Call for Submissions: An Anthology of Queer Southeast Asian Poetry in the Time of Pandemic

As part of the Southeast Asian Queer Cultural Festival 2021: Be/Longings, we are calling for submissions to an anthology of poems that engage with and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This digital anthology aims to gather the multivalent and polyphonic voices of queer Southeast Asian poets. It will consider how we have been affected and transformed under quarantine or lockdown, creating a space for poems that reflect our diverse experiences during these troubled times.
Guidelines
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Southeast Asian writers who identify as queer are invited to send their work.
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Submit up to two (2) original and previously unpublished poems.
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Works can be in English or other languages, as long as an English translation is provided.
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All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter in the body of the email, which should include a bio note (50 words or less), your country (for migrants and refugees, indicate both country of birth and country of residence), which part of the LGBTIQ spectrum you identify as, and your preferred pronoun. For translated works, please include a bio note of the translator as well.
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Poems should be in one Word (.doc or .docx) file, with the file name format: [Family Name], [Country], [Title of First Poem]. For example: Sirorot, Thailand, Quarantine.
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Email submissions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 10 December 2020.
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Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please withdraw the piece promptly if it is accepted somewhere else.
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People who wish to remain anonymous may submit under a pseudonym.
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A modest honorarium will be paid to contributors via PayPal for non-exclusive rights. Copyright of each work will remain with the author. The anthology will be distributed and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International License.
Editor
Rodrigo Dela Peรฑa, Jr. (he/him) is the author of ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ and and co-editor of ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐๐ฐ๐๐ณ๐ช๐๐ฐ 2018: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ. His second poetry collection, ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, is forthcoming from the University of the Philippines Press. His poems have been published in ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ข๐ฏ: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฌ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข, ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด, ๐๐ถ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, and other journals and anthologies. He has received prizes from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Kokoy F. Guevara Poetry Competition, Sixfold, British Council, among others. Born in the Philippines, he has been based in Singapore since 2011.