General Submission Guidelines (for non-theme submissions) are here Special Issue CFP CFP: Women Writers seeks scholarly essays for a Special Issue on any aspect of Women's Writing and Voodoo. The special issue will be published in the August 2008 online, peer-reviewed journal Women Writers: A Zine, available at http://www.womenwriters.net . The electronic journal is in its tenth year of continuous bi-annual publication. Original poetry, creative fiction, and/or artwork will also be considered for publication. Please see the website for past special issues as well as "regular" submissions at: http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/index.htm Essays should be submitted in MLA parenthetical style with Works Cited page, in MS Word (.doc or .rtf) or Word Perfect (.wpd) format. Graphics or illustrations should be copyright free and/or copyright should be held by submitter. Scholarly contributors send 200-500 word proposal & vitae to kimwells[at]womenwriters[dot]net by May 30, 2008. Creative texts may be sent immediately, using same submission guidelines as scholarly texts. Accepted submissions will be due in final edits by July 30, 2008 for early August publication. Copyright remains with original author. Dual submission acceptable. All proposals will be considered, but particularly interesting are essays that feature the following topics and/or authors: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse, Mules and Men, and images of Voodoo in Their Eyes Were Watching God Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Nalo Hopkinson's novels & short fiction Emma Bull's Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles Jewell Parker Rhodes' Voodoo Dreams & Voodoo Season Maryse Conde's I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem The depictions of women in Voodoo in fiction, film & TV Afro-Caribbean diaspora and Voodoo: aspects of women's lives & writing Novels about Marie Laveaux Women's Power of Subversion through Voudon as religion Female Mythic figures in the Voudon pantheon (Erzuli, etc) and empowerment Annotated Bibliographies of Voodoo in Women's Literature Course Syllabi for teaching these texts/issues Subject matter experts who would like to assist with editorial duties may send a query listing expertise plus vitae to Special Issue coordinator and General Editor, Kim Wells, at above email address. Note: Poetry & Fiction for the August issue can be either related to the theme or not. We will have two separate sections, for themed creative & non-themed creative.