E karanga e te iwi e!

Call for submissions and introduction

Love in the Time of COVID: A Chronicle of a Pandemic has evolved from a conversation – or, rather, a series of conversations – between friends, colleagues and family about how and where we could meet during lockdown to tell our stories, share our experiences and enrich our lives, in the face of so much uncertainty. This is what we look like now at loveinthetimeofcovidchronicle.com

The project’s aim is to offer an unprecedented opportunity for voices all over the world to share, in quality fiction and non-fiction, poetry and dialogue, art and music and more, the collective experiences of the international community during COVID.

We welcome submissions for website content to build this community, as well as submissions for an anthology in 2021.

Content will not be limited to the pandemic; rather, it will range in topic and form around the matters of our lives, whether political, social, economic, spiritual and/or educational. We are building a ‘snapshot’ of our lives in 2020 – the year which, during the lockdown structure of the pandemic, other crises have seemed to reach a boiling point and a new urgency has been born. The questions we will ask will be around how we cope, and how we hope.

We look forward to sharing poetry, story, nonfiction, dialogue and interviews, as well as painting, visual art, photography, music (video or audio) and more. We hope this is a place to bring voices together – collaborations are encouraged. Nau mai, haere mai, ka huri.

Editors: Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy

Information: loveinthetimeofcovidchronicle.com

Queries: achronicleof2020@gmail.com