Adi is thinking about alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were\/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers. We privilege perspectives from the Global South, always interested in how we might reorient our political universe towards those organic alliances, intertwined liberation theologies, grassroots movements, and revolutionary philosophers. But we are also interested in the experiences of all marginalized peoples everywhere as they have explored alternative economies, subversive strategies, and surprising solidarities. Pieces could be based on historical events, or could focus on imagined futures that subvert current empires.<\/p>\n
In the words of James Baldwin, “Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.”<\/p>\n
What realignments, restorations, revisions and resurrections might we uncover and foster with the stars aflame?<\/p>\n
Please interpret this call expansively and imaginatively. Familiarize yourself with the range and spirit of our archives;\u00a0Adi<\/em>\u00a0tends toward creative, experimental approaches to political writing, measuring the effects of policy through the intimate lives and experiences of people with a particular focus on those on the margins and in the Global South. We\u2019ve previously published fiction on\u00a0ghosts in a post-fossil fuel world;<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/a>intervention through the eyes of a fugitive lion<\/u><\/a>; \u00a0healthcare bureaucracy and restrictions on reproductive rights<\/u><\/a>;\u00a0the reimagination of the myth of the faceless woman<\/u><\/a>;\u00a0<\/u>and a family’s decision on citizenship while facing an American apocalypse.\u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n We do not want dreary political agitprop. We love work that bends genres, that embraces the absurd, that excavates interior lives alongside external conflicts. Send us work that analyzes, satirizes, fabulizes, and fantasizes, that disturbs, beguiles, moves, challenges, surprises, and ignites.<\/p>\n SUBMISSION LIMIT: 5,000 words. \u00a0One unpublished submission per author, please.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n For short fiction, up to 5,000 words, payment is $500.<\/p>\n For flash fiction, under 1,000 words, payment is $200.<\/p>\n Translators: we\u2019d love to hear from you, too!<\/strong>\u00a0If you have unpublished work from writers who fit the bill, please get in touch. (If the story\u2019s already been translated, just go ahead and submit, but if not, feel free to email us with a blurb about the potential story and we\u2019ll take it from there).<\/p>\n Adi\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>does not accept submissions generated with AI.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were\/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-6773","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-call-for-submission","cat_call-for-submission"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6773\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}