It can be addressed to a person, place or thing. If you would like to have a “receiver” that is completely acceptable as long as it relates to the theme. The image aspect also opens up the submissions to those who are interested in the visual aspect of storytelling. The image accompanies the author’s writing and provides a visual layer for the readers. Everything will be communicated during the submission period. Depending on the submissions, we may select multiple, one, or none depending on submission load, quality of writing, or whether it relates to the theme. Yes you can! If you’d like to write multiple postcards, we will review them all.
We do reserve the final editorial right to keep each issue consistent throughout. The author-editor relationship is highly collaborative and might require some revisions and edits before final approval. Yes, our editors will work with the author to make sure the submission reaches its highest potential before print. No matter how simple or intricate, melancholic or pleasant, hilarious or mundane, we look forward to reading your account of sonder. Ultimately, these postcards will be shared with a community that continues to dissolve and expand the boundaries of their disciplines. Like the typical postcard, one side will showcase an image and the other side written text-both curated by you. Postmarked invites you to compose a postcard pondering sonder-a spontaneous moment of realization that each passerby is living a life as vivid, complex, and precious as your own. Perhaps this confrontation with social isolation is familiar to some, perhaps it is something that comes alive when we’re in a specific space, or state of mind, wading through this tangle that is life. “It’s strange, I’m around all these people, yet I have never felt more alone… but also I have never felt more alive.”įor many of us, this existential feeling has not gone away even though the world continues somewhat crowdless.
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