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PFN – Call for Submissions to Moss Puppy Magazine. Theme: Echoed Howls
Call For Submissions: Issue 9
Theme: Echoed Howls
This theme explores longing, connection, isolation, and the unknown. It asks what it means to speak into the void – to call for someone who may not be there, and to hear only yourself echoed back. It is about the tension between presence and absence, between reaching out and being met with silence. A howl can be grief, warning, prayer, or celebration – but always, it is a reaching. Who do we become when we are unheard? What remains when sound fades, and only the echo lingers?
Vibe Words & Imagery:
Howling wind
Moonlight and distance
Forests at dusk
Echoes in empty halls
Prayers left unanswered
Wolves, ghosts, and starlight
Abandoned radios
Static and fading signals
Cold cliffs
Fog
Themes, Tones, and Angles:
Primal longing and emotional rawness
Repetition and reverberation
Grief and memory
The ache of solitude
Liminal spaces: thresholds, in-betweens, the veil
Ancestral voices and distant songs
The search for belonging in silence
Animal instinct, transformation, shapeshifting
Oracles, prophecies, forgotten gods
The sound of reaching out… and what comes back
Guidelines
Restrictions: You must be 18+ to submit. Do not submit work that encourages or promotes hate (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, etc.). We do not accept AI-generated work. If your work is not accepted, wait until the following submission period to submit again.
Simultaneous Submissions: Encouraged – just withdraw via email if it’s accepted elsewhere!
Previously Published: No – we ask for First North American serial rights and credit if placed elsewhere. Rights revert back to you after publication.
Poetry
Preferred Formatting:
12 point font
Times New Roman
single-spaced
Submit up to three poems separately using the appropriate Google Form.
Poems can appear within one document, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes.
Prose
Preferred Formatting:
12 point font
Times New Roman
double-spaced
indented
Submit up to 3,000 words of prose using the appropriate Google Form.
Prose can appear within one document, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes.