Submissions Solicited
"We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions:
we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the
right to have our opinions and to change them."
by Friedrich W. Nietzsche [aph 333 The Wanderer and His
Shadow (1880)]
This quarterly literary magazine is published as a venue for
worthy artistic expressions about war. This topic, what war has
wrought and how its echoes persist, is widely avoided for
innumerable poor excuses and too few good reasons. By shunning
this subject, war has become unspeakable without
becoming unthinkable, and therefore remains
still quite doable. And, the people with legitimate experiences
have very few opportunities to share their hard-won insights.
This magazine is where those voices will be heard, where those
visions will be portrayed, where those hearts and minds
can communicate.
This literary magazine was conceived as a successor to its
wartime namesake, formerly published by Albert Camus, the
existentialist philosopher and resistance fighter. Relevant
submissions for this publication that reveal and explore the
ramifications of war upon combatants, noncombatants, and their
families are being solicited. This little magazine is in
the tradition of the "National Tribune" and
"The Century"; but authors should aspire to the
intellectual rigor of the "New Individualist
Review", and to emulate the verbal breadth in
"Antaeus". Original compositions, written or
illustrative, may be submitted in compliance with editorial policies to
the COMBAT magazine staff at:
and in electronic media:
P.O. Box 3, Circleville, WV 26804
"The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind."
by Emily E. Dickinson [ln 7-8 "Tell All the Truth but Tell
it Slant" The Complete Poems Harvard variorum edition
(1955)]
"I am no longer an artist, interested and curious. I am a
messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting
to those who want the war to go on for ever. Feeble,
inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter
truth, and may it bum their lousy souls."
by Paul Nash [13 Nov 1917 letter to his wife Outline:
An Autobiography and Other Writings (1949)]
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