Usawa: Call for Submissions – December 2024 Issue

GENDER AND ITS DISCONTENTS

For its December 2024 Issue, Usawa Literary Review invites contributions in form of poetry, short fiction, reviews, interviews, essays, creative nonfiction, queer auto-fiction, (and any other genre-bending genre which queers the concept of genres), around the theme,  ‘Gender & Its Discontents ’.

For our December Issue, we solicit submissions across categories, which interrogate what gender means to us; how it intersects with class, caste, and sexuality to influence our lived realities; how different forms of kinship relations emanate from and support different gender configurations and vice versa; how individuals – males, females, intersex – irrespective of their sexual orientation, resist, and consolidate their gendered selves; how the hegemony of heteronormativity structures modern cultural discourse, as well as our own ideas of personhood, and the ways we can and do resist this.

Feel free to rummage through your memories, parse popular culture, reflect on contemporary socio-political developments, and critique through your fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews, those gendered structures which make the world around you, which make you, you, and how these can be challenged, subverted, consolidated, and written.

We look forward to your submissions.

Our submission process has changed. We now accept submissions only through our website. Please familiarise yourself with the updated submission process and do NOT hesitate to ask for help at info@usawa.in or social@usawa.in

Deadline: 20 September 2024

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Enquiries about submissions should be directed to Usawa Literary Review. Please always refer to their website for complete details and information.

Please note, this competition is run by Usawa Literary Review, not the Commonwealth Foundation.