Submission deadline: Midnight, April 11th.
All submissions must be emailed as an attachment to owl.ppcc@gmail.com.
What kind of work we are looking for:
Writing:
Flash fiction 250-500 words (what is flash fiction? click here)
Poetry up to 40 lines
Chosen writers will be invited to read at the showcase.
To submit, attach as .docx or .rtf
Visual art:
Any medium (collage, painting, textiles, sculpture...seriously, go nuts)
Chosen work will be displayed at the showcase.
To submit, attach a good quality picture of the piece as a .jpeg
Performance:
Music, dance, drama 2-5 minutes long
Chosen performers will be invited to present at the showcase.
To submit, attach a good quality video of the piece as an .mpeg or .mp4 OR you may post it on a public or private YouTube and send us the link.
Themes:
While this project is fairly open-ended in terms of subject matter, we have some suggested themes:
What is story?
As this "story quilt project" comes directly from the story quilt that Handful's mother Charlotte makes in Wings, the focus is very much on asking how to tell a story in a variety of ways. Charlotte's life is captured in powerful scenes in each square of her quilt, and each short submission should feel the same--encapsulating a complete scene briefly but intensely. Flash fiction and poetry lend themselves to suggested story and condensed, intense emotional experience. Visual and performance art similarly convey experience and tell stories without perhaps literally telling stories.
How will you invent your freedom?
Perhaps even more than the nature of story, pursuit of freedom is a major arc in The Invention of Wings. Although Sarah struggles to be free of the limitations placed on her gender and abolitionist views, clearly Handful endures the more brutal, all-encompassing lack of freedom as a slave. Even so, the various ways bondage and limitation are imposed on and fought by the two women in the story provide ample room for exploring our own struggles to be free.
