One Project Done, What Comes Next?

After the editing of an important book with submissions from around the world, I wondered, what can come next? The project I took an as a bit of light relief, while of some interest, hasn’t completely engaged my attention. I felt I needed something meatier, to really engage me with my major writing project. Having that other anthology go well was a bit of an encouragement to do it again, to see if the success can be repeated.

This is the successful project: I’ve written about this book, the creation of it and so on, elsewhere on this blog, feel free to look around to see what has happened.

Plague Invasion is an anthology of creative writing written in response to the prompt of Covid-19, and I received fantastic responses in both poetry and prose in response to this prompt. As the Editor of this book, I put it all together and had it printed, then organised a launch for the book, and advertising of the book and related information, online and via print media.

That was certainly a big, and important issue to write about, as shown by the writing received, but also a broad enough subject to receive a wide range of responses. Even when responses followed similar paths, they were still varied enough to maintain interest.

I had never done something as ‘global’ as that anthology, and so when I realised the similar importance of another issue of widespread through the world, and as important, I decided to take another look and work toward creating another anthology, one of extreme importance …

That important theme, if you haven’t worked it out already, is Climate Change. When you consider how many people are possibly to be made homeless, or even killed by the effects of Climate Change, you realise just how important it is that we, the whole world, think about the climate, and the way it is dangerously changing …

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For Plague Invasion, it was the name of the book that sparked my interest the most right at the beginning, in April 2020, when Covid-19 first hit, That and the feeling I must do something big, in reaction to this virus that was causing so much trouble. The title grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go.

But with this new project, the title, at the moment anyway, is just a working title, and I don’t know if that title is likely to hold out until the book is ready to be printed, and then launched.

This website has lots of information about Climate Change and Global Warming that is the reason why these changes are happening so rapidly, since the world changed in the 1950s and continues to change, with more and more things occurring in response to humankind, and out effect on the world …

My idea is to have three sections in this anthology, each split into two parts. The two parts, as with Plague Invasion, are the split between Poetry, and Prose. The three sections? Well, the working title what they will be. The working title is Climate/Change/Climate Change and so there will be a section about Climate, another about Change, and then the final section will specifically be about Climate Change, the biggie that is causing Global Warming, and looking to drown islands in the the Pacific Ocean, and causing massive changes in our weather …

So there it is, those who wish to be involved are to write in either poetry or prose, or both, about Climate, or Change, or the big one, Climate Change. By Climate, the reference is to the trends of what is happening, rather than just one day, and can refer to weather trends, the ongoing feeling in a workplace, or a marriage, or an educational facility, a sporting club, and so on.

Change covers a large variety of things, changing jobs, changing a baby’s nappy, changing gender, changing cars. There are a great many other things that get changed, you might change your clothes, your mind, the colour of your hair, your friends, the kind of pet you have, and I could go on and on, again …

And with Climate Change, I am looking for references to this global force that is the cause of so much damage going on all around the world. Weather is being more destructive, more often than anyone alive can ever remember. and as the NASA site linked here mentions.

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So, now we get to the nitty gritty details on what I actually want from you, the potential submitter to this anthology.

I will accept up to 3 poems of up to 30 lines, and up to 3 pieces of prose (fiction or non fiction) of up to 2000 words based on one, some, or all of the writing prompts. If in the writing of your submission you make reference to more than one of the three writing prompts of the working title in a single submitted piece, please indicate in your submission which you consider to be the most important/relevant prompt.

My intent is to have this anthology ready in time to be launched in late July next year, during the running of the 2022 Gawler and Adelaide Plains Festival of Words (Imagination). To allow this to be ready in time, the closing date for submission of works for this anthology is 1 May 2022.

So there it is, an important anthology with submissions open to all in the world who wish to be involved in talking about important things … I look forward to receiving your submissions to the Climate/Change – Climate Change anthology.

Submissions online only please, to this email address: kittycordo@gmail.com