Experimental Discourse: OPEN Call for Submissions as XP NONFICTION to 2000 words
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OPEN Call for Submissions: Experimental Discourse as XP NONFICTION to 2000 words
OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) will consider submissions of Experimental Discourse as nonfiction of 2000 words minimum, 2100 words maximum, not including title, by-line, and any epigraph.
Submit work that is experimental in nature. O:JA&L uses the following definition of Experimental Discourse:
Experimental discourse is discourse that refuses to stay within the boundaries laid out either by traditional realistic literary fiction and nonfiction or by the standard genres of thriller, mystery, sci-fi, romance and so forth. Experimental discourse as understood by the O:JA&L editorial team is non-escapist literature in that it does not seek to seduce its readers into a dreamy forgetfulness or into a vicarious participation in the presented narrative. It is discourse, instead, that often unsettles, that makes one feel uncomfortable or liberated, because it breaks rules and invents new ones. Ideologically, it undermines the common conceptual categories by which we understand and navigate the world; it rejects the normal rhetoric of how we describe things.
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A submission may contain ONLY ONE title. A submission may contain no less than 2000 and no more than 2100 words, not counting its title, byline and any epigraph. Submissions should be in the preferred file format of .docx. Simultaneous submissions are accepted in this category with the understanding that O:JA&L will be notified promptly if a piece under consideration here is accepted elsewhere. Follow other general guidelines that may apply.
Previously published works are not accepted.
A cover letter should include the writer's contact information and the writer's professional biography of up to 100 words in third person.
O:JA&L claims first international rights, first North American rights, and the right to archive the accepted works on its website and to consider them for inclusion in future experimental collections and anthologies to be compiled and published by the O:JA&L imprint BUTTONHOOK PRESS.
All other rights revert to the author upon publication. OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters asks to be identified as first publisher if published works are reprinted elsewhere.
Expedited evaluation of submissions is not available in this category.