Call for Papers: Anamesa Journal
Anamesa is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing and art based at New York University. Tracing its conceptual origin to Platonic philosophy, Anamesa stands for the “in between,” and sets as its purpose to blur boundaries, reimagine links, and explore the interstices of academia. Anamesa considers material from a variety of subject matters and selects creative, timely, and intelligent works that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the global graduate community. Submissions of writing and visual art are accepted from current and recent graduate students across all disciplines. We seek academic essays, creative nonfiction, reportage, interviews, reviews, short stories, poetry, photography, drawings, paintings, film stills, posters, prints, and other art works.
The theme for this issue is “Convergence” and we encourage submissions that provoke thought or discussion about this topic, though offtheme submissions are also welcome.
Convergence Last semester, our theme was “Points of Departure,” with an eye toward the opening up of possibilities, the venturing out into the intellectual wilderness. This semester, we look at the other side of that journey with “Convergence.” Convergence is a concept that is fundamental to Anamesa’s interdisciplinary ethos. Different fields of study, subjects, arguments, and ideas converge to illuminate insights that would otherwise be impossible. Likewise, moments in time and ways of life frequently converge at a point which may not last but which nevertheless brings forth something new. This whole exists independently, something which resembles but is yet separate from a mere sum of its parts.
Potential fields/topics for submission include: history, personal identity, memory, selfconsciousness, economic and political power structures, borders and boundaries, diaspora, subalterns, trauma, temporality, spatiality, symbolism, literary/artistic influence, authorship, anthropology, gender, sexuality, identity politics, familial relations, class/racial/religious divisions and hierarchies, immigration, visual arts, film, painting, photography, technology, architecture, geography, sociology of space, phenomenology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, history, postmodernism, poststructural theory, deconstruction, ecology, urban studies, language, translations, and communication.
Submission Requirements
All submissions must be printready.
All submissions should be 6,000 words or fewer. For nonfiction submissions, please include a 100-200 word abstract.
Essays should be formatted to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition; please use endnotes, doublespaced, on a separate page following the body of the text.
All fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions must be in .doc or .docx file format
All art submissions must be in digital format (.jpeg) at 300 DPI or higher and a minimum of 5x7in.
Please include a cover page with your name, university, department, expected degree and date, telephone number, and email address. The cover page should be a separate document from the submission.
DO NOT include any identifying information in the body of your submission. All submissions are blind reviewed, so identifying information should only appear on your cover page.
We accept submissions in any language, but an English translation must accompany all non-English texts. We accept multiple submissions (up to 5 pieces per author), but we ask that each submission be submitted individually (with an exception for multiple poems, which can be submitted together).
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.
All submissions must include the genre of the submission in the subject heading of the email.
Email all submissions to [email protected] with the genre of the submission listed in the subject heading of the email.