The Mother Issue
45:3 | Warltati / Summer (December 2025–March 2026)
Editor: Belinda Howden
Artlink invites writers working in Australia and the Asia-Pacific to submit an Expression of Interest for publication in The Mother Issue, on shelves from December 2025–March 2026.
Despite art historical invisibility, parenthood is an evergreen subject for artists — mothers especially. The Mother Issue considers motherhood and parenting as a generative force in contemporary art practices, and tracks the ways artists and arts workers navigate their careers against a backdrop of radical technological and ideological change towards child-rearing in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.
We encourage a range of responses including scholarly essays and art criticism, exhibition and book reviews, poetic and/or experimental writing, interviews and co-authored articles.
Please use this form to submit your 150 word (max) Expression of Interest.
Key Dates:
Sunday, 6 July 2025
EOI submissions close
28 – 31 July 2025
All submissions notified; successful EOIs contracted by Artlink’s editorial team
Sunday, 5 October 2025
Writers Deadline, all content due (final text, images and image captions)
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