swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings positions itself as a site of intersection—a journal where disparate voices, forms, and disciplines meet. While the masthead and institutional affiliations remain unspecified, the title itself signals a curatorial interest in juxtaposition and rhythm: the swift and the slow, the fleeting and the durational. The journal appears to privilege work that traverses boundaries, whether aesthetic, geographic, or conceptual. For the writer, this represents an opportunity to place work within a conversation that values cross-pollination over insularity. The submission call is rolling, meaning there is no fixed deadline. This structure rewards the patient and the deliberate: work can be submitted when it is ready, not when a calendar dictates. However, the absence of stated fees, prize money, or location means that contributors should approach with realistic expectations. This is not a contest with a cash award, but a literary magazine seeking to assemble a quarterly issue. What the journal offers is publication—a place in a curated sequence of voices—and the editorial attention that comes with it. The curatorial vision, inferred from the title and genre scope, suggests an openness to hybridity. Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction are all welcome, but the emphasis on 'crisscrossings' implies that work which resists easy categorization may find a natural home here. Writers should consider how their submissions might speak across genres, or how they might enact a crossing of their own—between lyric and narrative, between document and invention. The journal's identity is still forming, which means early contributors have a hand in shaping its contours.