Open Call for SUSPECT Journal’s Themed Portfolio: Eco-
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2025
Payment: USD100.00
Wouldn’t you like a four-day work week, or to work from home? While economy and ecology both come from the root word oikos – for home – housework is excluded from GDPs; so too are the bat flights that pollinate a durian orchard, the citizen science surveys for salamanders, and the sea-spanning carbon capture projects of phytoplankton. The economy works through, not above or beyond, nature. “Economy is ecology,” as political theorist Jason Moore highlights. When supply chains and investments (re)move or (re)place things around the home that is Earth, that home changes. Whose work is prevented on developing land? Whose land is used up for the work, and whose isn’t? What kind of home is this building, and is it the kind we want?
We invite writing that engages with the powerful tensions and dimensions within the word “eco-”. We want nature writing grounded in physical and social contexts; writing that imagines how economies could center ecologies; writing on the work of becoming and belonging together with others. Works might highlight unappreciated labour (both human and otherwise), demand labour, address land and labour issues; might delve into ecological concepts from edge effects to metabolic rifts; might address houses, homes, displacement, and “homing” back to places like pigeons or salmon.
SUSPECT invites submissions exploring the theme of “Eco-” for our special portfolio, which is scheduled for publication starting 5th June 2025 to commemorate World Environment Day.
We accept fiction and essays (maximum 6,500 words) or poetry (maximum 10 pages). Authors may submit to multiple categories.
As our mission is to publish Asian authors, submitters must identify as Asian. In collaborative works, the work must involve at least one Asian author.
Any translated work will be submitted by the translator; any editing of the translated work will take place between SUSPECT and the translator. We expect translators to have received permission from the writers of the original works, if still living, to publish their translations.
Each accepted contribution is paid USD100.00. For translations or collaborative works, payment is made to the translator or submitter only.
We look forward to reading your submissions. Submit your work to Sharmini Aphrodite at suspect@singaporeunbound.org. Direct your questions to her as well.
