Call for Submissions on Theme of Chromatography: HARTS & Minds

HARTS & Minds is seeking submissions of original, creative work for our next issue: Chromatography.

We are open to interpretations of chromatography for creative work, including:  

• Colour symbolism
• The materiality of colour - pigments, paints, textiles
• Colour history
• The significance of colour in different cultures
• The effect of colour science and optics on the humanities
• Synaesthesia, or hearing/tasting/smelling colour
• Black and white or the ‘absence of colour’
• Language and naming colour
• Gendered, queer or so called ‘perverse’ colours
• Colour and the emotions and the senses
• Architectural colour and the environment
• Colour theory
• Natural vs. synthetic or unnatural colour
• Colour in Advertising and Media
• The psychology of colour

Submissions are open to poetry ( 3 short poems or 1 long poem) , short stories, creative essays and book reviews (up to 4,000 words).

All submissions are accepted through e-mail at

editorsATharts-mindsDOTcoDOTuk (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

until 16th February 2016.

Full guidelines and submission call can be found on our website.

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