{"id":4,"date":"2023-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:48:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Spring 2026 issue: call for submissions! \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Palaver Arts Magazine is now accepting submissions for our spring issue, open until Friday, April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/submit\/\">Submit<\/a><\/strong> your poetry, photography, ceramics, sculpture, digital art, short films, short fiction, nonfiction, scripts for screen or stage, and more today!<\/p>\n<p>This spring\u2019s theme is Relative \u2014 while this can serve as inspiration for submissions, work is not required to adhere to the theme.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2>About Us<\/h2>\n<p><em>Palaver Arts Magazine<\/em> began in 1998 as a student-run print journal and was reborn as an online arts publication in 2016. 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