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The New Polar Times

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An upcoming interdisciplinary literary and arts publication for those interested in the "Heroic Age" of polar exploration. ❄️ Submissions are CLOSED! ❄️

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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 29/06/2025
Submissions for artists close tomorrow! Take this last chance to help illustrate the New Polar Times through original art, cartoons, comics, and caricatures!
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 01/05/2025
Would you like to help illustrate the New Polar Times through original art, illustrations, or comics? Stay tuned for our second round of call for proposals!
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 25/04/2025
The NPT staff wishes you a happy World Penguin Day on behalf of Terra Nova Lieutenant Henry Rennick (seen here in conversation with an Adélie, courtesy of the SPRI)!
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 21/04/2025
We’re hard at work going through all your proposals! You should expect to hear from us around the beginning of May. Artists, stay tuned for round 2 - coming soon!
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 01/04/2025
Submissions for the first round are over! If you sent us a proposal, you should expect to hear from us soon. If you’re an artist and would like to help illustrate the written submissions from round 1, keep an eye out for round 2, which we will announce soon!
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 30/03/2025
Hurry! This is your last chance to submit a proposal for the New Polar Times! Submissions close at 11:59 PM EST on March 31st. www.newpolartimes.com/contribute/s...
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 27/02/2025
Proposals will open tomorrow! On May 31, 1911, Edward Wilson gave “a very interesting lecture” on sketching, explaining his methods of rough sketch and written colour record, and how to manage cold fingers! Do you, have a specific subject or talent you want to share with us?
a photo of edward adrian wilson at his desk in the terra nova hut, working on a watercolor painting
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 25/02/2025
We might be just as passionate about it as Scott, who said to Griff: “I dreamt of your lecture last night. How could I live so long in the world & not know something of so fascinating a subject!”
a picture of thomas griffith "griff" taylor on the deck of a boat or ship, with the caption "a very 'ordinary seaman'!"
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 23/02/2025
5 days left until proposals open! Perhaps you’re considering submitting your take on “ice problems," a topic on which Charles “Silas” Wright gave a talk that “left many… somewhat befogged” during the Terra Nova expedition’s winter lecture series. We want to hear from you!
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 21/02/2025
7 days until proposals open! During the Terra Nova expedition's winter lecture series, Scott was somewhat disappointed by Frank Debenham's geological lecture, calling it "elementary." But we promise we won't be disappointed by your topic – we're excited to see what everyone has in store!
a picture of frank debenham taking a measurement with an instrument on a tripod
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 18/02/2025
Introducing our newest staff member: Roman, our researcher! Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 15/02/2025
On this day in 1874: the birth of Ernest Shackleton! Best known for leading three expeditions to the Antarctic, he helped found the South Polar Times on Scott’s 1901 Discovery Expedition
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 15/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing Ash, one of our adaptable helpers. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 14/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing @tchotchke.bsky.social, our project advisor. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 13/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing Ben, one of our adaptable helpers. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 13/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing @jo-anna-conteur.bsky.social, our graphic designer. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
Jo [/ jɔ /] is a young student from Poland. She plans to study history and French philology. She is working on a project to raise awareness of polar expeditions in her country. Jo is concerned with ecological issues and analyses the work of the Romantics to find solutions to current environmental problems. At the same time, she is trying to write, ride her beloved red mare, do research about 1830's France, buy another ticket for Les Misérables, plan a trip to Rome and look after her ivy.

Fun Fact: You can often meet her at the graves of Arctowski & Dobrowolski, where she lights candles and brings fresh flowers.

Favorite Explorers / Expeditions: Discovery, Terra Nova & Henry Robertson Bowers.

Sledging Flag: Polish flag, pointed tails, crest featuring a red mare prancing in a field of ivy with the motto Vita incipiet cum cras veniet.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 13/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing @oligocene.bsky.social, our layout designer. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 12/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing @imayooshi.bsky.social, our art director. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 11/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing Kai, our outreach coordinator. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
Kai is a student from Germany. They have a bachelor‘s degree in comparative literature and are currently obtaining their master‘s degree in international literature. They are interested in the connections of polar exploration and literature and they have written papers about Dan Simmons's The Terror, E. A. Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym, and Frederick Cook’s Belgica diary. They are also a fiction writer, artist, and knitter. 

Fun Fact: They are writing their master‘s thesis on representations of queerness in polar fiction.

Favorite Explorers / Expeditions: Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook, Belgrave Ninnis, Belgica, Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Sledging flag: German flag, pointed tails, crest featuring sun dogs and the motto Quid faciat mihi homo?
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 11/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing @ninarodet.bsky.social, our submissions coordinator. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
Nina is a classics student in France. She spends her free time either reading about her favourite polar expeditions (and connecting the dots) or exploring obscure archives no one has heard of. Her current research investigates references to Greco-Roman literary works and myths in first-hand accounts of polar exploration. She was a speaker at Terror Camp 2024 and is a member of the French society Les Amis de Jean-Baptiste Charcot.

Fun Fact: She once drank official Shackleton whisky in a -30°C container.

Favorite Explorers / Expeditions: Discovery, Terra Nova, Charcot’s Antarctic expeditions. Favourite explorers? Edward Wilson and Jean-Baptiste Charcot.

Sledging Flag: Breton flag, pointed tails, crest featuring an emperor penguin and the motto Inveniam viam.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 10/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing Stewart, our social media manager. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
Stewart is a university student currently studying for a Bachelor’s degree in dramatic arts, with a focus on production and design. When not hanging lights or moving set pieces, they can be found watching old movies, scrapbooking, or reading about doomed expeditions. They fell down the polar history rabbit hole after picking up a copy of Frozen in Time at a used bookstore and haven’t been the same since. 

Fun Fact: They’re only two degrees of separation away from David Cronenberg.

Favorite Explorers / Expeditions: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition and the Terra Nova Expedition.

Sledging Flag: Canadian flag, rounded tails, crest featuring three covered cups and the motto Meae voluntates bonae sunt.
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 10/02/2025
Meet the folks behind the NPT! Introducing @ciarandrinnon.bsky.social, our editor-in-chief. Learn more and get to know the rest of our crew at www.newpolartimes.com/who-we-are.
Ciarán Wright Drinnon. he/him. Editor-in-Chief. Bio: Ciarán is a writer, historian, and graphic designer from Tennessee, USA. He is currently researching and writing about the Polaris Expedition and the death of Charles Francis Hall. He has also studied the historiography of Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole. When not obsessing over polar and maritime history or yelling at Adobe Illustrator, you can usually find him analyzing modernist poetry, drinking copious amounts of iced coffee, or drawing various Appalachian flora and fauna. 
Fun Fact: Ciarán played quiz bowl in high school and college. He still volunteers at the occasional tournament! Favorite Explorers / Expeditions: Scott and Shackleton’s Antarctic expeditions, as well as Polaris, Karluk, Jeannette, and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.
The image contains a photo of Ciarán, as well as a sledging flag, the motto on which is "One day I am going to grow wings."
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The New Polar Times @newpolartimes.com · 03/02/2025
Are you an independent researcher, writer, artist, or creator? Are you fascinated by the history of polar exploration and looking to explore this in your work? The New Polar Times needs you!
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