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The Convergences Contest

To celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, we’ve launched an extravagant contest: A Convergence of Convergences. Submit your own convergence—an unlikely, striking pair of images, along with a paragraph or three exploring the deeper resonances. The best contributions will be posted on the site, along with responding commentary from Weschler. Please send your submissions to everything@mcsweeneys.net—if your images are attachments (rather than links), please keep them under 1 megabyte.

June 16, 2011

The Convergences Contest: Apoptosis: A Boom/Cancer Convergence.

by Lawrence Weschler
January 28, 2011

The Convergences Contest: Bearded Ladies Breastfeeding

by Lawrence Weschler
August 25, 2010

The Convergences Contest: Café By Night, Tea By Sea

by Lawrence Weschler
July 27, 2010

The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergences No. 8

by Carol Rosofsky, Eric Lidil, Matt Haber, and Lawrence Weschler
July 3, 2010

The Convergences Contest: Malevich to Breugel in Under Five Minutes

by Lawrence Weschler
May 18, 2010

The Convergences Contest: Abramovic/Kienholz Convergence: The Artist’s Loaded Gaze

by Lawrence Weschler
April 15, 2010

The Convergences Contest: Contest Winner #44: Johnny be Proust or A Guitar Named Madeleine

by Lorenzo Alunni
January 31, 2010

The Convergences Contest: Contest Winner #43: Spiraling Out of Control: An Uccello/Fischl Convergence

by Benjamin Morris
December 5, 2009

The Convergences Contest: Ummm, Excuse Me

by Lawrence Weschler
November 11, 2009

The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergences No. 7

by Errol Morris, Marcus Parcus, Chris Ware, Robin Davis, Tristan de Rond, Leon Hilton, Jennifer Odell, and Charlie Hopper
October 9, 2009

The Convergences Contest: Aftersquib to the Foregoing (Eyes On and In the Universe Edition)

by Lawrence Weschler
September 28, 2009

The Convergences Contest: Contest Winner #42: Eyes On and In the Universe

by Shélan O’Keefe

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