Collaborate with Chris Eaton for an upcoming Anthology

Chris Eaton, novelist, frontman of Rock Plaza Central and former Open Book writer in residence, is launching an interesting micro-fiction experiment on twitter on Saturday, July 4. While touring with his band, Chris will be tweeting daily stories of 140 characters in length from www.twitter.com/RockPlaza. Readers are asked to respond to Chris's stories with stories of their own. Selections from the results will be published in Steel Bananas's forthcoming anthology, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose, to be released this fall from Tightrope Books.

The editors of GULCH are accepting submissions for the anthology, which will be selected "on the basis on the basis of formal and thematic originality, so interested writers are encouraged to explore and experiment with the boundaries of their relation to the written word."

Keep reading for submission details and for more info on Chris's micro-fiction project.

From our friends at Steel Bananas:
Arts and culture zine Steel Bananas is teaming up with Chris Eaton, novelist and frontman of the band Rock Plaza Central, for a tweeted micro-fiction project to be published in their upcoming anthology, GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose, which will be released with Tightrope Books this fall.

Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and concept of the assemblage, the anthology aims to create a snapshot of the diversity of contemporary Canadian literary culture, mixing the work of burgeoning young writers with established literary figures on the theme of fragmentation. To that end, Steel Bananas has asked Chris Eaton to write one story per day of no more than 140 characters, so that he may publish them for public participation on his band's twitter account (www.twitter.com/RockPlaza) from the road. Anyone who follows Chris's Rock Plaza tweet is also asked to reply to any story with one of their own, using the rhizome anti-model to intertwine the two stories so that they both are a part of each other. The story need not follow the original in theme. All that is asked is that replies should contain 1/3 of the words from the original text.

The next Rock Plaza Central tour begins July 4 in Milwaukee with Stephen Malkmus and ends the July 25 weekend of Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario and the Wicker Park Festival in Chicago. 21 stories, with as many replies as you like. Editors Karen Correia Da Silva, Sarah Beaudin and Curran Folkers will then select the best fragments for their book.

Start following the Rock Plaza Central twitter today at www.twitter.com/RockPlaza.

Also, if you are interested in submitting anything on your own, submissions will be selected by the editors on the basis of formal and thematic originality, so interested writers are encouraged to explore and experiment with the boundaries of their relation to the written word.

Please send all submissions to themeissue [at] steelbananas [dot] com by July 15th '09, and direct inquiries to karends [at] tightropebooks [dot] com. You can also find more information at: www.steelbananas.com/theme-iss....