Swarm | Permafrost Magazine

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New Alchemy

Introducing our 2019 New Alchemy winner...

Swarm, Text by Mary Haidri, Artwork by Melissa Gordon

As seen in Permafrost Issue 41.2

Swarm title page

Swarm inner cover and credits

Illustration of women holding a honeycomb

Table setting and poem in black and yellow

Three women with bees emerging from their open mouths

Red and black illustration of women and fire

Woman hunched over a table

A hand in a honeycomb clenching a black piece of fabric

Children hatched in honeycombs

Bees flying out of a burning honeycomb

What is New Alchemy?

We at Permafrost put out a call for new and innovative approaches to the creative process. We asked for your experiments: with language, with plot, with format, with medium. We wanted to read/see/hear your most exciting and daring projects, your collaborations, your darlings that don’t fit anywhere else, your basement-dwelling monsters revealed in all their grotesquery onto the medium of your choice. Anything went. Thus, New Alchemy was born.

Simple line drawing of an alchemy symbol with a circle in a square in a triangle in a circle