Odysseus – the cunning wanderer from the fall of Troy, breaker of oaths and teller of tales. A man of many faces, he journeys through monsters, gods, and memory itself. For this call, we seek stories that echo his trials: voyages of wit, endurance, longing, and the winding path home. Perhaps not as strong as Heracles, nor as skilled as Achilles, Odysseus is the craftiest and quick-witted of the Greek heroes of myth, famed for his fateful devising of the Trojan Horse and his eventful and epic journey home to Ithaca. His story is immortalised in Homer's Odyssey and will endure as long as humanity, forever capturing the imagination, not least because of the entities he meets along the way: the savage Cyclops Polyphemus, the enticing Sirens, and fearsome Scylla and Charybdis.

But do we see him as the ancients did? Is he truly a hero when we know that – like many male heroes of myth – he was a killer, an adulterer, a liar and an all-round deceiver? This submissions theme offers the chance to reassess the reassessments; to present the fully formed, rounded and complex figure that is Odysseus, from his point of view and as others see him, as he faces the challenges of living up to the expectations put upon him. Rather than retelling the classic tales, we're looking for stories with original angles, interesting perspectives, new visions.