Call for Submissions

We are changing the way we publish at हाकारा । hākārā.

From आठवण / Memory to our 25th edition, हाक / Call, each edition of हाकारा । hākārā has begun with a theme. We put out a call. Then we waited eagerly to hear how you would respond. It has been a joy and a privilege to curate each edition. Your work has taken us into the familiar and the unfamiliar. It has taken us into the comfortable and the uncomfortable. It has opened up conversations we might not otherwise have had.

Now we want to widen that call. We want to make room for many more voices and explore new collaborations.

हाकारा । hākārā is moving to year-round submissions. There is no theme to wait for. There is no edition to hold your work back for. Send us your work whenever it is ready.

We want to keep building conversations across creative and critical disciplines. We welcome work from the literary, performing and visual arts. We also welcome reflective writing on art and culture. You can send us audio-visual work, essays, book reviews, translations, plays, poetry, fiction, visual narratives and conversations.

We accept submission in Marathi, English, or in both.

We are especially drawn to work that engages with our times. We look for work that celebrates life, observes closely and asks difficult questions. Your work could try to better understand languages like Marathi and English. It could look at the cultures the languages inherit and the bonds they share today. Your work might explore forms of expression themselves. It might look at how the forms overlap and connect, and how they make the world both rooted and transient. Your submission might be an appreciation of a work of art or literature that helps us understand culture today. Or it might be a reflection on your own artistic process that shows how the individual, society and art shape one another.

Not every idea needs to arrive as a finished piece. We would love to hear your ideas, creative pitches and proposals. We are happy to work with you to develop them.

How we will publish

Our editorial team will review submissions. They will decide which works to publish. We will no longer publish full editions. Instead, we will publish curated selections from time to time. Each selection will bring together work on language, form and culture. Through these selections, we hope to engage with our times.

How to submit

Please send your unpublished written, visual or audio-visual work to info.hakara@gmail.com. We will get back to you if your work speaks to one or more of the areas above.

The call remains open. We look forward to hearing from you.

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