The theme for MaLa Volume 2 Issue 2 has been decided! The theme for MaLa will be “transplant”.
After much discussion transplant was chosen by the Bookworm Chengdu Writing Group because it has the potential to mean:
medical transplants
plastic surgery
a person who has relocated
related to planting
…
And the list carries on. The number of ideas generated from this one word are too many to list in a short blog post. But, whatever the context it is placed in, the idea of transplanting something indicates a change. Will this change be for better, or for worse? We will have to see what the writers, photographers and artists decide.
Please submit your work from, about, or related to China that fits the theme “transplant”.
Submissions are due by midnight, June 30th, 2011. MaLa Volume 2 Issue 2 will be published in September 2011.
On March 24th Bill Dodson wrapped up the annual Bookworm Literary Festival here in Chengdu with his talk on doing business in China and his book China Inside Out. You can read his blog This is China! here.
After spending 3 weeks with 12 different authors Chengdu is going to feel a bit quiet, so if you’re feeling inspired to write after listening to all of these authors we recommend stopping in at the Bookworm on Wednesdays to give it a go.
The next meeting of the Bookworm Chengdu writing group is Wednesday, March 30th at 19:30. Our prompt from the week is: write a story in pictograms (Chinese doesn’t count), or about pictograms.
If you plan to join us your prompt should be submitted to bookwormwritinggroup@gmail.com by the morning of Monday, March 28th for critique on Wednesday night.
See you on Wednesday!
Tonight is the official release party for MaLa – The Chengdu Bookworm Literary Journal Volume 2 Issue 1. If you happen to be in Chengdu or passing nearby, please stop in at the Bookworm and say hello. We’ll be starting the release party from 21:00. If you can make it earlier come by at 19:30 and listen to Brian Castro and Kate Jennings discuss – Money or the Muse.
To find out where the Bookworm Chengdu is located visit www.chengdubookworm.com. For information on the annual Literary Festival please visit http://bookwormfestival.com.
And of course don’t forget that on Saturday, March 12th MaLa and HALiterature will duke it out in a slam poetry competition.
See you at the Bookworm!