Revised Deadline: 15 January 2004
anticipated publication by early summer 2004
We'll review submissions as they are received; response time--two months.

The volume will be published by Western Kentucky University, with a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

We seek essays that go beyond autobiography to reflect on personal experience. We would like to see writing that explores identity, life changes, the interconnections between self and others, and feminist "moments," to name a few of the kinds of writing that we believe are richly deserving of an audience. We ask that your work evoke Kentucky and that it reflect on specific, real, concrete people and events. Finally, we seek work that reflects on the intricacies of gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexuality. If you have an essay that does any of these, please send it to us!

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

*You must have lived in Kentucky for (any) three years by January 2004
*Submissions must be original; we prefer unpublished essays but will consider previously published if you retain copyright
*Maximum 25 pages
*Brief biography should include a statement on what it means to you to be a feminist
*All submissions must be typed, double-spaced, and available on disk, if accepted
*Work will not be returned without a SASE, and writers will not be notified upon receipt

Send entries to
Jane Olmsted and Elizabeth Oakes
Kentucky Feminist Writers Series
c/o Women's Studies Program
Western Kentucky University
l Big Red Way
Bowling Green, Ky. 42l0l

To order Writing Who We Are: Poems by Kentucky Feminists or Telling Stories: Fiction by Kentucky Feminists, contact your local bookstore or either Jane or me at the above address. Each volume is $12, which includes shipping and handling.