Plural: Online Prose Journal

Plural: Online Prose Journal PLURAL is an online journal that caters to fiction, essay, and criticism geared towards prose. Push the boundaries of prose, or tease at its edges.

Through PLURAL, we aim to provide a venue for writers to showcase their prose. We welcome writing that, whether it concerns itself with realism, genre fiction, or hybrid forms, exhibits a contemporary sensibility. By this we mean stories that are unafraid of reworking familiar narratives and perspectives that are both grounded and progressive. We are PLURAL.

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"The question about judging the art or the artist is an ancient one. Shouldn’t we simply judge the work itself? That’s w...
31/01/2018

"The question about judging the art or the artist is an ancient one. Shouldn’t we simply judge the work itself? That’s why we’re here, right? – who actually cares about the personal life of some guy who liked to paint so much that he eventually became weirdly, fantastically good at it?! But that’s the problem. These things aren’t separate issues. Our understanding of art is shaped by the very culture that kept it as the plaything for rich, straight, white men. Another exhibition from someone with sexual misconduct allegations against them isn’t what we need from art now. Is it censorship? Is it an attack on the freedom of art and artists? No, it is about time."

As more men face allegations of sh*tty behaviour, we ask two writers to discuss what to do with their work

"“I wrote within the genre because I sold within the genre, but I also wrote what I wanted to write. I think I actually ...
30/01/2018

"“I wrote within the genre because I sold within the genre, but I also wrote what I wanted to write. I think I actually by writing in the genre I was freer than other writers who tried to be successful in the mainstream.”"

For the past 57 years, one of the most original imaginations ever to grace American letters has lived in a hundred-year-old house built from a kit from Sears. “You could order it out of a catalogue…

"Yet, despite the widening of the general frame, Orientalism still reigns; though it’s not as brazen, its subtle forms a...
28/01/2018

"Yet, despite the widening of the general frame, Orientalism still reigns; though it’s not as brazen, its subtle forms are everywhere. "

“Why do they have to show that? That—that—violence,” I said to my mom hours later, burying my face in my pillow, unable to sleep, my little body convulsing with this strange grief. In the packed da…

"I once read another writer, I forget whom, saying that their writing was a sort of wolf call to their tribe, and I thin...
28/01/2018

"I once read another writer, I forget whom, saying that their writing was a sort of wolf call to their tribe, and I think there’s some truth in that; I write for my tribe, an imaginary group of readers who are a bit like me on the inside. They’ve quite often screwed things up in their lives, and they’re not always shiny and happy, because even the most average of lives contains great battles—growing up, finding meaning, living with loss, addiction, disability, infertility—but they’re trying to fight those battles with courage and humor."

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. O…

On book acknowledgements: "But even within this rote exercise, even amid the dreary name-checking calisthenics, truths s...
25/01/2018

On book acknowledgements:

"But even within this rote exercise, even amid the dreary name-checking calisthenics, truths seep out."

Within the rote exercise of authors’ acknowledgments, truths about family, struggle, pride and terror manage to seep out.

"I was late and slow. A slow learner. But not as late as her. I love to tell her story because people — particularly wom...
24/01/2018

"I was late and slow. A slow learner. But not as late as her. I love to tell her story because people — particularly women — need to hear that you can start late."

LE GUIN: My mother had always wanted to write. She told me this only after she’d started writing. She waited until she got the kids out of the house, until she was free of responsibility for anybod…

Heartbreaking news today. One of our personal favorites has passed away at the age of 88.
24/01/2018

Heartbreaking news today. One of our personal favorites has passed away at the age of 88.

"I love language, I love the sound of language. I play with word sounds in my head. This is just some native gift. I make up more languages than I have to actually." - Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018).

Prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin has passed away at the age of 88. https://themillions.com/2018/01/ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018.html

"As you know, there isn’t really any solution to self-doubt. In the end, you just have to write and doubt simultaneously...
23/01/2018

"As you know, there isn’t really any solution to self-doubt. In the end, you just have to write and doubt simultaneously."

The acclaimed writer takes questions from famous fans including Teju Cole, Philip Pullman and Sharmaine Lovegrove, and a selection of our readers

"In other words, we live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. "
22/01/2018

"In other words, we live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. "

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

"The dangers of nationalist thinking extend far beyond any particular error, and even beyond the movements that become i...
22/01/2018

"The dangers of nationalist thinking extend far beyond any particular error, and even beyond the movements that become infected with it. For once nationalism spreads past a certain point, it will tend to degrade the overall quality of political debate, and therefore of political thought—and because no fact or idea is irrelevant to nationalist ambitions, ultimately all thought."

George Orwell begins his essay “Notes on Nationalism” by admitting that nationalism is not really the right word, but something of an approximate term for what he means to be discussing. He explain…

"In noir, the problem is not an individual: the problem is the world."
21/01/2018

"In noir, the problem is not an individual: the problem is the world."

by Nicholas Seeley

"The sole function of words isn’t just to deliver meaning; they have a material, historical and emotional life all their...
19/01/2018

"The sole function of words isn’t just to deliver meaning; they have a material, historical and emotional life all their own."

Recently I got a heads-up from not one, but two separate writers of color who were kind enough to read the novel I’m publishing in April. The heads-up was about a subject that features in all of ou…

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