This is an Open Call for writers of any style, to send in work about - "THE UNCANNY" for issue 13 of our zine.

The word “uncanny” has been used throughout history to describe a certain unsettling feeling one may feel upon encountering something. What may it refer to, both now and in the past?

Since being coined somewhere around the late 16th century in Scots to mean “relating to the occult, malicious,” the word “uncanny” has taken up many meanings. 

In the early 20th century, Sigmund Freud wrote a piece of text (“The Uncanny”) that attempted to analyze what exactly constituted uncanniness.

In particular, his view is that a situation or encounter is uncanny due to an inherent familiarity of it — that one has encountered this situation before, albeit possibly under wildly different circumstances. The term 'uncanny valley' is also applied to artworks and animation or video games that reproduce places and people so closely that they create a similar eerie feeling.

Artists, and writers including some associated with the surrealist movement, drew on this description and made artworks that combined familiar things in unexpected ways to create uncanny feelings.

We want to see written pieces that represent the uncanny within the context of your practice  - WE DO NOT WANT COVID RELATED WORK.

This could be any type of writing - narration, story, play, critique, poem, Q&A, prose, documentation, review.... 

Whichever style you use your text must relate to your work and the theme of 'The Uncanny'…

You will need to submit:

1)  A good quality piece of writing - this can include images if you wish - images should be a minimum of 300dpi jpeg (please do not send us thumbnail images).

2) Your bio / Instagram name so we can tag you.

3) Do you wish to join our mailing list Y/N?

Your work will not be accepted if you do not provide all of the requested items. If accepted your work will be featured on the web zine, Instagram, and FB for a least one month, and very likely for several.

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