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SPRING '22 Theme: MOVEMENT + MANIFESTATIONS

You’ve finally taken the time to rest and restore—now it’s time to get moving and manifesting! What dream have you been putting off that now seems possible? How are you moving into the new year/ new creative-tech era? You headed back into the gym or back into the writing lab? What are the lessons and methods you’ll be carrying with you on your spiritual journey from here on out? Anything you want to leave behind? Tell us about what pulls you up out of bed every morning, what serendipitous failures led to your greatest epiphany, or what actually manifested while you were busy manifesting something else. 

 

Envisioning better futures for our communities begans with envisioning better futures for ourselves, so tell us, what do you see coming up over that horizon? 

 

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.” 

― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

 

Black Femme Collective is publishing creative nonfiction (personal essays, cultural criticism, interviews, video essays, and articles); poems; spoken word audio and video; music; photography; and digital art. We also publish hybrid work with complex components in cross-genre nature that reflects Black Femme Queerness.

General Submission Guidelines:

  • All submission emails should have included MANIFESTATIONS 2022 and your initials in the subject line.
  • Include the following in the body of the email: name, cover letter with notes about the submission, a short professional bio, and social media handles. (Note: If this would be your first publication, please feel free to  mention that in your cover letter. We are excited to publish new, emerging, and established voices here!)
  • Send your submissions to hello@blackfemme.co .
  • All submissions are due no later than Monday, January 17, 2022 at 11:59 PST.

Nonfiction Submission Guidelines:

  • Submitted works should be between 1500-3500 words.
  • Submit a single .docx as an attachment.
  • The document should be double spaced, paginated, and using Times New Roman or Garamond font.

Poetry Submission Guidelines:

  • Please submit 3 poems, max of 10 pages, with each new poem starting on a new page.
  • Submit a single .docx as an attachment.
  • The document should be single spaced, paginated, and using Times New Roman or Garamond font, unless it changes the experimental form and style of the poem. Please note this in your submission email.
  • Long poems preferred

Spoken Word and Music Submission Guidelines:

  • Please submit 1-2 pieces between 1-5 minutes in length.
  • In the body of the email, include clearly labeled links to the audio and/or video piece to be considered. Labels should include: the title of the piece, the artist name, the name of the producer, the name of the label, the original release date, streaming platforms.

 

EXAMPLE: 

 

“A New Name for My Love” by Faylita Hicks. 

Produced by Hanz Nobe and Chris Varvarro.

ICL, LTD and Room 380. Originally released September 15, 2021. 

Streaming on iTunes, Spotify, TIDAL, YouTube Music, and more.

Digital Art and Photography:

  • Please submit 3-4 previously unpublished images for consideration.
  • In the body of the email, include short summaries for each image including the title of the piece, the artist name, size of the original piece (if relevant), 1-2 sentence description of the piece.

 

EXAMPLE: 

 

“Flowers in a Field of Terror” by Faylita Hicks. 

16 x 16 Archival Ink Print.

Highlighting the importance of cell phone footage in the growing movement to share important stories about police violence in North America, this image captures the artist standing in the Mojave desert, a place where both citizens and migrants are often harassed by government officials. 

payment:

  • Nonfiction contributors receive between $150-$300 for their creative work.
  • Poetry  contributors receive between $50-$150 for their creative work.
  • Spoken Word and Music contributors receive between $150-$300 for their creative work.
  • Digital Art and Photography contributors receive between $150-300 for a suite of photos. 

 

For more info, visit www.BlackFemme.co