✯ FIND ACCEPTED MELANCHOLIA: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

MELANCHOLIA: THAT GAPING HOLE BENEATH YOUR RIBS, IN YOUR DIAPHRAGM, NO, JUST BELOW IT - THAT CREVICE, THAT LABYRINTH OF NOTHINGNESS, THAT FESTERING AND WEEPING WOUND WITH NO APPARENT GASH, NO EXIT WOUND, AND INHERENTLY, NO ESCAPE.

prompt circa October 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED PEN VERSUS SWORD: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

PEN VERSUS SWORD / “Pens do not do battle, nor swords poetry. Mighty is the hand that knows when to pick up the pen, or pick up the sword.”

prompt circa September 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED PLATONIC INTIMACY: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

PLATONIC INTIMACY; the foundation that harbours deep and affectionate connections that are not based on or centred around romance or eroticism. A homage to friendship.

prompt circa August 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED CONFESSION: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

CONFESSION / noun / a disclosure of one's sins in the sacrament of reconciliation. Or, in Nowhere Girl terms: an exercise in artistic exhibitionism. CONFESS TO ME. CONFESS TO THE WORLD.

prompt circa July 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED SURREALISM: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

SURREALISM was a 20th century avant-garde literary, philosophical and artistic movement which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind - championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.

prompt circa June 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED PRIMEVAL: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

PRIMEVAL, adjective, of or belonging to the first ages. If you strip human beings/the planet/the universe/existence as we know it back to its primeval core, what will you find? What is left? What remains the same? For what is our purpose, the crux of our very being?

prompt circa May 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED ARTIST & MUSE: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

ARTIST & MUSE / an exploration on the complex and controversial relationship between the artist and the muse / the creator and the creation / the inspired and the inspiration.

prompt circa April 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED RUNAWAY: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

RUNAWAY / noun / a person who has escaped or abandoned something, somewhere, someone. Think: leaving it all behind and not looking back.

prompt circa March 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED APOCALYPSE: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

The complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelation… APOCALYPSE, an ode to the end of the world.

prompt circa February 2024

✯ FIND ACCEPTED BILLET-DOUX: ESSAYS SUBMISSIONS HERE ✯

BILLET DOUX / noun, French / a love letter or sweet note. Love (or maybe not-love, or something in between), sealed with a kiss and wrapped in a bow and tucked in a pretty little letter.

prompt circa January 2024

✯ find accepted FAUSTIAN BARGAIN: ESSAYS submissions here ✯

To strike a FAUSTIAN BARGAIN is to be willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power. Faust, in Goethe’s legend, traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.

prompt circa December 2023

✯ find accepted OUROBOROS: ESSAYS submissions here ✯

OUROBOROS / noun / a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.

prompt circa November 2023