Special Feature Section
for Volume 66
EXPLORING THE TABOO
Taboo (ta·boo | tə-ˈbü )
proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable,
prohibited or excluded from use or practice
Announcing Toyon’s Special Feature Section for Forthcoming Volume 66
While volume 66 is open to submissions related to any topic, the editorial staff will also be featuring works that explore the Unthinkable. The Taboo exists in many forms outside of the offensive and oppressive. We encourage contributors to get in touch with their inner outcasts, exploring the restrictive boundaries within themselves and their lives that we might not immediately think of as off-limits. This idea can manifest in structure or content.
What silences should be broken?
Is purple a color?
What do you not talk about at the dinner table?
What counts as literature?
What doesn’t come out in the wash?
The following list is meant to provide inspiration in relation to our theme, refusing to reduce it to one idea.
Unorthodox, unconventional, nonconformist, nontraditional writing is welcome.No shock factor, offensive, or hateful/oppressive language or imagery: See What We Look For
While volume 66 is open to submissions related to any topic, the editorial staff will also be featuring works that explore the Unthinkable. The Taboo exists in many forms outside of the offensive and oppressive. We encourage contributors to get in touch with their inner outcasts, exploring the restrictive boundaries within themselves and their lives that we might not immediately think of as off-limits. This idea can manifest in structure or content.
What silences should be broken?
Is purple a color?
What do you not talk about at the dinner table?
What counts as literature?
What doesn’t come out in the wash?
The following list is meant to provide inspiration in relation to our theme, refusing to reduce it to one idea.
- Breaking traditions
- Recovering truthful histories
- Speaking the forbidden
- Naming chronic pain
- Questioning power dynamics
- Gutting power structures
- Finding society’s underbelly
Unorthodox, unconventional, nonconformist, nontraditional writing is welcome.No shock factor, offensive, or hateful/oppressive language or imagery: See What We Look For
