Homecoming
Aurochs Press
Do you have a story to tell? Is it a story about Relationship? About Relationships with Human and Other than Human People, and about Relationships with Land? Aurochs Underground Press are looking for short creative pieces up to 2000 words for inclusion in HOMECOMING, the first literary journal designed to present and promote ways of seeing and experiencing the Earth and all its Peoples from an explicitly Animist perspective.
Website - https://aurochspress.co.uk/the-journal
Homecoming 1 - Homecoming
What does it mean to be Indigenous to anywhere? What does it mean to feel that your bones come from the rocks beneath you, that your blood mingles with the waters that flow across them and your breath is but one small part of the winds that blow? What does it feel like to truly belong to a Place – to live somewhere to which you belong, just as much as it belongs to you? To feel that you are participating in a meaningful relationship with a particular landscape and its corresponding ecosystem, and feel – to know, somewhere in your inner self – that this relationship is mutually upheld? It’s not the same thing as having a Tribal identity, although sometimes this might give you a keen insight into what it means; and it’s not the same thing as belonging to a particular Nation, which is different thing again. It’s not, necessarily, in this sense, an identity at all; but a much more fluid way of being.
Homecoming 2 - Kin
Who are our relations? Whom is it that we love? In a complex post-industrial society in which we are constantly reminded to think only of our individual selves, and consider perhaps a handful of people on our close bloodline as ‘family’, how do we establish and maintain relationships with our wider kin? Why should we even try?