The Caterpillar Chronicles is a nonprofit literary and arts magazine born in the liminal realm between text and image.
As a result of our careful scientific investigation of the tubular and segmented construction of the caterpillar in our secret laboratories, we, the editors, have decided to nominate the caterpillar as the guiding totem in our attempt to put together segments of creative histories linked by common themes or images.
Our magazine hopes to kindle experimental exercises in creative writing based on images. Each issue will propose themes and images as starting points for texts of many forms, lengths, colours and complexions. We're also open to various other means of artistic expression such as photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, comics, videos, mixed media, etc.
we're interested in :interdisciplinarity::
we're smitten with :texts inspired by images::
& absolutely infatuated with :all forms of poetic expression that combine many arts and crafts::
We also have a sweet tooth for experimental writing and we're interested in texts that approach matters of structure and style, as well as content.
The Caterpillar Chronicles is a quarterly magazine. We are currently accepting submissions of poetry, critical essays, short fiction, nonfiction, reviews, visual art, comics, lost genres and anything else we haven't yet thought of. We value many-sidedness and embrace all forms of creative expression. The reviewing process will take about two months in which time the authors will be notified if their piece is to be published in our magazine. All selected submissions will be published online on our website and archived in the digital issues of the magazine. We're also working on a paper-based edition of the magazine which will hopefully rear its pretty head in the summer of 2011.
THE EDITORS
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Alexandra Magearu (Editor-in-Chief) is pursuing her doctoral studies in Comparative Literature at UC, Santa Barbara. She dabbles in writing and images. She is known to have had a secret fling with Oscar Wilde in her youth. She is now very much infatuated with Mrs. Woolf. She sometimes feels that The Book of Disquiet was written by an alter ego from the past who is writing and re-writing the book while she’s reading and re-reading it.
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Alexandra Magearu (Editor-in-Chief) is pursuing her doctoral studies in Comparative Literature at UC, Santa Barbara. She dabbles in writing and images. She is known to have had a secret fling with Oscar Wilde in her youth. She is now very much infatuated with Mrs. Woolf. She sometimes feels that The Book of Disquiet was written by an alter ego from the past who is writing and re-writing the book while she’s reading and re-reading it.
Diana Voinea holds a BA in translation issues and is attending an MA in French literary translations. Professional deciphereress to be, vitruvian and helplessly ensnared in murky mysteries, she is standing in the middle of the zoetrope, waiting for godot. Obstinately trying to get feminism and deconstruction, she blabbers all day long in the language of Duchamp. Ouais !
Ema Dumitriu studied Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest, with a major in American Studies and a minor in French. She feels like she is never going to get over her fixation on Rimbaud and his fellow “assassins”. She’s currently anemic, which is not to say that she suffers from bad blood (and sweat and tears), yet keeps going ‘ON!ON!’
Mihaela Precup is currently co-authoring an "as weekly as possible" online comic with British artist Adam Hyde (Jules and Crispin). She is also an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest. She's a flaky geek, unreliable deadline keeper, constantly poking fingers into many diversely flavored pies, such as memory and trauma, comics and family photography, gender and sexuality.