(February 2010 update: Arctica is now set to launch on Friday, February 12, online and in a little studio in Whitehorse too, if you’re nearby)
Just before I moved to Dawson in April, a writer friend in Vancouver e-introduced me to an editor/writer in Whitehorse who was putting together an editorial team to plan an online magazine about Northern culture.
These few months later, Arctica Magazine is closer and closer to being out of our heads and into the world. The website has been purchased, editorial plans are under way and funding discussions are taking place.
Lily Gontard – formerly with North of Ordinary Magazine, among others – has been amazing in keeping the dozen or so of us on the editorial board focused and the magazine moving along. The result: Arctica’s first edition will be in December! February 2010!
Here’s the call for submissions:
Arctica Magazine (www.ArcticaMag.ca) is a new monthly online circumpolar art and culture magazine set to launch in December 2009 and it needs your content. The magazine will publish literary fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, short video and photo essays about the circumpolar region, but created by anyone – Northerners and those with Northern experience.
Deadline for submissions for the first issue is October 26, 2009. (Update: Arctica has an ongoing, rolling deadline for submissions.)
Send your short stories, creative non-fiction or poetry pasted into your email, or attached as a Word or RTF file to submissions@ArcticaMag.ca. Prose up to 3,500 words will be considered; five poems or three pages of poetry (single spaced). To submit a video (3 minute limit) or photo essay, email a link for viewing.
From The Ice Cubicle’s perspective, I’m going to add: please send creative work about ice!
And please pass this call on to your friends in other circumpolar countries. Arctica’s goal is to develop a rich network of international contributors and readers, sharing – and enjoying – the creative energy that already exists in every culture north of 60.
meg walker 