{"id":7078,"global_id":"anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=7078","global_id_lineage":["anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=7078"],"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2025-07-24 22:13:47","date_utc":"2025-07-25 02:13:47","modified":"2025-07-24 22:13:47","modified_utc":"2025-07-25 02:13:47","url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-about-place-journal-invites-submissions-for-volume-viii-issue-iv-on-freedom\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/7078","title":"PFN – About Place Journal Invites Submissions for Volume VIII, Issue IV, \u201cOn Freedom.\u201d\u00a0","description":"

All around us, we see and hear calls for freedom from many different voices and different directions. Some of these calls are frightening; some are inspiring. How are we to understand this \u201cfreedom\u201d moment? We seek poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid works that question, reimagine, and embody what freedom and unfreedom mean in our complex world.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking for work that explores freedom\u2019s multidimensional nature\u2014what historian Timothy Snyder distinguishes as negative freedom and positive freedom. Negative freedom is \u201cfreedom from\u201d (oppression, constraint, violence), while positive freedom is \u201cfreedom to\u201d (create, speak, love, flourish).<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also interested in work that engages freedom as a process. Freedom requires cultivating \u201chabits of freedom\u201d (Snyder)\u2014daily practices that sustain and expand our capacity for liberty. Author Maggie Nelson also understands freedom not as a fixed state but as an ongoing practice.<\/p>\n

We view the act of creation itself as a habit or practice of freedom\u2014a claiming of voice and space. We invite submissions that not only speak about freedom but express it through formal innovation, boundary-crossing, and aesthetic risk-taking.<\/p>\n

We welcome explorations of what philosopher Hannah Arendt called \u201cinwardness as a place of absolute freedom\u201d as well as work that maps the external territories of political and social freedom. We\u2019re interested in how art can articulate author bell hooks\u2019 idea that \u201cawareness is central to the process of love as the practice of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

We invite you to join us in the radical act of creative freedom, to challenge constraint and to imagine liberation in both bold and quiet ways.<\/p>\n

All submissions should be previously unpublished and should engage with the theme of freedom in thoughtful and nuanced ways. We welcome work in various forms and styles, from traditional to experimental.<\/p>\n

Work must be submitted via Submittable by August 1, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

About Place Journal is committed to amplifying diverse voices and perspectives. We especially encourage submissions from writers and artists of historically marginalized communities whose experiences and insights on freedom may challenge dominant narratives and expand our collective understanding.<\/p>\n

About Place Journal Submission Guidelines<\/h3>\n

Work can include:<\/p>\n