"UNFINISHED STORIES"
UPCOMING RELEASE:
Saturday, March 6th
2:00-3:30 pm pst
Join us for a virtual release event to celebrate our inaugural issue, featuring live readings and performances by several of the issue's contributors, a Q&A, and a look towards what's to come next for KALEIDOSCOPED MAG.
Register for the free event here.
Register for the free event here.
Reading period open September 15th-November 15th
Note: Extended Deadline of December 1st
Note: Extended Deadline of December 1st
Through the lens of a kaleidoscope there is no "normal:" new fragments come into focus, reconfigured to tell a story that already existed. History, then, is not a thing of the past, and this moment is not one that will pass—it’s a folding over of time, bursts of history bubbling up into the present, a kaleidoscoped view of how we got here.
For our inaugural issue, our theme is UNFINISHED STORIES, which might apply to this political moment, but also to your composition or form, or a personal experience. Send us works which resist completion, narratives whose endings we don’t or can’t know yet, or which begin with pre-existing conditions. Send us a finished story about an unresolved issue, or an unresolved story about a finished one. A torn up drawing. An essay about a memory lost. A memory about an essay you never wrote. A complete collection of sutured thoughts. An incomplete collection of unraveled poems. A collage of found objects. A song about the unrequited. A multi-media piece that didn’t convert right to a PDF. Interactive fiction. A list of petitions. Send us your unfinished, your abandoned, your fragments.
To keep this publication free & accessible, there is no submission fee for sending in your work. However, please consider an optional donation of $3-$10 to the local San Diego organization Native Like Water, whose aim is to "prepare Indigenous youth and adult volunteers in science, outdoor education, conservation, composition, wellness, and cultural self-exploration." Find more information about this organization at https://www.nativelikewater.org.
Through the support of UCSD's Arts and Community Engagement Fellowship, we are excited to be able to offer a small compensation of $20 to each artist whose work is chosen for publication in our inaugural issue.
UC San Diego is situated on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay nation.