GRAPHITE Interdisciplinary Arts Journal is seeking visual art, creative writing, critical essays, recipes, and experimental formats that respond to the theme for this year's Issue No 15, Almanac.

This issue considers personhood, place, community, and magic. We want you to produce something attuned to your vernacular environment—to channel memory and embody change. This issue explores the phenomenological relationship to where we are: our relationship to land, nature, cosmology, communication, and our relationship with our past and future. Explore scientific speculation and fantasy if it's true to you. How does your body internalize external stimuli—natural, yet societal—before words can be cognized?

We’re making a new almanac, based on the signs and cycles you think should be observed. A record of life. Document and convey your sincere experience.

Who whispers to a snow goose to fly north in late April? What is something you can count on, fingers crossed, no matter what? Do stars billions of miles away lead us down our lives like how your cat chased my laser pointer?

Get your biological clocks cleaned. Your 7-year somatic cell warranty is up. Brace yourself for inevitable change. Would you take the chance and never look back?

What indicates an incoming catastrophe, what led you to have the accident? What were you doing the morning of the Supercell? When did you realize you weren’t like the other boys? How long have you been genuinely pretending?

What events led up to your disappearance?

Do you keep a record of headlight patterns on the 110 freeway? A skyline star map of red flashing lights that warn planes?

The past is real, concrete, and effective.

The present moment is a culmination of everything that’s ever happened. Root yourself in history. Leave a trace.

I wish I could see things the way you see things, even just for a minute.

How does the periodic table affect your practice?

How would you rebuild society to be organized around care for other living things, around socialized medicine? Why is scientific magic only accessible to the rich?

We urge you to quench us with a system, a method, or even the old sticky note reminder torn off your fridge in haste.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis at https://bit.ly/almanac15 until January 14, 2024. If you have any questions, you can reach us at GraphiteJournal@hammer.ucla.edu.