Our latest Anthology brief winners, Keats House Poets, are looking for unpublished, innovative, challenging and expressive artwork that explores the theme of censorship for their online interactive and multi-art zine: Blackout.
Your response can take any form: photos, artwork, photo essays, graphics, illustrations, cartoons, animations, collages and short films (no longer than five minutes) are all welcome.
Your work will stand alongside written pieces on the theme of censorship in the arts, and might also be used to inspire the other poetry, short stories or songs that they Keats House team will be commissioning.
Up to five IdeasTap members will have their work featured in Blackout. Successful applicants will receive £50 for their contribution and be fully credited in the zine.
The Keats House posse is also on the lookout for a particularly striking image for their front cover. Blackout will be promoted through the Keats House Poets’ networks at their upcoming events, as well as through IdeasTap - so this will be a great way to showcase your talent and your views on censorship.
Allow the Keats House Poets to tell you a bit more about Blackout…
Artists have faced censorship throughout history. It is relevant to all of us seeking the truth in the work we create - be it poetry, photography, drama, art or music.
197 years ago John Keats published a poem in The Examiner; a radical pamphlet that would later see it’s editor imprisoned for sedition. Today the Keats House Poets seek to continue the tradition of campaigning for free speech with their new publication Blackout - where issues surrounding modern day censorship are challenged through the arts and today’s artists stand shoulder-to-shoulder with banned artists throughout history. This vibrant, interactive and combative pamphlet will showcase a dialogue between different art forms.
Artistic dialogue is crucial to fighting stereotypes and investigating injustice - join the Keats House Poets as they explore creative campaigning, challenge the status quo, and refuse to allow the Blackout!
About the Keats House Poets
The Keats House Poets are a collective of eight poets who have been meeting to share new work and support each other’s poetry careers since 2010. As a group, the Keats House Poets organise poetry workshops and performance events at The Keats House Museum, heritage sites and literature festivals. Supported by the Keats House Museum in Hampstead and Spread the Word (London’s writers development agency), this collective individually and collectively run some of the best workshops, successful events and top poetry projects across the country - inspiring audiences to engage in poetry in new and exciting ways.
The Keats House Poets consist of Stephanie Turner, Laila Sumpton, Kaamil Ahmed, Simon Mole, Raymond Antrobus, Deanna Rodger, Dean Atta and Anthony Hett.
This brief will close at 5pm on Monday 20 January 2014 and is open to IdeasTap members aged 16 and over. If you have any technical queries, please visit the help centre. Late entries will not be accepted under any circumstances, including technical issues – so make sure you don’t leave your application to the last minute.
Image used under Creative Commons from artnoose.
