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PFN – Call for Submissions to Waffle Fried: A Literary Magazine on the Theme of: Resilience
Print Issue #2
resilience [rəˈzilēəns]
noun
The process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, or stress
Look. The world is, essentially, a dumpster fire, regardless of where you live. If you turn on the news, you see more tragedy. Hop on social media and fall into doom scrolling because there’s just so much doom out there to scroll through.
For Issue #2, we’re looking for work on “resilience”. We would prefer to see work that is directly related to current events and the experience of simply being a human during perpetually unprecedented times; this is not a requirement, but it is what we would like to read. The theme of “resilience” must be obviously present in your work, though there is no specific way you are required to do this. Tell us about survival: what it is and what it means. Tell us about coping in a dumpster fire world. Tell us about what scares you and how to overcome it. You get the idea! We low key really hate toxic positivity, so it’s totally fine if your work doesn’t come with a neat or positive conclusion.
DO NOT tell us about bigotry. We are not interested in reading about blatant homophobia, racism, transphobia, Islamophobia, etc. Work submitted that includes these themes, outside of specific purposes (ie discussing coping with/overcoming/etc homophobia, misogyny, etc), will be discarded and we reserve the right to block future submissions from any author who submits hateful and/or inappropriate material.
Send us your fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We are especially interested in flash fiction/CNF, prose poetry, and erasure.