Two exciting announcements | Thrust | NEW! Khôra's 500 Words
An invitation to enter our collaborative waters...
We have two exciting announcements:
We’re thrilled to invite you to enter the collaborative waters of Khôra. Read about Khôra’s 500 Words below.
Khôra is produced in collaboration with groundbreaking author Lidia Yuknavitch, and Lidia’s newest book, Thrust, is here! The New York Times calls Thrust “An epic fable [that] operates more like a poem.” Thrust has been named a best book of the summer by Time, The Los Angeles Times, Elle, The Daily Beast, Bustle, LitHub, and Gizmodo. You can order Thrust here and celebrate our beloved Lidia in person here.
Khôra’s 500 Words
Team-based, collaborative, and curated, Khôra is a form that is continually opening. We invite you to join us in sustaining it together. We don't believe in rejections. Khôra's 500 Words is about considering how multiple voices can be heard; how frameworks, traditions, and projects can inform each other; and how new perspectives emerge from collaboration and openness.
Send us 500 Words and you’ll see an automated notice that we’ve received your work. Your words will always remain active in Khôra's ocean. You won’t ever receive a notice of rejection from us. We know this process is not perfect—we are rethinking and searching, and wish to stay open to the possibility that at any point, your work will be a fit for a curated issue or team-collaboration. This doesn’t need to be a completed piece—think of it like a sample of your work at any length up to 500 words.
We are open to all genres.
Once you send 500 Words, your work will remain in our inclusive and expansive space. You can send 500 Words more than once—there’s no limit to how many times you can send us new work; just no repeats, please. If what you want to share with us is time-sensitive, please send us other work. Khôra doesn’t publish previously published work, but feel free to share any 500 words you want as a sample (published or unpublished).
Thank you for leading us.
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If you love Khôra, please subscribe, share, tweet, retweet, and post, and we will be back next month.
Big love,
Leigh
Leigh Hopkins
and the Corporeal/Khôra squad
“I hope that we write ourselves back to life … I hope that when we step into our writerly lives, we can only come alive by and through each other, by and through our beautiful differences. I hope that ‘hope’ doesn’t come from looking up ever again, but from looking each other in the eyes/I’s. I hope we stand up inside our various languages with ferocious love and courage and that we aim for what matters in the world, whether or not anyone remembers our names. Let it be true that we wrote the world and each other back to life." — Lidia Yuknavitch, source
About
Khôra is a dynamic online arts space produced in collaboration with groundbreaking author Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing. Khôra is committed to writers and artists who explore the creative by and through an ever-evolving and expansive lens. We are honored to showcase the work of polyphonic, multi-genre writers and artists.
Plato described khôra as a “formless interval, alike to a non-being.”