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A Call for Submission 

New Medium Press is seeking submissions for the inaugural issue of our online literary journal, Riff/t. The journal’s title comes from a pairing of ideas seemingly at odds and the tensions that arise from their combination. It represents both riffing, as the process of improvising alongside music or text, and a rift, cracks or breaks that create a separation. The forward slash creates a visual representation of the concepts.

New Medium Press is a group of undergraduate students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, previously working under the name kNOw Death Press. Our mission with this project is to cultivate a network of creatives who work within a diverse range of mediums and bring their work together through special issue online journal publications.

From this concept, we are seeking submissions that engage these ideas in many various possible ways, particularly through the use of formal experimentation and multi-media projects that play with mediums of expression:

  • Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that riffs off a movie, TV show, music, or play through utilizing an element or theme as a basis for the new piece of writing.

  • Ekphrasis fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that creates a fresh descriptive account of a piece of visual art, music, or film shot.

  • Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that follows an epiphany narrative arc, particularly in which the epiphany creates the effect of isolation or division.

  • Poetry that utilizes line breaks, stanza breaks, or caesuras in unique or innovative ways, particularly as a means to create emotional inflection or thematic resonance.

  • Fiction or poetry that engages themes of generational rifts, interpersonal separation, intrapersonal divisions or contradictions, or social inequities.

  • Fiction, poetry, memoir, or non-fiction that engages the subjects of spiritual mediums, the void, the great beyond, or other spiritual ideas driven by humanity’s isolation from a spiritual plane of existence.

  • Short films that narratively engage any of the above subjects or themes

  • Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that visually represents any of the above subjects or themes

  • Short films that create a visual rift in a frame or between frames

  • Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that creates a visual rift in the frame

  • Visual art (photography, collage, painting, drawing, digital visual art, etc.) that uses space and composition to portray abstract or perspective rifts between subjects

  • Short films that visually riff off another visual work

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We are no longer accepting submissions for Riff/t. Our reading period ended on November 24th, 2021. Future issues will be updated on this page.

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