ONGOING CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION

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At The Invisible Archive, we see writing and publishing as a way to build friendships and support structures. Contributing to The Invisible Archive is a chance to set aside your energy to create visibility for someone else’s practice, work, or experience. We welcome proposals from anyone interested in contributing as an author to The Invisible Archive.

Please send us:

  • A half-page proposal (approximately 200–250 words on A4), in which you:

    • introduce yourself (Who are you?)

    • share who or what you want to write about, and

    • explain why you want to write about them/it.

  • One writing sample (ideally previously published, but unpublished pieces are also welcome).

Two ways to contribute
We offer two formats for contributions:

  1. Issue contribution

    • An essay of 3,000–4,000 words and a conversation transcript (3,000–4,000 words).

  2. Smaller contribution (3-4 contributions are bundled into one issue)

    • A shorter essay (1,500–2,000 words).

The Invisible Archive encourages performative writing to document, reflect on, and give testimony to an artistic practice you have witnessed, a work you have experienced, or someone/something that has deeply moved you.
Performative writing is attentive to embodiment and the performativity of the work, the person, or the practice it engages with.

It emerges through and from the body, embracing a feminist and decolonial approach. Rather than writing about from a position of authority or “knowing” (as in traditional ethnographic approaches), it invites the writer to walk alongside what they are documenting – tracing how the encounter shapes and transforms them.

This mode of writing values subjectivity and vulnerability as strengths. It seeks to unsettle and counterbalance normative academic or journalistic forms of writing and institutionalized ways of producing knowledge.

Each issue of The Invisible Archive has its own unique texture. We work with crip time in an intimate and caring editorial environment that values the labor of friendship.

If this resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you. Send your proposal to invisiblearchive@gmail.com