This call for contributors simultaneously announces a new series on the BARS blog, ’Romantic Poets in the Wild’ (RPW for short)! This will be a series that features creative writers, artists, and creative-critical writers who have been inspired by the Romantics and Romantic writing—broadly defined of course—and who will be in dialogue with our BARS blog communications team about their work and creative process.
We are hoping to feature writers and writing that might be outside of the academic and artistic mainstream, hence ’in the wild’! We are especially interested in hearing from people who might be working on the margins or from underrepresented groups. New and emerging creative voices are also very welcome.
So if this sounds like you, we encourage you to submit! What are we looking for?
- Poems about Romanticism, or in a ’Romantic’ style
- Creative-critical essays and reflections on Romantic poetry and prose
- Short stories and microfiction inspired by/about Romanticism
- Artwork and images (original—no AI please!) dealing with Romanticism
- Anything else that fits the theme of creativity + Romanticism!
We are hoping to eventually curate a diverse array of creative products celebrating our contemporary creative relationship with the Romantics and Romanticism, and would love to hear from you!
To get in touch with an expression of interest, you can reach out to our comms assistant Adam Neikirk on Twitter/X (@tweets4thedead) or by email adamneikirk@gmail.com. And please share this call with your friends and colleagues!