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Tripwire is now accepting submissions for future issues. See guidelines and themes below.
What we're looking for: essays (on contemporary writing, performance, and art), experiments in criticism, poetics statements and investigations, interviews, translations, black and white art work, long-form review essays (that consider several books or authors linked around central themes or questions), performance scores, etc.
What we're NOT looking for: unsolicited poetry, fiction, or plays; short-form book reviews of single titles; conventional academic papers or dissertation chapters; color artwork, translations of canonized authors or texts; work that does not in some way engage any of the themes/constellations, work primarily designed to be presented online, etc.
Submissions should engage or address at least one of the constellations listed below. You can send in finished works, but we're also interested in proposals for new projects specific to the journal. Submissions and proposals should be submitted via email (tripwirejournal (at) gmail (dot) com), with the text attached as a .doc or .pdf file. Correspondence via facebook or other means cannot be returned at this time.
themes / constellations / call for work:
PERFORMANCE/WRITING
Looking for essays, criticism, documents, interviews, visual work and scores, translations, etc., around the intersections between performance and the page. Scores, actions, transcripts, documents, instructions, procedures. Where is the body - of the writer, of the performer - in such texts? What are the relationships between performance-writing and performance-time, or the sites and contexts of a work's actualization? How does writing function as documentation, or how does it work to produce performance that's yet to occur?
CONCEPTUALISM AND IDENTITY
Looking for essays, criticism, visual work, interviews, translations, review essays, etc., on questions of identity in conceptual writing and post-conceptual art practices. How does self or subjectivity manifest itself through conceptual strategies? What might such methods reveal about contemporary identity? What are the ethics of appropriation? Whose identities belong to who in an age of online avatars, mash-ups, identity theft, sampling, etc.? Search for: “is this my body?”
NARRATIVE/PROSE
Looking for essays, criticism, statements, interviews, narrative art, translations, reviews, etc., around new turns and issues in contemporary narrative and prose writing. Experiments in prose and critical writing. Poet's prose, prose poems, new sentence, new narrative. Document, transcript, public report. How do duration and absorption figure into/as reading practices in a post-book age of distractions? What is narrative?
WHAT IS POETICS?
Looking for essays, criticism, statements, interviews, visual work, translations, review-essays, etc., that investigate issues of contemporary poetics. New sites & contexts, local/global, ecopoetics, appropration. How have internet technologies and online cultures changed the roles and function of criticism and poetics? What is reading in the internet age? Is there a future for conventional modes of literary and art criticism, or for print culture in general? Should there be? What is writing? What is culture? Poetics—towards what?