GARLAND Issue 2

GARLAND is a guest-edited biannual literary magazine by fifth wheel press. Named for a garland of sonnets, this magazine will be exclusively shaped by fifth wheel press community members. Twice a year, we invite a guest editor or collaborative editorial team to curate an issue based on their vision.

Edited by Eleanor Ball

Featuring work by Haley Bossé, Solaire Catindig, [sarah] Cavar, Reyzl Grace, Chris Gylee, Crystal Odelle, Erica Rivera, t.r. san, Bethany Tap, JP Thorn

Call: "Queer perspectives are often overlooked or devalued in traditional, mainstream SFF spaces, despite the unique synergy between speculative and queer ways of thinking about the world. This is what gender studies scholar Judith Butler calls 'the critical promise of fantasy:' the unparalleled ability of unfettered imagination and speculative stories to challenge the status quo by questioning, defamiliarizing, and reimagining our traditions, ethics, environments, histories, and cultural narratives. For this call, I am looking for speculative work by queer writers that engages in some way with these critical, alternate imaginings, such as by unapologetically forefronting queer lives; considering our past, present, and/or future through a new lens; imagining alternate futures, mythologies, and worlds—however you engage with the critical, queer promise of fantasy."