NEWS
SEPTEMBER 2023
It has been awhile since we’ve updated here - but we’ve been busy editing and planning… We are now in the final stages with book layout + design. Publication for the De-Canon Hybrid-Lit Anthology will be Spring 2024, to be published in collaboration with our friends Fonograf Editions. An art exhibition will follow in Summer 2024, hosted by Stelo Arts, a beautiful community art space in Portland, Oregon, more on this TBD. We are also so honored and grateful to announce that De-Canon has received a 2023 Creative Heights Grant from the Oregon Community Foundation (with Stelo Arts as our fiscal sponsor) to support this anthology + exhibit project.
OCTOBER 2022
We have confirmed 30+ contributors to our hybrid-literary project, and are currently in the midst of editing and designing our anthology. We will announce a contributors list in Winter ‘22/23, and more news to come about 2023 events — please stay tuned by signing up for our email list and/or following us on IG and Twitter at @decanonproject !
APRIL 2022
Many thanks to all who submitted work to our hybrid anthology project! We closed submissions at the end of January and had hoped we would be finished reading by end of April — however, we are still very much in progress with our reading, as we received even more submissions than anticipated. If you submitted to our project and are waiting to hear back from us, we appreciate your patience as we continue our editorial process. We expect to begin responding in May/June.
JANUARY 2022
Our submissions are still open! We have extended the deadline to January 31st, 2022 — please send us your work !
We are also seeking creative scholarly writing about and/or creative “responses” to works by influential hybrid-literary creators, such as Claudia Rankine (Citizen), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Dictée), Etel Adnan, Cecilia Vicuña, to name just a few. We are also interested in hearing your own stories and journeys of lineage, if you have other writers/artists you wish to share about. If you have any questions about this or wish to make a pitch, please DM us at: decanonproject@gmail.com
OCTOBER 2021
Our call for submissions for the De-Canon + Fonograf Ed. Hybrid-Lit Anthology is now open, from Oct 1st to Dec 15, 2021. We are seeking hybrid-literary works by women and nonbinary BIPOC writers. For more information + submission guidelines, please visit: https://fonografeditions.com/submit/
August 2021
De-Canon is happy to announce that we will be resuming our mission of “de-canonizing” in 2021-22 through teaming up with Fonograf Editions to publish an anthology of hybrid-literary works by BIPOC women and nonbinary writers of color. This anthology will explore multimodal forms of writing that navigate the restless intersections of genre, text, visual art, and other media, and innovate in their usage of language and form. In this anthology we will investigate how and why the hybrid space resonates as it does, notably for women and nonbinary writers of color, who use such modes to elasticize, defy, blur, and dissolve boundaries, and thus reimagine paradigmatic possibilities. We see the medium of language as a complexly riddled and rife material of the 21st century, one that is multi-textu(r)al, made of more than words, interwoven, punctured, fragmented, grafted, and fed into by many rivers of experience. This anthology wishes to present the hybrid literary form as a new way of reading and receiving.
We are especially excited to explore a publishing partnership with Fonograf Editions for this project, which will mark a new direction for our De-Canon project: exploring how to engage asynchronously and remotely. Books are, of course, an ideal vessel for this.
Established in 2016, Fonograf Editions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit press and literary record label based in Portland, OR. Fonograf exists to take risks that push the boundaries of sound, text, and genre. It values the interdisciplinary, experimental, and unclassifiable, and it strives to bring to life works that resist, bend, and break expectations. Fonograf prioritizes public access by making a component of each of its releases available for free to the public (such as streaming audio online) and by hosting multiple free community events throughout the year.
This anthology project is possible due to funding received from an Oregon Community Foundation 2021 Community Grant and fiscal sponsorship from Oregon Contemporary Art Center (formerly Disjecta).
:: Call for submissions to open in October / anthology release TBD in 2022.
:: Follow @decanonproject & @fonografeditions for more details.
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