[ecrea] Tales From the Punk Side

Call for Chapters: Anarcho-Narrative Volume on all things ‘punk’, ‘punk rock’ and ‘anything else you may want to call it’.


I want to tell you a little story,
Cause it makes me warm inside.
It's about some friends growing up,
And all the things they tried.

Minor Threat – ‘Look Back and Laugh’


An idea inspired by the ‘punk rock’ fiction of Robert Dellar, Ted Curtis, Stewart Home and Martin Millar; by the DiY-trodden path of fanzine culture, immortalized by the likes of Sniffin’ Glue and the incorrigible One Way Ticket to Cubesville; by the revolutionary antics of Guy Debord, Attila the Stockbroker and Chaotic Dischord; and finally, by the punch-ups and shenanigans at numerous ‘academic’ ‘punk’ conferences across the globe. This is a volume based upon a punk rock adventure that will delve into the very bowels of punk and the diaspora of subculture: for this is an adventure entitled Tales from the Punk Side.


This is a call for chapter submissions for a volume written according to an anarcho-narrative structure. Based upon the theme of ‘Tales from the Punk Side’, a title that attempts to avoid pejorative steering into certain narratives of history and genre, the book will consist of a series of narratives connected by the over arching theme of a personal involvement with punk subculture. The authors of the individual chapters are free to decide the most appropriate structure to tell these/their stories/escapades/experiences and their involvement with punk, whether that be traditional textual formats, more free form text (e.g. transcripts of social media interactions; poetry; illustrative fictional prose), through images, video, mp3, or whatever media seems appropriate to the author. Moreover, the text may be biographical, factual, fictional, or indeed, a culmination of all three.

The text will be electronic by default, available freely under CC license (see below). Print on demand versions will be made available if deemed appropriate when editing the finished text.

Contributors will be selected by the editor after submitting a proposal to the call for chapters. Final submissions will be subject to the lightest possible editing, in conjunction with the author, to insure the integrity of the original submission is maintained.

Please send a title and short description (around 200 words) of the chapter you propose to the editor at:(miked71uk /at/ yahoo.co.uk)

Include the topics you would cover, the structure your chapter would take and any special format or structure your contribution would require, and I will get back to you as soon as possible.



Timescales:
Call for Chapters deadline: 1st September 2013
Completed Chapters: 1st February 2014


Bypassing established publisher routes means that our ‘unbook’ can be:
•	Creative Commons licensed, giving contributors recognition and making the material immediately free and sharable online
•	Multimedia - contributors pick their preferred format: prose, video, images, Storify’d tweets, graphs, data ... (print-on-demand an option for textual parts, linking to additional non-textual material via an app such as Aurasma. Details of this to be confirmed at a later date.)
•	Free of the writing conventions imposed by traditional publishers - contributors can retain their own voice, choose the length of their contribution, use whatever format they prefer


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Note on licencing: We will ask authors/contributors to sign a simple agreement to allow us rights to publish their contribution and to permit others to use the contents of the book under CC licence. Contributors will retain copyright over their work.

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Note on Inspiration: The concept/idea of the anarcho-narrative has been drawn from the creative team of Andrew Walsh and Emma Coonan, and can be accessed athttp://innovativelibraries.org.uk/onlyconnect/

Special thanks go out to them for allowing me to share the concept!
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Thanks,

Mike Dines

University of Chichester



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