Divagations: Experiments in Life Writing is a magazine of short-form biography and memoir. We celebrate the digression, the disruptive, the amble, the aside, the askew. Extra points for the playful, the ineffable, the reconsidered, the etcetera. We treasure all that is surprising, strange, unexpected, and/or beautiful.
Our second issue is currently in the works! If you loved our first one and would like to support us in our future work, please donate what you can HERE.
OPEN CALL FOR ISSUE TWO!
We invite you to submit biographical and memoiristic work that may or may not defy categorization. Send us original passages, whether focused or fractured or genre-flouting. Take a look at Issue One (linked above) to get an idea of where we’re headed.
(If you have any trouble with the Google Form or prefer email, please reach us at divagationsmag@gmail.com)
Ideal length: 500-1500 words.
(Images welcomed.)
Ravings and wanderings might include:
the annotated grocery list
the avant-garde
the biographic detail
the choose-your-own-adventure
the chosen family tree
the colorful
the confessional rain check
the dream
the D&D campaign
the essay
the graphic
the incinerated diary entry
the letter of devotion
the note to self
the poetic
the polyphonic apology
the postcard
the recipe
the redacted testimony
the recollected
the super-short screenplay
the spam inbox collage
the timeline (aestheticized)
the translation
the treatise
the wanderer’s reminiscence
the weird experiment in form
The manifesto?
The petite picaresque?
The difficult dinner invitation?
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