Website
Type Of Publisher
Magazine
Genres Published
Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Cross Genre Hybrid, Criticism Reviews, Drama, Essays, Experimental, Feminist, Political
Year Established
2025
Address
Providence, Rhode Island
Name
Priest Gooding
Title
Editor
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Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
To engage is not merely to observe, but to reckon. Not to skim the surface of the world, but to descend into it. Encyclopedia Prismatica is a journal for those who do not mistake commentary for commitment, nor novelty for meaning.
We believe literature, art, and criticism are not passive reflections of society—they are active confrontations with it. Encyclopedia Prismatica publishes work that calls us into presence. This is engagement not as a genre, but as a mode of being, a form of attentiveness, a stance toward the world. To be engaged is to question the commonplace; to resist aesthetic detachment; to seek meaning not just in what is said, but in how and why it is said. To treat language as excavation—each piece a shard, a relic, a gesture toward something more human, more urgent, more creative. We are not here to entertain--we are here to disrupt forgetting. Encyclopedia Prismatica invites essays, poetry, fiction, and visual art that trouble the ordinary, complicate certainty, and awaken readers from the sleep of habitual thought. We seek the politically aware and the philosophically precise, but also the strange, the tender, the raw. We do not ask that you take a side. We ask that you take part. Read like an archaeologist, not a tourist. This is Encyclopedia Prismatica. "It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it." – Anais Nin
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
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