Mural by Richard Smith, downtown Kingston
The submission window for Pree 14 is open from March 1 to April 30.
The prompt for our fourteenth issue comes from James Baldwin:
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth”
— James Baldwin, “Down at the Cross”. Letter from a Region in My Mind”.
For PREE 14, we invite you to engage with Baldwin’s expansive vision of love, and his notion of quest. Dare we breach established rules of inclusion and exclusion to escape conceptions of the present and past dictated by the ruling culture? What might this quest of the daring self-aware subject look like? And where is the love? We welcome your explorations that challenge default assumptions about love —- in the Caribbean context, or otherwise — and paint a picture of what love might look like if we ventured into the unknown.
If you’re unfamiliar with PREE we ask that you take a look at the content we’ve already published to get an idea of the quality of writing we expect. A fun fact: We wish we received as many prose submissions as we do poetry.
Guidelines for general submission can be found at Submittable:
