University of Plymouth Press - Romanian

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20 Romanian Writers
The first major translated collection of Romania's most prominent authors, poets, playwrights and artists. Discover a culture rich in creativity and innovation, where powerful Romanian literature is set against striking contemporary art.

University of Plymouth Press - Arts

Beryl Cook 1926-2008
Writers and critics offer a unique perspective on Beryl Cook and a critical reassessment of her place within British Art. Early and rarely seen work sit alongside some of her instantly recognisable paintings.

John Virtue: Last Paintings of London
This publication records the final pictures produced by John Virtue in his London series. These paintings are from a higher vantage point such as the top of the National Gallery and from the roof of Somerset House. The introduction is by Mike Hope and essay by Nancy Ireson.

Figureheads
In this book ‘Liz Nicol presents the Figureheads series, in which the process of sponge developing photographic prints are contrasted with the land-locked images of figureheads, removed from ships to reside in museums’. thegallerychannel.com

University of Plymouth Press - Land/Water

Relic: Land/Water and the Visual Arts
Six contemporary artists and writers variously explore the idea of relic in terms of traces of previous eras and activities marked in our environment.

Fictions: Land/Water and the Visual Arts
Six contemporary artists and writers reflect upon the theme of fictions in relation to their own practices. They create and examine stories relating to land and landscape, offering intricate accounts of their experiences of our environment.

Change: Land/Water and the Visual Arts
Six contemporary artists consider ideas relating to shifts in appearance of land and landscape over time, in doing so, provide a fascinating exploration of the inter-relation of natural phenomena and human activity.

Surface: Land/Water and the Visual Arts
Six contemporary artists reflect upon the theme of Surface in relation to their own distinctive practices. These contributions provide a fascinating interface pattern of ideas and experiences and illuminate creative method and curatorial strategy.

University of Plymouth Press - Arts Therapy

European Arts Therapy. Grounding the vision
Is a compilation of papers from experts in the arts therapies from twelve countries, addressing a wide range of themes, issues and new initiatives. It is published on behalf of the European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE).

University of Plymouth Press - Community

Sweet and Sour: Recollections of the Chinese Elders in the South West
Produced by Plymouth and District Racial Equality Council, supported by National Heritage Lottery Fund, BBC and Asia Art Space Project. The book is written in both Chinese and English, with a CD, preserving individual stories.

A Devon House: The Story of Poltimore
The story of Poltimore House through the people and events which have coloured its existence over the past 400 years. It is written for all those who knew the house and estate.

University of Plymouth Press - Performance

Trial: A study of the devising process in Reckless Sleepers' 'Schrodinger's Box'
A unique and detailed study of Reckless Sleepers, one of the UK's leading experimental performance companies. Using image and text it explores a multiplicity of connections between ideas and practice.

Syncapoda - Free CD
A fusion of arts and science exploring insect behaviour to inspire a creative team of artists, scientists and young dancers who have created a visual high quality engaging interactive dance performance CD which is Free to schools.

University of Plymouth Press - History

Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent
This book analyses the Turkish threat and crises of leadership and strategic analyses between 1974 to 1996 and that Greek military intelligence downplayed the immediate threat of a Turkish surprise invasion of an Aegean island or an attack on the free Cyprus Republic.

University of Plymouth Press - Students

Mono: Media Arts
Twenty two graduates of Media Arts have come together to publish a collection of their work. For example, Laura Proctor communicates through geometric silhouettes to depict language and identity, whereas Bryony Berry is motivated by organic form and is inspired by natures beauty.

And Stop . . . Visual Arts
Twelve upcoming contemporary graduate artists showcase their work through a variety of mediums such as video stills, photography, illustration and installation. Along with their work, each artist reflects upon personal inspiration.

Visually Challenged: Visual Arts
A degree show collection which illustrate student practices within photography, installation, print and video at the University of Plymouth.

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New Writers Competition

Short FICTION’S fourth annual New Writers Competition will be accepting submissions 1 January – 30 March 2010. Prize is £300 plus publication in Issue 4 of Short FICTION (due out October 2010). Writers who haven't published a book of fiction are eiligible (authors with books of poetry etc are fine). Entries must be of previously unpublished work (in magazine or online).

ISSUE 3

Issue 3 features work from America to Japan. From the US, we've new work from Melanie Rae Thon, Brad Watson, Michael Martone, and Benjamin Percy amongst others.Translations from Japan and Croatia of Naoka Awa and Roman Simic respectively. Illustrations lead into stories and a special supplement of text and image are provided in a 'Science Times' corroboration by Terri Kapsalis and Katie Kahn.

Congratulations to Peter Deadman who has won 2009's New Writers Competition. His story, 'Emile in the Circus' appears in Issue 3, as does runner-up Louis Malloy's, 'Buddy Holly, Holy Buddha'.

SUBMISSIONS

Our reading period is open: 1 Sept 09 to 30 March 2010.

Short FICTION is going long... For Issue 4, we're looking for submissions over 5000 words and (if we're forced to give another number) under 20,000. We appreciate this pushes into the territory of the novella, but really what we're interested in is providing a home for a form which is even harder to place than the 'short short' stuff we like so much.
We anticipate questions about whether we'll be reading work under 5000 words... and so, yes, we will, but please appreciate that we're hoping for the bulk of the material in the next issue to be dedicated to the longer form. Please submit only one story at a time. If you want to know what kind of fiction to submit, we direct you to order a back issue, which is another way of saying, we like stories with narrative drive and dynamic tension. Novel chapters which function as self-contained units may additionally work well for us. We receive over 600 stories in a reading cycle so we not only invite, but expect simultaneous submissions (we do ask, however, that you notify us immediately if a work has been accepted elsewhere). Due to popular demand, we're now responding to those whose work we can't use, but this only applies to emailed submisssions. We will still read postal submissions, however, though will only respond by post to those whose work we'll be publishing. If you're submitting by post, there is no need to send SASEs or IRCs, but please provide contact information including postal and email addresses as well as a phone number.

To make a general submission please email: submissions

Anthony Caleshu
Editor, Short FICTION
University of Plymouth
Faculty of Arts
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Plymouth PL4 8AA
UK

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