I am pleased to announce that submissions are open for the fourth edition of the Asian Women Blog Carnival.

The host for the fourth edition is glass_icarus. Storytelling, or reclaiming our selves through our words.

Please read her submissions post for more information about theme and how to submit:

http://community.livejournal.com/truthrages/4903.html.

DEADLINE: 1 November 2009

[Note]

This carnival is intended to focus on Asian women. The definition of Asian, within the scope of this carnival, includes people from East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Asia, Southeast Asia, Far East, Middle East, Near East and people of Asian descent living in non-majority Asian countries. The definition of women, within the scope of this carnival, includes trans women and cisgendered women.

When recommending postings for inclusion in the carnival, please feel free to submit your own posts or suggest good posts or links by someone else. You may submit multiple posts. Submissions from from women and men of colour as well as allies are welcome.

The aim is highlight the diversity of Asian women and explore our identities in Asian majority and Asian minority cultures and share our experiences. Submissions can range from feminism, culture, history, work, beauty, health, sexuality, politics, economics, philosophy, class, education, religion, how we identify and relate to other PoC groups, personal stories etc.

All types of work, such as essays, prose, poems, personal narratives are accepted.

Each host has final, absolute, and arbitrary authority with regard to inclusion, exclusion, scope, scale, format and presentation.

This is the first carnival under the new guidelines. To read more about the guidelines, please read this post:

http://asianwomencarnival.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/asian-women-carnival-further-guidelines/

For carnival archives, please refer to this post.

Volunteers for Host for future editions should contact anna (asianwomencarnival @ gmail.com).