For six months, the Collective slept. On the longest day of the year, it awakes. We invite you to submit to REBIRTH, the inaugural issue of Act III and the first print issue of Nowhere Girl Collective.
REBIRTH. On renewal, revival, resurrection, and all things returning. Come and tell us what happened while we were dreaming.
REBIRTH
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REBIRTH ✯
THERE ARE FEW THINGS STRANGER THAN BEGINNING AGAIN.
A snake shedding its skin. A forest after fire. The first green shoot piercing frost-hardened earth. A city rebuilt. A faith rediscovered. A version of yourself you thought was lost returning, changed, but alive.
WHAT BECOMES OF US AFTER THE END?
WHAT EMERGES FROM THE ASHES?
WHAT SURVIVES THE FIRE, THE FLOOD?
We are interested in transformations both grand and ordinary. Personal reinventions, spiritual awakenings, fresh starts, inherited cycles, creative resurrections, gardens in bloom, phoenixes in flight, and endings as beginnings.
For our first print issue and the dawn of Act III, we invite you to consider REBIRTH in all its forms. Renewal. Revival. Resurrection. Renaissance. Second chances and ninth lives.
As always, we seek work that makes us feel something. Anything. Everything all at once.
PHASE I ✯ THE NOTICE
3 weeks. June 21st → July 12th
Observe the prompt. Don't rush it. Sit with it. Taste it, chew it, swallow or spit it. Journal. Dream. Collect material.
PHASE II ✯ THE OFFERING
3 weeks. July 12th → August 2nd
The gates open. Bring what has been brewing.
PHASE III ✯ THE CURATION
3 weeks (or longer). August 2nd → ???
We read. Select. Sequence. Design. Then, move into production. The rest to follow in due time.