Blank Voices

27/02/2023

Greetings,

"The Butterfly Effect," an annual anthology of liberal arts, September 2022 1st Issue, has been globally published. Thanks to all the contributors for supporting its journey. The next publication -- 2nd issue of the 2023 anthology -- will set sail soon after the summer of this year.

Viva La Arts!

Thankfully,
Ahmed Tahsin Shams
www.ahmedtahsinshams.com

To buy a paperback hard copy online:

Barnes and Noble (USA)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-butterfly-effect-ahmed-tahsin-shams/1143035534

Amazon (USA)
https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Effect-Annual-Anthology-Liberal/dp/1387960725

Ebay (USA)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/354580489238

Google Books:
https://books.google.com/books?id=wMCuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=the+butterfly+effect+by+ahmed+tahsin+shams&source=bl&ots=pIujLXmefM&sig=ACfU3U3n6lMXgu-vSCfvi-I1Q_1GW3n3hQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVv96BgOT9AhVTkYkEHdmBDzk4FBDoAXoECAsQAg

Medimops (Germany):
https://www.medimops.de/shams-ahmed-tahsin-the-butterfly-effect-a-liberal-arts-anthology-taschenbuch-M0108810150X.html

BAM (Books-A-Million (USA):
https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Butterfly-Effect/Ahmed-Tahsin-Shams/9781088101506?id=8769071637635

Fish Pond (Germany):
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NorthShire (USA, UK):
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Thrift books (USA):
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Quail Ridge Books: (USA)
https://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9781088101506

Buffalo Street Books (Ithaca, NY, USA):
https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/book/9781387960729

Booktopia (Australia):
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-butterfly-effect-ahmed-tahsin-shams/book/9781088101506.html

Vermont Book Shop (USA):
https://www.vermontbookshop.com/book/9781088101506

Ceneo:
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Wordsworth Book Store:
https://www.wordsworthbookstore.com/book/9781387960729

Rakuten (France):
https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/10143844811/the-butterfly-effect-format-broche.html

The Twig:
https://www.thetwig.com/book/9781387960729

Newton Ville Books:
https://www.newtonvillebooks.com/book/9781387960729

Vandervelseboeken: (Netherlands)
https://www.vanderveldeboeken.nl/boek?authortitle=shams-ahmed-tahsin/the-butterfly-effect--9781088101506

Santa Cruz (California):
https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/book/9781387960729

Alibris (Columbia and Nevada):
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National Media Coverage:
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The Daily Observer
https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=406563

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The Daily Sun

https://www.daily-sun.com/post/671536/The-Butterfly-Effect%E2%80%99-by-Ahmed-Tahsin-Shams-hits-book-fair

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Daily Samakal
https://samakal.com/kaler-kheya/article/2302157350/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9B-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9B-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%87

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Protidiner Bangladesh
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Desh Rupantor
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Newsg24
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BBS Bangla
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Bangla FM
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Kaler Kantho
https://www.kalerkantho.com/online/book-fair/2023/02/12/1248586?fbclid=IwAR3ZSMIMP6RTYhK4oau0EhTYKkiY9WKx66bhL7hPSgN9xWy-aybhE2f5JGY

31/01/2023

Swadesh Shoilee, Ekushey Boi Mela 2023, Stall 33!!!
Our book is there!!! Grab your copies, contribute to the sustainability of this international annual anthology! Thank you!
💕🙏😇

Swadesh Shoilee, Ekushey Boi Mela 2023, Stall 33!!!
Our book is there!!! Grab your copies, contribute to the sustainability of this annual anthology! Thank you!
Contributors from 15+ countries 🙏🙏🙏
Available in Amazon Books (USA)
Check this out! https://a.co/d/cTfTT5N

💕🙏😇

31/01/2023

Swadesh Shoilee, Ekushey Boi Mela 2023, Stall 33!!!
Our book is there!!! Grab your copies, contribute to the sustainability of this annual anthology! Thank you!
Contributors from 15+ countries 🙏🙏🙏
Available in Amazon Books (USA)
Check this out! https://a.co/d/cTfTT5N

💕🙏😇

31/01/2023

Swadesh Shoilee, Ekushey Boi Mela 2023, Stall 33!!!
Our book is there!!! Grab your copies, contribute to the sustainability of this annual anthology! Thank you!
Contributors from 15+ countries 🙏🙏🙏
Available in Amazon Books (USA)
Check this out! https://a.co/d/cTfTT5N

💕🙏😇

24/09/2022

https://www.kalerkantho.com/english/online/arts-culture/2022/09/24/39708

Q. Recently, your film A Tale of Night Flowers was released on Amazon Prime Video in the USA and UK regions. And your second film, Arshinagar (Reflection), is being selected for many international festivals. Would you share the insights of this journey? ATS: Its

04/09/2022

Contributors are from 15+ countries💕💕💕
USA, UK, Bangladesh, India, France, Italy, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Trinidad, Poland, Serbia, Taiwan, Spain, Belgium, Azerbaijan, and Canada

The first liberal arts international anthology got published!!!
www.blankvoices.com

Amazon Link:
The Butterfly Effect: An Annual Anthology of Liberal Arts https://a.co/d/6NDzlWZ

Soon it will be available in other bookstores, and in Bangladesh!! 🙏🙏🙏

Edited by
Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Cover Painting
Madhubanti Raya

13/08/2022

11/08/2022

https://www.daily-sun.com/post/637320/IndoBangla-prose-book-launched-globally

The Myriad of Meanings in Literary Culture Studies’ is an Indo-Bangla prose collection of Literary

11/08/2022

https://en.ittefaq.com.bd/2074/Indo-Bangla-prose-collection-published

The Myriad of Meanings in Literary Culture Studies is an Indo-Bangla prose collection of Literary and Cultural studies contributed by 19 authors from India...

11/08/2022

The Myriad of Meanings in Literary Culture Studies is an Indo-Bangla edition of Literary and Cultural studies contributed by 19 authors from India and Bangladesh, published by Lulu Press Inc., USA and Blank Voices, Bangladesh in March 2022, partnered with Barnes and Noble (USA) and Amazon Books. However, since August 2022 distribution in Bangladeshi bookstores is about to begin, says a press release.

One of the editors Avik Gangopadhyay, who is an Indian author, academic, and critic, shares, “Literary and Cultural Studies gives one access to historical and emergent traditions of literature, culture, and thought. The Myriad of Meanings in Literary Culture Studies is interdisciplinary and sometimes anti-disciplinary approach to studying culture, particularly in its broadly-conceived and complex array of signifying practices.”

He also added that the minds of the two neighboring countries, India and Bangladesh met to explore a complex relationship, rather erase the conflict between literary and cultural studies. Literary studies is not committed to a conception of the literary object that cultural studies must repudiate.

“Cultural studies arose as the application of techniques of literary analysis to other cultural materials,” concludes Avik.

Assistant Professor Dr. Koel Mitra of English at The Neotia University, Kolkata, India, expresses, “The Myriad of Meanings experiences a great international resonance. This innovative academic approach penetrates various social and political layers, addressing numerous challenges of realities from both times—past and present.”

Moreover, she asserted that the authors of this collection are concerned with questions of power and often strived to engage in analysis or theory that would contribute to the counter-hegemonic struggle.

“Through critical interpretation, dialogue and conjecture, readers could easily trace the language mediated through texts, arranging and allowing different ways of knowing and living,” believes Dr. Koel.

Ahmed Tahsin Shams, Assistant Professor of English, Notre Dame University Bangladesh and a Visiting Scholar at University of Notre Dame, USA, shares, “Since culture is now considered as the source of art and literature, cultural criticism has gained ground.”

Therefore, Raymond Williams’ term “cultural materialism”, Stephen Greenblatt’s “cultural poetics” and Bakhtin’s term “cultural prosaic” have found significant reverberation in this book on cultural criticism, reveals Shams.

Swadesh Shoilee, its Bangladeshi book distribution partner, confirms the book’s availability in Bangladesh from August 2022 in Rokomari, Pathak Shamabesh, Batighar, and many other bookstores and libraries.

GLOBAL BOOK STORES

AMAZON PAPERBACK (GLOBAL):
https://www.amazon.com/Myriad-Meanings-Literary-Culture-Studies/dp/B09VG2NYBM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18Y1R36W0V95E&keywords=the+myriad+of+meanings+in+literary+culture+studies&qid=1648480914&sprefix=the+myriad+of+meanings+in+literary+culture+studies%2Caps%2C58&sr=8-1

LULU PRESS: (PAPERBACK)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/avik-gangopadhyay-and-koel-mitra-and-ahmed-tahsin-shams/the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies/paperback/product-pzgq6e.html?page=1&pageSize=4


KINDLE VERSIONS:

Barnes & Noble (US):
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies-ahmed-tahsin-shams/1141238704?ean=9781458368232

Goodreads (Global)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60635811-the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies

Australia:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies-ahmed-tahsin-shams/ebook/9781458368232.html

Malaysia:
https://www.e-sentral.com/book/info/352739

Japan:
https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rk/672fd0b5b5453028a614c882c15f51d1/?l-id=search-c-item-03

Amazon India:
https://www.amazon.in/Myriad-Meanings-Literary-Culture-Studies-ebook/dp/B09VQTHFFF/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1648480755&refinements=p_27%3AAvik+Gangopadhyay&s=books&sr=1-3


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‘The Myriad of Meanings in Literary Culture Studies’ is an Indo-Bangla prose collection of Literary and Cultural studies contributed by 19 authors from India and Bangladesh, published by Lulu Press Inc., USA and Blank Voices, Bangladesh in March 2022, partnered with Barnes and Noble and Amazon B...

28/06/2022

06/05/2022

Call for Translated Poetry Submissions
Ode to Dissent: Contemporary South Asian Verses in English Translation
Edited by Ahmed Tahsin Shams and Amrita Sharma

Concept Note:
“It's important to let the text speak, not the speaker. I believe the text is alive like a green plant. We just have to find the language to communicate, definitely beyond words.”
– Ahmed Tahsin Shams
With South Asia evolving and emerging as one of the most ‘linguistically diverse’ regions in the world, the subcontinent also remains home to a vibrant diversity of contemporary poets writing in these native languages. As translation continues to form linguistic bridges between these languages and a wider literary audience, we aim to bring together a compilation that addresses and explores the ‘author-poetry-translator’ dynamics in manifold ways. To create, counter, and correlate to the agencies of democracy in the creative ethos, we call for a thematic focus on ways that embark on a ‘dissent’ and its celebration.
This anthology aims at bringing together the works of contemporary South Asian poets in their English translation to a global audience. Along with the poetic text in translation, we encourage translators to provide a brief ‘Translator’s Review’ to add a critical dimension for the readers.
We invite poetry submissions translated into English by the original language author/translator from South Asia.

Submission Instructions:
*The email subject must be “ODE TO DISSENT ANTHOLOGY_Author’s Name.”
*All poems must be in a single Doc/Docx file and a brief biography of the i) Author and ii) Translator.
*As a separate document, also attach the signed Translation Rights doc. (https://docs.google.com/.../1moKU2zf7.../edit...)
*Attach a Translator’s Review document in 50-70 words mentioning the translation experience and a note of critical reasoning of the translation work.
*Submit a minimum of three to a maximum of five poems in translations to [email protected], with a CC sent to [email protected]
*Please attach a photograph of the author and the translator in the email (not the doc file).
N.B: We also welcome self-translated works by the original authors. For any queries, please reach out to the submission email or [email protected].
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2022
Tentative Date of Publication: October 2022
Publishers: Lulu Press (USA). Blank Voices (Bangladesh)
Global Distributors: Amazon Books (USA), Booksbaby (USA), Barnes & Noble (USA)

06/05/2022

Call for Translated Poetry Submissions
Ode to Dissent: Contemporary South Asian Verses in English Translation

Edited by Ahmed Tahsin Shams and Amrita Sharma

Concept Note:
“It's important to let the text speak, not the speaker. I believe the text is alive like a green plant. We just have to find the language to communicate, definitely beyond words.”
– Ahmed Tahsin Shams

With South Asia evolving and emerging as one of the most ‘linguistically diverse’ regions in the world, the subcontinent also remains home to a vibrant diversity of contemporary poets writing in these native languages. As translation continues to form linguistic bridges between these languages and a wider literary audience, we aim to bring together a compilation that addresses and explores the ‘author-poetry-translator’ dynamics in manifold ways. To create, counter, and correlate to the agencies of democracy in the creative ethos, we call for a thematic focus on ways that embark on a ‘dissent’ and its celebration.

This anthology aims at bringing together the works of contemporary South Asian poets in their English translation to a global audience. Along with the poetic text in translation, we encourage translators to provide a brief ‘Translator’s Review’ to add a critical dimension for the readers.

We invite poetry submissions translated into English by the original language author/translator from South Asia.

Submission Instructions:

*The email subject must be “ODE TO DISSENT ANTHOLOGY_Author’s Name.”

*All poems must be in a single Doc/Docx file and a brief biography of the i) Author and ii) Translator.

*As a separate document, also attach the signed Translation Rights doc. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1moKU2zf7_fJfSjHq2G5BsLaXX3a0kXdpiWTmROVToWs/edit?usp=sharing)

*Attach a Translator’s Review document in 50-70 words mentioning the translation experience and a note of critical reasoning of the translation work.

*Submit a minimum of three to a maximum of five poems in translations to [email protected], with a CC sent to [email protected]

*Please attach a photograph of the author and the translator in the email (not the doc file).

N.B: We also welcome self-translated works by the original authors. For any queries, please reach out to the submission email or [email protected].

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2022
Tentative Date of Publication: October 2022
Publishers: Lulu Press (USA). Blank Voices (Bangladesh)
Global Distributors: Amazon Books (USA), Booksbaby (USA), Barnes & Noble (USA)

11/04/2022

Coming Soon!
The Butterfly Effect, an annual anthology of liberal arts in four sections: Voices, Verses, Visuals, and Visions

www.blankvoices.com
Please fill up the form for submissions:
https://forms.gle/EHMX86CTQMmv1qWTA
Facebook: blankvoicesofficial
WHY "..." VOICES?
https://youtu.be/hsc_qFmkylE

N.B: Due to the pandemic situation in 2021, we apologize that we could not publish this issue, but now we are back on track. The ones who submitted earlier, no need to submit again. Wait for the launch!

Stay safe and sound.
Peace,
Blank Voices

02/04/2022

-grade Productions launches its publication wing ‘www.blankvoices.com’ and here goes its first international peer-reviewed scholarly prose collection anthology by veteran scholars and academics from India and Bangladesh.

Release!!!

Book Title: The Myriad of Meanings in Literary Culture Studies
peer-reviewed scholarly prose collection
Published by Blank Voices (Bangladesh) & Lulu Press (USA)
Global Distributors: Books, and Noble (USA), (USA)

Edited by Ahmed Tahsin Shams, Dr. Koel Mitra, Avik Gangopadhyay

AMAZON PAPERBACK (GLOBAL):
https://www.amazon.com/Myriad-Meanings-Literary-Culture-Studies/dp/B09VG2NYBM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18Y1R36W0V95E&keywords=the+myriad+of+meanings+in+literary+culture+studies&qid=1648480914&sprefix=the+myriad+of+meanings+in+literary+culture+studies%2Caps%2C58&sr=8-1

KINDLE VERSIONS:

Barnes & Noble (USA):
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies-ahmed-tahsin-shams/1141238704?ean=9781458368232

Goodreads (Global)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60635811-the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies

Australia:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies-ahmed-tahsin-shams/ebook/9781458368232.html

Malaysia:
https://www.e-sentral.com/book/info/352739

Japan:
https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rk/672fd0b5b5453028a614c882c15f51d1/?l-id=search-c-item-03

Amazon India:
https://www.amazon.in/Myriad-Meanings-Literary-Culture-Studies-ebook/dp/B09VQTHFFF/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1648480755&refinements=p_27%3AAvik+Gangopadhyay&s=books&sr=1-3

LULU PRESS: (Global, PAPERBACK)
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/avik-gangopadhyay-and-koel-mitra-and-ahmed-tahsin-shams/the-myriad-of-meanings-in-literary-culture-studies/paperback/product-pzgq6e.html?page=1&pageSize=4

04/12/2021

15/09/2021

https://cslc.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/an-interview-with-ahmed-shams-poet-professor-and-scholar/

Ahmed Shams has recently joined the Center for the Studies of Languages and Cultures (CSLC) at the University of Notre Dame (UND) as a visiting scholar ...

20/02/2021

15/02/2021

Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V4QG77Q

The kindle version of this new book 'Sajjad Arefin's Poesy Tales', a transcreation from Bangla to English with illustrations, got released from LULU PRESS (USA) and available on Amazon :)

30/01/2021

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=885476822214355

27/01/2021

Sajjad Arefin's Poesy Tales

04/01/2021

15/12/2020

www.blankvoices.com
Connect with us:
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The inaugural launching of the 1st issue: 21 February 2021
Facebook: blankvoicesofficial
WHY "..." VOICES?
https://youtu.be/hsc_qFmkylE

14/12/2020

www.blankvoices.com
Connect with us:
https://forms.gle/EHMX86CTQMmv1qWTA
The inaugural launching of the 1st issue: 21 February 2021
Facebook: blankvoicesofficial
WHY "..." VOICES?
https://youtu.be/hsc_qFmkylE

29/11/2020

07/11/2020

https://fb.watch/1CaYahQAE4/

31/10/2020

https://fb.watch/1t88KWl-Xv/

25/10/2020

13/05/2020

Tell us your story. We care your voice.
www.blankvoices.com

13/05/2020

WE CARE YOUR VOICE
WWW.BLANKVOICES.COM

11/05/2020

Blank Voices shares stories of unsung heroes, of love and inspiration, of journeys and toils. Share your story in any form of art. Get published in the inaugural summer 2020 issue on 9 July 2020.

Visit the site to submit your work:
[email protected]

03/05/2020

www.blankvoices.com
Connect with us:
https://forms.gle/EHMX86CTQMmv1qWTA
The inaugural launching of summer issue e-book: 9 July 2020
Facebook: blankvoicesofficial
WHY "..." VOICES?
https://youtu.be/hsc_qFmkylE