Call for submissions: Puerto Rican LBGT short fiction

[AldoAlvarez]

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
UNPUBLISHED SHORT FICTION
BY PUERTO RICAN LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDERED AUTHORS

DEADLINE: May 1st, 2001

Blithe House Quarterly
http://www.blithe.com/

Blithe House Quarterly, the leading online journal of lesbian and gay literary fiction, is pleased to open submissions for its 2002 Puerto Rican issue, which will exclusively feature authors of Puerto Rican descent.

Now in its sixth year of online publication, Blithe House Quarterly features new short stories by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) authors -- both emerging and established. With an average of over 24,000 readers per issue, Blithe House Quarterly is the most widely read of LGBT literary periodicals. OUT Magazine has called us "the central publishing arm of new queer fiction." A recipient of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide Award, we are also a featured site on Lycos, Snap, and several other Internet hubs.

Suite101.com writes: "Blithe House Quarterly is an electronic magazine up to the standards of print." In fact, our literary standards our higher than those of many print media. We publish LGBT fiction not as a genre or ghetto, but as a literature that can stand by any other in its quality and innovation. A key guide to the gay and lesbian Internet said:

"Setting the quality bar [for gay and lesbian writing] is the phenomenal site Blithe House Quarterly. It's awash in awards and rightly so. Of all gay and lesbian sites, Blithe House is the golden child, the one to be entered in the Literature Olympics. None of the stories needs special cosseting as our fiction. Be skeptical and go see the site!"
- GAY & LESBIAN ON LINE, 3rd Edition

Agents and editors read BHQ, especially in North America, so appearing in BHQ can be a great way to be noticed in the North American market. Stories first published in Blithe House Quarterly have been reprinted in MEN ON MEN, BEST AMERICAN GAY FICTION and in numerous short story collections.

The 2002 Puerto Rican issue will be edited by Aldo Alvarez, founder of Blithe House Quarterly, author of INTERESTING MONSTERS (Graywolf Press). Aldo Alvarez edits LBGT short fiction for most issues of BHQ, which are typically balanced between male and female writers. For the Puerto Rican issue, we're looking for short fiction written in English or in translation from Spanish.

For guidelines on submission, please see the site at http://www.blithe.com/. Stories must be previously unpublished, fictional (as opposed to memoir), and usually 2500-7500 words in length. We recommend reading stories in recent issues.

If you have questions after reading the site's submission guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions, please direct them to Aldo Alvarez at ADAlvarez@aol.com.

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Blithe House Quarterly
http://www.blithe.com/

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Aldo Alvarez
author of INTERESTING MONSTERS, Graywolf Press
an InsightOut Book Club selection
homepage: http://www.blithe.com/aa/