We invite painters, writers, photographers, videographers, sculptors, musicians, and composers to submit works for the Winter 2026 issue of The Pasticheur. This issue will explore the many faces of identity, alterity, and the formation of the self.

We are especially interested in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, along with visual and sound-based works.

This issue will engage with enduring questions:

·       How is the self shaped by its others?

·       How does language form the ground of identity?

·       What is the double, as figure, as shadow, as mirror?

·       How do we inhabit multiple identities, and how do they inhabit us?

·       How do race, gender, class, and culture inscribe the self and its others?

We welcome works that respond to these questions either explicitly or implicitly, through any medium or genre.

Possible points of departure include:

·       The alter ego, the doppelgänger, the reflected self

·       Hybridity, translation, code-switching, fragmented voice

·       Race, gender, and the layered textures of identity

·       Language as creator of the self and as its undoing

·       The other within: trauma, memory, repression

·       Masks, avatars, personae

·       The political dimensions of identity and otherness

·       The aesthetics of multiplicity

Deadline: October 1st, 2025

To Submit: Please follow the instructions at this link.