Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour

Digital Media Competition

As part of the Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference, MaMSIE are delighted to launch a Digital Media Competition.

Digital media entries should respond to the title `Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`. This might take the form of a digital photographic work or a more abstract piece, such as a work of multimedia digital fiction or creative nonfiction, an experimental digital film, or website. Any form of digital output will be considered.

Everyone is welcome to enter, professional or amateur. Finalists will be chosen by a distinguished panel of artists, writers and journalists.

Prize: There will be a cash prize of £150 for the winning entry and two small runners up prizes. The winner and runners up will also receive free entry to the conference and their work will be featured on the conference website, and the online journal, Studies in the Maternal. Maximum 2 works per entrant, either as a digital file or URL.

To enter, please:

·Mark entries with your name, contact details and the title of the work

·Include a 250-word description of your piece

·Include a 100-word biography of yourself

·Include the work itself as digital file or URL  

·Write 'Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour

 Digital Media Competition and Exhibition' in the e-mail header

·Send entries to Kate Pullinger at kpullinger@dmu.ac.uk <mailto:kpullinger@dmu.ac.uk> .

 Deadline for entries: August 1st 2010.

Successful entrants will be informed by 15 September, 2010

 
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