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ISSUE 2.4: submit by Jan 31
Banner artist: Connor Andersen (itsconnorandersen.com)

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Don't be shy: submit your art-replying-to-other-art for a place in issue 2.4!

Deadline Jan 31. longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Suki Seokyeong Kang's 𝑺𝒉𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒚, 2013-2015)
"A jilted lover calls to say, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑. Exhibition value appreciates. I shut the book."

Excerpt from Sarah Burgoyne's "Four Thoughts on Gail Scott," imposed on 2nd ed cover of Scott's 𝑀𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠 (1999).

Read Sarah's CNF piece in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/sa...
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"A jilted lover calls to say, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑. Exhibition value appreciates. I shut the book."

Excerpt from Sarah Burgoyne's "Four Thoughts on Gail Scott," imposed on 2nd ed. cover of Scott's novel 𝑀𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠.

Read Sarah's CNF piece in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/sa...
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"The house had two stories."

An excerpt from Natalie Rice's poem "Looking In," imposed on Francesca Woodman's self-portrait 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑, 𝑅𝑜𝑚𝑒, 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑦 (1977-78).

Read Natalie's poetic reply to Woodman's self-portraiture (including her 𝐸𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠) in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/na...
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"His arms and legs are becoming birds"

An excerpt from Hugh Thomas's poem "Razovsky at peace," imposed on a detail from the cover of @razovsky.bsky.social's collection 𝑹𝒂𝒛𝒐𝒗𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆 (2001).

Read Hugh's re-translation of Stuart Ross's poem in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/hu...
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"The lesson of the statement/The problem nevertheless/The business/The relationships"

Excerpt from Gil McElroy's "A Frame" in the sky above 1380 Ypres Ave (Windsor, ON), designed by Garnet A McElroy.

Read "A Frame," an intergenerational inter-art reply, in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/gi...
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔"

An uplifting excerpt from Hannah Zamora's short story "Silence Thing," paired with a photo of Montreal Botanical Garden's juniper bonsai (c. 1750), to which Hannah's story replies.

Read "Silence Thing" in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/ha...
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"The minor character is / required to repeat all the things that injure her."

Excerpt from Angela Hibbs's poem "Maps," imposed on Man Ray's 𝑁𝑜𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑡 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒 (1926), which it references.

Read "Maps" in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/an...
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Don't be shy: submit your art-replying-to-other-art for a place in issue 2.4!

Deadline Jan 31. longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Suki Seokyeong Kang's 𝑺𝒉𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒚, 2013-2015)
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
reproduction/creation
satirical/reverential
studying/deviating

Productive tensions in Kieran Valde's artist's statement for 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔, imposed on detail from Velázquez's 𝐴𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑔𝑔𝑠.

See Kieran's "ironic reproduction" of Velázquez in issue 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/ki...
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"If a sledgehammer is not enough / for the drywall / bring in a girls’ swim team."

Excerpt from Marilyn Letts's "(De)Construction Instructions," imposed on 2010 flyer for Sawako Nakayasu's "Improvisational Score."

Read Marilyn's poetic reply to Nakayasu in issue 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/ma...
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"...I move through cloth, binding memory into seams."

An excerpt from Connor Andersen's artist's statement for 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 (𝟎𝟔𝟏𝟎𝟐𝟒 – 𝟎𝟔𝟐𝟑𝟐𝟒), imposed on a panel from Agnes Martin’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 (1979).

See Connor's quiltwork 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭... in issue 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/co...
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Excerpt from Anton Pooles's poem "EO" with detail from the theatrical poster for Jerzy Skolimowski's 𝐸𝑂, to which Anton's poem responds.

Read "EO" in ISSUE 2.2: longconmag.com/issue-2-2/an...
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Why are you just sitting on that coral-ated umbrella?!

Submit your art-that-replies-to-other-art for issue 2.3!

Extended deadline: November 14. longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝑁𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑒́ 𝐼𝐼, 1940)
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Reposted by long con magazine + Collusion Books
Very excited to share that my Bread and Roses collage is in issue 2.2 of @longconmagazine.bsky.social! Head over to longconmag.com to read my accompanying essay—and check out some fantastic poetry, fiction and art, too 😃
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
ISSUE 2.2 (longconmag.com/issue-2-2/) is Connor Andersen, Yvonne Blomer, Sarah Burgoyne, A. Damon Cutter, Angela Hibbs, Lori Langille, Marilyn Letts, Gil McElroy, Jessica Patterson, Anton Pooles, Emma Rhodes, Natalie Rice, Hugh Thomas, Kieran Valde, & Hannah Zamora
ISSUE 2.2
Andersen | Blomer | Burgoyne | Cutter | Hibbs | Langille | Letts | McElroy | Patterson | Pooles | Rhodes | Rice | Thomas | Valde | Zamora
longconmag.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We publish strange and wonderful artworks (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & translations + visual, video, audio, & other art) that are inspired by, respond to, and reinvent other artworks.

Submit by Oct 31 for a place in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/submit/

(🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒, 1947)
September 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Bidding farewell to issue 2.2 subs, we bid a cheeky hey there handsome stranger to issue 2.3 submissions.

We want artworks (any form) that reply to other works of art & culture, and we want them by October 31 at longconmag.com/submit/. You in, or what?

(🎨 Wolfgang Paalen's 𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝑒́𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠, 1937)
August 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
REMINDER: we've opened an 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂-𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅! All creative nonfiction submitted by Aug 22 will be considered for issue 2.2: longconmag.com/submit/

What are we looking for? 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 (in some way) 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭.
August 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We're still accepting creative nonfiction submissions for ISSUE 2.2 until Aug 22. For all other lit genres and art forms, our next submission deadline--for ISSUE 2.3--is Oct 31. SPOOKY.

Details, as always, are at longconmag.com/submit/
August 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Excerpt from Louise Piper's short nonfiction "Resting Place," tidily tucked onto Tracey Emin’s self-portrait 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 𝐺𝑜𝑡 𝐼𝑡 𝐴𝑙𝑙 (2000).

Follow Louise's wayfinding among Emin, Dali, Hopper, Monet, and Knight in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/lo...
August 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Excerpt from Peter Richardson's poetic suite "Three Polaroids from Cormac McCarthy's Highway," in the style of the first edition cover of McCarthy's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 (2006).

Revisit 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑑 in a new light in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/pe...
August 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It's a mere 30ish hours until submissions close for ISSUE 2.2 of our lil' quarterly dedicated to art-replying-to-art!

Send us your painting, collage, photography, sculpture, & other visual art! Send us your CNF, fiction, and poetry! Your music, video art, weird sound art!

longconmag.com/submit/
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Excerpt from Michael Russell's 𝑌𝑢-𝐺𝑖-𝑂ℎ! 𝑉𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑁𝑆-inspired poem "isekai"—superimposed on cover art from the first DVD boxset of the series (2017).

Read Michael's agile, gutting poem in ISSUE 2.1: longconmag.com/issue-2-1/mi...
August 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM