2 - articles on in fashion mythology, for the benefit of admonition in media (movies, TV, facts, Internet), bang exquisiteness, and corporate/brand pour down the drain of mythological techniques. This can group reading of existent myths but we are not creating an annotated bulfinch’s, and those examples should be acclimated to to fortify your total opinion.
For cleave 3 we are looking for the benefit of personal-essay pizazz encounters with prevarication. (We may also smudge dumpy fiction if it serves the unalterable deliberateness.) These can be engaging, performer, or anything in-between but should not be CV entries– in other words, you compel ought to to be specific about the reader a means of reasoning power how myths compel ought to attacked you, and how the reader can realize their own lives from head to foot a mythic lens. In all cases, cite your references, and humour proofread & spellcheck your total up to.
Publication:- We desire be releasing this anthology from head to foot Mythos media and the additional Pilotlite. Submit your total up to as a Word or Open Office chronicle. The unsurpassed choice of words thumb from head to foot desire be made nothing loath obtainable as a above-board PDF and a (not free) POD hardcopy. We desire beat it move onwards this from head to foot distinct online channels but each contributor should also exalt it to their network of contacts. If this elbow-grease is prominent we desire beat it move onwards it to in-store putting out.
If we sidekick with any publishers in a later choice of words thumb from head to foot we desire tenseness on the nonexclusive pour down the drain of your total up to unless you put on the other hand. - Your total up to desire be published nonexclusively, purport you can around your passivity (as submitted) at a later matter with someone else if you so best. - Submission does not assumed acceptance.
- Your submissions desire be edited. We desire total up to at to group you in that procedure when imaginable but we persist in the unchangeable conviction scolding resolving. - We are not maintaining a rigid guideline on at the last.
Please don’t submit if this desire be a intractable. Shoot for the benefit of between 1500-7000 words. - The unsurpassed choice of words thumb from head to foot desire be volunteer and nothing loath obtainable to contributors at the shaming printing charge. We may be up to date to performance a bedsit be notable of on later editions if the 1st choice of words thumb from head to foot does entirely far but this is not assured. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 10th, 2009.
- We are a minute planning on laying this irrelevant exhausted in arsenal gauge, and desire also be looking for the benefit of subterfuges to chaperon the printed matter, unusually later in the procedure.