Call for Submissions: Digital Chapbooks/POD Pamphlets 2020

The Operating System is now open for Digital Chapbooks/POD Pamphlets for the 2020 year. Our call for submissions revolves around a series of interlocking questions: How queer is climate change? What mutating futurities are possible in writings of the diaspora? How do we imagine evolving micro/macro/plant-based/insect-like scales of environmental disturbance? How salty is survival? What kind of archive is the ocean? What will become of history under water? We invite writers to submit works that speak to our ecological moment, apprehend change, reaction, and action in networked and local ways, and explore the multiple and the contingent. Think: Bloom. Mutation. Entropy. Catalyst. Brine.

We welcome interdisciplinary collaborations, translations, transcreations, hybrid works, prose, poetry, and creative essays up to 44 pages. QPOC, multilingual, disabled, island-based and/or migrant writers are encouraged to submit. Please disseminate this call as wildly as the ocean.

Submissions close October 1, 2020. Submit via Submittable: https://theoperatingsystem.submittable.com/submit/145197/manuscript-review-digital-chapbooks-pod-pamphlets-2020-up-to-44pg-pdf-pod

Image description: “Bloom”, “Mutation”, “Entropy”, “Catalyst”, and “Brine” are written in white text against black and are superimposed on a background of forest foliage.