Manifestos
From August 15 through November 15, we are open to submissions calling for new directions in art, literature, politics, cultural life, and collective imagining. Send us your boldest ideas and headiest visions, in any genre and form you see fit. We’re open to the contrarian, the exasperated, the polemical, and the aspirational. We welcome your credos and artistic fantasies and utopian schemes, your protests, howls, and leaps of faith. Tell us what we need now. Diagnose our ills and offer your cures. Purr, chant, or rage as you wish. How might your manifesto address sex and intimacy, technology and A.I., vectors of identity, aesthetic virtues, economic justice, violence and war, democracy, ecology, hybridity, free speech, pluralism, syncretism, animism, access, or none of the above? We’re happy to consider any and all approaches to the ever-timely genre that is the manifesto.
Ars poetica
We also seek new ars poetica poetry. Please send us one to three poems concerning the art or vocation of poetry, or the lives of poets. Collaborations between visual artists and writers are welcome.
Censorship
We are eager to receive submissions of essays, visual art, criticism, art and design history, reportage, fiction, and poetry considering acts of censorship, or that address censorship as a phenomenon in our time or times past, here in the U.S. or in other parts of the world. Additionally, we welcome narratives from the “front line,” so to speak. If you have been fired or punished for expressing your views or have had creative works, exhibitions, or acts censored, retracted, redacted, canceled, demonized, or deplatformed in some way, we encourage you to send us your work, or evidence of it, for consideration for inclusion in the issue along with a description of any related controversy and its consequences.
Please review additional submission guidelines here: https://www.full-bleed.org/submit.
