Griffith Review 94: Out of Office

Modern life can be a curiously disembodied experience: we swipe and scroll, crop and click, zoom and control+z; our interactions are often mediated by screens or filters; we no longer look one another in the eye as we once did (or we’re forced to do it on Teams). Areour flesh-and-blood selves becoming attenuated and atomised by the increasingly digital texture of our days? What’s the fate of the human body in age of looksmaxxing and biohacking? How do our historic perceptions and misconceptions of bodily states and identities, including disability and gender, inform our present and shape our future? 

Check in with your body for this edition of Griffith Review.  

Things for you to note: 

* You can submit up to four individual poems, each no longer than two pages.

* While poems don't need to be themed, we welcome submissions that respond to the theme.

* We'll let you know the outcome of your submission within eight weeks of the call-out closing date.  

Submissions open: 09:00 am AEST, 7 September 2026

Submissions close: 11:59 pm AEST, 20 September 2026

Publication date: February 2027