Issue 4: What is a Home?
Issue 4: What is a Home?
Theme and prompts
For us, the question, ‘What is a Home?’ is a complicated but important question. Home is something that is interpreted and understood in a myriad of ways and exists in every one of us. We want to know what home is to you and hear your narrative. We invite contributors to engage with and contemplate this theme from a national and international lens. Below we provide some prompts and themes that may act as an inspiration to your writing and creative process. Should you use these prompts, reflect on how they relate to the theme of home and state in your submission which prompt you are responding to.
To build a home; ways in which we can find comfort and belonging in foreign places.
A home within; to find a refuge in your own body.
The role of 'found families' in marginalised communities.
The expectation of a link between 'home' and property ownership is a huge part of Irish culture and art, particularly as a rhetorical device in the postcolonial era to indicate the reclamation of Ireland from the coloniser (see 'The Field' as a prime example). How does the weight of this cultural expectation square with the reality of the housing crisis?
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home.” — William Faulkner. How does the current housing crisis in Ireland contribute to young people feeling like they need to emigrate to find a new home?
“Home is where one starts from.” — T.S. Eliot. How do we understand the concept of home amidst the ongoing refugee crisis ?
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” — Matsuo Bashō
Reflect on how war and/or crisis affects the meaning of home.
Contributors’ Rights
After publication, Unapologetic retains nonexclusive rights for the continued use of your work in electronic form. You may republish work published in the journal as long as you credit Unapologetic with the original publication.
The magazine is not limited to the prompts. If you are inspired to respond to this call and have any other ideas that you feel are relevant to the magazine, please email us at narrativeschanging@gmail.com and we would be happy to discuss possible ideas or answer any questions about submission formats and the submission process.