A CALL FOR SUBMISSION
Riff/t literary journal, inaugural issue
We are currently accepting written works (7,500 words or less, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt font), and visual art (30 minutes or less for short films). Written work should be sent as a Word document, and visual art through Adobe Software or the artist’s preferred format. All works should be sent to newmediumpress@gmail.com, along with your author bio (no more than 50 words). Submitted works will be subject to collaborative editing upon acceptance.
New Medium Press is seeking submissions for the inaugural issue of our online literary journal, Riff/t. The journal’s title comes from a pairing of ideas seemingly at odds and the tensions that arise from their combination. It represents both riffing, as the process of improvising alongside music or text, and a rift, cracks or breaks that create a separation. The forward slash creates a visual representation of the concepts.
From this concept, we are seeking submissions that engage these ideas in many various possible ways, particularly through the use of formal experimentation and multi-media projects that play with mediums of expression:
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Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that riffs off a movie, TV show, music, or play through utilizing an element or theme as a basis for the new piece of writing.
Ekphrasis fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that creates a fresh descriptive account of a piece of visual art, music, or film shot.
Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that follows an epiphany narrative arc, particularly in which the epiphany creates the effect of isolation or division.
Poetry that utilizes line breaks, stanza breaks, or caesuras in unique or innovative ways, particularly as a means to create emotional inflection or thematic resonance.
Shape poetry that utilizes a visual rift or crack either through the actual text or through the white space
Fiction or poetry that engages themes of generational rifts, interpersonal separation, intrapersonal divisions or contradictions, or social inequities.
Fiction or poetry that’s structured around polarized or opposed subjects that creates a confrontational momentum in terms of the plot, character, or narrative arc.
Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that engages the subjects of spiritual mediums, the void, the great beyond, or other spiritual ideas driven by humanity’s isolation from a spiritual plane of existence.
Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that engages in the subjects of internet networks, in terms of the division and relationships formed through these digital spaces.
Experimental fiction of automatic writing, particularly that which probes the mind, the internet, the unknown, or the beyond.
Short films that narratively engage any of the above subjects or themes.
Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that visually represents any of the above subjects or themes.
Short films that create a visual rift in a frame or between frames.
Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that creates a visual rift in the frame.
Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that uses space and composition to portray abstract or perspective rifts between subjects.
Short films that visually riff off another visual work.
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