Burning House Press are excited to welcome JOAN POPE as our MARCH 2020 guest editor! As of today JOAN will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the full month of MARCH.
Submissions are open from today – 1st MARCH and will remain open until 24TH MARCH.
Joan‘s theme for the month is as follows
SEX AND DEATH IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
“Solve et coagula”
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy.
Good is heaven. Evil is hell.” – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The god of death is the lord of sex at the same time…It’s a marvelous thing. One after another, you can see these gods Ghede, the death god of the Haitian voodoo, is also the sex god. Wotan had one eye covered and the other uncovered, do you see, and at the same time was the lord of life. Osiris, the lord of death and the lord of the generation of life. It’s a basic theme: that which dies is born. You have to have death in order to have life.” – Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
The theme for March concerns the the union of opposites and the cycles of life/nature. Is sexual reproduction the birth of consciousness and the origin of death? How will sex and death manifest in the times ahead?
Explore the ebb and flow between polarities, the powerful relationship between sex and death. Tell me about duality; about the ways we celebrate birth and the ways we honor the dead. Examine the cycles of nature, the waxing and waning of the moon, the passing of the seasons, the movements of the heavenly bodies.
I am looking for submissions that address this theme via poetry, short stories, art, collage, music, spoken word recordings, paintings, drawings, photos, video art, as well as non-fiction submissions: essays, interviews, reviews.
Please see this post for more info about the submission guidelines.