<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"TSAR Publications" <<a href="mailto:inquiries@tsarbooks.com">inquiries@tsarbooks.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">January 7, 2009 10:05:18 AM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:chuck.whitney@ucr.edu">chuck.whitney@ucr.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Call for Short Story Submissions</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">Charles Whitney</span></tt></div><div><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; "></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; "></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">Creative Writing - University of California</span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; "></span></tt> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">Dear<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">Charles Whitney</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><font face="Courier New">,</font></span></tt><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "></span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><tt><span> </span></tt></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><tt><span>We would like to invite short-story submissions by women of South Asian origin in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></tt></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">United States</span></tt></st1:place></st1:country-region><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></tt><st1:country-region><st1:place><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">Canada</span></tt></st1:place></st1:country-region><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">, for an upcoming anthology to be published in Fall 2009. The maximum length of a submission should be 4000 words. Our previous anthologies, titled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Her Mother's Ashes</i>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Her Mother's Ashes 2</i>, have both done quite well, and for the new anthology we would especially like to encourage younger writers to submit. More information about our press can be found on our website<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tsarbooks.com/">www.tsarbooks.com</a></span></tt><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">. </span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><tt><span>Submissions should be sent along with brief bios as email attachments to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:inquiries@tsarbooks.com">inquiries@tsarbooks.com</a> </span></tt></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">I would be grateful if you could distribute this call to your students.</span></tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">Thank you.</span></tt><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">Yours sincerely,</span></tt><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><br><tt><span>Nurjehan Aziz</span></tt></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br><tt><span>Editor<o:p></o:p></span></tt></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">TSAR Publications<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><st1:street><st1:address><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">39 Woburn Avenue</span></tt></st1:address></st1:street><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><st1:place><st1:city><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">Toronto</span></tt></st1:city><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></tt><st1:state><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">Ontario</span></tt></st1:state></st1:place><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; ">M5M 1K6<span> Canada</span></span></tt></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "><span></span></span></tt> </div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; "><span><a href="http://www.tsarbooks.com">www.tsarbooks.com</a></span></span></tt></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>