{"id":336,"date":"2023-02-01T23:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/?p=336"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T20:28:16","slug":"call-for-submissions-february-carnival-of-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingforlife.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/call-for-submissions-february-carnival-of-aces\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: February Carnival of Aces<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, I\u2019m the host for February\u2019s Carnival of Aces.\u00a0 From the Asexual Agenda: \u201cA Carnival of Aces is a monthly blogging carnival centered on the asexual spectrum (asexuals, gray-As, demisexuals, etc.).\u00a0 Anyone can participate, but responses should deal with asexuality or the asexual spectrum, and they should relate to the month\u2019s theme (which is announced each month by the host).\u00a0 Responses should postdate the call for submissions.\u00a0 Alternate forms of media besides blogs are also welcome as long as they deal with the prompt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous carnival themes have addressed media representation to some extent, but the majority are several years old (from 2012-2017), and the two more recent ones are from September 2019 (\u201cTelling Our Stories<\/a>\u201d) and December 2019 (\u201cLiterature, Academia, and Storytelling<\/a>.\u201d)  This means there\u2019s been time for the media landscape to change – in nonfiction for example, the number of books about asexuality (that I\u2019ve been able to discover) has jumped from 4 to 9 since the end of 2019, with two more officially releasing later this month and another in March – as well as room for a focus more specifically on fiction in terms of unique carnival prompts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that\u2019s the topic: Representation in Fiction.  Some prompt ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. How important is aspec representation in fiction to you?  Does it matter much to you personally, or do you prefer other media?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. If you consume written media (by fiction I mean novels, short stories, fanfiction, graphic novels if you want…), did or does it have an impact on you when you find an aspec character, or conversely if you don\u2019t see aspec representation?  How so?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. How do you feel about the current amount of representation?  Have you had success finding the representation you want in the genres and such that you prefer to read?  (For example, I\u2019m aroace, and I think I have yet to read a contemporary ace story because a lot of them seem to be about navigating romance as an ace person, and I don\u2019t want romance any more than I want sex scenes.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. What would you like to see more of in fiction in relation to aspec stuff?  This could be anything from \u201cjust more aspec characters in general\u201d to specific things like disabled autistic trans aces, queerplatonic relationships, more characters who are both ace and aro, characters who use specific microlabels, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Or any other relevant thoughts really; the prompts are just ideas to get you started.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Submissions are due by midnight (ish – I\u2019m not staying up until 3 am, so honestly just get them to me before I get up the next morning, lol) central time on the 28th.\u00a0 You can comment on this post with the link to your submission, or email them to me at miab@writingforlife.net<\/a>.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a blog but want to submit something anyway, you can email it to me and I can post it for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (Edit\/note: Based on reader feedback, I altered this post slightly after first publishing it, if you saw the original and are confused if you remembered it wrong.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Looking forward to reading everyone\u2019s submissions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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