Signs of Life
Three poems in Cordite 40: INTERLOCUTOR. Part of a chapbook of six contemporary Filipino poets, curated by Stuart Cooke.
Last Call: Submit your manuscript to DOCUMENTS, a biannual Youth & Beauty Brigade Publishing Project
We are looking towards publishing books by young, unpublished authors with brave, new, and vibrant works we are both befuddled by and believe in.
The guidelines:
• The book should be about an investigation: implicit, explicit, inner or outer, about any and all – a family member’s suicide, flood control protocols, a detective novel, history of the evolution of the logo of a multinational company, etc etc – as long as something is being detected, uncovered, found, as long as the investigation is refracted through art’s lens;
• The book should fit 48 pages, all in, from 9”x9” to 6”x6” to 4”x4”, counting the front and back matters, i.e., title page, copyright page, dedication, acknowledgements, endnotes, etc etc;
• The book need not be pure prose or pure poetry: any multimedia and extraliterary form is welcome, as long as it can be fitted and printed within the 48 pages.
The terms:
• Three books will be chosen to be published for release at the upcoming BLTX XMAS event, and another three in June;
• Ten copies of each book to be printed, each copy to be sold at P300;
• All earnings from the first ten copies straight to the authors;
• All three available for pre-order, 50% of earnings beyond production cost going straight to the authors (that’s potentially P12.50+/- per book);
• Print rights remain with the authors, this deal merely for this project only, so if ever the authors decide to pull out, they can easily pull out, no strings attached.
Send any and all submissions in whatever language, in whatever appropriate format – PDF, RTF, DOC, JPG, GIF – and also questions, et al, to ybb.books@gmail.com. Selected manuscripts will be prepared for publication by the Youth & Beauty Brigade in full consultation with the authors. The deadline for the initial entries is 20th of October, 2012.
The Youth & Beauty Brigade is still off-the-books, still utterly shoestring, still the extremely young and incredibly beautiful book design-and-publishing outfit still operating within and around the immediate Cubao area. There are many of us in spirit, but it is run primarily by Adam David and Conchitina Cruz.
Previous titles published by the Youth & Beauty Brigade include The El Bimbo Variations by Adam David, Travel: a documentary Volume 1 2001-2011 by Adam David, A catalogue of clothes for sale from the closet of Christine Abella–perpetual student, ukay fan, and compulsive traveler by Delilah Aguilar, Chingbee Cruz, and Adam David, and The Kobayashi Maru of Love by Carljoe Javier.
Here: Cubao, 29 Sep 2012
Read work from the first 24-hour walking/writing workshop hosted by the Youth & Beauty Brigade here.
HERE: A 24-hour travel-writing and zine-making workshop conducted by the Youth & Beauty Brigade
UPDATE: This workshop is full. We’ll host another one in October, so please look out for it!
As a continuation of the Youth & Beauty Brigade’s campaign to generate writing committed to the task of investigation, we are planning to host regular workshops on travel writing, specifically on walking urban landscapes/navigating consumerist structures with wakeful attention.
Each workshop will be structured around a couple of walks. Actual writing will be done while travelling, with discussions in between about writing and the city; the place of the pedestrian/tourist/citizen/condo owner in a society where urban development means building residential units within gated mall centers; issues of rising population, its resultant congestion, and their possible/potential artful re/solutions; and so on.
The workshop proper will culminate in the evening with a discussion of each participant’s output and how the works can be developed with an eye toward the anthology to be produced by the group. Participants are expected to turn in their final pieces by 9 am the following day. The anthology of their work will be available online as a blog and a downloadable PDF shortly after.
To sign up for the workshop, email ybb.books@gmail.com. You will receive instructions regarding the workshop and a PDF booklet containing writing prompts. The deadline for signing up is on September 26, 2012. The entire activity will be hosted by Adam David. The workshop is free and open to the public.
The first workshop will be held in Cubao on September 29, 2012.
The Youth & Beauty Brigade is still off-the-books, still utterly shoestring, still the extremely young and incredibly beautiful book design-and-publishing outfit still operating within and around the immediate Cubao area. There are many of us in spirit, but it is run primarily by Adam David and Conchitina Cruz.
Hurry
His hair falling over his eyes
wide open his hair can barely
hide them. His mouth on her
mouth. His sound down
her throat. Her body
beyond coral blown
up in the dark,
beyond limbs thrown
down a hole. Her body
beyond apology. His sound
inside her stammering,
softer, slick as guitar music,
track five, circa speeding
down the highway to
the beach, eleven years old,
uncle yammering about the cost
of cement and labor for
the new room, still
unbuilt, for the baby,
still unborn.
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