Submissions Call: Non-Linear Travel Writing

So often, account essay follows to a same patterns of chronology as well as brazen momentum. Heres an event for writers to contention narratives based on new structures.

Detail from Mandelbrot Fractal: Wikipedia

LAST WEEK, Matador published a story by Jamie Brisick, author as well as former pro-surfer. If we havent review The Surfboard as Memory Stick, greatfully check it out now; its a super innovative story. Jamie uses opposite play as points of entrance in to places, memories, juxtapositions.

Heres an excerpt:

2. Waikiki Beach, summer of 77. Its a family vacation of The Brady Bunch sort. We stay during a Reef Towers, with white-water views of a very mark where Duke rode his mythological mile-long wave, where Rabbit as well as Kimo as well as Scooter Boy pushed bikini-clad haole girls from California in to their initial waves, where Jack London would write beautifully about surfing as well as thus kick off a movement.

I rent a banana yellow Morey Doyle from a stout beach child with beer breath. At initial its similar to perplexing to expostulate a semi-trailer lorry through rush hour traffic. But once I get a hang of it Im hooked. The colourful greens as well as sadness of a reef, a swishing turquoise, a rinse of spray sharpened off a rails, a sea zephyr floating behind my hair as well as creation me feel ten feet tall

I love how this square conveys Jamies relationship with surfing, people, as well as places in a approach which a straight linear account couldnt. Memory is episodic. It tends to build itself around set pieces, moments which mount out from a day to day flow. Memory stop frequency seems to start in a linear way, though some-more as a kind of rhizome, a square of a fractal, a cluster of juxtapositions, emotions, as well as characters.

Why then, is so much of transport essay as well as account nonfiction in general is presented in ! a same l inear format, a same 5-act Aristotelian-Freytag pyramid make up many of us probably learned in high school?

I similar to essay where events as well as sum as well as moments arent just presented though some-more similar to accreted. Where chronology functions not so much as a floor though some-more similar to a ramp.

With this in thoughts I wanted to invite submissions of non-linear transport stories of all kinds. Consider regulating a make up based around artifacts similar to Brisicks play (earlier this year I attempted a similar experiment, taking an register of things lost, stolen, or since divided since of travel) or perhaps we can try some other approach to look during travels (this year I additionally attempted recalling episodes in conditions of distances.) Or may be we can digest something all original.

Please contention your pieces to david@matadornetwork.com with non-linear transport essay in a subject line. Any word length is fine. Questions? Please ask in a comments below.


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