Call for Submissions by Italian e-zine Buran

I received this email from an Italian e-zine Buran a week or so ago. If you are a writer or aspiring writer - especially if you are from Asia - and would like to see your work published online and in Italian, contact Flaviano Fillo at Buran with your writings or to find out more - his email address is at the end of his email.

Dear Yang-May Ooi,

I’m writing (and reading your blog) from Italy.
I am involved in some literary projects regarding the web.
Now a new project is about a web magazine named Buràn (http://www.buran.it)

In the new magazine Buràn we host foreign (for us) bloggers and writers,
from every part of the world.

The aim is to show what we call “Invisible Writing”: stories that we
usually are not able to read because of the language (chinese, arab and so
on) or because they are fading away into the great ocean of the web.
We are collecting stories from all over the world.

I read your blog, and appreciated it very much.

We would really like to publish something from you or from the people who
read Fusion View.

Our magazine is divided in two different parts: the first part hosts
stories (fiction and non-fiction) about a subject chosen by us (for the
next issue it will be: “The City”).

The second part host stories (fiction and non-fiction) regarding subjects
chosen by authors. There will be no resctrictions about themes.

We are interested in stories published on-line; if they’re published also
on paper, no problem.

About lenght: it should be good for us to get stories possibly composed by
about 5,000 to 10,000 characters.

About the rights: you’ll keep on owning all the rights about your stories
. Buràn is a no-profit project. It’s a web publication, everybody is able
to read it online; nobody will be allowed to use the italian version for
economic purposes.

Everybody (authors, translators, webmaster) join the projet for free.
No honorarium, unfortunately! Just a link to your website, and your name on an italian literary magazine that’s becoming very popular, and a lot of people reading your words and
your world.

If you are interested in our project, please contact me at
flaviano.fillo@libero.it or at redazione@buran.it

Thank you very much for your kind attention.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best

Flaviano

PS We collect stories in original languages and than translate them in italian.

Next deadline: 19 march

About charaters: I don’t mean number of words, but number of letters and blanks (i.e. “Yang-May” has 8 characters). But consder the numbers of characters just as a suggestion, not a “must”.

People don’t have to mark their submissions as fiction or non fiction.

About authors biography, we link to authors blog or site.

The first issue of Buràn counted 10,000 hits; many blogs from many regions of the world linked to it. Our stories has been about; A white farmer in Zimbabwe, Africa; A year in a scientific base in Antarctica; Imaginary People in Mexico; A girl who never stops crying in Argentina; A murder in Korea and so on (from 18 Countries).