Distinguished Finnish Travel writer Piia Mustamäki to guest edit Pratik’s special Issue on City Writing

 

City Diversions

Pratik Magazine special issue on city writing

 

Edited by Yuyutsu Sharma with guest editor Piia Mustamäki

In their conversation in the essay collection Strange and Known Things, Teju Cole and Alexandar Hemon claim that “it’s impossible to write in a linear way about and in cities – they’re necessarily non-linear spaces;” but also that “cities might be our greatest invention. They drive creativity… and they can be hives of tolerance… But the other side is that they are congested with material history and the spiritual traces of those histories, including some dark events.” 

This is a call for submissions of new works on cities – non-fiction, short stories, poetry, photo essays – under the theme of “City Diversions” inspired by Cole and Hemon’s ideas:  on the non-linear diversions cities force and ignite and the creativity, tolerance and historical traces that bring those diversions about. We welcome submissions particularly on global south cities, but are interested in any new writing where the city takes center stage.

  

Piia Mustamaki is a Finnish writer, currently located in Abu Dhabi where she teaches NYU’s writing program. Travelling extensively, her travel writing has been published in Punctuate, The Cultureist, among others.

Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Sharma is a world-renowned Himalayan poet and translator. He has published ten poetry collections including, Lost Horoscope: New Poems, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems and Annapurna Poems.  Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. 

Deadline for submissions: Feb 15th, 2023

pratikmagsubmissions@gmail.com

 

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