The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, invite proposals to participate in a workshop at the 2010 conference of the American Folklore Society for authors working on their first book. Up to six authors will be selected to participate in a full day of intensive activities devoted to critiquing and developing their individual projects.  Projects selected for the workshop will be candidates for publication in the Presses’ new collaborative series, Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World, which aims to publish exceptional first books that emphasize the interdisciplinary and/or international nature of the field of folklore.

For complete submission guidelines, please visit our website at www.folklorestudies.org. Please note that the proposal submission deadline has been extended to April 15, 2010.

As we’ve announced previously, we are one of three university presses sharing a Mellon Foundation grant to fund a new series called Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World. Our partners in collaboration are the University Press of Mississippi and the University of Wisconsin Press, with the American Folklore Society.

For reasons having nothing to do with foolishness or federal taxes, the deadline for receipt of grant proposals for first books in the series has been extended from April 1 to April 15.

You can learn more about FSMW and the submission guidelines at the series homepage, on its Facebook page, or on its Squidoo page. By popular demand, we remain Twitter-free.