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WELCOME CHROMA 9
Don't panic: Chroma Issue 9 has landed. In our Americas-themed edition - appropriately in 2009 - you can look forward to writings which encompass the notions of movement and transition; be them physical, psychological, personal or outrospective. We feature prose by the Surinamese writer Astrid Roemer, artwork by the Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, and poetry by Gregory Woods, Ching-In Chen and Judith Barrington, amongst loads of others. And we're also publishing winning stories from last year's competitions: Chroma, Velvet and Transfabulous.
Click here to order your copy of the latest issue, Issue 9.
Read about a Lacanian Brit in Missouri, a heat-seeking
American in London, a Chilean Nobel Laureate in New York, a Surinamese writer
in Holland, an Argentinian in Phoenix, a Canadian in Mexico. There’s also movement
between Vietnam and London, a trans-man's tricky journey from one pronoun to another, and
the general difficulty of living in two time zones at once. And did we say The President's in conversation with Vishnu and Daleks?
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COMPETITION
Submissions are flooding in for this year's International Queer Writing Competition and there's less than a month to go until the final submission deadline of September 7th. All information about the Chroma poetry and prose awards - along with the Transfabulous Prize for trans writing - can be found on our competition page, here, details of the Velvet Flash Fiction Prize are to be unearthed here, while your emergency exits are located here.
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CHROMA CONTRIBUTORS
Following on from the appaluse in our last newsletter we clap our hands once again, and rub them in delight at the published work of more Chroma contributors. Poet and wonderfully versatile writer Sophie Mayer is one of our Commisioning Editors, her vivid new collection Her Various Scalpels is described here, while her forthcoming book on the cinema of Sally Potter is available here. We'd also like to direct you to Mark Wagstaff's newly-published fourth novel, the tense, observant In Sparta and his shady-yet-passionate e-book, The Canal. Samuel Hodge's wonderfully spontaneous, honest photographs have previously appeared in Chroma and it's fantastic news that a colllection of his work, Pretty Telling I Suppose has now been complied and published. Get it here. Sandra Alland's poetry won her an award in last year's Competition. Her experimental musical outfit, Zorras have a CD out now, details of which appear on their myspace page, here.
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CHROMA BLOG
If you haven't already done so, make sure you take a peek at Chroma's corner of the blogosphere. The Chroma arts blog, here, is brimming with book and film reviews and is regularly updated so visit us often. We're always looking for new reviwers so if you'd like to contribute please contact the Blog Editor, Eric Anderson through the contacts page on the Chroma website, here.
UK BLACK PRIDE
This year sees the fourth
annual UK Black Pride event on 15th August in Regents
College, Inner Circle, Regents Park. New activities have been
arranged to guarantee the stronger and more active participation of LGBT people. Click here to view the line-up and check out everything that's going on - we have a stall there, too, so come and say hello! There'll be some back issues and other goodies to take home with you.
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