Call for Submissions: Katitikan Issue 6: Lives of an Anxious Milieu

Katitikan provides a platform for both Southern voices as traditionally understood in the scholarship, but also about scholarship that engages with the idea of the Philippines as a discourse on the South.

For the issue Lives in an Anxious Milieu, Katitikan seeks to examine the precarities of the Philippine present, through which one contends with and articulates anxieties concerning identity and safety within a changing and dynamic world order. Traversing the violences of day-to-day life in a nation-in-contest, this issue also seeks to portray alternatives to such realities while offering visions of hope for a better future. In this issue, possible themes include, but are not limited to: lives under state conflict and their aftermaths; radical imaginings and solutions for climate change; Decolonial and indigenous practices and the defense of indigenous people; and the histories and futurities of quotidian life in the Philippines.

Contributors may submit the following:

*Poems of not more than 60 lines each
*Short stories ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 words
*Flash fiction pieces ranging from 100 to 1,000 words
*A chapter of a novel, including novel synopsis, ranging from 2000 to 4000 words
*Essay and creative nonfiction ranging from 2500 to 4000 words
*One-act play, screenplay or an excerpt from a full-length play ranging from 10 to 40 pages
*Critical essays about Philippine Literature and/or the Philippine South ranging from 1500-5000 words in MLA format.

Entries may be written in Filipino, Binisaya or in English. Works in other Philippine languages, with Filipino, Binisaya and/or English translation, are also welcome. Previously published writing is accepted, as long as you retain full publishing rights to the work. Exceptions may be made to the above guidelines with respect to both merit and the editorial board’s consideration. Please indicate publications and publication date where the work/s have appeared. The authors and artists will retain their full copyright ownership of their submissions, and no compensation will be provided.

Email your work in doc. or docx. format, with file name [Genre]_[Title]_[Author’s Last Name] (example: Poetry_Hello_Dela Cruz) to 𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐧.𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦 together with the author’s name, and a short bionote.