Deadline: January 15, 2025
DVAN and Texas Tech University Press are pleased to announce that their book series will be open for submissions from early career and emerging writers from November 1 through January 15. For this reading cycle, we will be reviewing fiction in English, from the Vietnamese American and broader Southeast Asian community. We will accept either novel manuscripts or collected short fiction. Manuscripts will be given full consideration by TTUP and writers and academics from the DVAN network.
Requirements :
- Full book length manuscript
- Manuscript must not yet be published
- Please include an author bio with your submission
- Authors may have published no more than one book-length work to be eligible
We are looking for any and all kinds of story and modes of expression. Works can speak to racial identity or to topics like war and immigration, but they also can be about anything. There is no one story from the Diaspora and Asian-American community. We are looking for originality of voice, acuity of subject, emotional resonance, as well as stories and perspectives that have not often been centered in contemporary literature. As a nonprofit University Press, TTUP is unburdened by the commercial concerns of major publishers.
Additionally, we are excited to announce that this year’s finalist judge is Vaddey Ratner!
Vaddey Ratner, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and war refugee, is a Cambodian American novelist. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels. Her debut autobiographical New York Times bestseller, In the Shadow of the Banyan, was a finalist for both the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2013 Indies Choice Book of the Year and was selected for the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program 2015-2016. Her second novel, Music of the Ghosts, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2018. Her works have been translated into twenty languages.
Please submit your manuscript to [email protected] by January 15, 2025
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network/Texas Tech University Press (DVAN/TTUP) series is a historical publishing collaboration that centers the complex, diverse, and creative voices of contemporary Vietnamese and Southeast Asian American literature. We seek to foster dialogues and disentangle Vietnam from war, while also acknowledging its ongoing legacy in shaping U.S. policy and culture. With this series, we hope to connect generations across our readership in community healing, inclusive educational growth, and encouraging a love of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian American literature for all.
Hello , my name is Kimvi , I am a British, Vietnamese Visual and performance artist,
Is there an opportunity for me to submit art work for consideration for the publication, for example the front cover or content