CALLING ALL NATIVE ARTISTS, WRITERS, THINKERS, DREAMERS, SINGERS..THIS MEANS YOU!!

DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE3rd!!!

CALLING ALL NATIVE ARTISTS, WRITERS, THINKERS, DREAMERS, SINGERS..THIS MEANS YOU!!

We're seeking submissions of writing/art/hip hop/news/recipes/poetry/quotes/stories.. for an upcoming uncensored, native-run, autonomous magazine to be distributed FREE to native youth and inmates across Turtle Island THIS SUMMER!!

We're ESPECIALLY looking for writing in languages other than english or french, and to hear from people whose voices don't get heard.. youth, women, two spirit, brothers and sisters on the streets and behind bars.

We are looking for any and all definitions of writing and art: news from your community or city, articles, hip hop, recipes, graffiti stencils, poetry, letters, quotes, artwork, re-prints, how-to's, photos and stories. If you can put it on paper, you can send it in, long or short!

Indigenous Sovereignty can be expressed in many, many ways. Being sovereign as an Indigenous person can mean speaking your Original language, knowing the land, creating a garden with ancestral seeds or defending our homelands from logging, mining and exploitation.

Do you have art that celebrates the honor within our ways of being?

How about work that poetically engages education, maybe something you've wanted to share about the beauty of Indigenous women, how colonization is affecting you or your community, your battles with addictions, abuse or violence.

Submission Guidelines

* submit work in rich text format (.rtf)

* state the title you want to see published

* include a word count

* Your nation, community and name. We encourage you to use a handle (alternative to your english name), but it's up to you.

*ART and photos should be as high a resolution as possible (minimum 250 dpi)

All submissions/questions, etc. can be sent to:

indigenouscollective @ gmail.com (take out spaces)

DEADLINE: June 3rd/2011

Gchi Migwech / Nia:wen Kowa

The Indigenous Artists & Writers Collective is an autonomous group of Indigenous women, men youth and two spirit people who came together to create an uncensored, independent mag talking about our issues, in our communities, in our own voices.

This generation is rising up, decolonizing our minds and reclaiming our freedom. So let's gather and talk, in as many places, in as many ways as we can! We want to get 10,000 copies out by this powwow season, especially to youth and inmates.

We are consciously seeking submissions, art, writing, production and distribution help from Indigenous people right now and we're always interested in hearing from you!

If you want to get copies of this magazine, we need help getting it out far and wide, especially to jails, detention centers, remote communities and reserves.

indigenouscollective @ gmail.com (take out spaces)