PFN – PRISM international Seeking Submissions on: Hybrids

What is the joy of the hybrid gesture? Where does it live? And how does hybridizing create that secret third thing? We’re curious about the possibility of the hybrid, its spirit, generations, and generative qualities; its rendering into something capacious enough to hold the boundlessness of the in-between, the cut-up, the collab. And in the context of nations and worldviews intent on categorizing and punishing the act of mixing or joining together, what does hybridity promise for those of us who don’t fit neatly into established norms of nation, sexuality, body, and more?

Send us your cross-genre mash-ups, poetry comics or collages, ekphrastic combines, fragmentary epistles, mixtapes on repeat, queerings of genre/space/time, counter-colonial translations, intertextual visions—the unexpected work that creates its own language and rules. If you’re a writer who lives between worlds, or if hybridity speaks to you in a different way, we also want to hear from you.

PROSE GUIDELINES

• Submit only one piece at a time, unless you are submitting flash fiction or non-fiction (under 1,000 words), in which case you may submit up to three pieces in a single document.
• Our recommended length for submissions is approximately 4,000 words or less. We have a limited page count per issue and aim to offer a platform for as many talented writers as possible. While we accept prose submissions of up to 25 pages (6,250 words), we must emphasize that it is only exceptional pieces of this length that will receive publication.
• Send original, unpublished literary essays, personal essays, hybrid-genre works, and literary journalism. Please note that we do not publish rhetorical, academic, or strictly journalistic non-fiction.

POETRY GUIDELINES

• • Submit up to four poems, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit six one-page poems.
  • We welcome cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics.
  • In your cover letter, please specify the number of poems you are submitting and list the titles of the poems.
  • Poetry submissions should be typed and single-spaced. If you would like to submit poems with alternate spacing, please mention it in your cover letter and submit a PDF instead of a Word document.