Critical Storytelling from the Border

Critical Storytelling from the Border What are the borderlands in your life? If you experience a hybrid identity/alienation in your community/barriers within yourself, we want to hear your voice.

We are looking for submissions of poetry, research, and art to give form to your experience.

04/08/2022

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

CRITICAL STORYTELLING FROM THE PANDEMIC

We are looking to amplify voices and stories, like yours, from the pandemic. Submit your stories about your personal experience during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Accepted Submissions:
- Prose/Narrative: 2,500 word max.
- Research: 3,000 word max.
- Poetry: 3 poems max.
- Visual Arts: 5 pieces max.

Submission Instructions:
- Submit a cover letter including name/titles, word count, and contact information with your submission.
- If you are submitting a written form, please include a PDF and an editable copy of your submission.

SUBMIT TO: [email protected]
DUE BY: DECEMBER 31, 2022

10/29/2020

Our publication deadline is fast approaching!
Need helping thinking about what to write about before January 1st?
Well, let´s get your brain jogging with key suggestions for publications:

The border (physical and/or metaphorical)
Internal/external conflict
Hybridity/hybrid identity
Duality/inner -conflict
Displacement
Alienation
The concept of being of being foreign
Precariousness vs. a solid foundation
Gender/sexuality
Divided/Division
Self-discovery
Transformation through experience
Confrontation pertaining to: disappointment, pain, rejection

We want your stories of living in a borderland space.A border is an uncomfortable place. It is unstable, full of pain an...
10/29/2020

We want your stories of living in a borderland space.
A border is an uncomfortable place. It is unstable, full of pain and turmoil--but it can also be a shelter: a place of joy, love, and celebration. This splitting/joining of worlds necessarily creates resistance, reinvention, and innovation.
Send us your own critical story from the border/your borderland!
Submissions open to English, Spanish, Spanglish, Russian, and Italian publications
Criteria:
Prose/ Narrative: Maximum of 2,500 words
Research: Maximum of 3,000 words
Poetry: Maximum of 3 poems per submission
Visual Arts: Maximum of 5 pieces per submission in color or black and white
Send a cover letter including name/title(s), word count, and contact info.
Submit 2 copies: A PDF and an editable copy
Applicants are encouraged to respond with multiple submissions
Deadline: December 2020
Submit via email at [email protected].
You can find the submission criteria at millikinborders.wixsite.com/storytelling.

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