Folly
02

Open Call 
**CLOSED**

For the second Folly journal, we are looking for submissions based on Cultivation.

To cultivate is to establish and develop, to care continuously. To nurture and form, whether it is for plants or culture. When humans started to cultivate the land, the structures they built to store grain were the first architectures. Both agriculture and architecture have been intertwined since the Neolithic Era: cultivated in conversation with each other, from the mythic origins of architecture’s beginnings, the agricultural texts of Vitruvius and Varro, the manicured gardens of country houses, to industrialised farming. 

We invite text and images that speak to this relationship, looking at the intimacies between selves and others, objects and sites. Orientation matters, so what and who have we attended and tended to?

Send us proposals for essays, interviews, fiction, poems, or other forms of experimental texts, as well as the photographic or illustrative.

Abstracts (200-300 words), related image material, and a short biography can be sent to follynewsletter@gmail.com by the 31st March 2025. Selected contributors will be notified shortly thereafter and invited to write a 800/3,000 word text (excluding (foot)notes), or to submit an artistic contribution.

Please send submissions as a word doc containing both the abstract and biography. This should be titled with your first and last name, up to 3 images can be attached to support this. For photographic or artistic submissions up to 8 images can be sent as jpegs. Any artworks submitted should be the final work. Images used in the journal will have to be provided with permissions by the author. We can’t accept any submissions through websites such as WeTransfer. 

Please note: Contributors who are published in Folly will receive two complimentary copies. Folly is a volunteer-run journal and is unable to provide an author’s honorarium. Despite our current set-up, we believe that authors should be paid well for their work, and hope to be able to do so in the near future. If you want to support the journal, you can donate here.