CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS / COLLABORATORS

Signal / Interference is an experimental poetry chapbook exploring how voices —human, nonhuman, digital, ecological— cross, overlap, distort and illuminate one another. The project investigates what it means to write in an era of climate volatility, fractured social realities and increasingly hybrid forms of communication. We’re building a multi-voiced work that treats poetry as a field of transmissions: some clear, some corrupted, all entangled.

This chapbook will bring together contributors who are excited by ambiguity, porousness and ensemble thinking. We’re looking for collaborators who want to help shape a project that moves beyond the solitary lyric “I” toward something more collective, more unstable and more resonant with the world in which we’re actually living.

What We’re Making

A curated, multi-author chapbook structured around the motif of signal and interference.
Contributors will help build a sequence of poems, fragments, hybrid texts and experimental forms that explore:

• ecological entanglement
• digital fragmentation and glitch aesthetics
• collective or polyphonic voices
• intimate emotional geometry
• the tension between clarity and distortion
• the porous boundary between human and nonhuman perspectives

The chapbook will be arranged as a series of transmissions —some narrative, some lyrical, some data-like— creating a layered, ensemble-driven reading experience.

What We’re Looking For

We welcome work from poets, hybrid writers, visual poets and anyone working at the edges of form. Ideal contributions might include:

• short poems or micro-sequences
• hybrid lyric-essays
• visual or typographic experiments
• multi-POV or choral pieces
• eco-poetry that resists sentimentality
• digital-language-inflected writing (metadata, error codes, search queries, etc.)
• fragments that feel like overheard transmissions or partial signals

We’re especially interested in pieces that complicate the idea of a single speaker and instead create a sense of ensemble, contradiction, or interference.

How the Creative Process Works

This is a collaborative, iterative, and conversational project.
Contributors will be invited into a shared creative space where:

• pieces may be placed in dialogue with one another
• motifs and images may recur, mutate, or be echoed across authors
• structural decisions will evolve collectively
• contributors can respond to, distort, or “interfere with” each other’s work
• the chapbook’s architecture will emerge through a process of layering, revision, and cross-pollination

The goal is not to produce a tidy anthology but a coherent, multi-voiced organism —a chapbook that feels like a network of signals passing through different bodies, minds and systems.

Who Should Consider Contributing

This project is for writers who enjoy:

• experimentation
• ensemble creation
• ambiguity and open-endedness
• ecological and social consciousness
• hybrid forms
• collaborative revision
• resisting closure

If you’re excited by the idea of building a shared poetic architecture —one that feels alive, unstable and responsive— your voice will fit beautifully here.

How to Get Involved

If you’re interested in contributing, please send:

• a brief note about your creative interests
• 3-5 sample pieces (published or unpublished)
• any initial ideas sparked by the “signal/interference” motif

We’ll be assembling a group of collaborators whose voices resonate, clash and complicate one another in productive ways.

Contact frqntz.com@gmail.com