submit res futura

Submissions to the second print issue of our journal, as well as to our new tabloid/zine format, are now open. Please carefully read all the below instructions.

You are invited to submit a piece to be considered for Issue 2 of Res Futura, or for our tabloid/zine publication, or both.

Res Futura is our flagship journal, which will be professionally designed and printed as a book. Selection for the journal will be based both on the rigorousness of the content with respect to its form and subject, and stylistic excellence. If your submission to the journal is accepted, you will have the opportunity to work in depth with a substantive editor and copy editor to refine your piece.

Tabloids/zines will be printed in-house on regular paper and distributed locally. Submissions to the tabloids/zines will also be vetted for content and style, but may be accepted at a less stringent standard compared to the journal. Your article will be edited and copy-edited if accepted to a tabloid/zine, but with less depth relative to the journal, due to the higher number of pieces being edited for tabloids/zines.

All submissions may be nonfiction (e.g., academic articles, journalistic pieces, book reviews) or creative works (e.g., poetry, short stories, visual art). For nonfiction works, if citations are required, adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, “full note” style: use footnotes (not endnotes), and include full bibliographic information in footnotes, not in a separate bibliography. Long form submissions should not exceed 8000 words. Shorter form essays and reviews are welcome.

If you plan to submit visual art, note that both the journal and the tabloids/zines will be printed in grayscale. Please also include the artist name, medium, and original dimensions. You are welcome to include other context about the art as part of the submission, but, as a rule, we will not include artist statements in publication.

When you submit a work, you will have to specify one or two editors by whom you would like the work to be considered. Below is the full list of editors, along with the topics which they edit. The general editor who receives your submission will take into account your preferred editors in assigning your work, but may assign it to a different editor if the proposed editor is uninterested or unavailable, or if a different editor is judged to be more appropriate for a given work. If your work does not seem to match any of our editors’ topics, you may submit it, but it is likely that it will be rejected as irrelevant.

Submissions will be open on a first-come-first-serve basis until a sufficient number of pieces have been accepted for the respective publications.

Submit a work by emailing it to us at q-and-a@resfutura.ca. Besides the piece itself, you must include the following information in your email:
(1) Title of the work (or specify if untitled)
(2) Author name (or pseudonym)
(3) Whether the work is to be considered for the journal, the tabloid/zine, or both
(4) One or two editors to whom you would like your work to be submitted


Editors:

Alex Fournier is a practicing musician and composer who is familiar with philosophies of immanence and their lineages. Topics: music, composition, philosophy of immanence, fiction

Andrew Murphy once found a really cool shell! He only knows of what the voice that whispers in the dark copse speaks of. Topics: literature, mysticism.

Dextra Darling is a fruity lil’ filmmaker, drug nerd extraordinaire, and Res Futura’s resident bunny girl! Topics: history, culture, and pharmacology of drugs; film history

James Yuan practices psychotherapy and is lecturing on dialectics. Topics: continental philosophy, psychology, social theory, queer theory, Western esotericism

Jonathan Russell is a trade unionist, and an independent scholar and journalist in the area of labour and housing justice. Topics: German Idealism, 19th and 20th century intellectual history, Marxism, political economy, social science, critical theory, Freud

Justin Mostacci has over ten years of experience as an architectural designer, specializing in cultural spaces and multi-unit residential buildings. Topics: design, architecture, Western art, urbanism.

Kian Kenyon-Dean is a director of AI research with a professional background in applied machine learning, and a red diaper baby. Topics: AI, computational biology, mathematics, Marxism, political economy, structural linguistics.

Naseem Rine-Reesha practices and researches psychotherapy and lectures on psychoanalysis. Topics: psychoanalysis, literature, counselling psychology, rhetoric, autotheory, aesthetics

Nevada-Jane Arlow is a poet. Topics: poetry, literature, fiction, art history, performance studies