Writers sought.
This is our most
desperate hour.
HELP ME TAKE
THIS MASK OFF
In 1981, a year after THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK broke box office records, Hayden Christensen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The son of Alie, a speechwriter for the heads of large companies, and David Christensen, a software program writer and communications executive. He was raised outside Toronto in Thornhill, Ontario, his role as Anakin Skywalker (who was previously played by Sebastian Shaw and Jake Lloyd) in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) made him a star. It also was grounds for Canada claiming another coincidental invention, along side basketball, Superman, sand, Oscar Wilde’s first gay experience, and indie music in car commercials. Discovering today’s most hilarious and innovative Canadian authors writing about Star Wars Canadiana is like happening on a gaggle of stormtroppers in the Death Star cafeteria in a heated debate about the Stanley Cup playoffs or Stephen Harper's make up expenses. Forcing them to write about how Star Wars made them the Canadians that they are today, HELP ME TAKE THIS MASK OFF will sink quicker than a bulls-eyed wamprat and quickly go down as one of the most desperate attempts in the history of Canadian publishing.
"Quite possibly the greatest Star Wars anthology on Canadian writing this side of the galaxy." FUNHOUSE MAGAZINE
Submission call is open.
Eg. "I was Peter Mayhew's Canadian dentist"
"Jawas on Anne of Green Gables"
" I'm A Lover Not An X-Wing Fighter."
Hot Hoth Heat, Not Hot: Hoth. As in frozen hopeless.
Fiction 1000-2500 words. Up to 4 great poems. Essays? Sure. Drawings, why not.
T-16 confessional love letters?
For a contextual epiphany on the title, view this clip, which sounds like it was made by me in 1991. But it wasn't. But that's what I was doing in 1991, still watching. Still lame. Co-editor for this project is also sought.
1 comments:
Sadly, Oscar Wilde did not have his first gay experience in Canada. He came here in 1882, at 27 years old. He did meet the painter who would inspire Dorian Gray in Ottawa, and she in turn introduced him to a boy from Chelsea, QC (though this is thought to have happened in England) who went on to be the executor of his estate. Oscar Wilde was very gay at 27. I think he did not wait that long…
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