Quillkeepers Press — Renditions (The Many Versions of Self Anthology)
Overview
Quillkeepers Press is assembling an anthology around a deceptively simple premise: that the self is not a fixed destination but a project under continuous revision. The title, 'Renditions: Some Assembly Required,' signals the editorial posture—identity as draft, as palimpsest, as something built from raw materials that include missteps and quiet revelations alike. This is not a call for polished conclusions but for the blueprints and rough drafts of becoming. The anthology seeks work across prose and fiction (short stories and flash fiction up to 3,000 words), nonfiction (personal essays and memoir excerpts up to 3,000 words), and poetry (up to five poems). There is no submission fee. The editors have stated a preference for an authentic, nuanced, and evocative tone, welcoming humor and gravity in equal measure. The thematic territory is reinvention, personal history, growth, and the assembly and disassembly of identity. For the creative practitioner, this represents a chance to place work within a curated conversation about selfhood—one that values the process of construction over the finished monument. The anthology format allows for a range of voices and forms to sit alongside one another, and the editors' explicit invitation to show 'the blueprints, the rough drafts, and the final builds' suggests a curatorial interest in the archaeology of the self, not merely its polished surface.