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ISEA 2011 in Istanbul and Heather Haley appears at The Shebeen Club August 2010 meeting

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The International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) in 2011 is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. A call for proposals and submissions has been posted. Here’s more from the notice I received,

call for panel, artwork, paper and workshop proposals: ISEA2011, 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Istanbul, Turkey, September 14 -21 2011

The ISEA2011 Istanbul exhibition will coincide with the Istanbul Biennial. Invited are submission from artists, scientist and academics interested in how the digital and electronic media are re-shaping contemporary society and behaviors.

The conference website is here. The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2010.

Heather Haley; the Siren of Howe Sound

I’ve mentioned Heather here many times but never before as the Siren of Howe Sound (hats off to Raincoaster for coining this phrase). A well known local poet, Heather has been a punk rocker, video poetry innovator, and more in her pursuit of  image, sound, and language as expressive forms rising from deeply felt personal experience. Her next appearance is on August 16, 2010 at the Irish Heather (in Vancouver, Canada) as the guest for The Shebeen Club’s August 2010 meeting. From the news release,

Who: The Shebeen Club and the Siren of Howe Sound, Heather Haley

What: A night of multimedia delights celebrating the recent publication of Three Blocks West of Wonderland. (For more information on the Shebeen Club (http://theshebeenclub.com/about/)

When: Monday, August 16, from 7pm-9pm

Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 212 Carrall Street

As always, $20 buys you dinner and a drink and some of the finest literary company this city has to offer. No RSVP is required, but it¹s appreciated so we have a rough idea of whether we need to reserve the snug or to lay in crowd control! [go to The Shebeen Club website to RSVP]

Join us as we celebrate the release of Heather Haley¹s latest book of poetry, Three Blocks West of Wonderland. Heather is both the digital AND actual troubadour of the West Coast, from Bowen Island to Venice Beach, and for the first time she¹ll be bringing her multimedia performance experience to the Shebeen Club. There will be poetry. There will be prose. There will be beauty. There may be song. And there WILL be videopoems, a dynamic genre that seems to have sprung fully formed from the forehead of the Siren of Howe Sound herself.

We¹re very proud to help celebrate a pivotal local literatus¹s latest launch! And that¹s my allotment of ³L¹s² for the week right there.

Who do you write like? and other writing bits

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I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I found this ‘analyse my writing style’ game thanks to The Shebeen Club. (It’s very easy to play, just copy and  paste some of your writing into a submission box and hit submit. A minute or so later you get your answer. (Btw, I’m thrilled with my result.)

As for other ‘writery’ things, Dave at The Black Hole offers advice, links and practical information for people who want to become science writers,

Throughout the course of my own training, I have encountered a number of fellow trainees that have a passion for science writing and they live amongst a sea of those that do not. For those considering a career shift toward this passion, I think the first critical step is to figure out what kind of science writing you are interested in… loosely I’ve broken it up into three categories:

Popular

Feeding the brains of the public

Technical

Accurately explaining scientific protocols and/or information

Editorial

Consolidating or shifting a scientific field, making policy, designing programs, lobbying for change

While Dave is addressing science trainees, his advice is applicable to anyone who’s interested in science writing but without a science background, you will have different challenges.

I’ll make one addition to Dave’s list of organizations you might want to check out, the Society for Technical Communication. I’ve belonged to it for a number of years and they provide a lot of valuable information if you’re interested in the field.

Finally, there’s this interesting article at Fast Company by Rachel Arendt about Tin House and some new rules for submitting manuscripts to them,

A crafty new submissions policy from Tin House Books is reminding writers to be readers—and consumers.

The book press and quarterly literary magazine’s recent call for manuscripts welcomes unsolicited submissions but comes with a caveat: Each submission must include a receipt for a book purchased at a bookstore. As for those who can’t afford to buy books or get to a bookstore, Tin House asks for a haiku or under-100-word sentence explaining why. Writers who prefer their words in e-ink can send similar explanations for their turn away from bookstores and analog reading.

Arendt goes on the describe the publisher and the thinking behind this initiative.