Submissions for Retirement Lifespan Vol. 10 HAVE OPENED

Submissions close 29th February 2024.

From 2021 through to mid-2024, Pure Slush has been conducting a 12-volume anthology series, looking across the Lifespan.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute works taking characters across the arc of their whole lives, whether prose or poetry, fiction or non-fiction.

Or alternately, to create unlinked works.

Submit to one … or a few … or many … or all.

Your Retirement submission must be:

• original, so previously unpublished online or in print (so that includes authors’ websites and blogs)
• 150 word minimum limit for fiction and non-fiction, stories and essays / maximum 1000 words. (That’s for each story / essay: maximum number of prose pieces you can submit is 3.)
• 80 word minimum limit for poetry / maximum 1000 words. (That’s for each poem: maximum number of poems you can submit is 5.)
• must include something about retirement / semi-retirement / stopping employment.

You must be minimum 18 years of age to submit.

We prefer submissions to be made through Submittable (scroll below to click here) and much prefer Word.docx to PDFs or other alternatives.

To submit, click here. Please include the word RETIREMENT, plus your name and the title of your submission, and the word count. (Please note: word counts do not include titles or your name.)

PLEASE NOTE: if you are submitting more than one poem, story or essay, we really prefer they are all included on one document. So if you have 5 poems or 3 stories to submit, please include them on one document, and thus make one submission, rather than 5 submissions (one for each poem) or 3 submissions (one for each story).