We are looking for a diverse, international cross-section of women writers 
for a global anthology on the politics of water. Confluence: A Global 
Anthology of Women's Voices on the Politics of Water will combine poetry, 
short fiction, testimonial accounts, and essays on how water crosses 
various political boundaries be they national, racial, ethnic, class, or 
gender. This anthology is a response to the growing concern over the role 
of water in our increasingly fragile environment, a concern that is sure to 
become more anxiety prone in the 21st Century as debates over modernization 
and development become more acrid. It will incorporate a range of issues 
such as droughts and floods, waste management, dams and irrigation, water 
pollution, water as a national or racial barrier, and water as a feminine 
space over which the masculine process of industrialization claims agency.  
The work will address water as myth, metaphor, and material reality.

Guidelines for creative writing: Poetry submissions should not exceed 5 
pages. Flash fiction should be between100-500 words and short fiction and 
memoirs between 2000-3000 words.

Submit to: Paola Corso, 133 8th Avenue #4E, Brooklyn, NY 11215       
Email:

Guidelines for essays: Essays should not exceed 5,000 words.

Submit to: Dr. Nandita Ghosh, 40-35 67h Street, #55, Woodside, NY 11377     
Email:

DEADLINE: March 10, 2004

Coeditors:

Paola Corso is a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. Her 
poetry and fiction are set in her native Pittsburgh river town and explore 
the environmental impact of industrialization from a working-class 
perspective. She and Dr. Anna Kay France co-edited the book, International 
Women Playwrights. She currently teaches a prose workshop at Fordham 
University.

Nandita Ghosh is an assistant professor at Farleigh Dickinson University 
where she teaches courses on literature, culture, and the environment. She 
was involved in mobilizing active support in the US against the 
construction of the Maheshwar dam on the River Narmada and has networked 
with members of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (a grassroots movement in India 
protesting the environmental damage and human displacement caused by 
damming the River Narmada), as well as various human rights and 
environmental groups based in the US.