19/08/2021
🚨 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🚨
PROTOCOLS invites writerly, artistic, and archival submissions for Issue #10: TEMPLE
The ancient Temples in Jerusalem continue to shape and influence Jewish culture, life, and politics in decisive ways. The imitation and adaptation of their rituals define enduring forms of Jewish practice today. Their destruction outlines rich patterns of national calamity, loss, mourning, and hope. The historic sites of the Temples themselves have also become sites of state violence, collective resistance, and settler mythology. And since the early Reform movement established a “Temple” in Hamburg, Jewish places named temples have proliferated and become part of modern dynamics of Jewish assimilation, rupture, replacement, and renewal.
How do design, architecture, planning, and archaeology shape the roles of temples in our lives and the way we imagine them? What do we make into temples, both literally and figuratively? How do they function in political movements and how do they interface with state and supra-state structures of governance? How might temples help us think through the politics of geography and space over time, as well as the links between mythology and identity? In what ways does the concept of a temple allow us to reconsider the interaction of the physical and the spiritual?
Please send pitches for essays, criticism, and reviews that outline the context, argument, and relevance to the issue. Fiction and creative nonfiction up to 6000 words; short-shorts and linked shorts 500-1000 words. No line limits for poetry. Translations, hybrid or intergenre work, and simultaneous and multiple submissions accepted, as well as reprints of work that has only appeared in print.
We accept a range of art submissions including but not limited to textile, performance, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, video, digital, and other multi-media work.
Deadline:
September 13, 2021
Send all text submissions and questions to
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Send all art submissions to
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*See “Submission Guidelines” at prtcls.com/about
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