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PFN – Apofenie Magazine: Re(writing) Home
For many writers, the idea of “home” emerges through imagined intimacies—entangled in the experiences of longing and belonging and textured through the languages of memory and loss. In the Epilogue to her biomythography, Zami, Audre Lorde describes how, as a daughter of immigrants, “once home was a long way off, a place I had never been to but know out of my mother’s mouth.” Similarly, James Baldwin remarked that “Perhaps home is not a place, but an irrevocable condition.” Home is, in many ways, not a location but a contouring of one’s history, both material and imagined. Moreover, for those who live in the margins, this concept often fails to capture the social cost of their liminality. In this issue of Apofenie, we seek poetry, prose, and nonfiction that addresses this question of home—its problems, possibilities, architectures, and mythologies. To what extent does the idea of home offer an apparatus for belonging? What are some of ways that it can be reclaimed and reimagined? We are especially interested in work that thematizes the problem of home amidst dislocation, war, post-coloniality, disability, and marginalized identities (including LGBTQ+).
Please send all submissions to apofeniemagazine@gmail.com. Submissions should specify genre and include a three-sentence biographical statement. Submissions must reflect the theme in order for consideration.
We accept simultaneous submissions as long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. For translations, we require a statement that you have received the author’s and/or the publisher’s permission to submit it for publication. We will not consider previously published work. All rights revert back to the author upon publication.
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Poetry: 5 poems maximum
Fiction/Nonfiction: 5,000 words maximum
Flash Fiction: up to 1,000 words