Burning House Press are excited to welcome MAPULE MOHULATSI as our JULY 2020 guest editor! As of today MAPULE will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of JULY.

Submissions are open from today – and will remain open until 25TH JULY.

MAPULE’S theme for the month is as follows

SINK

We sink, we jettison, we dive, we drown. We sink in water. We sink on kitchen floors, in bedrooms. Remember the mushy spot in the garden? When the soft soil enveloped your fingers? We sink in disease and late capitalist terror. We sink in skin. We sink on skin. With the advent of rising sea levels we, yes, all of us, ‘go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged’. We drop downwards. We high and then we low. We deepen. 

Mapule Mohulatsi is a reader and writer from Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently undergoing a PhD in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. 

Submission Guidelines

All submissions should be sent as attachments to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com

Please state the theme and form of your submission in the subject of the email. For example: SINK/POETRY

Poetry and Fiction

For poetry submissions, submit no more than three of your best poems. Short stories should be limited to 1,500 words or (preferably) less. We encourage flash fiction submissions, no more than three at a time. Send these in as a .doc or .docx file, along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Art
Submit hi-res images of your works (drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, photography, etc) with descriptions of the work (Title, Year, Medium, etc) in the body of the email. Files should be in .JPEG unless they are GIFs or videos, and should not exceed 2MB in size for each work. File names should correspond with the work titles. Video submissions can be uploaded onto Youtube or Vimeo for feature on our website. Send these submissions along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.

Virtual Reality/ 3D Artworks

For VR Submissions, please submit no more than three (3) individual artworks. For Tilt Brush works, please upload your artwork to Google Poly (https://poly.google.com/), and mark it as ‘public’ (‘remixable’ is at your own preference). A VR/3D artwork can also be submitted as a video export navigating through the artwork. If you prefer this method, please upload your finished video file to YouTube or Vimeo and provide a URL. With either format, please provide a 150 word artist’s statement.

Non-fiction
Non-fiction submissions (essays, reviews, commentary, interviews, etc) should be no more than 1, 500 words and sent as a .doc or .docx file along with your third-person bio/and optional photograph.

Submissions are open until 25th July – and will reopen again on 1st August 2020/for new theme/new editor/s.

BHP online is now in the capable hands of the amazing MAPULE MOHULATSI – friends, arsonistas, send our JULY 2020 guest editor your magic!