OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S)

On the left is a black and white mirror image/collage of a window, old buildings/ a sense of dream mirage. On the right side image is a collage visual piece of elements overlapping and layered of a branch in lake water, and overlay of a border of pale purple water.

This is a large image of a shoe walking on old cobblestone-glass road, blurred and color altered to blue-purple shades. The three images are in juxtaposition two above, one larger, below

EXTENDED SUBMISSION CALL THRU NOV. 30th, 2025 FOR JANUARY 2026 ISSUE!

Ice Floe is excited to announce a new on-line project is opening for submissions on the 25th of October. We will accept work until Nov. 30th, 2025.

In the spirit of experimentation, hybridity and collaboration we are looking for work on the encompassing areas of Process / Marginalia / Otherworld.

We welcome guest curator Vikki C. to helm the project along with Robert Frede Kenter. These two feisty collaborators will read the submissions and make decisions for the forthcoming online issue which will appear at some point in January 2026!

Send us poems, prose, visual images, video, sound pieces. Send us work with at least 2 elements: i.e. a poem with art, prose and a video, a sound work and a poem, etc. Any combination of elements that is deeply original, new, and breaks ground in your own practice – process. You can create the elements alone or with a collaborator.

Flight / corsage. This is a visual poem collage of juxtaposed elements: flying crimson flower-wing emerging out of a grey blood red pool, on the right, green leaf shapes with red and yellow vein highlights, and other morphing shapes against a blue screen background. (All images by Robert Frede Kenter) (c) 2025

Intersecting Motifs of Interest

We also want to see some element of the ‘process’ involved in your production/ pieces. This could be a transformational element: thinking process, annotations, how you arrived at the juxtaposition of elements, why one element works, or does not work, with another.

Metamorphosis, (of society, self), the position of being “outside” or creating “otherworlds” (past, present, future); mirrors and windows; references, dreamscapes, mythologies, ecological visions, relationships between subject/ media / materiality.

A diptych PROCESS, with a hand next to an open book on the left, on the right a grid (trellis) with a black flower (the image is monochrome black and white, dreamy) with grayscale plant leaves below. The left image is contained inside a black border with red, white and black rectangle on the left; on the right the image contained in a pink matt with grey yellow and blue on the right; the background is orange, the lettering "PROCESS" full caps below the images, centred, black letters with red inlay.

Construct, deconstruct, examine a favorite aside, footnote, put something together, take it apart. We are open to a wide range of styles, expressions, abstractions, visions. Remember to include some element of process or (margins) related to your work, whether found or created, and work with a colleague, or singularly create a hybrid work that imagines otherworlds inside this one, inside self, in opposition to received structures, explore and interrogate your relationship to normative conditions. What do we do and where do we go and how do we proceed in times of great uncertainty. Inclusions, exclusions, the margins, hope and despair, marginalization, ephemera.

A collage of evergreen trees and leaves, dense, diagonals, dream like.

Vikki C. and Robert Frede Kenter are excited to read your works across the ‘landscapes’ of hybridity: remember to send us two elements that (e)merge out of each other in some way: juxtaposition, addendum, a margin, a correlation, a dialectical opposition. It’s up to you. Remember to incorporate some engagement with your process and in the margins of your concerns explore corporeal and/or ethereal experience. Let’s move together beyond binaries and explore (examine) where time/ space/ vision / history and the outside leads us. Don’t be afraid to deconstruct.

A diptych, on the left grey intersecting branches and driftwood against grey lake; on the right the same image layered and transformed into a collage of colours and fields that are connected/disconnected; reds and yellows, browns and black and white with brown in the inner image.

Please send up to 5 works or 10 pages max to: icefloeprojects@gmail.com

Attach video works in Mp4 format, sound works Mp3, poems and prose in word doc (with PDF attachment if the work requires special complex formatting). Please send art and other visuals in 72dpi (if we wish to accept the work we will ask for higher res files at time of acceptance).

Please include an author photo and up to 100 word bio with your submission.

VIDEO /PHOTO/ POEMS/ PROSE /CNF /ESSAY HYBRIDS /ART /SONGS /SPOKEN WORD COLLABORATION /TRANSLATION TRANSLITERATION

Send to

icefloeprojects@gmail.com

The Curators

Vikki C. is a London-born poet, essayist and musician whose poetry, fiction and non-fiction is widely published across US, Canada, UK and Europe. Venues include Grain Magazine, Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, EcoTheo Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Harpy Hybrid Review, Emerge Literary Journal, Cable Street, Barren Magazine, Ice Floe Press, Amethyst Review, Stone Circle Review, ONE ART Poetry, New Verse Review, Black Bough Poetry, Feral, The Winged Moon, Dust Poetry and Ballast Journal, among others. She was shortlisted in The Bridport Prize 2025 and has been nominated several times for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Orison Best Spiritual Literature. Vikki is the author of the chapbook The Art of Glass Houses (Alien Buddha Press, 2022), the collection Where Sands Run Finest (DarkWinter Press, 2024), and the hybrid collaboration In the Blueprint of Her Iris (Ice Floe Press, 2025). A longtime interdisciplinary artist, her writing, music and voice have appeared in podcasts and audio collaborations. She serves as a contributing editor at The Winged Moon Magazine. Linktree: linktr.ee/vikki_c._author

BIO: Robert Frede Kenter, born Hamilton, Ontario (the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas) is a widely published writer, visual artist & publisher of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net) A 4-time Pushcart Prize & 2 -time BOTN nominee, Robert studied performance & art at Antioch College (Ohio) & experimental theatre in NYC with Wooster Group & Talking Band. Recently in journals ballast, winged moon, ABR, wasteland, heterodox haiku, storms journal, black bough (Silver Branches series), Cable Street, Watch Your Head, Pissoir, Anthropocene, Feral, Burning House, Otoliths and many more. Select anthologies: Capitalism is a Death Cult (Sunday Mornings), Speaking in Tongues (Steel Incisors), Interpoem #1 & 2 (Sedserio), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press). Select books: Father Tectonic (Ethel Zine, 2025), In the Blueprint of Her Iris (collaboration with Vikki C.) (Ice Floe 2025), Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Soc media X: @frede_kenter, IG: icefloe22, r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, Bluesky: @rfredekenter.bsky.social.

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