kristy bowen | writer & book artist

dancing girl press & studio invites submissions for a new anthology project centered around how today's authors confront and explore the ecogothic. The project will bring together curated writings across genre, including poems, stories, essays, and hybrid work. At the intersection of ecological concerns and literary culture, the ecogothic examines how how traditional gothic modes—decay, haunting, the uncanny, terror—can articulate anxieties about humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world (climate change, habitat destruction, and more). It also presents considerations of how humans respond with fear to certain landscapes (the darkened woods, the endless moors, an icy tundra) as well as the psychological effect of place and terrain on the human mind and creativity.  The ecogothic fittingly reveals how horror and the supernatural can make visible ecological crises that might otherwise remain abstract or invisible, transforming environmental dread into some kind ...