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Esopus regularly encourages its audience to interact with contributors through a series of Subscriber Invitationals, for which we invite readers to generate written or visual content that serves as inspiration for contributors’ own work. These invitationals, which have appeared in 8 issues to date, help advance our mission of narrowing the gap between artists and audience.
Subscriber Invitational 8: Local News
Treatments by Hampton Fancher
A screenwriter crafts movie treatments based on subscribers’ submissions.
Subscriber Invitational 6: The Perfect Waiting Room
Drawings by Thomas Juncher Jensen
Readers’ recommendations inspire evocative renderings.
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Subscriber Invitational 7: Picturing Illness
Biomedical visualization students depict subscribers’ subjective descriptions of recent ailments.
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Subscriber Invitational 5: Irrational Fears
We invited readers to share their darkest, most disturbing phobias, and musicians turned them into songs.
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Subscriber Invitational 3: Dreams
Edited by Mike Powell; artwork by Daniel Gordon
We asked subscribers to supply dreams as source material for the tracks on this issue’s CD.
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Subscriber Invitational 1: Imaginary Friends
Illustrations by Yvetta Federova
For our first invitational, we asked subscribers to describe their childhood imaginary friends.