This call is particularly for pedagogy focused material, for poetry
chapbooks and for stories relevant to the mission of Writing Macao.

Deadline for submissions extended to April 30th 2005.

Writing Macao:
creative text and teaching

Call for Third Number:
Submissions are now sought for the third number of Writing Macao:creative
text and teaching, to appear in mid- 2005 and already under construction.
Contributions are particularly sought in the area of theory and practice
relating to the teaching of creative writing in English in non-native
contexts. We welcome as well stories and poems that deal with a cross
cultural and place specific setting. We’d also like to see more pieces
focused on the teaching of creative writing or other creative practices in
places where cultures mix. The deadline for papers is April, 2005.

Writing Macao publishes creative writing and theoretical work related to
the teaching of creative writing in English in non-native contexts.
Writing Macao is a peer-reviewed on-line international English language
journal appearing annually.

Creative work published in Writing Macao gives preference to work in any
imaginative genre (or cross-genre) focused on or dealing with:
- the situation and experience of non-natives in English
- the post-colonial situation and experience
- hybrid and intercultural experiences and situations in general
- meetings of Asian and European cultures and languages
- orientalisms and related issues of identity and alterity
- inter-cultural, inter-textual and inter-disciplinary discourses
- translation as creative process, styles and degrees of translation
- the East Asian and Asian Pacific situation and experience
- South China, Cantonese culture and Macao in particular
Writing Macao’s working definition of creative writing includes poetry,
prose fiction, drama, creative non-fiction, ficto-criticism, literary
translation and various hybrids of these.
Writing Macao is interested in publishing stories that represent other
local contexts and is interested in developing partnerships â€"
institutional or individual â€" along those lines.
Writing Macao also aims to publish the work of visual artists relevant to
its general creative agenda.

Theoretical work published in Writing Macao covers a wide range of
disciplines and topics, including scholarly writing and the results of
research relating to:
- all of the creative writing focuses listed above
- various interdisciplinary approaches to these and related issues
- the role of the creative arts in the teaching of non-native learners
generally and at the university level in particular.
In particular Writing Macao offers a venue for the publication of scholarly
work concerning the teaching of creative writing
- relevant to foreign and second language contexts for the learning of
English
- in East Asia and the Asia Pacific regions
- and as this concerns the intercultural, post-colonial and/or
neo-colonial situation.
Material published includes writing directly and indirectly related to
teaching methods, classroom practices, curriculum and syllabus issues,
together with practical plans and ideas for teaching and self-access
strategies. It includes reviews of relevant publications.
Writing Macao will publish on issues in the philosophy of education and in
the broad field of ‘theory’ as these are relevant to the situation of
creative writing pedagogies in a non-native setting.
The broad compass of the journal’s theoretical side will be the processes
of learning and teaching and writing as these relate to the non-native’s
imaginative writing product in English.

Writing Macao takes Macao’s situation as exemplary of the intercultural,
the post-colonial and the world position of English as a non-native means
of creative expression.

To emphasise the process aspect of the journal, for new issues we are
putting materials up on the web in stages as they are accepted and while
our call for new materials (papers, stories, poems, pictures) continues.

Contributors may view Writing Macao at
www.geocities.com/writingmacaoonline
 Note that to view this site properly it is necessary to use Internet
Explorer (or Safari on a Macintosh) rather than Netscape.

Please send expressions of interest and/or abstracts or complete papers to:

   Dr Christopher Kelen,
   Assistant Professor
   and Editor of Writing Macao: creative text and teaching
   English Department,
   Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
   University of Macau, P.O. Box 3001
   Taipa, Macao S.A.R., China

   telephone:
   853 3974 223 (office)
   853 3974 628 (home)
   853 838 312 (fax)
   e-mail: KitKelen_at_umac.mo

http://www.geocities.com/christopherkelen/
www.geocities.com/writingmacaoonline

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