Dialogue Submissions
​(currently CLOSED)

Submissions in response to specific music // Accepted when Open

Info & Guidelines

To foster the connectivity between different mediums of expression, we have opened submissions for written and visual art in response to instrumental music. Every few months, we will publish a Dialogue Starter Issue: this will be an original, contributor-provided piece of instrumental music. Writers and artists will have until the end of the month following the airdate to submit a brand new poem/story/illustration/etc. inspired by the music. The musical artist will choose his/her/their favorite(s) that we will publish in a future issue, thus furthering the dialogue.  The editors will occasionally choose their favorite(s) to publish as well. 
Please follow these guidelines specifically. All submissions should receive an automatic email reply to confirm that your submission made it to the right place. If you do not receive this automatic email, please double-check your submission (especially the subject line) and resubmit as necessary
Music:
  • Submit up to three (3) instrumental songs in .mp3/.mp4/.wav format (you must own the copyrights for the music)
  • Explicitly provide us permission to use your music for our podcast in your cover letter 
  • Send all submissions to goldwalkmagATgmailDOTcom with DialogueSub as your subject line (please do NOT add anything else to the subject line as some submissions are getting misfiled)

Writing: 
  • Submit only one (1) original poem/story/etc. inspired by the music
  • Write a few sentences explaining your process writing it (how did the music inspire you?) in your cover letter
  • Send all submissions to goldwalkmagATgmailDOTcom with DialogueSub as your subject line (please do NOT add anything else to the subject line as some submissions are getting misfiled)

Visual Art (due to the audio nature of our magazine, we will publish any accepted visual art solely on the website and/or as the artwork for the podcast episode):
  • Submit only one (1) original painting/illustration/etc. inspired by the music
  • Write a few sentences explaining your process creating the art (how did the music inspire you?) in your cover letter
  • Send all submissions to goldwalkmagATgmailDOTcom with DialogueSub somewhere in the subject line as your subject line (please do NOT add anything else to the subject line as some submissions are getting misfiled)
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​Golden Walkman seeks and will prioritize work from underrepresented voices. If you belong to a group that is underrepresented, please put UnderRepDialogueSub as your subject line

Current Dialogue

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Previous Dialogues
This playlist includes all our previous Dialogues. Continue scrolling to listen to individual issues and to read about our authors 
July - August 2017
Joyce Chigiya (Dialogue Starter // "Rain Tail" @ 1:43) plays a traditional Zimbabwean instrument called a mbira. She is also a poet whose work has been featured in print and online. She is currently working with three strands, plaiting the disciplines of music, poetry and spirituality into a unit. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry).
​Geoffrey Callard (Artist Choice // "Setting the Rain Free" @ 3:50) is a New Zealander living in Melbourne. The first part of his life was nomadic. In his mid-thirties he settled doing what was expected; getting marriage, raising two boys securing a corporate job. Twenty-odd years later he ditched his corporate life and has spent the last ten months reconnecting with his love of writing.
Karen Faris (Editor Choice // "Like the Rain" @ 7:38) is a writer, poet, performer, and, mixed media artist. She is the author of Before There Was Yonder. Her work has appeared in such places as adduna, descant, and great weather for media. She’s been selected for Cayuga Museum’s 2019 Visual Arts showcase. Karen lives in Rochester, NY.
July - August 2017
​Bunyi Sembunyi (Dialogue Starter // "Lela Renteka" @ 1:13) is a three piece band based in Kuala Lumpur that brings dark and depressive elements. Ribut-Ribut Itu Menjadi Reda Dan Akhirnya is the title of the debut EP. Bunyi Sembunyi will keep haunting. Dark and depressively.
J. Rohr ​(Artist Choice // "Rebel Pebble by Pebble" @ 7:01) is a Chicago native with a taste for history, and wandering the city at odd hours. He writes the blog www.honestyisnotcontagious.com in order to deal with the more corrosive aspects of everyday life. His Twitter babble can be found @JackBlankHSH.
Amanda Chiado (Editors Choice // "Collapsing Swarm" @ 12:05) is a graduate of California College of the Arts and the University of New Mexico.  You can find her work in the Molotov Cocktail, Word Riot, Ghost Parachute, Paper Darts and others.
Adi Yochalis (Artist Choice // "The rise after") is a self-taught illustrator from Israel. She has background in art, photography and makeup studies, BA in theatre design and MA in education and teaches art in primary school. Her materials are colored pencils, water colors, ink, world of dreams and magical fairy tales. Inspiration: all forms of art.
January - February 2017
​Michael Coolen (Dialogue Starter // "Heavy Pi" @ 2:23) is a pianist, composer, actor, performance artist, and writer living in Oregon. His works have been published in a variety of print and online journals. He is a published composer, with works performed around the world, including at Carnegie Hall, MoMA, and the Christie Gallery in New York.
Lyndon Seitz (Artist Choice // "Pantheon by Numbers" @ 5:21) is a poet, editor, and writer from Westfield, Massachusetts. He enjoys jazz, philosophy, science fiction, and most other things that can inspire wonder. He also writes a lot of poetry about flowers. He has been published in journals both online and in print.
Jamie Houghton (Editor Choice // "White Knuckle" @ 8:16) is a poet, musician and teaching artist living in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has been featured online, most recently at Picaroon and Tribe Magazine‘s micro publication, Thief, and her book reviews can be found at High Desert Journal.
Mary Ellen Talley’s (Editor Choice // "Auditory Recessional" @ 10:18) poems have most recently been published in Kaleidoscope and Peacock Journal as well as in recent anthologies, The Doll Collection, All We Can Hold poems of motherhood and Raising Lilly Ledbetter Women Poets Occupy the Workspace.
July - August 2016
From an early age, Sophie Jupillat (Dialogue Starter // "Slow Temptation" @ 1:16) pursued her love for music and writing: she has many poems, novellas, novels and plays under her belt as well as 40+ orchestral works. She studied writing and music at Rollins College and she’s been featured in various reputed magazines since 2014.  
Hunter Keough (Artist Choice // "Of Prague, From Overseas" @ 4:29) is an undergraduate music and poetry student at the University of Memphis intending to pursue an MFA in Poetry. He is also planning to pursue a degree in Children’s Literature. Hunter is a recurring poet in the Tennessee Magazine and has work forthcoming from World Enough Writers.

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