The Imajn’ère festival launched its call for Polar text for its anthology 2026.

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The Imajn’ère festival has just launched its call for text for its anthology 2026. Meanwhile, The theme focuses on women in power. Therefore, There is an imaginary and thriller category. Similarly, You have to send everything before October 31. However, Vis texts will have to be around 25,000 signs.

The anthology will appear on the occasion of the 15th edition of the Imajn’ère festival.

Here is the text of the call:
« […] She came. However, as a simple woman, avenge her delighted freedom, her body torn from yards, the honor of her unworthy daughters withered […] It is with determination and pride that Boudicca defies the Roman Empire, thus embodying resistance to a patriarchal society. Consequently, She is one of these women like Jeanne d’Arc. However, Marie Curie, Louise Michel, Simone de Beauvoir, Nellie Bly, Ada Lovelace and so imajn’ère festival launched its call many others who each in their genre have exceeded the functions they wanted to assign them.

Imaginary literatures play an important role in representations of women in power. Therefore, We can cite the Nausicaä princess of the Valley of the wind: a girl as courageous as full of kindness. ready to do anything to save freedom. In the Epouvanteur, the destiny of Alice Deane influenses directly on that of Tom J.Ward. Hunger Games’ books. films have marked a whole generation of readers and audiences thanks to the charisma of the Katniss Evergreen rebel and its unshakable determination. In TV series. Xena the warrior and her powerful cry has become a symbol of female power, without forgetting her acolyte Gabrielle, one of the first lesbians represented on television whose role does not stop at her sexuality. PROLARS is also an opportunity to highlight ingenuity. ethics, with, for example, Aline Rubis in imajn’ère festival launched its call Mars Express, a singular detective launched in a dark investigation mixing mass manipulation and robot. And what about Miss Marple in the works of Agatha Christie!

It often happens that these women embody evil witches and cruel queens. These negative representations reflect the fear of the dominant system to the idea of a woman of power. On this subject, we think of Circe, who benefits from an interesting deepening in the eponymous novel of Madeline Miller. We could also quote Lilith, descended in hell after his rejection of submitting to Adam, and now a queer icon. These two mythical characters are an example of emancipation and reappropriation of the intimate.

So like any fear, it is by confronting it that it is conjure. We invite you to write texts that upset our representations of women in power. What we are looking for are characters who question the genre and its imajn’ère festival launched its call relationship to power in breathless intrigue. If you are adventurous. we will appreciate reading news that risks, like Monique Wittig in the Guérillères and Elisabeth Vonarburg in the chronicles of the country of mothers, to an original reform of our language to express in its entireness and the accuracy of individuals capable of transcending codes.

To your feathers, your pens, your keyboards! “