[Sfts-faculty] Mizna: Southwest Asian & North African journal CFP

[andré carrington]

Co-editor Barrak Alzaid shares this CFP for an upcoming issue of *Mizna* on
"Futurities": https://mizna.org/journal/submissions/

*Mizna *is a SWANA-run and -focused literary journal, and the work you
submit should speak to our audience and mission. We welcome all SWANA
peoples and those in community with us who seek to contribute
interventions, incitements, speculations, and agitations geared to shift
currents in collective action, imagination, morale, history, and
plausibility through literature.

   - Writing of all forms: Poetry, prose, short stories, essays, creative
   nonfiction, visual poetry, comix, songs, spells, manifestos. Work that
   writes against form or incorporates multiple forms.
   - Speculative works rooted in our world but not necessarily taking place
   in the world we know. We are open to science fiction, fantasy, horror,
   slipstream, magical realism, alternate history, utopia and dystopia, fairy
   tales, steampunk, cyberpunk, solarpunk, climate fiction, theory fiction,
   ecopoetics, and others related to this genre.
   - More Octavia Butler, less Arthur C. Clarke.
   - Works that look to the past for inspiration and can shift our thinking
   in the present. For example, reimaginings of SWANA folktales, myths,
   legends, and stories.
   - Historical fiction with speculative elements inspired by explorations
   of settings and conditions for revolutionary movements. For example: the
   Arab Workers Movement (Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes) and the Black
   Panthers’ refuge in Algeria in the early ’70s.
   - Works that give voice to, and create a platform for, minoritized
   peoples in Western and SWANA contexts alike. Please be aware of your
   positionality when submitting this type of work.
   - Works that challenge the notions of progress and linear time.

-- 
andré m. carrington

Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Director, Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science
<https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report>
--
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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