Curio

For Journal Nineteen, Muleskinner Journal will explore the idea of Curio –  the object or story, the collection of characters or events that shouldn’t matter – but somehow do. 

For Curio, send us the small, strange, specific, and suggestive. Send us the talisman, the curiosity, the memento. Send us the whole damn cabinet.

Curio is about character: the collector driven by desire, the archivist bringing order to the strange, the wanderer pocketing objects from the roadside, the tinkerer resurrecting the broken, and even the child whose imagination animates the mundane. 

For Journal Nineteen we ask you to visit the flea market, search the attic and empty your pockets. Brings us the objects, relics, artifacts, oddities, and hybrids that you find.  

Bring us the stories beneath the object. Bring us the characters that hold up the story. 

Note: PLEASE review our guidelines before submitting. Following our guidelines makes everything easier, helps the universe align, and guarantees favorable outcomes in the next elections. The key change for issue 19 is reducing the word count requirement for short stories and nonfiction to a 3000-word maximum. All the guidelines are important though.

Journal Nineteen: Curio will accept submissions between July 20 and September 6.

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