EXTENDED: Call for Proposals: Edited Volume, North Meridian Press, “Subtle Body Horror.”

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Call for Proposals

Anthology Editors: Kailey Tedesco & Mauve Perle Tahat

We invite contributions for Subtle Body Horror, an anthology exploring the intersections of embodiment, pain, and transformation.

The title plays on the idea of the “subtle body," the energetic or spiritual body, and the notion of “subtle” as slight, creeping, or insidious.

This collection will consider how the human body contains, produces, and resists horror: in illness, in injury, in ritual, in daily life.

We’re looking for:

• Critical-creative essays (approximately 2,000–4,000 words) that explore the aesthetics and meanings of body horror.

• Essays may be scholarly, personal, hybrid, or experimental in form, so long as they engage deeply with questions of embodiment and horror.

• Email full manuscripts, or a short 500 word max abstract to wrbishop@jsu.edu; mauve.tahat@gmail.com; Kaileytedesco@gmail.com.

• Include title, and a brief 200 word bio.

   

  EXTENDED to 12/31/25