𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 1𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐈𝐘 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲. 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐌𝐒 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐲, 𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐲, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬, 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠.

DETAILS:

♡ Please submit up to three poems (3 pages) written in English, Romanian or both English and Romanian as a .doc to [email protected] with ‘’SPECULA ANTHOLOGY’’ within the subject line.

♡ Please include in your e-mail body: 1. name 2. your pronouns 3. a short third-person bio 4. instagram username

♡ DEADLINE:  September 10th 2023

♡ no previously published poems

♡ We aim to get back to everyone in September

♡ SPECULA is a volunteer effort, so unfortunately we cannot pay contributors at this time. We will provide contributors a printed copy.

Thank you! ♡♡♡

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We seek works that embody or experiment with speculation; for us, reflexive speculations come as an important proposition for rethinking the world, contaminating rationality with fantasy, science with facts, knowledge with affects.

We encourage vulnerability, effort and error in the form of unfinished middle-ing works, impossible-to-write-sentences, failed (or not) descriptions of the world around us, experimental artistic practices, translated theory from a reasoned form to a compassionate one, conlangs or reconfigurations of visions and shooting angles. If you would like to submit your work, send your submission to [email protected] and include in your e-mail body:

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