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Wealth

/welθ/ noun

1. an abundance of valuable possessions or money

2. the state of being rich; material prosperity

3. plentiful supplies of a particular resource

4. (archaic) well-being; prosperity.

“To get rich is glorious” - Deng Xiaoping

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little” – Plato

“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think” – Ayn Rand

For the next issue of in Brief, we invite contributors to think about what constitutes the engine of commerce, the glory of nations and the root of all evil. Wealth can be quantified, redistributed and invested, but is it more than numbers on a page? Global disparity raises questions of what wealth actually means, and whether it can ever be a curse. Can you ever have too much? What is truly valuble to all people, and how can we make sure they all have access to it? The Global Financial Crisis, austerity policies, Occupy Wall Street and climate change should all provide a rich seam of inspiration, but we also want reflections on wealth of all kinds: can there be happiness in material poverty? Has consumerism consumed us all, or is it only those with everything who have the temerity to complain?

We accept submissions of up to 1000 words, as well as pitches for one of two 2000-word feature pieces per issue. We value originality over all else.

Please direct pitches and submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Before submitting it'd be great if you had a quick squiz at our style guide.

What we’re looking for:

• Short yet scintillating articles, fiction and poetry
• One centrefold, one cover and one feature artist/photographer
• After we have received submissions, we will also be seeking illustrations for written pieces

 
Artists and Writers please note!

When you have your work published in the print version of in Brief, it also gets published on our website, on our Issuu.com page (in full) and promoted through Facebook and Twitter (excerpts featured in posts, links to your work on the website, artwork posted on the Facebook and Twitter page). Please let us know when you submit if you’re not keen on this and we can work something out, just throw us an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . You own your work even once we’ve published it and we’re ok with you re-publishing your stuff in other mags. If you do want to re-publish something though, we just ask that you acknowledge we published you first by adding “first published in in Brief” at the bottom of your article. Please also let us know if your work has been published elsewhere before in Brief so we can check that other publications are ok with it.