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PFN – Call for Submissions to The Muleskinner Journal Thirteen. Theme: empty:FULL
Journal Thirteen
Submissions are Open until March 15
Here we go, 2025
How’s your glass?
Our theme for Journal Thirteen is
empty : FULL
Yup.
Here in the new world, we are boom and bust…fixed and broken…cycling endlessly…spiraling up or down.
We are trapped by the present moment…freed by the present moment…having and having not…watching our bank account…safeguarding our emotional stockpiles…consuming in the bipolar economy…halfway home and managing the gas gauge…shielding our eyes from the stark contrast…squinting at the subtle difference…zigzagging toward the light…we…
are empty becoming FULL and FULL becoming empty.
If enlightenment is the wave realizing it is the ocean, how do we account for the island of trash drifting in the Pacific?
We invite you to help us fill the emptiness of these thoughts by sending us your work, and by reading the work we post.
This fuel goes into this tank until March 15.
What we are looking for…
Muleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following word counts to select a category to submit. Submit in only one category. Send no more than one submission per issue.
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Poetry: Any length or form. (1-3 pieces)
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Flash or Micro Fiction: max. 1000 words each (1-3 pieces)
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Short Story/excerpts from longer (previously unpublished) work: (max. 6000 words)
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Creative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words)
We look for writing of all kinds that uses skill, wit, and determination to deliver the goods. We accept and publish poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction, short scripts, excerpts from longer works, memoir, criticism, craft essays, artwork, journalism, and shopping lists.
We don’t care who you are, as long as you are the author of what you submit.