UCLA Art Student and Alumni Opportunities

Open Ceilings is a completely undergraduate-run literary magazine specifically dedicated to creative writing and the arts. With the support of the English Department and members of the Davis community, Open Ceilings aims to capture and preserve in print the creative work of students, staff, faculty, and community members in Davis, and now the larger UC system. As a semiannual publication releasing summer and winter issues each year, Open Ceilings accepts short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The magazine also features photography and artwork submissions.

Like you, Open Ceilings is adapting to the changes posed by the global response to COVID-19, and despite the unique challenges our team is facing, we are proud to support the creative community through the uncertainty. We strongly believe artwork and creative expression is healing and can serve as a healthy escape from the various challenges and stresses we all face. That is why we are committed to moving forward with our production of upcoming issues. We are currently collecting submissions for our Summer 2021 issue and would love to see any work you have to submit!

For a chance to appear in our upcoming issue, send your work to submitopenceilings@gmail.com. The deadline to submit is December 31st, 2020.

For submission guidelines and more information, please visit our website or email our team at contactopenceilings@gmail.com.

To purchase the current issue of Open Ceilings, visit our store.

Best regards,

Indra Waters

Senior Acquisitions Editor | Summer 2021

We are excited to announce that the Harvard Undergraduate Classics Journal, Persephone, is now accepting submissions for our Spring 2021 Issue until December 31st! In addition to written pieces, we highly encourage artistic entries to our publication. If you would like to see your work published, please send your submission to us at harvardpersephone@gmail.com.

There are no length or format requirements. Please consider submitting a variety of works including but not limited to original poems, artwork, photography, and other creative pieces whose subject matter pertains to the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

We will confirm submission upon receipt and select pieces for publication by mid-January; our editors work with authors throughout the editing process for publication in early March.

Please visit our website if you wish to peruse previous issues for further inspiration, and do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Fiona McFerrin-Clancy, Editor-in-Chief (Harvard College Class of 2023)

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/persephone/

(617) 495-4027

Asterisk* Journal of Art, which is an art history and art publication started by students at Yale University last year, is seeking submissions! We manage one of the few peer-reviewed, intercollegiate, art history and art publications at the undergraduate level. You can access our first issue online: https://www.asteriskjournal.org. We are looking for high-quality essays that subvert traditional narratives in art and artworks that will offer new perspectives. These works can be a version or part of a course research paper/project, independent study, or honors thesis.

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Our Shared Planet: The Environment Issue

Special Issue of American Studies

Guest editors: Hee-Jung Joo (University of Manitoba), Pacharee Sudhinaraset (NYU)

Call for Papers Deadline: August 31, 2020

For people of color, the future has never been a given. Whether through the policies and practices of state-sanctioned genocide, enslavement, internment, or forced relocation and migration, racialized communities have survived their worlds ending, over and over. To cite the opening lines of Sun Ra’s 1974 Afrofuturist film Space Is the Place, “It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?” This special issue critically interrogates the supposed universal notions of a shared planet, ecological demise, and what it means to be human in an era of climate change. The collection aims to center the perspectives of people of color historically and in our contemporary moment on how they envision(ed) “surviving” apocalypse. Instead of considering race as a peripheral or ancillary extension to notions of humanity, this special edition posits race as central to the project of rethinking the human and non-human relationships that form this planet. Indeed, scholars, artists, and activists engaged in what is often termed “race work” have never left the question of the human behind. We welcome submissions that position race (including whiteness) as a theoretical, aesthetic, and practical starting point at which to tackle a socially just version of climate change.

We are especially interested in engagements with and entanglements amongst Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Latinx Futurism, and Asian American Futurism that might engage with but are not limited to the following questions:

• What happens when people of color are centered in narratives of the future? How does this recentering reveal the limits of contemporary scholarship on climate change?
• How might alternative and queer spaces, epistemologies, timelines, histories, and cultural practices engage with notions of a “shared” planet?
• How do utopia and dystopia take on different meanings in the context of colonialism and white supremacy?
• What role does race play in cultural articulations of a “shared” planet rooted in critical animals studies and/or critical plant studies?
• How do histories of settler colonialism, antiblack racism, and techno-orientalism cut through imaginations of a shared, or unshareable, planet from different racialized groups?
• What do notions of “survival” and “perseverance”,as well as “abundance” and “permanence” limit or yield for us?

We invite submissions from activists and independent scholars, as well as creative writers and artists, as some of the most visionary research on race and futurity is being articulated outside of academia. We stand by American Studies’ commitment to scholarship that is “accessible to a variety of readers, not solely to academic specialists.” The work around climate change requires this type of broad and creative engagement.

The deadline for submission of complete articles and creative pieces is August 31, 2020. Original photography, artwork, and poetry are welcome. Artistic submissions (.png or .tiff file) and written submissions (.doc, .docx, or .pdf file) should be sent to oursharedplanet@gmail.com. Articles should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length, excluding endnotes and images. Citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. All article submissions will undergo an anonymous peer-review process. For more information on American Studies’ general submission guidelines, including graphic requirements for original artwork, please consult https://journals.ku.edu/amsj. Please address any other questions to guest editors Serenity Joo and Pacharee Sudhinaraset at oursharedplanet@gmail.com.

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Submit to Matchbox Magazine, an annual UC-wide literary & arts publication!

Send your poetry, prose, visual art, music, and spoken word to matchboxmagazine@gmail.com by February 14th, 2020. For more information, visit matchboxmagazine.org

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