Sequestrum: Place and Family Issues
Theme: Place
Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry
Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. A place can surprise and delight and despair. In short, we’re expecting stories and poetry which couldn’t exist outside its “place.” Point to your passion on a map, and we’ll follow. Deadline 6/15.
Theme: Family
Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry
Families are an endless source of material. We want buried secrets. We want generational stories. We want stories of betrayal and belonging, of fractures and survival, of losing hope and redemption. At this point in literature, a “normal” family might be the strangest story of all. We want that too. We want your most ambitious writing in its most imaginative form. Whether that’s realism or fantasy, slipstream or traditional, we want to read it. Deadline: 6/15.