Azure

This is the annual anthology of works from Volume 4 of AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, an online quarterly literary magazine published by Lazuli Literary Group. These works reflect our conception of a genre of our imagining, which we call "otherworld realism." Each work in AZURE is accompanied by a customized illustration.

otherworld realism

[uhth -er-wurld] [ree-uh-liz-uh m]

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noun

1. a style of literature devoted to intellectual and imaginative pursuits that point towards a potential, evolved reality.
2. a genre that represents the known, often mundane world in an elevated or defamiliarising way through the skillful use of linguistic craft, innovative language, or experimental structure; contrast with magical realism, which integrates choice plot elements into a conventionally accepted reality.
3. art and literature that evokes the space before clarity in which one must navigate the logic of intuition and instinct, alongside the duplicity of fact.
4. an approach illuminating a psychic space of process; a space of ambiguity, silence, and internal struggle.
5. the pre-dawn.

Word Origin

2017; coined by Lazuli Literary Group; first appearing in AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, Volume One.