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C O N C E P T

Travel shapes our thought and experience in numerous ways that are sometimes all too palpable and sometimes fleeting and impossible to grasp. Travel is inherent in our mobility, and therefore our very existence. Do you live in a city or a village? Do you wonder what alternate spaces are like? Do they form a part of your consciousness each time you find yourself travelling? Is there newness in every time the bus stops and people board and alight from it, or do you see drudgery in every bus driver’s eyes? Do you see new spaces every day along the route to work? Or do the old spaces comfort you? How does memory and expectation affect your travel? How do urban planning and architecture affect those who become them? How are the modes of travelling officialised?

We want to know from you.

Coldnoon: Travel Poetics has now been with you for over three years. In each issue we try to bring to you the most original poetry and theoretically rigorous academic work. Meanwhile, we receive many observations, opinions, travel diaries or short essays of sheer eloquence and beauty, which are invaluable to us, but which we cannot include in the journal due to formal considerations. We have therefore decided to come up with a new section called Diaries where we hope to include your most insightful thoughts and ramblings about travel, as well as records of everyday travel experiences, in a flexible format that allows plenty of room for creativity and experimentation.

How do you travel? How do you record experience? How do you make meaning of it? What resists meaning? Tell us in notes, articles, photographs, poems, drawings, reviews or in whatever means you choose to tell your story. In Coldnoon Diaries you can share your version of what it means to travel. Come be our diarists and let us travel with you.

Your themes may range, but are not restricted, to:

Psychogeography
Urban Flânerie/ Walking
City Landscapes
Journeys
Pilgrimages
Exile
Migration
Homelessness
Architecture and Decadence
Gender and Space/ Sexual Spaces
Travelling Perspectives
Heterotopia

We are looking for original pieces that record your perceptions, opinions or criticism. Prose works can range from 500 to 1500 words. Submissions are rolling and publications are weekly. Short forms of poetry are most welcome, too. The works published in these Diaries will form a different section from CTP journal, and will not be published in print, however. Further, there are no deadlines for submissions. The only deadline for you is the time you take to compose your ideas, and begin travelling in your own words.

Also, do send us a bio-note, not more than 100 words. Feel free to mention your publications and affiliations, or if not, don’t mind being creative either.

Mail your Diaries to:

Editor, Coldnoon Diaries
Amrita Ajay
diaries@coldnoon.com

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