PFN – Well Projects Open Call for New Writing: Resurrection Charms. Theme: Ecology

Well Projects 2024 Open Call for New Writing: Resurrection Charms

ABOUT THE OPEN CALL

Well Projects produces a yearly anthology book that explores ecology through a broad range of contributions including (but not limited to) academic or visual essays, fiction, poetry and interviews.

This year, Well Projects are opening up the anthology to submissions. Selected applicants will receive a fee of £300.00 and support whilst writing their texts which will be published later this year.

Well Projects invites proposals for texts that engage with ecology in relation to – resurrection, time travel, rewilding, restoration, science fiction, intersectionality, ghosts, hauntings and histories.

Well Projects Anthology 2024 Resurrection Charms

Well Projects third anthology, Resurrection Charms, engages with the language of ‘returning’ implicit within projects of ecological restoration and explores what a ‘future modelled on the past’ is meant to look like. Mobilising ‘Resurrection’ as a plastic word that can seep through a mesh of ecological & cultural significance, Resurrection Charms explores the time loops and hauntings that populate contemporary ecology.

Well Projects invites proposals for texts that engage with ecology in relation to- resurrection, time travel, rewilding, restoration, science fiction, intersectionality, ghosts, hauntings and histories.

A full introductory text for Resurrection Charms can be found at wellprojects.xyz/info.

WHOCANAPPLY This open call is for emerging writers with an idea for a new text between 1000- 4000 words. We welcome proposals from anywhere in the world. We actively encourage applications from artists who identify as Black, Asian or minority ethnic, disabled, LGBTQIA , or living in areas of socioeconomic deprivation.

HOWTOAPPLY Please email a single PDF or DOCX including the following items to: hello@wellprojects.xyz

● A short summary of the text you would like to write, that responds in some way to the themes above. Please include a prospective title and an estimated word count for your finished text. The proposal should be a maximum of 300 words.

● A CV or portfolio, including links to any relevant work.

Successful applicants will receive a £300.00 fee, support whilst writing their text, and will be published in Resurrection Charms. The book will be distributed internationally.

Pitch an idea that in some way relates to the themes outlined above. Pitch one idea. We will consider writing in a range of formats so long as it speaks to the themes. This could include but is not limited to: an essay, a work of fiction, poetry, a comment piece or a remembrance. Please do not start writing your text before it has been commissioned, or apply with a finished or previously published text.