application opens september 6th
applications are rolling, due on September 21st.
questions will show up here on september 6th!
Responsibilities of a CORTEX editor
Attend all-staff meetings (once a week for 1-1.5 hours).
Attend and participate in semesterly showcases.
Meet regularly with your LGE and collaborators.
Draft, revise, and submit one piece for your genre per issue (you may optionally submit more pieces in any genre).
Stick to deadlines, and be communicative about your needs and commitments.
Maintain timely correspondence; respond to emails and fill out required forms in a timely manner.
Take initiative in collaborating with other editors and experimenting with your genre’s work as a whole.
Uphold an open, creative, passionate and kind environment. Be present in our community.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
– Ray Bradbury
The universe is as beautiful as an echo – expansive, but microscopic. Blades of wheat whispering against each other in the yellow sun, the corona radiata of white fibers fanning out like a ray in our skulls, pulsing with the careful electric puzzles of life, the parallax angles of stars that poke through the wispy blue water of night. We seek those who are fascinated by these images, but are curious about the stories they might hold – of grief, anger, loss, love, and sacrifice, of the tender lobe of a mother’s ear even as wires curve into her mind. Like these.
ULTRAVIOLET - Kayla Feng
The Great Silence - Ted Chiang, Allora & Calzadill
All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
Oryx & Crake – Margaret Atwood; the Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood