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welcome to our new Peel Pager

Better late than never! I want to introduce the newest addition to our blog team, Emily Chan. She’s already been writing a few stories (for free! No one here is getting paid, except maybe the guy whose Tumblr design we’ve bought).

Emily currently studies at University of California Berkeley and slams some good spoken word on zombie apocalypse and her Taiwanese American roots. I remember meeting her for the first time on a late night car ride to Redding, California, and thinking, ‘this girl has a way with words.’

Keep reading, and I think you’ll agree.

Casting Call for The Peel Pages Kickstarter Flick

Peel Pages is now casting for our first promotional video for use on our Kickstarter fundraising page. You might be wondering… casting? We’re aiming for something a bit more interesting than the cut-and-dry infomercial, so the idea is to nest that very useful information within some creative flare. Say, with the feel of a short entitled An Afternoon at Tea. As for atmosphere, think something along the lines of Wes Anderson meets Portlandia.

We’re looking for 4 cast-members. If you are can play hipster, stare into a camera and deliver lines without continuously cracking up, we’d love to hear from you. This is a ‘trade-for-print’ project — that is, name in credits, a copy of the finished piece, and a copy of our first few print magazines. Hey, at the very least it’ll be good fun.

Think hats, obnoxious glasses… pastels pastels pastels. Yellow. Orange. Earth tones. Email peelpages [at] gmail [dot] com.

We Would Like to Remind You

posted by Molly

We would like to remind you that the deadline to submit to the print edition of the “Space and Place” issue is January 23, 2012. That’s less than a week away. The submission that the editorial staff has been reading through look fantastic, and we’re looking forward to reading yours too!

Call for Submissions — April Print Issue

Humanity cannot help but be contoured by where and how it finds itself. How do our surroundings and attendant circumstances exert influence in our shaping as individuals? Collectively as a society? There are ways too, in which we reciprocate this pattern by turning the tables back on our milieu to define it. We pin sentiments of all kinds to the places of our abode and the spaces through which we travel. There are the associations of quaint nostalgia and others of pained numbness. One finds that conversations on SPACE AND PLACE are broader than that of spatial concept and personal reflection. Indeed, it proves to be a diverse topic that can engage symbolic ideas like discovery and pilgrimage, but also tangible ones like displacement amidst urban gentrification. We at Peel Pages would like to invite you — the creative, the performer, the artist — to join us as we ponder the significance of SPACE AND PLACE.

Peel Pages is now accepting submissions for its April 2012 print issue. Please send your pieces, along with a short bio, to peelpages@gmail.com for review. All entries must be received by January 23rd 2012. We hope to hear from you shortly!

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Visual Submissions
- Resolution of 300DPI and a minimum of 1200 pixels on the shortest edge
- In CMYK color space preferred
- Preferably in .TIF or .PNG format but .JPEG will do if it must
- Include an artist statement of 150 words or less subject to condensation for strictly visual pieces
- For other pieces requisite of textual accompaniments, 1200 words (as upper limit) pending exception upon review

Written Submissions
- 1200-1800 words (as upper limit) for formatted poetry / free verse, etc
- no more than 3 poems per issue, regardless of length
- 1200-2400 words (as upper limit) for prose, short stories, pending exception upon review
- Excepting poetry submissions, format double spaced for review, preferably in MS Word or compatible format

HOW TO SUBMIT & DEADLINE
- Submissions must be received by January 23rd, 2012 at peelpages@gmail.com
- Include an artist profile of 100 words or less subject to condensation
- Include ‘SUBMISSION FOR REVIEW’ in subject
- Complete and submit the follow-up Submission Release form

QUESTIONS
- Please direct questions to peelpages@gmail.com
- Include ‘SUBMISSION QUERY’ in subject

You Should be Excited

posted by Molly

Word on the street is that the first issue of Peel Pages had gone to the layout team. And that means the print date is just around the corner. And that is a reason to get excited!

If you’re in the Bay area, start looking for printed copies in December. If you’re not local, or don’t want to take any chances, email us at peelpages<at>gmail<dot>com, with the subject line “Print Copy Request”. We’ll send more info your way.

Thoughts on Purpose

posted by Molly

Have you checked out our Mission Statement? No need to click or feel guilty, I’m posting it here:

We are a group of writers and artists committed to seeing the revelatory and transformative power of the arts and how it advances society. We believe that every facet of art has the potential to form, shape, (re)define and move our culture for the better. Just as a banana ripens other fruit around it, we at Peel Pages use words and visual communication to influence culture, hoping to be to a catalyst for a richer point of view. We seek to be authentic at expressing ourselves and our faith, compassionate in understanding humanity, and ultimately, an agent in redeeming the brokenness of our world.

But, why? Because in my experience, art tends to fall on an xy axis of meaning and aesthetics:

The stereotype of modern art is the red dot, aesthetics without meaning. And the stereotype of protest art is the blue, meaning without aesthetics.

We at Peel Pages don’t believe in no stupid stereotypes. And our mission is to reach the purple dot, where aesthetics and meaning meet. You could say that Peel Pages is dedicated to art with a purpose.