EditorsThe great writers of the past were, for the most part, not educated in literature. This fact, and the way it has been brought to your attention, may seem to you tainted by a certain lack of credibility. So it goes.
Charles Dickens (factory worker and reporter), Herman Melville (schoolteacher and sailor), Franz Kafka (insurance officer and law student), William Faulkner (postmaster), John Cheever (department-store worker and reporter), George Eliot (translator, editor), Robert Musil (engineer), Kerouac (merchant seaman), Anaïs Nin (self-published diarist and writer), Colette (music-hall performer and journalist), George Sand (journalist), Mark Twain (printer and riverboat pilot), Kurt Vonnegut (publicist at General Electric and Saab dealer), Dostoevsky (military school) and so on.
Today, literature is decorative, moot, pessimistic and has yet been able to shake up what brain cells I have left into any ordered semblance of beauty and novelty. Therefore, we open up an official Open Call for submissions which will, for the most part, exclude any who have studied literature in a secondary school.
Those who never completed secondary education will be given highest priority.
Submissions may be included in a special category or as articles online or in print.
John Hudson White
Cecilia Knapp
Pina Lomb
Richard Aubern
Rupert Taylor
Alexandra Kleeman
Melissa Mesku
Chloe Caldwell