CRWROPPS Post: Applause National Undergraduate Literary Magazine Call for Submissions

Applause (University of Arkansas-Fort Smith) National Undergraduate Literary Arts and Culture Magazine Seeking Submissions 

 

 

Applause, the newly national literary arts and culture magazine housed at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (Est. 1989), is accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, and photography submissions until 3/14/2021. 

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Each annual issue will be a (loosely) themed issue. Our current call for submissions is as follows: 

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Micro-Empowerment noun and verb: Micro empowerments of the everyday and mundane can be a micro focus on anything from a life-threatening situation to the act of washing the dishes. We are excited about the new ways we can find to experience the mundane. To embody this idea of micro-empowerment, we believe writers can be productively obsessed by and not disenchanted by what happens during the process of creation. We're excited by work that includes its influences, studies them, lets them grow on the page; to take a seemingly mundane experience, and then to not exclude the small changes we've had in life, but to realize that every tiny thing stimulates our essence as human beings. 

 

Empowerment is a word traditionally thought of as pertaining to the large, the "important," the ideas and movements that shape culture and society, but we all know that everything large is made up of many small things. To that end, Applause is interested in the little things that make you feel strong, the moments you experience that feel like unity, and the unexpected moments of triumph during the day. Applause is looking for that link between the mundane and the things that give us reason to grow. 

 

Please contact Dr. Christian Anton Gerard at Christian.Gerard@uafs.edu if you have any questions about our magazine. This Submittable link will take you to Applause's guidelines and submissions page where work can be sent for consideration: https://applause.submittable.com/submit 

 

Our brand new website is rolling out soon, but for now you can find us on the web at https://uafsapplause.wixsite.com/applause 

 

We can't wait to see what you are making! 

 

Sincerely, 

The Applause Staff 

The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith