Share your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash and poetry, as well as your artworks from April 8 to May 31, 2024 (midnight CEST) with us to be considered for our 12th issue, Tint Fall ‘24!
Theme: border/lands
To survive the Borderlands
you must live sin fronteras
be a crossroads.
– Gloria Anzaldúa
What does it mean to live at the border, with a border, on the very borderline, or in the lands that touch a border or a multitude of them? Is a border always a contested zone, drawing conflict and violence, or can it be a realm of peace, understanding and justice, a space of innovation, becoming and creativity? And what is a border – to begin with?
For Tint Journal’s first themed issue, Tint Fall ‘24, we invite writers to submit poems, stories and personal essays as well as artists to submit artworks that explore the theme of border/lands. We’d like you to imagine this topic as broad as possible: national borders, geographical borders small and large, borders drafted by society and societal norms, current borders and historical ones, mental borders, imagined borders, language borders, the borders of the self and of communities, the human and the nonhuman, the mind and the body – as well as movements across and interactions between all these kinds of border zones.
We’re not looking for keywords in your texts, and we’re open to finding this theme as an undercurrent or a central idea in your submissions. What we’re excited for are the different approaches towards border/lands from the many regions and voices of our planet Earth, from the borders within one individual being to the borders between us and outer space – where do we meet, where do we part, and what is happening in-between?
Please carefully review our submission guidelines to meet Tint Journal’s formal criteria. Submissions are received until May 31, 2024 (midnight CEST) via email at submissions@tintjournal.com or via Submittable. Feel free to approach us at info@tintjournal.com if questions arise.
The Tint Journal editorial can’t wait to arrange the first themed issue of the literary magazine for non-native English writing!
Submissions for our In Conversation section (book reviews, interviews, profiles, other related articles) are received year-round. Please review our submission guidelines and contact our In Conversation editors Andrea Färber and Chiara Meitz.
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