NEW JOURNAL OF PACIFIC WRITING –

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS.

DEADLINE 1 DECEMBER

Announcing the launch of the forthcoming OKATI, The Journal of Pacific Writing. The journal and website will come online 1 December 2014. In the meantime, OKATI can be found on Facebook.

OKATI will cater to hundreds of writers who work in isolation in the 22 island countries and territories of the Pacific and also to the huge diaspora community we have in many countries of the world.

“In every issue, OKATI will pay homage to an oral storyteller or two. OKATI appreciates that our Pacific communities are founded in oral traditions and history and believes this can be utilised to bridge to writing and reading. In this spirit, OKATI makes space for the ones who mesmerised you as a child or intrigued you with knowledge of genealogies and history. Tell us who your storytellers are. Tell us whose stories you carry hidden in your chest.” From the OKATI Facebook page. 

For submission guidelines, email Mary D. Rokonadravu via okati.editor@gmail.com and put ‘Request Submission Guide’ in the ‘Subject’ of your email.

As well as Poetry, Short Stories (Fiction), Essays (Non-Fiction), Reviews, Letters, Artwork and Photography, the journal will also accept pitches (proposed ideas) on events, writers or activities related to writing and literature in the Pacific.

>via: http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/new-journal-pacific-writing-call-submissions-deadline-1-december/