The submission window for PREE— a singular on-line copy for brandnew recent writing from and in regards to the Caribbean—Factor 14 is not hidden till April 30, 2025. See description underneath.
The recommended for our fourteenth factor comes from James Stanley Baldwin:
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” right here now not simply within the non-public sense however as a environment of being, or a environment of grace — now not within the childish American sense of being made glad however within the tricky and common sense of quest and bold and expansion.”
— James Stanley Baldwin, “Down at the Cross”. Letter from a Patch in My Thoughts
For PREE 14, we ask over you to interact with Stanley Baldwin’s expansive visual of affection, and his perception of quest. Dare we breach established laws of inclusion and exclusion to leaving conceptions of the current and year dictated by way of the ruling tradition? What may this quest of the bold self-aware topic seem like? And the place is the affection? We welcome your explorations that problem default suppositions about love—within the Caribbean context, or another way—and paint an image of what love may seem like if we ventured into the unknown.
If you happen to’re unfamiliar with PREE we ask that you just check out the content material we’ve already printed to get an concept of the property of writing we predict. A a laugh reality: We would like we gained as many prose submissions as we do poetry.
To publish, head to: https://preelit.com/contact/
[Shown above: Mural by Richard Smith, downtown Kingston, Jamaica.]
