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- 05.07.2019
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Soiled Nº8 – Onceuponascrapers
Organizers
SOILED Magazine
www.soiledzine.org
The Competition
Onceuponascrapers will be a collection of illustrated architectural children’s stories akin to “picture books” that narrate contemporary ideas about architecture and the built environment. We believe that the possibilities for architectural writing for all ages might be amplified by challenging the conventions and tone of voice of “grown-up” behavior.
The protagonists of many children’s books are nonhuman characters, including animals, objects, and even buildings that enact animate agency and active voice. Young children do not question the ostensible absurdity or frivolity that most adults ascribe to such “more-than-human” ways of understanding subjectivity. In this way, the very makeup of children’s literary content prompts a heightened awareness of architecture’s magical condition—that is, the perceptual misalignments between the real and the imaginary and the vital agency of built matter. For this reason, the format of children’s stories is preordained to communicate expanded ideas about architecture.
When it comes to the intersection of architecture and children’s literature, we’re inspired by books like Crockett Johnson’s Harold and Purple Crayon, Antoinette Portis’s Not a Box, and Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House for example. Stories like The Little House anthropomorphize buildings to render the emotion and agency of architectural matter more palpable and relatable. Stories such as Harold and the Purple Crayon are not explicitly about architecture or narrated from an architectural point of view, but rather demonstrate how the act of drawing enables the production of space and our worldly participation in it. Stories like Not a Box elevate the representation of the spatial imagination as an equal player alongside the representation of “reality”.
We invite you to riff on all of these literary tropes and narrative possibilities or invent your own! How might your interest in and understanding of architecture prompt you to craft a children’s story in a way that no other authorial worldview could? How might you craft a story to be read aloud to children, potentially inviting the adult reader to improvise ad lib embellishments or other performative enhancements? How can picture books enable us to envision, engage, and entertain new and pleasurable worlds?
Submission Details
SOILED – No. 8 – Onceuponascrapers invites illustrated short fiction, nonfiction, fables, fairy tales, poetry, and plays, among many other formats borrowed from children’s literature. All submitted contributions must include illustrations or visual content in addition to text; we also welcome illustrated or visual narratives that operate without any text. Please send a complete manuscript, including all text and images/illustrations. Text should not exceed 500 words. We welcome collaborative teams of writers, illustrators, and/or architects or other creative disciplines. While selected manuscripts will go through a round of edits and revision, we will not accept abstracts or substantially incomplete manuscripts for this call for submissions.
Competition Type
Call for Submissions
Admission Area
International
Participants
Collaborative teams of writers, illustrators, and/or architects or other creative disciplines
Schedule
Submission Deadline: Friday, July 05, 2019
More information and details at
www.soiledzine.org/submit
Organizers
SOILED Magazine
www.soiledzine.org
The Competition
Onceuponascrapers will be a collection of illustrated architectural children’s stories akin to “picture books” that narrate contemporary ideas about architecture and the built environment. We believe that the possibilities for architectural writing for all ages might be amplified by challenging the conventions and tone of voice of “grown-up” behavior.
The protagonists of many children’s books are nonhuman characters, including animals, objects, and even buildings that enact animate agency and active voice. Young children do not question the ostensible absurdity or frivolity that most adults ascribe to such “more-than-human” ways of understanding subjectivity. In this way, the very makeup of children’s literary content prompts a heightened awareness of architecture’s magical condition—that is, the perceptual misalignments between the real and the imaginary and the vital agency of built matter. For this reason, the format of children’s stories is preordained to communicate expanded ideas about architecture.
When it comes to the intersection of architecture and children’s literature, we’re inspired by books like Crockett Johnson’s Harold and Purple Crayon, Antoinette Portis’s Not a Box, and Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House for example. Stories like The Little House anthropomorphize buildings to render the emotion and agency of architectural matter more palpable and relatable. Stories such as Harold and the Purple Crayon are not explicitly about architecture or narrated from an architectural point of view, but rather demonstrate how the act of drawing enables the production of space and our worldly participation in it. Stories like Not a Box elevate the representation of the spatial imagination as an equal player alongside the representation of “reality”.
We invite you to riff on all of these literary tropes and narrative possibilities or invent your own! How might your interest in and understanding of architecture prompt you to craft a children’s story in a way that no other authorial worldview could? How might you craft a story to be read aloud to children, potentially inviting the adult reader to improvise ad lib embellishments or other performative enhancements? How can picture books enable us to envision, engage, and entertain new and pleasurable worlds?
Submission Details
SOILED – No. 8 – Onceuponascrapers invites illustrated short fiction, nonfiction, fables, fairy tales, poetry, and plays, among many other formats borrowed from children’s literature. All submitted contributions must include illustrations or visual content in addition to text; we also welcome illustrated or visual narratives that operate without any text. Please send a complete manuscript, including all text and images/illustrations. Text should not exceed 500 words. We welcome collaborative teams of writers, illustrators, and/or architects or other creative disciplines. While selected manuscripts will go through a round of edits and revision, we will not accept abstracts or substantially incomplete manuscripts for this call for submissions.
Competition Type
Call for Submissions
Admission Area
International
Participants
Collaborative teams of writers, illustrators, and/or architects or other creative disciplines
Schedule
Submission Deadline: Friday, July 05, 2019
More information and details at
www.soiledzine.org/submit
