We co-editors (Kaalii Cargill and Helen Hwang) propose a question as a special section for the She Summons collective writing book project:
Why/How … the coronavirus pandemic calling you to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Or your own question that addresses the coronavirus pandemic.
Your answer can be as short from as one paragraph or a few sentences to an essay/prose piece. What would you say?
We editors, Kaalii Cargill and I, have been receiving the Coronavirus theme proposals. Thank you so much and cheers to us all! What a special time that we are witnessing collectively for the good and the bad!
Since we, all people, are in the middle of its national and economic panic state let alone physical fear, it is necessary to have the deadline for Call for Contributions open throughout the corona lockdown. We will notify you again with a definite deadline and timeline. We hope you continue to give time to this call for She Summons and create something to be included in this special collective writing project.
She Summons: Why… calling to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? (Volume 1)
Call for Contributions
You are invited to contribute to the collective writing project She Summons: Volume 1. This project follows the three volumes of the collective writing project She Rises, the She Rises Trilogy, asking Why? How? and What? about our experiences and insights on Goddess feminism, activism, and spirituality.
For new contributors to be, we recommend you to check out our previous collective writing books including She Rises Volume 1, She Rises Volume 2, and She Rises Volume 3 as well as Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess Volume 1.
We have chosen the title for the next collective writing trilogy, She Summons.
As a verb, “to summon” means:
– urgently demand (help)
– call people to attend (a meeting)
As a noun, “a summons” means:
– a call to convene: convoking
– a call for specified action
– a bid to come: sending for
– a calling forth: evoking
There is an imperative urgency in a summons.
Adults keep saying. “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel everyday. And then I want you to act as if your house is on fire. Because it is. Quote attributed to Greta Thunberg.
This first volume of the She Summons trilogy is asking “Why… calling to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?” Tailor the why question for yourself and provide an answer to us all and the world. Your question can be “Why is S/HE calling to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?,” “Why am I calling to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?” or “Why is the world calling to action for Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality?” Also poetry, prose, art, ritual and/or research article that addresses the causes of your take on Goddess feminism, activism and spirituality, broadly defined, are welcome! Historical, cross-cultural, and comparative perspectives will enrich this collective writing project!
Submission Secondary Deadline: Tentatively March 1, 2021 (Please email us if you need an extension. She Summons may need to arrive before the time when the Covid19 lockdown will be dismantled around the global cities.)
Submission details
Short writing – up to 200 words
Longer essays – up to 4.000 words
Research papers – 4,000-12,000 words
Poetry – any length (please indicate formatting)
Art, photography, illustrations – 300 dpi. These may include descriptive paragraphs attached as separate Word files.
Please include a brief bio of no more than 100 words at the end of your Word document.
Text: As attachment of Word file (.doc or .docx)
Font: Garamond (12 font size, single spaced)
Style: Chicago Manual of Style, footnotes
Art, photography, illustrations: As attachments of .jpg files (must be 300 dpi), even if you may have included in your Word document. Please include only necessary images. Because images cause misalignments in the final layout of the book, we prefer fewer images other than in artwork submissions. If an image is included in your piece, please indicate where exactly it should go; before, middle or end of the text. Nonetheless, an image may have to be removed or replaced in the case of problem unexpectedly caused by the Amazon’s KDP proof tool. Captions may be converted as notes as well for the same reason.
For sample short writings, see below:
http://magoism.net/…/special-post-1-why-goddess…/
For ongoing submissions, see below:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/magoism/
Multiple proposals are allowed. The submission form is included below.
Copyright
Authors have the copyright of their own contribution(s). Mago Books have the copyright of the book. All authors will receive a PDF book via email upon publication and may purchase printed books for Author’s discount 10-30 %.
Submission Form
Please fill out the form by copying and pasting the 3 items below in the body of your email submission (Copy and paste below in your email or Word file). Please indicate “She Summons” in the subject line to distinguish it from the call for contributions of another collective writing project of (Call for Contributions) Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess Volume 2 (currently open too). Send to both editors’ emails: kaalii.cargill@gmail.com and ninemagos@gmail.com
| Your name and email address:
“I agree that my proposals may be published in the main book of She Summons Volume 1 AND its secondary sectional booklet (poetry, prose, and art), made out of the Mother Two part of the main book.” |
| 2. Number of proposals and their genres: |
| 3. List the titles/contents of attachments including your short bio: |
Meet Editors
Kaalii Cargill, Ph.D.
Kaalii Cargill is a writer, teacher, artist, and wisewoman. Her PhD explored ancient women’s mysteries in relation to reproductive autonomy. She has published 7 books (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1482721953/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1)
and co-edited Mago Books She Rises, Volume 1 (https://www.magobooks.com/2016/07/13/she-rises-vol-1-book- reviews )
She is a regular contributor to Return to Mago E-Magazine (https://www.magoism.net/).
In the 1980s she co-developed Soul Centred Psychotherapy (https://www.kairoscentre.com), a therapeutic modality grounded in principles of relationship, embodied experience, meaning, and enchantment.
Kaalii currently lives and works in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne, Australia.
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D. is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, anciently originated tradition that venerates Mago as the Great Goddess. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr. Hwang has founded and directed The Mago Work whose branches include the Return to Mago E-Magazine (http://magoism.net), Mago Academy (http://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://www.magobooks.com). Together with Mago Sisters, she also founded Gynapedia (https://gynapedia.magoacademy.org) and Mago Pool Circle (https://mpc.magoacademy.org) to broaden The Mago Work. She co-edited and published She Rises: Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 1 (Mago Books, 2015), She Rises: How Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality? Volume 2 (Mago Books, 2016) as well as Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2017). Also authored The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2015).
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