Call for Submissions: Barzakh Magazine

Barzakh Magazine 

Submissions Are Open! Deadline: Feb. 15, 2018 

What we’re Looking for:

By defining ourselves as an “isthmus,” a space of crossings and connectivity, between histories, articulations, and media--making of these frontiers a site of inquiry and revitalization. We want your fiction, poetry, criticism, personal essays, translations*, drawings, photographs--you name it--that pushes against complacent taxonomies and finds itself forging new paths.

For Barzakh’s tenth issue we are looking for critical and creative work that pries wide the liminal spaces between aesthetic modes and fields, between tongues, and between histories. We especially seek works that actively engage with global and local crises and the acts of resistance/pushback that have galvanized in response to them. Past issues of interest for submitted work have included:

Fallout from the 2016 U. S. presidential election

Violence and conflicts in Syria, Nigeria, Iraq, and across the world

The water protection movement at Standing Rock

Race, police brutality, and protest in the era of Black Lives Matter

Social media protest and propaganda

Pledges of Allegiance

Border walls

Speaking out against sexual harassment and assault

Safe Spaces

Politics of identity

Guidelines:

Please submit your work via our submission manager. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but let us know immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Be sure to include a brief third-person biography in your cover letter to accompany your work should it be accepted.

Genre-specific guidelines:

Fiction- up to 5000 words total (one piece or multiple flash pieces)

Poetry- up to 5 poems and totalling no more than ten (10) pages

Non-fiction- up to 3500 words total

Multigenre/Digital work- no more than ten (10) pages of text

Criticism- up to 3500 words total

Art- no more than 8 pieces at a time

Translation- should be accompanied by source text in original language, and written confirmation that you have English translation rights to the piece. No more than ten (10) pages.