Call for Submissions no man's land # 4

Contemporary German-language fiction and poetry in English translation.
Deadline: August 15, 2009.

no man’s land, the online journal for contemporary German literature in translation, is seeking submissions for its 2009 issue.

For prose, send up to 3 texts (stories or self-contained novel excerpts, max. 4,000 words each) by one or different writers. For poetry, send work by up to 3 poets, each to a maximum of 5 poems. No simultaneous submissions, please, and no previously-published translations. The deadline is August 15, 2009 (postmark date), and we will inform contributors by mid-September 2009; the issue will go online in November. We regret that we are unable to offer honoraria.

Please include your contact information, biographical and publication information (for both translator and author) and a copy of the original. Also, please provide proof of permission from the original publisher and/or author – whoever holds the rights to the piece (this could be a copy of a letter, or forward us an e-mail).

Submissions should be sent to no man’s land, PO Box 02 13 04, 10125 Berlin, Germany. If you can include the original text in file format (PDF or other), submissions can be sent electronically to Isabel Cole at isabel@no-mans-land.org.

For more information, visit our website at www.no-mans-land.org, and feel free to contact us at the above e-mail address.

We look forward to reading your work!

The Editors, no man’s land

Isabel Cole
Katy Derbyshire
Clemens Kuhnert
Alistair Noon
Liesel Tarquini