SINE THETA MAGAZINE 3-ISSUE GIVEAWAY!

SINE THETA MAGAZINE 3-ISSUE GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate 52 weeks of daily Sino art posts, our magazine will be giving away 3 free issues of the winner’s choice.

To participate: 

Must be following our blog.

Reblog this post by Sun. October 1st—the contest will close at that time.

View previews of past issues at sinetheta.net/issues.

A winner will be selected randomly, and we will contact them via Tumblr for their selection of three issues.

Remember to submit your art and writing to Issue #6 “CLEAR 清” by October 8th! More information available at sinetheta.net/6 and sinetheta.net/guidelines.

Sino artists and writers worldwide: sinθ Issue #6 “CLEAR 清” is accepting submissions! 

Sine Theta is an international creative arts magazine made by and for the Sino diaspora. We publish quarterly print editions showcasing art and writing by Sino creators from around the globe.

We are now accepting submissions for issue #6, to be released on November 18, 2017. Its theme is CLEAR 清 and the submissions deadline is October 8. Please refer to our submission guidelines for more information on how to become a contributor. We feature a wide range of media, including painting, photography, comics, poetry, prose, film stills, installations, and more.

All submitted works must relate to the theme. Visit sinetheta.net/6 for thematic inspiration and more information relating to this issue! 

We also have a Pinterest board with some visual inspiration.

If you are of Sino (Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Macau) heritage, please consider submitting! If not, tell a friend who is! Sine Theta is an English-language publication accessible to all.

Please email us at sinethetamag@gmail.com if you have any questions!

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a character: *is written realistically and has more than one aspect to their personality because that’s the whole point of having multifaceted characters, so it can create depth*

people who have obviously never written a three dimensional character in their life: “lmao the fuck?? is this inconsistent characterization??? this character was sad 7 episodes ago and now they’re smiling because they’re feeling ”“”“happy”“”“”?? in MY house??? bad writing, 0/10"

eighteen

is the taste of asphalt and blood, school skirts tucked a little too high above the knees, and we keep running, keep our heads tilted towards skylight; film reel of blurry faces and dreamscapes that pass by too quickly, but i still remember what your hands feel like, soft, we are soft — but not broken yet; tell me, will playgrounds ever feel magical again? hour-long bus rides in the rain, golden-hour glow spilling across our faces, our tiredness; paper memories that will soon gather dust, you a roseate memory i shelter in between the creases; paths never crossing again, empty late-night trains heading home, ghosts feeding on nostalgia, someday we will return —

inspired by @dhritspoetry ♡

Never had there been a time when sound, color, and feeling hadn’t been intertwined, when a dirty, rolling bass line hadn’t induced violets that suffused him with thick contentment, when the shades of certain chords sliding up to one another hadn’t produced dusty pastels that made him feel like he was cupping a tiny, golden bird. It wasn’t just music but also rumbling trains and rainstorms, occasional voices, a collective din. Colors and textures appeared in front of him, bouncing in time to the rhythm, or he’d get a flash of color in his mind, an automatic sensation of a tone, innate as breathing.

The Leavers by Lisa Ko. 2017. 

One morning, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s undocumented mother Polly leaves for her job at a nail salon. She never comes home. Deming is adopted by two white professors who rename him “Daniel Wilkinson” and attempt to mold him into a truly “American” boy. Lyrically poignant and bitingly raw, Lisa Ko’s debut novel The Leavers exhumes themes of family and community, intergenerational emotion, and the oft-erased brutality of the immigrant experience. 

Told from the perspective of a growing child, it is at once a bitterly tender bildungsroman and a reflection of structural sociopolitical faultlines in a jarringly torn family. Though Deming’s tale could have been overlaid with heavy themes of immigration and despairing politics, Ko centers the narrative around the child who’s lost a parent—at the end of the day, the perplexity, gravity, and irreconcilable belief of being left and lost is the focus of this elastic, penetrative story.

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People are art. Their skin a soft canvas of creases and bumps and stretch marks you’ve never felt, each telling their own story. Their freckled stained eyes, a constellation the skies could only dream of creating. And all of their movements, even the slightest ones, like a taking a breath of air suddenly become poetic.