Call for Writing: Women's Stories About Hair

[Lindsey Allgood]

OPEN CALL FOR WOMEN: STORIES ABOUT HAIR

Hair is a defining part of the female body and in many ways shapes our experience as a female being. This is an open call for women’s stories about hair. Your stories will be incorporated into a performance that exhibits an experimental narrative. Your memories can be written in any format: short stories, poems, random musings, journal entries. They do not have to be pretty and publishable as I will be deconstructing and reconstructing the texts into one storyline, essentially creating a single narrative out of all our experiences in an abstracted, surreal, and evocative manner. I am especially interested in stories that examine the female experience with  vulnerability, intimacy, love, nurture, and traditional female roles (mother, daughter, lover, etc.)

I encourage you to think of the different types of hair, locations on the body, hair separated from the body, hair experienced at different ages, what hair signifies in different societies, hair as an “Othering” or “Anothering” device in social situations, separateness, connectedness, and physical, emotional and psychological change.

I also request your actual hair, if possible. You may mail snippets, ponytails, one strand, 100 strands, one inch, one foot--whatever you feel complements your story. Please include the following info: bodily location; (approximate) date hair was removed from body; method of removal; alterations such as hair dye, etc. 

Email writings to [e-mail] as a .doc or .docx.

Mail in secure packaging to 519 S. University Blvd. #13, Norman, OK 73069

The performance will be presented at BEEF HAUS in Dallas, TX as the finale of a month-long performance event in February 2015. Curated by Alison Starr, MFA.