PFN – Ki Seeking Submissions about: Sound and Silence

Submissions for Issue 3 are now open!

For Issue 3, we are thinking about sound and silence. Sound could be taken in the literal sense, as auditory sensory input, soundscapes, sound art—it could also mean the sound of drones, auditory weaponry and sonic-psychological warfare. On the other hand, sound and silence implies dissent, the eruption and censure of the protest or the riot. We are especially excited to welcome submissions that engage this conceptual territory, loosely defined.

A far from comprehensive list of possibilities: soundness, sounding out, sounding off, having a voice and hearing voices (cf. Moten and Harney), sounding like, resonance, dissonance, dissent, silence, silencing, awkward silence, noises, musical genres and their relationship to writing (eg. punk and zines), not-language, negation, auditory excrescence.

This issue would especially welcome multimedia work that makes use of our online format, e.g. animated work, soundscapes, ambient sound art, and noise poetry, notation systems, scores, and translation/transposition.

Please note that while we celebrate creative work in all its infinite forms, we are unlikely to publish pieces that adhere strictly to the conventions of one particular genre(e.g. fiction and poetry that does not engage critical, political, or theoretical thought and practice).

Submission Guidelines

Prose submissions—fiction, nonfiction, reviews, etc.—should be 1,500 words or less. If you have citational material, this will not factor into the word count. Please send only one prose submission at a time.

Poetry submissions should comprise no more than 5 poems in a single document. We encourage sending a .pdf in order to preserve formatting.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome; please notify us should any work submitted be accepted for publication elsewhere.