The sixth invitation.
This is a call for submissions for the sixth issue of Posture Publication, The Jaunt Issue.
Once a tiring or troublesome journey, a jaunt is now more often considered to be an excursion, a pleasure trip of sorts. Then there’s Stephen King’s Jaunt; a teleportation device whose trip takes no more than a mere tardis-esque instant.
” ‘It’s eternity in there,’ he said, and dropped dead of what was later diagnosed as a massive heart attack.
The scientists foregathered there were left with his corpse […] and that strange and awful dying declaration: It’s eternity in there.”
Of course, not wanting to restrict jaunt to either noun or verb, consider those folk we deem to be sprightly; elegant; smart; and even debonair. For those folk confident use may be made of the adjective, possibly even referring to them as delightfully jaunty, if one felt so inclined.
Posture invites you to draw, write, postulate, critique, review, scrawl, photograph, cut, and erase. Document your posture as you jaunt through space and its time.
Lets go for a trip, a romp, a frolic, or perhaps a quick nip there and back. For Carune, King’s inventor of the Jaunt, “it started with a pencil… some keys… a wristwatch… then some mice.” So, pencils, rulers, and index fingers at the ready. Big toes too —for balance. It’s time to go. This is the Jaunt issue.
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Rules for good posture:
- Submissions must be in greyscale.
- Minimum word count of two, maximum of eight hundred.
- Maximum of one A4 landscape spread. There is no minimum.
- Submitted work must be new. It may be a reinvestigation or continuation of past works, but to submit work that has already been done does not promote self-critique or challenge, merely editorial. It’s what we haven’t done yet that makes for good posture.
- Submissions for consideration must be received by the close of Tuesday the 31st of May, 2011.
The small print:
- This is an experiment; continued.
- Collaborations and multiple submissions are accepted.
- Please ensure submissions are in either .pdf or an editable digital format, allow for an outer margin of 5mm, and that all images are 300dpi.
- In light of the self-funded nature of this experiment, page numbers and run size will be limited. Depending upon the number of submissions received it may not be possible to accommodate all.
- Posture enjoys conversations. You can contact us at posture.publication@gmail.com
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King, Stephen. “The Jaunt”. Skeleton Crew. London: Futura Publications. 1985. 237-265.
