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P – Call for Submissions to Zhagaram Literary Magazine. The Theme: Structures in Stone
ISSUE 05: Structures in Stone
“The Earth is littered with the ruins of Empires that believed they were eternal.” — Camille Paglia
In this issue, we invite poets to explore the history residing within the walls of buildings—from temple gopurams and grand cathedrals to glorious minarets and forgotten fortresses. This can include explorations into monoliths, statues and other sculptures as well. We want your examinations of the cracks in between stones, the political weight carried by these physical spaces and their stories of oppression, resistance and reclamation. What happens when a structure is built to last, but the people it was meant to serve disappear? What stories do these walls say and most importantly, who gets to tell their history? Tell us about the ruins of an ancient temple in your native land or about the first house your family built. Tell us about the house your family lost.
We would love to see poetry used as visual art, as concrete poetry/calligrams, as structures, as collapses. Get as creative or traditional as you like. If you want to submit architectures of poems, footnotes, physical notes, built structures, folded sheets, we’re all in. If you’re unable to fit your submission in the general submission form, feel free to email us and we’ll find a way to accommodate your visual poems. Such poems will be highly prioritized since this is an architecture-inspired issue. We are also open to receiving architectural sketches, project images as submissions. Visual art includes and is not limited to: collages, digital art, physical art, foam projects, wood based projects, paper folding projects, digital text based projects. These submissions can be sent via email in any format that is easy to send/publish. For any questions, feel free to reach out to us.
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Please read about our mission and the current theme before submitting.
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Submit up to 3 poems in a single document. Each poem should begin in a new page.
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Document name must be your name as you want it published.
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If your poems have words from other languages, please include their translations at the end of the page.
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Provide necessary context and required trigger warnings (asked in the Google Form). Asking for context might be a less common practice especially when blind reading of submissions is promoted as a solution for reducing bias. However, as a literary magazine that publishes work rooted in culture, it’s important for us to be aware of the cultural context the poem originates from. It is impossible for a single person (the editor) to be aware of cultural nuances from all around the world and a blatant dismissal of these nuances in pursuit of supposed literary merit is not the solution. Zhagaram promises to treat your poem, and as an extension, your heritage, with care.
IDENTITY
Though we’re open to submissions from writers from all around the world, our ultimate goal is to amplify diverse and marginalised voices. If you are a writer who is a woman, a Person of Colour, belonging to any marginalised communities, we emphatically encourage you to submit. We highly prioritise these submissions and would be honoured to publish your work.
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Submissions through Google Forms only. Email submissions won’t be considered (exceptions: visual art submissions)
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Written work must be primarily in English but can contain words and phrases from other languages.
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Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please make sure you withdraw your work as soon as possible if your work is accepted before we could.
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Response Time: 1 month
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Please submit only once per submission period in one category.
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If your submission has been accepted, please submit again only after one year has passed. If your work was not accepted, you’re free to submit again in the next submission period.
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Any form of plagiarism won’t be tolerated. We also do not appreciate work that promotes any form of hatred.
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If you have any doubts regarding submissions, please feel free to email us with the subject: QUERY
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
We publish work that has been previously posted on the author’s social media or personal blog. However, we request you take it down upon acceptance. Work previously published by other magazines will not be considered.
PUBLISHING RIGHTS
All rights belongs to the concerned contributor. We request for publication rights to print your work digitally and to promote it on social media. You may republish your work elsewhere as long as Zhagaram Literary is credited as the first publisher.
PAYMENT
Unfortunately, we are currently unable to pay our contributors but hope to change that soon. If you would like to help us in awarding more poets, please consider buying one of our issues or spreading word about the magazine and our poems. Learn more here.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE
Zhagaram is run by a single editor and we hope to diversify our team as we keep growing. However, as of now, this means that our knowledge and understanding of the world and its cultures is very limited. This might lead to discrepancies in publishing and if any piece of work published by Zhagaram is ever found to have expressed problematic ideas and views, we kindly reserve the right to take it down.