Another armed conflict. Another shooting. The same rhetoric, displacement, and senselessness. If it all feels familiar, it’s because it is. We’re seeking writing about cycles of destruction—how they begin, how they’re justified, and how they keep recurring. Send us your...
Another armed conflict. Another shooting. The same rhetoric, displacement, and senselessness. If it all feels familiar, it’s because it is. We’re seeking writing about cycles of destruction—how they begin, how they’re justified, and how they keep recurring.
Send us your writing about patterns of conflict at any scale: personal, interpersonal, or global. We’re particularly interested in prose and poetry that plays with time and recurrence, including (but not limited to!) microessays that explore false memory, poetry that interrogates the art of repetition, and short stories that fracture time.
George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” What happens when the cycle breaks?
We welcome writing of all forms: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work.
Three winners will be selected and published at the end of June.
We are now offering editorial commentary on submissions. For an additional fee, you’ll receive two feedback notes from our experienced editors or readers. To learn more and submit, head to Duosuma.
Prizes:
- First place: $1,000 and publication
- Second place: $200 and publication
- Third place: $100 and publication
