ISSUE 6 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

We ask our community to reflect on Homecoming as a term to hold and communicate themes of land, water, desire, movement, return, celebration, memory, upheaval, grief, be-longing, and untold histories.

The themes below expand on our interpretation of the term Homecoming. Please note that the following questions are a thinking tool meant to further examine these themes of Homecoming we have imagined. We encourage work that dreams outside of these frameworks too.

Themes: Land, Water, Movement, Desire, Land, Return, Celebration, Memory, Be-longing, Upheaval, Grief, and Untold Histories 

Questions:

What is a home to come to? 

What or where is home to you? Who is home to you?

What are you bringing with you when you come home? 

What has changed when you come home?

What is home in the senses? What does it sound like? Smell like? Taste like? Feel like?

What memories of home do you carry with you? What feeling does the word home evoke in you?

Where do you desire to belong?

How do you grieve a home you know longer belong to? 

Please send all submissions for Issue 6 Homecoming to submissions@1919mag.com by December 20th

We are accepting all forms of visual and cultural artwork and formal and informal prose such as: Photo essays, photography, comics, plays, paintings, sculpture and graphic collages, critical essays & scholarly work(s), creative writing/fiction, short stories, and investigative/public interest journalism. 

References for Inspiration

To expand on the theme of Homecoming, we have included examples of works below that offer reflections on home as artifacts, spaces, landscapes, individuals, and feelings.

• Hurvin Anderson’s Welcome: Carib reveals a “negotiation of identity and the concept of homeland”

• Rana Nazzal’s 1/1000th of a Dunam invites the viewer “to consider notions of land and its multidimensional significance for the colonized everywhere.”

• Derek Walcott’s Poem The Sea Is History

Compensation Amounts

Cultural workers will be compensated for all works that are selected to our print magazine. The following flat rates are in CAD and describe compensation amounts on a per submission basis.

Spot works: $60

Poetry: $100

Visual Art/Photography: $150

Cover Photography: $250

Written: $200*

* Pieces above 1000 words topped up $50

1919 is passionate about creating alternatives to platforms and institutions already deeply entrenched within the assimilation of Black and racialized groups. All submissions selected for our print publication are PAID and we only accept submissions from Black, Indigenous, and racialized artists and cultural workers.