I recently added Ecotone<\/i><\/a>, a literary journal from the creative writing department at UNC-Wilmington, to my sidebar. One of the writers on the journal’s editing team, Miriam Parker, wrote to let me know about “The Body as Ecotone,” a series of short essays being published on the journal’s blog<\/a>. Miriam says they welcome submissions<\/a>:<\/p>\n “We’re interested in exploring the body as an ecotone—as a transitional place separating past and present, fantasy and reality—and invite you to submit artistic expressions of this idea. (We’re open to anything: striking text, video, finger paints, sand sculptures…) Has your body served as a transitional zone physically through body art, pregnancy, injury, plastic surgery? Or perhaps through grief, stress, starvation or alchoholic binges? However you view your body as an ecotone, we’re interested.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among those who have already contributed: Laurel Snyder, Ann Ropp, Alison Stine and Jeannine Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently added Ecotone, a literary journal from the creative writing department at UNC-Wilmington, to my sidebar. One of the writers on the journal’s editing team, Miriam Parker, wrote to let me know about “The Body as Ecotone,” a series of short essays being published on the journal’s blog. Miriam says they welcome submissions: “We’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}