Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for our third issue! We received the most submissions compared to previous issues, and look forward to the review process.

Applicants should expect to hear back about the status of their proposal by October 29th.

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It's time!

Pease submit your proposals by tonight 11:59 PM Anywhere On Earth (A.O.E)

Thank you to everyone who has submitted a proposal for this issue thus far, we are greatly looking forward to the review process.

There are 2 days left to submit a 250-word proposal for work to be published in Openwork issue 3, exploring the theme of "Estrangement In Practice"

More info on our submission guidelines and the kinds of works we are seeking can be found on our website under "Call For Proposals - Issue 3"

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Highlights from issue 2: Leahley Alawi's "Out Of Baghdad!" is a personal reflection on the impact and context of Aida Nadeem's record of the same name.

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DEADLINE EXTENDED:

We are still accepting proposals for academic essays, creative multimedia works, reflections, and other intermedia related to our issue 3 theme: "Estrangement In Practice" until October 15th at Midnight Anywhere on Earth.

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Highlights from Issue 2: Ruari Paterson-Achenbach & Sophie Marie Niang present "Dolly's Laugh", an attempt to understand their long-standing obsession with the moments that shouldn’t be in song recordings, but somehow remain.

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Highlights from issue 2: Louis-Michel Tougas' "Polyrhythmic Cognition and Metric Spaces" proposes that recent insights into the cognitive limits of rhythm and meter can be translated into a compositional framework

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Highlights from issue 2: In The Magical Slickness of the Myth of Black Oil, Movement Suite, Jordan Deal proposes that "Blackness, similar to oil in its natural state, is a force that disrupts and interjects beyond boundaries and borders."

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Highlights from issue 2: Victoria Keddie's "Pshal P’shaw" investigates the sonic instability of speech—where phonetic dissonance, vocal fragmentation, and gestural sound challenge structured linguistic norms.

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Highlights from Issue 2: Iain Findlay-Walsh and Tristan Partridge present a multimedia essay "Vectors of Novelty” — an exploration of the collaborative, cooperative spaces that open up by de-naturalizing (and de-narrativizing) our participating selves.

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Highlights from Issue 2: Gray's website "Spaceshifting" is a network of portals that muse on the works of artists who explore the inhuman, tracing their trajectories across remixes and references.

Read more from issue 2 of Openwork on our website journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/op...

🔊 Call for Proposals: "Estrangement In Practice"

For our third issue, we invite contributions that engage with music and art as estrangement.

Read more at the link in our bio, and submit proposals before midnight on Oct. 8, 2025

📷 Jerry Hunt by Lona Foote @roulettenyc.bsky.social