Call for submissions
NeoVox, SUNY Cortland's online magazine, is accepting submissions for its Winter 2015 issue.
For winter 2015, the theme is Where in the World.
Deadline is October 15th.
Written Submissions
Word count maximum: 2000 words
Accepted file formats: .doc; .docx; .rft
Visual Submissions
All visual entries are being accepted, traditional and digital. Please direct any questions you have to our Art Director, Nolan Griswold, at nolan.griswold@cortland.edu.
Thoughts on the Theme
Our birth certificate identifies the place where we were born. Some of us have lived in New York our entire lives, born in towns such as Rochester, Oyster Bay, or Watertown. Others among us were born in a neighboring state or halfway across the country; some of us have foreign cities on our birth certificates. And yet, here we are now. In this classroom. On the campus of SUNY Cortland.
But where shall we go next? Science fiction imagines that in the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to bend space or (warp it) so that we can overcome the drag of relativity and travel from earth to a distant galaxy in one person’s lifetime. But what would we find there?
Robert Frost said that "home is the place where they have to take you in," and some of us will do just that when we graduate. Home will always be the town where our families live. We're content to continue to grow where our roots first grabbed a patch of earth. The vagabonds among us, even now, dream of beaches and cathedrals, the steppes and the desert, content to stay in one place only long enough to lay down some footprints.
It was Confucius (or was it Buckaroo Banzai?) who declared that "no matter where you go, there you are," which makes us believe that we never really left. We're in Plato's Cave, convinced that what we see around us is what there is. Why leave the comfort of the warm and the dark? It worked for our first nine months, didn't it?
And the question that follows us like Sancho Panza is “where?” Where are we? What are we doing? And how did we get here?"