Submit your work for Litter: The EDC's Eco-Journal
Toxicity is more than a descriptor of physical contaminants or harmful substances. It is a condition that entwines bodies and environments, ideas and infrastructures. It takes the form of illness and exhaustion, but also alienation, silencing, and harm. It undoes the conditions that promote health, wellbeing, community, coalition, inclusion, and safety. The world becomes unlivable not only because the air is polluted or the soil is poisoned, but also when the collective capacity to care and imagine otherwise becomes contaminated.
However, sometimes the poison carries knowledge. Sometimes the toxin, under the right conditions, teaches us how to live differently. Always, the noxious prompts us to how we might locate its counterforces. The challenge, then, is not simply how to avoid toxins, but how to redesign the conditions that produce them.
For this Winter edition of Litter, we invite submissions that consider how we might identify, imagine, and design responses to both literal and figurative toxicities from polluted environments and harmful systems, to social, political, and psychological poisonings.
We encourage submissions from diverse disciplines that span from written to sculpted, from tangible to digital, from speculative fiction to narratives of lived experience, all of which resonate with the theme Antidotes to Toxicity.
Authors and artists whose work is accepted will receive a $100 honorarium in recognition of their time and effort.
Looking for inspiration? Check out our inaugural issue of Litter, on the topic of Rethinking Ecological Design in a Time of Reactionary Politics.
Deadline: Nov. 28th, 2025 |
