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Submissions to Therapeutic Edgelands are welcome on a rolling basis. To submit your content, please email: awesociety@proton.me

We are looking for art, collage, drawing/painting, short-form writing (poetry, or essay/prose with a max word limit of 400 words), or audio for future issues.

The Therapeutic Edgelands is a gathering place for visions from the in-between— be it queer, strange, or even dangerous. The edgelands are places not of rigid categories that ecologists have figured out, but instead zones of liberated livingness. 

The empire of misery favors professionalism and logics that seek to universalize and account for everything, transforming the whole world into a weary workforce gathering around poisonous mines and gleaming online storefronts. 

The edgelands gleefully resists that logic!

In the edgelands, the past, present and future are alive in looping converging moments whispering into our ears. Here we converse with ancestors and spirits in our clumsy aching two leggedness. The Edgelands is an infinitely polyvocal and coauthored creation.

CURRENT INVITATIONS:

OFF GRID 

Instructions for connection 

Wildflower Costume Party

Illness And Care As Portal

Deaths’ presence 

Art writing or sounds that respond to earlier invitations or just somehow seem to belong in the Edgelands is also welcome! 

MORE ABOUT WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:  

Yes, poetry 

Yes, art

Yes, homemade rituals and invitations 

Yes, dreams 

Yes, surrealism 

Yes, complexity and undoneness

Yes, vulnerability and process

Yes, moving past scripts of acceptability 

Yes, letting go of success

Yes, feral communitarianism 

No techno utopian shit 

No supremacy (white, ableist, hetero or otherwise) 

We resist cultures and mindsets that require sacrifice zones (human and more than) 

We welcome your dispatches of mourning resistance and silliness/play – we are committed to holding multitudes

The pages of these Edgelands welcome the tender and bombastic creative residues of connection and liberatory change amidst apocalypse. We do not accept any content generated with AI.

Our Editorial Process

The Edgelands crew is committed to working with art and writing not as a finished product, but as a tool for personal and social transformation. This means that we often use a conversational editorial process– especially with text based contributions. Our text editor, Owólabi Aboyade often works with writers to further develop their texts.

Image caption: collaging for issue 12 with Liane Al Ghusain and Aziza Knight