Call for Submissions

this semester, v.1 (volume-1.org),
RISD's student run publishing platform, is...

🔍 ZOOMING OUT:

before, we might greet you:
"welcome back",
back as a return, as a retread,
back to behind us,
to the good old days,
to the routines and
familiar gestures of the season.
back to the thing that we
have done before and continue to do.

although...

the met,
suggesting the apocalypse,
1985 (RISD digital commons)

to simulate normalcy as best we can is not the solution;
the solution is only ahead.

through and around the
zoom windows,
sanitary plexiglass windows,
bedroom windows.

when you look away from zoom, what do you see?

anytime, send us stories from quar or hopes for the future;

all kinds of verbal and non-verbal mediums are welcome:

videos,

theory,

paintings,

scripture,

maps,

comics,

mixed-media poems,

musing,

soundscapes,

orchestral interpretation,

letters,

pleas,

experimental text,

demands,

making a pie,

tarot reading—

keep your eyes open and imagination wild, and send your submissions or ideas to v1@risd.edu and we'll respond very soon and walk alongside you till your submission reaches its destination—whether online or in printed form.

thank you for your participation,

we are here to welcome something new, and

RISD students have already begun to build it.

—editors, v.1

Asher White
Corinne Ang
Joss Liao
Reilly Blum
Shelby Shaw