At carte blanche, where I serve as Graphic Fiction Editor, we are now open to submissions for the Fall Issue, #14!

The Issue will include a special feature on Obsessions.

From your vintage stapler collection to spying on your exes, we want to know about your passions, compulsions, and preoccupations!

The Theme is optional but it will win you brownie points if you can fit it. Submission deadline is September 15th, 2011. Submission can be between 1 and 20 pages! For anything longer please send a query first. Contributors receive a $45 honorarium per published piece on carte-blanche.org, and since I began editing I’ve published a set of the runner-up comics here on Sequential too.

Check out the submission guidelines for more information. Please indicate in your cover letter if your your work is themed for the feature on obsessions.

Attention!: All submissions from Quebec residents that are selected for publication in carte blanche are eligible for the 3Macs carte blanche Prize ($300) sponsored by MacDougall, MacDougall, & MacTier Inc.

PS: By the by while my job is to attract cartoonists and editing the graphic fiction, carte blanche also is looking for submissions of Fiction and Nonfiction, Poetry, Translations, & Photography! Check out the submissions page for details!

PPS: carte blanche is a not-for-profit journal published by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. We rely on funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the support of individual sponsors. Our editorial staff is largely volunteer and generously donate their time to keep carte blanche going. You can help us cover costs by donating to carte blanche. Your donation will help us pay our contributors honorariums, update our website, and explore new ways of distributing carte blanche (e.g. print-on-demand, apps, and eBooks). Any size donation is greatly appreciated