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Fantasies out now!
The new issue Fantasies is available now. Click on the image to your right to buy a copy – or, even better, take out a subscription!
Theme for Issue 10 - 'The Banal'
We are now accepting submissions for issue 10. The issue will be entitled The Banal.
For this issue, we’re interested in work that takes the everyday or the commonplace as its subject, considers the nature of boredom, or indeed that questions what we think of as banal. You may also like to consider The Banal as a counterpart to Fantasies (the S/S 2009 issue), in that the fantastical tends to emerge from, or be contained within, the banal.
For full submission guidelines, click here.
Theme for issue 9 - "Fantasies"
The theme for issue 9 of Succour will be Fantasies. The deadline for submissions is Friday 20 February 2009, and the issue will be out on 1 May 2009.
There are two main areas we’re interested in exploring with this theme. The first is the importance of the fantasy or the reverie to the creative process, and the ways in which such fantasies can be expressed in literature and art. The second is the distinction between what is called ‘fantasy’ and what is called ‘literary’ writing, and how this distinction can be played with or proved illusory (as in, for example, the work of Borges, Casares, Ballard, Poe and many others). Long time Succour-watchers will recognise that this is a long-running interest of the journal, having been raised in issue 3, Radio Eye, and issue 6, The Future.
But, as ever, the theme is open to limitless interpretation and we’re looking forward to seeing how you might respond.
Icons Deadline Passed
The deadline for submissions to Succour 8: Icons has now passed. Thanks to everyone who sent in their work – we’ll have a decision for you by the end of September.
We’ll announce the theme for Succour 9 on this website on 1 October…
Succour Salon at the Poetry Cafe, London - Saturday 5 July
We’re putting on the first Succour Salon – an evening of readings from the journal – downstairs at the Poetry Café, Betterton Street, Covent Garden, this Saturday from 8-10.30.
There’s a great line-up including Joe Dunthorne, Isobel Dixon and Lee Rourke.
Hope to see you there!
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Current Issue
Succour 9: Fantasies is now available here at the on-line store and from our ever-expanding network of stockists.
Succour 9 is an astonishing collection of new work from some of today’s most exciting writers and artists, who present a remarkable range of interpretations of the Fantasies theme.
The contributors include many of the must-read new generation of writers based in the UK, plus a selection of some of the most exciting writers from further afield.
Full list of contributors:
Fiction: Royal Alvis, Anthony Banks, Kate Lermitte Campbell, Jonathan Hamnett, Nick Hunt, Laura Joyce, Joel Lane, Gregory Norminton and Ray Robinson
Poetry: Arlene Ang, Ben Brooks, Orfhlaith Foyle, Joshua Jones, Rob A. Mackenzie and Robert Selby
Artwork: Daniel Arsham and Eline McGeorge
Next Issue
Succour 10 – The Banal – will be available on this website from Monday 9 November 2009, and from all good bookshops from mid-November 2009.
