Khôra's 500 WORDS

If you'd like to enter the collaborative open waters of KHÔRA, please send us 500 words. If you are a visual artist or interested in sharing your artwork or images, click here.

Team-based, collaborative, and curated, KHÔRA is a form that is continually opening. We invite you to join us in sustaining it together. We don't believe in rejections. KHÔRA’s 500 Words is about considering how multiple voices can be heard; how frameworks, traditions, and projects can inform each other; and how new perspectives emerge from collaboration and openness. 

Send us 500 Words and your words will always remain active in KHÔRA's ocean. You won’t ever receive a notice of rejection from us. We know this process is not perfect—we are rethinking and searching, and wish to stay open to the possibility that at any point, your work will be a fit for a curated issue or team-collaboration. This doesn’t need to be a completed piece—think of it like a sample of your work at any length up to 500 words.

We are open to all genres.

Once you send 500 Words, your work will remain in our inclusive and expansive space. You can send 500 Words more than once—there’s no limit to how many times you can send us new work; just no repeats, please. If what you want to share with us is time-sensitive, please send us other work. KHÔRA doesn’t publish previously published work, but feel free to share any 500 words you want as a sample (published or unpublished). We recommend adding "khora@corporealwriting.com" to your email contact list in case we reach out to you. 

Thank you for leading us.

“I hope that we write ourselves back to life … I hope that when we step into our writerly lives, we can only come alive by and through each other, by and through our beautiful differences. I hope that ‘hope’ doesn’t come from looking up ever again, but from looking each other in the eyes/I’s. I hope we stand up inside our various languages with ferocious love and courage and that we aim for what matters in the world, whether or not anyone remembers our names. Let it be true that we wrote the world and each other back to life." — Lidia Yuknavitch, source