See below for all current open calls for submissions at Entropy and Enclave.

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And also check out our recent post: What Entropy Editors Want to Publish in 2019.

ENTROPY:

FOG OR A CLOUD

To start I’m thinking of a quote from an interview with the writer Etel Adnan: “… [images] they are pure feeling. They’re like something that calls you through a fog or a cloud.” The series will focus on works of poetry, including poetic prose, lyrical essay, hybrid and experimental forms, etc.

What do you, or we, rely on our memories for? When, or are, memories accurate representations of the past? Does it matter? A little more specifically, I’m thinking, can memories be passed down genetically? Emotional/ physical traces carried from one generation to another, ultimately showing up in our writing? How can this be shown through syntax? In image? If through image, then are the images by extension also what’s being passed down? Grandmother to mother to daughter to poem, for example. I’m interested in writing that deals with these questions and ideas, something that might be done somewhat directly, but also through the exploration of particular memories through variations in form.

Send submissions to morgaine@entropymag.org.

Deadline: November 1st, 2019

HEALTH/WELLNESS

If only health and wellness were as easy as the magazines, blogs, and Instagram accounts would have us believe. I’m interested in work that celebrates physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual fitness, but also digs into the contradictions and complexities inherent in such ideas. I want to read pieces that critique wellness culture and challenge popular narratives of what it means to be in good health. I’m particularly intrigued by examinations of the ways modern health and wellness are talked and written about.
Submit to ian@entropymag.org.

THE TALKING CURE

The Talking Cure invites submissions of creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works on or around topics of mental illness & its many iterations.

From firsthand accounts portraying what it is like to be in your body & in your mind while also contending with mental illness, to reflections that redefine the alleged connection between madness & creativity, to takes that counteract how culture says womxn or PoC should/should not be affected by mental illness and beyond… we want to share your stories and experiences.

Series launches early 2019.
In the meantime, please send your best work to brigitte@entropymag.org.

ARTS & CULTURE

Arts and Culture is everything that you imagine. Have a conversation with a filmmaker or musician. Interview a playwright. Chat with puppet-makers. Critique an exhibit. Discuss the implications of language. Wonder about the body. Wonder about movements, gestures, signs. Meditate on a piece of writing, piece of music, or work of art. Deliberate on architecture–a building, a bridge, a space. Describe a performance. Describe a project. Reflect on a protest. Reflect on a place. Trace a history. Ask those questions.
Submit to adrienne@entropymag.org.

COOKING ORIGIN STORIES:

The food section at Entropy wants to hear about your greatest cooking victories and most epic failures. What was the first dish you ever cooked? How did (or didn’t) you learn to cook? Write about a dish from your childhood you’ve since poorly attempted or serendipitously recreated in adulthood. Write about a food you used to hate that you now love (or vice versa). Write about your love for the kitchen, or your desire to burn it down. Recipes and photographs encouraged.

Please email submissions directly to: stephanie@entropymag.org.

MINI-SYLLABI (ENTROPY):

It is fall and I am looking for mini-syllabi or reading lists on any topic. A mini-syllabus might consist of a brief description or introduction to the topic and a short reading list that gathers stories, texts, and/or films related to that category or topic. Other topics might include pigs, polar bears, virtual reality, Peruvian literature, Scandinavian literature, translation, eco-poetry, insect poetics, food, slowness, capitalism, water, Muppets, pop culture, whiskey, Japanese feminist poetry, summer solstice, zodiac poetry, clocks, video games, asemic writing, trees, the Singularity, South African history, plastic, the apocalypse, sunsets, the color blue, heat, Texas, floods, montage, human evolution, heartbreak, black holes, birds, sculpture, the alphabet, road trips, etc, etc, etc.

Submit a short description and reading list of 5-12 texts/films/books to share with others.

Email: janice@entropymag.org

See past syllabi.

VARIATIONS ON A THEME:

Music can hold enormous power in memories and experiences, transporting us instantly to an age, location, or person. What sonic joys, mysteries, disbelief, and clarity have you experienced? Identify songs of influence in your life and explore them like variations on a theme, melding syntax and song structure, recalling the seriousness or levity that accompanies. Whether it’s an account of when a specific song first entered your life, the process of learning to play a song, teaching someone a song, experiencing the same song in different places as it weaves through your life, unbelievable radio timing, sharing songs with those in need, tracking the passing down of songs, creative song analysis etc, I am interested in those ineffable moments.

And so I’m welcoming submissions of your own variations on a theme, as drawn from your life’s soundtrack. Please email submissions to meganentropy@gmail.com and keep an eye out for others’ Variations.

Details.

LITERACY NARRATIVES

If writing defies “common sense,” if it seems to go against traditional modes of thought, norms, and histories, the idea of that common sense no longer makes sense, or might make sense if we’re allowed to reinvent ourselves. That’s what I’m looking at with the literacy narrative, the coming-into-language story. I want to hear yours: when you first “clicked” with a language, whatever it is; why you questioned the modes of your Englishes; how you wrote “poetry,” but looked at it again and called it “lyric essay.” I want to see your literacy narrative in its scholarly, creative, and hybrid forms. Send your literacy narratives to Sylvia Chan at sylvia@entropymag.org. Stay tuned for more literacy narratives from yours truly and others.

THE NEW COMICS:

A feature that looks to shed a light on emerging awesomeness in comics and sequential art, alongside interviews with creators. If you’ve been published before or if you haven’t, if it’s an excerpt from your first graphic novel or an excerpt from your sketchpad, if it’s got panels and drawings and word balloons and we can talk shop about it, then we want to hear from you.

Please email submissions directly to: keith@entropymag.org.

See the series so far: The New Comics.

DRAMEDY

Send me your dramadies. Send me your stories filled with levity but centered around a decidedly serious theme. Tell me how humor has helped you heal. Tell me about the inappropriate moment when you laughed at a funeral, or the joke your dad made about gaining supernatural powers from the radiation during his cancer treatment. Bring me the stuff of an episode of an episode of Louie, works in the spirit of David Sedaris writing about his mother’s death. Show me the levity you find in the tears, the moments you laughed until you cried, or cried until you laughed, or laughed and cried in the same breath.

Please email submissions directly to: erin@entropymag.org

See the series so far: Dramedy.

BLACK CACKLE

BLACK CACKLE: A FEATURE OF VERY DARK HUMOR seeks sleekly, darkly funny works where the sad and the hilarious converge.

Please send your very dark and funny short stories under 3,000 words / poems of any length / hybrids to august@entropymag.org.

ON WEATHER

Entropy seeks submissions for a new Sunday series, “On Weather.” We are looking for essays, prose poems, possibly even fiction in which the weather plays a role, either in the forefront or background. While we are open to any style or form, for this particular series we are leaning more toward the essay form.

Send submissions to sara@entropymag.org with the subject “On Weather.”

See the Call for Submissions here.

THE BIRDS:

An invitation for writing and personal stories relating to birds. Stories involving loss, being lost, stories involving birds, changing relationships to writing and being written, to writing practice, to self, to the sky. Submissions of personal and poetic essays related to the birds. Essays on birds, a bird, a particular species of bird, all birds, your bird.

Please email submissions directly to: janice@entropymag.org.

See the series so far: The Birds.

ENCLAVE:

LONG TAKES:

The substance of cinema is therefore an endless long take, as is reality to our senses for as long as we are able to see and feel (a long take that ends with the end of our lives); and this long take is nothing but the reproduction of the language of reality. In other words it is the reproduction of the present.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Observations On the Long Take”

Please submit writings, essays, musings, reflections, fictional vignettes, responses, or other texts written about or through a filmic long take. #LONGTAKE

More info and the call for submissions here.