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PFN – Call for Submissions to Prosetrics on the Theme: Aurora
December 31, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
“Theme for New Year Winter Edition, January 2026: Aurora”
The given theme is about:
- Theme: “Aurora” – The Shimmer of Becoming
- This season, step into Aurora: the soft, luminous space between winter’s hush and the first light of the New Year. Where snow muffles the world, Christmas lights glimmer warmly, and endings dissolve into beginnings. Aurora is the pause, the breath, the quiet threshold where reflection meets hope.
- We invite pieces that capture the spirit of Aurora: radiant, reflective, and full of gentle transformation. The shimmer of freshly fallen snow, a candle flickering against frost, the hush before midnight, or the first spark of a new dawn; moments that hold light, renewal, and the subtle magic of transition.
- What fits Aurora?
The quiet architecture of winter — stillness, frost, soft snowfall, and the serene cold that slows the world.
The tender echoes of warmth in dark months — not celebration, but memory, wonder, and the remnants of glow.
The subtle shift toward the New Year — anticipation, renewal, and the delicate unfurling of beginnings.
Light that pierces or comforts — candles, stars, lanterns, auroras, distant sparklers; small flames held against vast night.
Moments of inwardness — reflection, transition, clarity, the quiet work of becoming.
Seasonal rituals and the intimacy of winter — shared gestures, held breaths, solitary evenings, the weight and warmth of presence.
Thresholds and dawns — spaces between what was and what will be, where transformation moves softly. - NOTE: All works whether exploring joy, melancholy, magic, or renewal should feel illuminated by Aurora’s essence. Whether your piece is bright or subtle, celebratory or contemplative, it should carry the soul of Aurora: glowing, wintry, hopeful, and touched by the promise of a new dawn.
Your work should be based around the given theme and its elements
Please Note:
- Kindly follow all of the given guidelines for your submissions to be considered.
- There will not be second chances, so make sure your work is spell-checked and grammar-checked properly the first time.
- Your submissions will not be considered if they are not according to the theme, whether it be poetry, prose, photography, or art.
- If you’ve sent the same submissions to other journals or magazines and they get accepted before our acceptance/rejection/publication, notify us immediately.
- No AI-generated submissions will be accepted or considered for publication.
- Avoid fanciful, difficult-to-understand language. Make sure your written pieces are easily understandable by the reader.
- Nothing sexual, political, religious, or racially offensive will be entertained.
- No simultaneous or multiple submissions will be accepted to replace or change the first submission after the first submission has been rejected or accepted.
- Submissions with grammatical or spelling errors or that do not fall within the parameters of the given guidelines will be automatically rejected. Please make sure you check your bio and submissions for any errors before emailing them to us.
Compilation Format for an MS-Word Document:
- A clear, concise, third-person bio in 50 words or less.
- Clear titles for poems and prose. The magazine theme as a title is not acceptable.
- Your poems, prose, or stories that you want to send for publication.
- Social media information for your primary Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter accounts, as well as your primary poetry, photography, or art website No Discord, TikTok, Wattpad, Pinterest, YouTube, Inkitt, Emails or any other profiles will be accepted.
- Compile everything except for photos, if any, into one Microsoft Word with the.doc or .docx extension
NOTE: No other form of submission, such as PDFs or other file formats, will be considered
E-Mail Format for Prose, Story, Essay or Poetry:
- Subject: Submission for Aurora ‘26
- Description: Your short introduction and your attachments to your email
- Attachments: MS Word Submission Document; pictures, if any, accompanying your written work
- Kindly send everything in ONE email. If you forget to attach something in the main email, mention it in the next email that you send. If you are sending all the elements of the submission in different/multiple emails deliberately, your submission will be rejected.
- DO NOT embed any pictures within the Word document. Attach them to the email as separate attachments.
NOTE:
If your subject is not as mentioned above, your email will land in the wrong folder and we may not find it in time. Make sure it is labeled as mentioned.
No other form of submission except MS Word Document, such as PDFs or other file formats, will be considered
We are not accepting or including writer’s or poet’s self-portraits or logos for identity this time.