CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Queering the Landscape
Queering the Landscape: LGBTQ+ Walkers in the City
The submissions window for StepAway Magazine‘s ‘Queering the Landscape’ issue is now open.
We are eager to receive poetry and prose that describes the experience of the LGBTQ+ walker in the city.
Whilst LGBTQ+ writers/artists/poets Frank O’Hara, David Wojnarowicz, Sarah Schulman, Edmund White, and Lee Lynch are known for their vivid 20th-century depictions of walking and sexuality, little writing about urban walking experiences by contemporary LGBTQ+ writers and artists exists.
Aiming to alleviate this literary dearth and encourage and celebrate new voices, we are eager to receive poetry and prose that describes the experience of the LGBTQ+ walker in the city, to be included in this special issue which will explore urban walking experiences by contemporary LGBTQ+ writers.
Queering the Landscape will provide audiences with a multimedia experience where they will see and hear new work made by all LGBTQ+ denominations whose practices exist in the exciting, dynamic and liminal cross-sections between poetry and its performance. The guest editors of this special issue (both published poets) co-curate the regular spoken word event POW! Play on Words in Croydon, U.K. Submissions that are selected will not only be published online in StepAway Magazine, but their author will also be invited to read their poem aloud (with the possibility of playing an audio recording for those unable to attend) at a special issue launch event at POW! in February 2025 to coincide with LGBT History Month 2025.
We also welcome visual art submissions for the cover of the issue.
Stating “Queering the Landscape” in the subject line of your email, submit one story or poem only (with a maximum of 1000 words) to both: lee.campbell@arts.ac.uk + colinbaumgartosborn@gmail.com
For cover visual art submissions, please send up to three images no larger than 1mb each in JPEG format.
The deadline for submissions is November 1st, 2024
We are looking forward to reading your unique creative responses pertinent to this themed issue.
Lee Campbell and Colin B Osborn
Guest Editors
www.stepawaymagazine.com
