![]() ![]() “We want work that’s written in an interesting meter or uses form in a way that wasn’t expected,” Phillips Bell says. Poetry editors want to see work that intersects with natural and social sciences, pieces that engage with craft in new ways. Fiction submissions should be informed by place and may also intersect with science in some manner. Prose editors look for nonfiction informed by sociology, natural history, ecology, and other fields. “We encourage folks from a wide range of perspectives and identities to send work,” Phillips Bell says. Potential contributors should read back issues, available for free on the magazine’s website. “It’s a vital form, and I’ve been interested to see how choreographers and dancers interpret their work for the page,” Phillips Bell says. “I have come to treat my body like the food I prepare: perishable and precious,” she writes.Įcotone has lately been publishing features on dance. Birdsong’s essay titled “Build Back a Body.” (7/2/20) “It’s about living as a Black woman in a compromised body during a pandemic and teaching yourself how to cook,” Phillips Bell explains.īy the end of the essay, Birdsong becomes a proficient and intuitive cook with a powerful sense of how food can sustain her through the pandemic. In Spring 2019, editors debuted a department titled “Various Instructions.” It includes Destiny O. “He pays so much attention to characters along with the protagonist in this story. “He lets us feel the sadness of the struggle he’s having as he thinks through his desires,” says Phillips Bell. ![]() Issue 28 – “The Love Issue” – includes Silas House’s short story “Jericho,” about a young man in a conservative Christian evangelical community in the south figuring out that he’s gay. “We ask who’s missing from this conversation because they never felt welcome or because no one wanted to publish their work.” Contributors “We ask ourselves whose voices are not getting amplified around questions of place and identity and environmental and social justice,” she says. She and other Ecotone editors also want to rejuvenate traditional nature writing and feature people whose voices have not historically been included in the canon of place-based writing. “I appreciate literature that talks about those things without beating me over the head.” “The pieces we publish in Ecotone help to keep environmental and social justice questions in readers’ awareness and help us to act within our values,” she says. ![]()
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