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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Our favourite poems are the unexpected kind. We love free verse poems that take familiar situations and turn them on their head, using unusual metaphors and drawing parallels no one else would see.
We provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you.
We have no genre expectations, just send us something that is utterly you – from beauty to beast, creative non-fiction to allegorical fairy tales – we just want to revel in the potency of your voice.
We’re seeking work about the end. Send us your take on the end of a meal, the close of a journey, the end of life, or anything else.
£2,000 prize for writers worldwide and stories on any topic up to 250 words
Britain’s biggest flash fiction prize - open to writers worldwide
Open to submissions on any theme, however, we are particularly interested in pieces that challenge us – that redefine the parameters of form, concept and technique
Our themes are intentionally vague to leave the concept up to the writer’s interpretation.
Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life.
The name Superpresent conveys multiple meanings. It could be something very much in the here and now, or something beyond the present state of being or thinking, or something surreal, or it could simply be a great and wonderful gift.
Send us your red, reddening, and red-focused poems and short prose.
In decay, there is devotion. Through flesh, we express our desire. How does your ButchFemme devotion become realized in the flesh?
Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners!
Memories can stop us dead in our tracks with their epiphanies. Memories can also be as fragile + fleeting as words that hang for a moment before our face in the cold of a winter’s breath.
We want your philosophical musings on memory
Ev0king the Question: What do you believe happens to you after death? Is it specific to your practice?
If we abound in grace or in love, what does that look like? What does it mean to live in abundance? What is enough? What unexpected abundance have you found?
This anthology asks you to explore the beautifully weird, the slightly off, and the unusual. Break free from the norm to investigate the strange!
The story must be true, and it must have happened to you directly. We want to hear your unique point of view.
Open to women who are not yet published as novelists, to novels of at least 50,000 words in any genre for adult, or young adult readers.
This competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 3,000 words.
Our competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 300 words
Our theme for Journal 8 is a difficult ask in a violent and weary world. It is grace.
Do your best
We are looking for work in opposition to a broad, insidious fascism that treats water, trees, and bodies as exploitable, expendable resources rather than sacred, essential components of our global, infinitely interconnected and interdependent web of life.
We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with unfamiliar people, new places, strange experiences or foreign exploration. Work might revolve around culture clashes, romantic encounters, fears about the future, immigration, travel, or otherworldly realms altogether.
Our fall edition’s theme is spooky, however you interpret that.
A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem.
Our mandate has been to encourage the voices of new, emerging, and established Canadian writers while providing a platform to be proud of for their quality work.
Our Annual Literary Prize is back again for 2023, with bigger cash prizes, publication for all shortlisted entries in our annual anthologies, a televised award ceremony, and an inspiring new theme.