PFN – Eastern Iowa Review Seeking Submissions on: Heaven/Sky

Theme: Heaven/Sky

What might you write about? How about …
The stars, planets, sun or moon.
The air we breathe.
Barometric pressure.
The birds or flying insects, lightning or clouds.
Spiritual metaphor or how you see God (without getting “preachy”).
The universe & what may be beyond, if anything. Is it endless or finite?
The color blue as it relates to the heavens.
Flight.
Is heaven real? (Tell us in a prose poem or lyric essay, preferred.)
Sunrises or sunsets, storms or hail or tornadoes, hurricanes, derechos, etc.
EMPs – will it happen? WHAT will happen?
Solar flares? Will one end life on earth?
Or a mix of several of the above, allusions to these, other literary devices where ideas about “heaven” or “sky” are involved.
Etc., etc., etc.
Please use your boundless, limitless, imagination and give us a beautiful or startling or eerie prose poem, lyric essay, piece of creative nonfiction, or short work of fiction (any genre) having to do with the heaven(s) / sky. Lyrical pieces are highly sought after.

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No reprints, please. And we’d prefer if it was your own work rather than something generated by a computer program. You know how silly that looks for a writer, right?

Response time will vary from 1 day to 6 or 8 weeks, rarely longer. Please don’t check on a submission if you haven’t heard back from us, until at least 2 months since you submitted it, though we doubt very much if it’ll take that long. And yes, we do read what is sent — but often early on we’ll determine that a work simply isn’t for us, and hence the quick turnaround. Usually the longer we keep it, the more likely we’re considering it, but then occasionally we’ll decide to grab it immediately, so length of time in-progress isn’t really an indication of anything.

Send only one piece of writing in this genre in this reading period until you hear back from us.  Feel free to send one piece in each genre at the same time.

We will likely publish pieces staggered over 2 or 3 months, but then we might publish them all at once. Who knows? Be patient. And it really doesn’t help to ask us “when will this be published,” because often we just don’t know. Our schedules differ and we’re busy people too, and we’d rather not have to deal with emails that ask questions we don’t know the answers to.

Please send! We can’t wait to read your beautiful themed work.

Nonfiction: up to 5000 words.

Prose poetry: any number of lines.

Fiction: up to 1000 words.

PROSE POETRY: According to our definition, it is in paragraph form only, no line breaks, no slashes, no block text, tight wording (like poetry but in prose form). We are seeking prose poetry that fits this definition.