Editor Shannon Young is
seeking contributions from expatriate women in East Asia for a new anthology
from Hong Kong’s Signal 8 Press. The collection will feature the writing of
women who are currently expatriates or who have previously lived in an East
Asian country. For the purposes of this anthology, this includes Korea, China,
Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and the ASEAN countries. All submissions should
be creative non-fiction and/or travel memoir pieces that speak to the expat
experience in modern East Asia. Potential topics include travel, work,
relationships, gender roles, safety, family and repatriation. Stories should
have a strong and personal narrative arc, not just travel guides or descriptions
of the places where the writer has lived. The anthology strives to be as
inclusive as possible and welcomes submissions from women from different parts
of the world.
Submissions should be
between approximately 2000 and 5000 words in length. Each writer will receive
two copies of the completed anthology and a percentage of the royalties to be
determined by the final number of contributors. Please send all submissions,
with a brief paragraph about the author to Shannon [at] typhoon-media [dot]
com. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word, .doc or .docx format, and in a
standard font. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2013. The anthology
will be released in paperback and e-book formats in the spring of 2014.
