BLACK THOUGHT: Call for Submissions
Dear reader,
Literary Orphans Journal, a Chicago-based online literary magazine, is a collaborative writing and arts platform, designed to present original literary work of quality, illuminated by cutting-edge photography and visual crafts, while celebrating individualism with a belief that such exposure will instigate a flowering of personal agency, and contribute to new and progressive understandings of social diversity across geographic spaces.
Literary Orphans Journal, a Chicago-based online literary magazine, is a collaborative writing and arts platform, designed to present original literary work of quality, illuminated by cutting-edge photography and visual crafts, while celebrating individualism with a belief that such exposure will instigate a flowering of personal agency, and contribute to new and progressive understandings of social diversity across geographic spaces.
Literary Orphans Journal is proud to announce its upcoming “Black Thought” issue. Named after the lead emcee of the Grammy Award-winning group The Roots, the “Black Thought” issue aims to capture the fluidity of African-American literature, as reflected by its creators.
This issue will publish literature from black people who identify as queer or transgender, or are stout atheists, or who deal daily with mental illness, or who love fantasy and science fiction and comic books, who struggle with their identities within the “black community.”
Art is inherently political, with one’s skin color politicized and defined by others for centuries. To reclaim agency over identity within and outside the bounds of art, of literature, “Black Thought” will feature writers who have to find their artistic voice and direction while simultaneously fighting against labels and preconceived notions of what a black writer should look like, sound like, and produce.
Poetry
- DEADLINE: DEC31st
- 3-5 poems per submission; one poem per page.
- Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please notify us immediately if submission is accepted elsewhere.
- Manuscript should be submitted in 12 pt Times New Roman font, single-spaced.
- Formatting (line breaks, stanza breaks, punctuation, etc) must be present at time of submission.
Prose (Fiction & Creative Nonfiction)
- DEADLINE: DEC 31st
- All genres are acceptable.
- 500 – 5,000 word length maximum. Novel excerpts are acceptable.
- Simultaneous submissions are acceptable; please notify us immediately if submission is accepted elsewhere.
- Manuscript should be submitted in 12 pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced.
Art & Photography
- DEADLINE: DEC 31st
- All mediums are welcome
- 300dpi minimum resolution
- 1200px longest side
- Title, Medium, Year (Skyfall, Oil Painting, 2014)
- Please include artist statement, if applicable
About the Special Executive Editor:
Mensah Demary is editor in chief of Specter Magazine. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Thought Catalog, PANK, Metazen, Little Fiction, Whiskey Paper,Fourculture, and elsewhere. Originally from New Jersey, Mensah lives & writes in Brooklyn. For more information, find Mensah at his website or on Twitter.
Mensah Demary is editor in chief of Specter Magazine. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Thought Catalog, PANK, Metazen, Little Fiction, Whiskey Paper,Fourculture, and elsewhere. Originally from New Jersey, Mensah lives & writes in Brooklyn. For more information, find Mensah at his website or on Twitter.
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