Call for Submissions: Black Lives Matter

Call for Submissions: Black Lives Matter an anthology collection of short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, personal narratives, critical essays and visual art that features the voices and stories of Black American’s and all communities of color responding to this nation’s continued police brutality directed at our community.

Black Lives Matter anthology is a collection of short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, personal narratives, critical essays and visual art which features the voices and stories by and about the lives of Black people and all communities of color in their response to police brutality.

This project seeks to create a space for our community to share their words, in their own voice regarding this nation with an opens heart as a vehicle for chronicling your lives. The goal of this project is to empower our community to take their turn to speak into the conversation regarding police brutality and contribute to the conversation and discourse of the Black communities push back against the disregard by police for the lives of Black youth, men, woman, and transgender.

Editor: Khafre K. Abif

Submit to: itisourturntospeak@gmail.com

Please include bio on separate document

Deadline: Submissions will be accepted through June 20, 2015

Guidelines: The theme is your response to police brutality of communities of color in the United States, no restrictions, no word count.

Send your best work and on a separate sheet, include Name, Email, Phone Number, and Title(s). Place piece on separate sheets. Please include your biographic information on a separate document.