Call for Proposals
Inaugural Issue: “Identity, Cultural Practices, and Art in New Mexico”
Best Consideration Date: Friday, September 25, 2020
Authors will be notified of submission status by June 1, 2020
When speaking of New Mexico, identity, cultural practices, and art vary from one region to another and from one community to the next. We have cultural discourses of place and the lived realities. Is there a difference between being from New Mexico and being New Mexican? If there are certain shared features across New Mexican communities, what are those commonalities? Alternately, what are the differences in how people conceptualize being from New Mexico? A central question when considering identity is how that identity is expressed. Local cultural production, and specifically the arts, is normally one of the dynamics that shapes local awareness and experience. For the inaugural issue of Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest, we seek submissions in any or all of the categories listed in the journal mission statement that address these questions.