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Brooklyn, NY
USA

Handwritten is a place and space for pen and paper. We showcase things in handwriting, but also on handwriting. And so, you'll see dated letters and distant postcards alongside recent studies and typed stories. 

About You

We welcome things in handwriting, but also things on handwriting: old letters, dated postcards, invented alphabets, napkin sonnets, journaling journeys, marginalia, or secret ingredients to family recipes. So long as it has to do with art or act of writing by hand, it belongs here. We have few guidelines, as we don't want to get in between you and your thoughts, but we are happy to help at any stage, from idea generation to editing. Be it a single image or something longer, we'd love to see where your hand has taken you, metaphysically or otherwise. The main logistical question: is what you're submitting in handwriting (an image) or is it on handwriting (typed)? 

A submission can also be a 2,000-word story about your handwriting routine or a micro-essay about how your characters in your novel demand that you build them paper homes. Whatever the subject and length may be, send us your typed words in a Word document. Get wild and wide, but if you want a bit of direction, we find that 400-600 words is a great pace.  And do send us some accompanying images. The main difference between these two columns is that the emphasis here is on the story.

A submission can be as simple as a single shot of something handwritten: letter, poem, notebook, signature, grocery list, graffiti, or tattoo. For most pictures, the iPhone camera can suffice. We encourage people to send us 3 - 5 images per submission. Also, when you send your submission, include your name, a potential title for the piece, and any accompanying text, if you'd like to include some context. If we're playing show and tell, "In Handwriting" is show, and "On Handwriting" is tell. Sorta.

GET PROMPTED

Want some ideas? While you can submit anything to us at anytime, you can also submit certain things to us at some times. Right now, we’re particularly interested in permanent ink (this could be tattoos, or writing/making art without erasers), the politics of handwriting (this could be handwriting as a form of protest, or about teaching cursive writing in schools), the blank space (this could be handwriting’s role in your writing process, how you navigate preverbal experiences, and/or why you do or don’t prefer unlined journals), and records (the role that handwriting plays, as an archive, and how we experience the fragments of someone else’s presence).

Get lost and be in touch.

hello@handwrittenwork.com

We don't have a postal address yet. We know, this should have come first.