Dear friends,
Winged: New Writing on Bees has been awarded a grant from Oregon’s Regional Arts and Culture Council!
Due to this change, the timeline for Winged has altered. We are giving the project new scope, and extending the submission deadline to March 15th, 2014.
We are thrilled with, and humbled by, the submissions we have received so far. As a reminder, the submission window is currently open for poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and mixed-genre work. We will happily consider both new and previously-published work, as long as the author holds full rights to that work. Profits from book sales will benefit pollinator conservation organizations such as The Xerces Society.
- Please share information about Winged with friends and colleagues, either through social media, in classes, or by downloading our press release and informational flyer. Spreading the word means so much to us, and so much for the project.
- Submit your work! We offer the following considerations to help generate topics or concepts: the honey bee in history, bee symbolism in art, the European honey bee and native pollinators in North America, honey in ancient civilizations, communication via dance, the sounds of and in the hive, personal bee encounters, the bee in sacred literature, humans as pollinators, beekeeping around the world, declining bee populations, the future of beekeeping, a survey of bees in speculative fiction…
Winged is a project with a broader purpose: to create a literary and artistic record of this perilous moment in the relationship between humans and bees. Writers have employed bees and bee imagery for thousands of years, and we are now watching these important muses and symbols ailing, and declining.
No book like Winged currently exists, and much like a colony of bees, we cannot accomplish our goals alone. Whether it is by spreading the word about Winged, attending one of our upcoming events, or submitting your work, we hope you will take this opportunity to help cultivate our growing project, one we believe in, and one we feel is vital for all.
Warmly,
Melissa Reeser Poulin and Jill McKenna Reed
Editors, Winged: New Writing on Bees
Winged: New Writing on Bees 
Reblogged this on Deborah Rose Reeves and commented:
Oh! I’m so happy.
I so much wanted to write and submit a story to Winged: New Writing on Bees, but I had to focus on the deadline for another story. I’m thrilled to see that the deadline has been extended and I have time to make something (hopefully) lovely. I already adore this anthology and it hasn’t even been compiled yet. S’happy.
Thanks, Deborah! Your comment makes us happy. Thanks for submitting your work and being part of this creative response to pollinator decline.
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