Why, I’ll tell you why I’m so thrilled – I’ve only just put out the word about the new Anthology I have begun working on, and the submissions have already begun arriving!
The theme of my first Anthology was Covid-19, a bit theme for sure, but the combined themes for this next anthology is possible an even bigger one, even if it may seem to be distant, to some people. But with a theme of Climate Change, and Climate, and Change separately, well that takes in Global Warming, and with the seas rising up and trying to swallow up island nations, this theme is one that also has potentially deadly effects.
So, while this anthology is about something I’m not thrilled about happening, I AM thrilled to process of raising concerns and sharing ideas about these matters has begun, and will result in the publication of a book that brings discussion of important notions into the world.
So the stated themes for this anthology are these: ‘Climate, Change, and Climate Change’. Three different things, but perhaps with many possible connections between them. I leave it to the contributors to this call for works, to make any connections, or simply focusing on one single theme, Change perhaps, and make no connections from that to anything larger or more global that the changing of a light globe.
But is even that process of change as simple a thing as seems at first. I remember when light globes were cheaper than they are now, and why did we so easily make the change to the new, more expensive kind? The change to low-energy (LED) light bulbs came in in most countries, and the people have had to make the change, because they were the main option available.
Low energy means less carbon in the world, and that is a good thing, good for the planet, which means good for all. And the higher cost is off set by the fact these LED lights last much for longer than the old incandescent ones we all had in 2006 and earlier. So better for us, and better for the globe yet again.
And of course climate – the prevailing conditions occurring over a long term in weather, or in opinion, etc, this is another important theme to write about. If the climate of opinion on something is that money is the most important thing, what kind of a world does that make for this living at that time? What if the climate of opinion was that the betterment of conditions for all was more important than filling the pockets, of a few?
So these and many more ideas will suit this anthology, and I look forward to reading works that arrive!
Submissions are to be made via this email address: kittycordo@gmail.com and the submission period will go on until 1 May 2022, with the anthology planned to be launched in late July 2022.
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 