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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
We seek personal, political, precise, raw, lyrical, critical, and experimental work; the stuff only you can write.
Our mission is to seek out, nurture, publish and promote the very best new writers and new writing.
We believe poetry deserves a carved-out space in the online world. It's certainly powerful enough to stand on its own.
Desire can take many forms, and can be expressed through terms such as wanting, wishing, longing and craving. What does it mean to you?
The Magpie Messenger by Curious Corvid Publishing is the ultimate literary magazine made for, made by, and made with the works of indie writers.
We are seeking stories beyond those simply set during the night or in a dark place, and that delve into tales of the nocturnal and – as the title would imply – really seize the night as a critical element of their stories, perhaps even as a character itself.
Be part of our inaugural issue!
Send us your best scary poems and stories inspired by the world’s polytheistic mythologies and spiritual traditions.
Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.
Parabola gathers the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions to illuminate the central questions of life.
Sobbing over a simulation? Same. Whether you fancy Fortnite or farm simulators, GTA or girlsgogames.com, the game is on.
Show us the gooiness and silence of the inside of a chrysalis and the relief and horror of emerging from it.
What is a "Giant Robot" theme? For this project, the term "Giant Robots" can include examples of technologies in timelines both real and imagined, and of any size or (even formless) form.
This instrument has inspired countless tales, including the legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul at the crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity.
We want your guitar-related poetry, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, and short stories.
Send us your secrets or the aftermath of revealing them. Define and redefine what a secret is or can be.
Send work that responds thematically in compelling and surprising ways.
We seek work that represents and invigorates the diversity of contemporary poetry and demonstrates literary excellence whether it be lyric, free verse, prose, or experimental form.
We are inspired by poet Marianne Moore: “I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.”
We encourage submissions of minimal sonnets and the related minison poetry forms but we also now accept closed-form poetry of any kind, including haikus, sestinas, pantoums, and, of course, traditional sonnets.
What is prayer and how does it work? Do we pray TO or FOR something?
What is a City to you? A holiday destination? A treasure trove of art and culture? A hotbed of sin and vice?
Themes include, but are not limited to--family, self-realization, and legacy.
Happiness is a complex emotion. Send us your happy poems, whatever that means to you. Give yourself a brief respite from whatever is ailing you to write some happiness into your life.
This issue will contain fiction and poems from the office worker's point of view - we're especially interested to see how the home office has taken on a new meaning because of Covid and what it's been like for those of us who have returned to the annoying commutes and communal bathrooms.
For Vol. IX, we’re seeking that surprise inherent in a “POP!” and the conflict that arises from it, characters and ideas that burst off the page, in language that crackles and snaps.