A journal for ordinary creatives
Maru Mori
For our inaugural issue, we are soliciting contributions around the theme of “Living with/in Tech”. We ask how technology becomes ordinary, as it becomes a part of our everyday life, and how AI reshapes this familiarity. We want to think about our personal gadgets, as our relationship with them evolves (here’s looking at you, Chatbots). We prompt readers to reflect on their relationship with AI. How does AI influence our relationships with our surroundings? Is there a growing sense of humaneness? Or is it an illusion?
Try to think back to the times tech helped you, confused you, isolated you or connected you. Think Maru Mori - where an ordinary moment with tech feels out of the ordinary. Help us reframe what it means to live with/in tech.
We invite contributions in the following categories:
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Personal Essays (800 to 2000 words)
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Audio Notes (10 minutes long in English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, with a translation note in English)
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Graphic or Photo Essays
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Zines
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Book, Cinema or Media Reviews (800 words)
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Vocabulary Pieces (500 words)
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Short films
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Music
We only ask that you refer closely to the theme of the issue, and the emphasis of the journal on simplicity and ordinariness. Please refrain from sharing academic essays. But we are happy if you make academic terms and ideas more accessible for a broader audience.
We will be reading contributions till <date> . Email your draft to themarumorijournal@gmail.com along with an introduction.
Featured Story
In Sonal Varshneya’s work, everyday moments surface as observations - drawn from memory, sometimes from habit, and at times from things that don’t quite go as expected. Each piece sits with a feeling, a pause, or a small contradiction within daily life.
