Deadline: Feb. 29 2024
Contact: Addie Hopes
Email: esflitmag@gmail.com
See the full call here: https://unearthedesf.com/call-for-submissions-resurgence-restoration-and-renewal/
Unearthed Returns for Spring 2024
We’re thrilled to announce the revival of Unearthed. Like a field left fallow for a season to rest, the literary and art magazine published by the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is now ready for a fresh new editorial team to breathe new life back into its pages. And we can’t wait for you to join us!
We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives to submit to our upcoming Spring 2024 issue, exploring the themes of resurgence, restoration, and renewal.
We encourage you to interpret the theme broadly. We welcome fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, photo essays, and short films that attend to places of quiet resurgence, unexpected healing, and ongoing survivance. While we believe that attention to the possibility of revival is its own powerful form of resistance, we understand that over-simplified celebrations of peoples, individuals, or ecosystems that overcome adversity can obscure structural inequities and reinforce damaging stereotypes about “naturalness” and “normality.” With this mind, we are also open to work that complicates or even critiques concepts like “resilience,” “restoration,” and “healing.” We are eager to learn how the theme speaks to you, and we hope to be surprised by your unique perspective.
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Submission Guidelines
Genre: Open to fiction, non-fiction, poetry, visual art, and any creative expression.
Poetry: up to five poems (one poem on a page), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf.
Fiction: up to 6,000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.
Creative and critical non-fiction: between 800-6,000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.
Visual Art: up to ten items, formatted as .jpg, .tiff, .png, or .pdf with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and at least five inches wide. Include titles for each piece.
Video: up to two video products submitted in .wav, .wmv, .avi, or .mov, or a link to a previously unpublished vimeo, etc.
Cover Letter & Artist Statement: Please attach a short cover letter (.doc, .docx, or .pdf.) that includes: 1. a short biographical statement of 100 words or less; 2. A brief artist statement of 150 words or less in which you briefly describe any or all of the following: what inspired the piece, what you hope audiences take from it, how your work fits into (or chafes against) the theme. If your submission is chosen for publication, we will publish your bio and your artist statement alongside your piece.
Submission Deadline: February 29, 2024.
How to Submit: Email your submission to esflitmag@gmail.com with the subject line: “Resurgence 2024 Submission – [Your Name].”
Simultaneous Submissions: We allow simultaneous submissions but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Posted on February 6, 2024
