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PFN – Call for Submissions to Hamilton Arts & Letters Magazine. Theme: “Mundane is Radical”
Issue sixteen.2 / Fall 2023
SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Mundane is Radical
Deadline: August 3, 2023
Email: to issue16.2submissions@gmail.com
Guest editor: Ashley Marshall
Black artists and thinkers to the front. Our “Mundane is Radical”-themed issue of Hamilton Arts & Letters will include poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, hybrid forms, and fabulism that is preoccupied with themes of queer ecologies, biomimicry, fables, flânerie and its remixes, critical geography, afro-bubble gum, astroprojection, urbanism, guerilla gardening, city design, access/ability, food apartheid, autopoiesis and its metaphors, humanisms, and QTBIPOC inside or outside “natural” spaces. We seek work that incorporates ideas, language, characters, main or sub- themes, images, and artwork related to speculative fiction, n/Nature, architecture, freedom, and much more. Send it and we will look at it. Please send by August 3 to
issue16.2submissions@gmail.com
Editor/Curator’s Note: Storytelling, from science fiction and fantasy, to fables and folklore, has informed our thinking about nature and the built environment. This issue turns to the arts to foreground and forecast what is next for nature, food justice, water preservation, climate action, and afro-/Indigenous futurisms.
David Harvey says, “In the history of economic crises, and through the deployment of the spatial fix, there is a persistent tension between capital that is invested in the built environment for longer periods of time — ‘fixed capital’ — and the competitive drive towards ever greater expansion and mobility that renders existing infrastructure obsolete … capitalism is always on the look out for another ‘fix’.” (Mobility, Crisis, Utopia – An Interview with David Harvey
There is a plan for us, but with enough imagination, we can think, dream, and organize ourselves into alternative modes of being, eating, gathering, growing, designing, and building. How do we exist in ways that are sustainable, reproduceable, and affirming? How do we write racialized and queer characters whose futurity is realistic and humanity is futuristic? What imaginative labour can give us tools toward freedom? How can leisurely activities restore us, playlists energize us, cookbooks gather us, walking alert us, and being bored or exhausted to death be resisted?