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“A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day” Arab Proverb
The Ruby Sandal
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
“A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day” Arab Proverb
Write Or Be Written ...
The Anthology
Think The Almond meets The Vagina Monologues meets The Bitch in the House.
The Ruby Sandal is subversive, belated rhetoric. It’s a startling collection of memoirs on love and femininity, defiance and desire, restraint and renaissance, penned by a savvy, free-thinking generation of women of Arab, Persian and North African descent.
In this collective journal, these outspoken, world-wise women writers speak candidly, poignantly and affectionately of their sexual, spiritual and romantic lives with unprecedented conspiratorial candour, wit and charm. Through their writings - highly personal, sometimes anguished, often hilarious and always compelling - The Ruby Sandal finally does justice to the passionate, progressive women who have more choices today than at any other time in history.
For women in the wider Middle East, female empowerment doesn't begin in the boardroom; it begins in the bedroom, and in every woman's psyche.
The Ruby Sandal is subversive, belated rhetoric. It’s a startling collection of memoirs on love and femininity, defiance and desire, restraint and renaissance, penned by a savvy, free-thinking generation of women of Arab, Persian and North African descent.
In this collective journal, these outspoken, world-wise women writers speak candidly, poignantly and affectionately of their sexual, spiritual and romantic lives with unprecedented conspiratorial candour, wit and charm. Through their writings - highly personal, sometimes anguished, often hilarious and always compelling - The Ruby Sandal finally does justice to the passionate, progressive women who have more choices today than at any other time in history.
For women in the wider Middle East, female empowerment doesn't begin in the boardroom; it begins in the bedroom, and in every woman's psyche.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your work and a short biography no later than May 15th, 2008. Memoirs must be no longer than 4,000 words and no shorter in length than 1,500 words to be considered for inclusion.
No short stories or works of fiction, please - submissions must be based on personal experience and emotional truth. Copy must be sent as an email attachment to rubysandal@gmail.com in Microsoft Word format, with “Submission – The Ruby Sandal” in the Subject field.
Please do not include any photographs, images or illustrations. Please include your name, origin/nationality, email address and daytime telephone number. Your personal information is shared with no other party and is viewed only by the editor. Should you wish to contribute anonymously, please make this clear in your email.
You may submit more than one entry but please ensure that each entry is included as a separate attachment and all entries are catalogued in the covering email. Submissions must be written in English and should comply with the themes of The Ruby Sandal.
All material must be original, and must be previously unpublished in book format / print media. Writers will retain copyright to their work.
No short stories or works of fiction, please - submissions must be based on personal experience and emotional truth. Copy must be sent as an email attachment to rubysandal@gmail.com in Microsoft Word format, with “Submission – The Ruby Sandal” in the Subject field.
Please do not include any photographs, images or illustrations. Please include your name, origin/nationality, email address and daytime telephone number. Your personal information is shared with no other party and is viewed only by the editor. Should you wish to contribute anonymously, please make this clear in your email.
You may submit more than one entry but please ensure that each entry is included as a separate attachment and all entries are catalogued in the covering email. Submissions must be written in English and should comply with the themes of The Ruby Sandal.
All material must be original, and must be previously unpublished in book format / print media. Writers will retain copyright to their work.
Contact The Editor
rubysandal@gmail.com