MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are open for Homegrown!

When submissions are open, email obwsubmissions@manualjc.com with your art and writing pieces for the upcoming magazine, prompt of the month, or anything else you come up with!

HOMEGROWN PROMPTS

WRITING PROMPTS

  • As people grow, what aspects of their life (people, objects, places) grow with them and what stays the same?
  • How does growth occur within groups or across generations?
    How does someone’s environment promote or prohibit growth? How can people grow despite obstacles in their environment?
  • What is something that you would tell your younger self, knowing what you know now?
  • How can you highlight the way growth can be both ugly and beautiful?
  • How do parts of ourselves expire or rot as we continue to grow?
  • How can you use connections to the physical growth of plants as a metaphor for other forms of growth?

ART PROMPTS

  • How can you portray the connection between growth in nature and growth in
    humans?
  • Show a series of images depicting growth or change, like stages of
    metamorphosis. Is your subject a person, or an object? What caused it to undergo this change?
  • Take inspiration from botanical prints and diagrams, and show a more analytical perspective to the organic nature of change.
  • How do things change as you age? How does that show in a physical form? (wrinkles, flower buds, tree trunk rings, height) Show the differences between
    youth and age.
  • How can new life or progress come out of the remains of something else? Show a rebirth/renewal through your artwork.
  • Depict a symbiotic relationship that compels growth between organisms and people.

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We do too! Anything you submit to obwsubmissions@manualjc.com can and will be featured! Alongside that, ANY art or writing you want to share can be emailed with a brief description of your piece. We can't wait to see what you've created!