Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Stories can be serious or humorous, or both. We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and hysterical stories you have about your cats.
We strive to create conversations here at The Ilanot Review that could occur nowhere else.
We are looking for variety and originality. Tickle us, haunt us, gobsmack us. Choose your words carefully and leave our readers wanting more. And do it in a small space.
Pack up your suitcases, we’re going on vacation! Tell us your travel stories, whether across the ocean or in your own city. A woman out in the world is still something revolutionary.
Sing us a song. Cry if you want to. Make it happy or sad, funny or bittersweet. Blow out your candles and, just this once, tell us what you wished for.
The focus of our winter 2024 journal will be: THE SELF-PORTRAIT In its grandest sense, a self-portrait may be presented as a painting, a collage, a poem, an essay, a story . . . Who is the you that you know? How do you express it? Call for Writers Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024 Selected […]
Take a moment. Think about your most precious memories, those nostalgic mental Polaroids you carry in your heart for when you need them. I’d wager that a lot of those memories feature laughter.
We're hoping you find a pattern for the perfect poem, story, or essay that you will then share with us.
You are invited to explore and reflect on the power of connection, empathy, and support in the healing process. Connection is open to interpretation in the broad sense (e.g. human relationships, animals, and nature).
This competition invites creative responses from poets that critically engage with ideas of time and temporality and the question of who gets to say that something has ended.
Spirit: soul, essence. Breath, life. Liveliness, with a shadow of afterlife, of death, of the close unknown.
It’s election season, so this month we want to see stories about the government, its power, and how it can put its thumb on the scale.
In this issue, we want to highlight fiction and poetry inspired by Halloween. Send us your work about monsters, talking pumpkins, becoming best friends with a sleep paralysis demon, your childhood nightmares, or whatever your tell-tale heart desires.
In our next edition we’re looking for creative explorations of the science of Synergy — interactions, collaborations, things that together become more than the sum of their parts.
We like to uphold the unique, showcase the weird, and embrace the uncomfortable.
Minimal departure, brevity, turns of phrase that hold us in pause, we always want Horror submissions for October!
Soil—the, epidermal layer of the body of fertile Mother Earth—is life itself; however, it is also death. We at Penumbra are anxious to gather a body of art and literature, locally sourced and from around the world, that focuses on earthy, dirt-related themes.
This edition heads out in search of home – what it means to us, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self.
Poems should be on the theme of FRIENDSHIP – though we’ll leave it to you how you interpret the theme.
We explore original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.
Write about your own interpretation of the Zodiacs. Push the envelope. Step out of the box and conquer the unknown.
Send us your genre-defying, liminal, non-human human. Send us your fringe and the shadows-in-the-corner-of-your-eye.
We invite you to explore what "In the Lost and Found" means to you, whether it's rediscovering a forgotten song, reclaiming a lost part of yourself, or finding meaning in the unexpected.
We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with the transition to adulthood: first love, hormonal angst, Saturday jobs, brushes with the law, experimentation, gaining independence, losing virginity.
We are particularly interested in work that relates to a sense of spiritual life, ecology, and community, but we welcome submissions of all kinds that reflect one's unique stories.
Reflection isn’t limited to one idea or image- it is where art begins. What have your reflections looked like?
If there’s one topic we can simultaneously talk about both too little and too much, it’s money. How do we decide on the best use of our financial resources?
Send us your playful odes to community and interdependence, and essays (or manifestos!) written out of, or into, disabled joy.
Dog Stories We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our dog topic that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic, we do a new dog book approximately every eighteen months so here is another chance for you to share a story or two about […]
Do you have a character who doesn’t believe in nuance? Have all the colors been arrested and imprisoned? Make up a story, apply your interpretation, and send it in.