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accomplishments
I applied for the grant.
I submitted Imaginary Year for the call for submissions of "information art."
I entered Another Chicago Magazine's Chicago Literary Awards contest.
Whew. We'll see if any of this effort bears fruit. It's worth noting that posting links in this weblog to things I hope to apply for has actually served as a good way to remind myself to actually apply for them. In that spirit, here's a link to a first book contest, held by Starcherone Books, publishers of "innovative, genre-bending fiction." Judged by Chicago resident Cris Mazza, who has an interest in the relationship between narrative and time, a relationship that Imaginary Year obviously addresses...
The apparatus that fiction cannot escape is, I think, time. Whether it's durational time, imaginative time, content time, defiance-of-chronology, hypertextual time (I just made that up), there's still an unseverable relationship between fiction and time. Linear narrative is not the only way to represent time. And we may actually no longer "represent" time in fiction but ... exploit it? reinvent it? change its geometric shape? But we don't deny it. As long as there's time, there's narrative -- maybe in some unrecognizable form.
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Friday, December 06, 2002
3:04 PM
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