Call for Submissions: Chaos Issue
First
there was Chaos, the vast immeasurable abyss,
Outrageous
as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild.
[John Milton,
Paradise Lost]
Chaos has many meanings. The ancient
Greeks saw Chaos as the dark abyss from which life sprung. Mathematicians use
Chaos theory to explain how small decisions can give rise to unexpectedly grave
consequences. For parents, Chaos is their child’s bedroom, their busy work
schedule. Most of us spend our lives trying to ward off Chaos and keep order. But
what happens when we no longer avoid Chaos, and instead embrace it?
In Issue 56, Hayden’s
Ferry Review will celebrate the unordered, the frenzied, the messy, and the
“dark, wasteful, wild.”
Send us your stories, essays, poems, translations,
and art that explore the meaning of Chaos. Maybe you have an essay disrupts the
conventions of form, or a story that unravels the turmoil in a character’s
life. With Chaos comes its antithesis: order, direction, calm. Capture the
chaotic in ways we’ve never imagined.