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PFN – Lunch Ticket: Amuse Bouche Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Resistance and Liberation
Lunch Ticket 26 Theme: “Resistance and Liberation”
Since their founding, Antioch University, the Antioch MFA program, and Lunch Ticket have centered the pursuit of social, racial, environmental, gender, and economic justice. As we watch the reversal of decades of social victories, the suppression of dissent, the use of indiscriminate violence, and the rise of authoritarianism in the USA and around the world, we at Lunch Ticket 26 feel compelled to address the theme of “Resistance and Liberation” for our upcoming issue. Lunch Ticket seeks to be a beacon and a home for stories, essays, and poems that highlight how people resist oppression and fight for collective liberation.
As Ursula K. LeGuin said, “We will need writers who can remember freedom.” We are looking for high-quality writing that engages with the nuances and complexities of our times and isn’t afraid to tackle difficult subjects. While we are prioritizing such voices, we are also interested in reading your pieces even if they do not apply to our theme. As always, we aim to center writers and artists who have been marginalized and underrepresented, or historically misrepresented, and feature work that plays with form and strives for a more just world. We are especially interested in writing from people directly engaged in resistance and liberation. Multilingual submissions are welcome in all genres.
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Amuse-Bouche Guidelines:
- Please submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).
- If your work has been published in Lunch Ticket, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.
- All submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title, submission title, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter, and not in any attached files or the submission title.
- All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
- Submissions should not exceed 3,500 words (source text not included in the word count).
- If your piece is 750 words and under, please choose the Flash Prose category when you indicate the genre of your submission below.
- Submit up to 3 poems per submission reading period. Submit all poems in the same document.
- We recognize that poetry often calls for its own particular formatting. When in doubt, use 12-pt Times New Roman font.
- We allow simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a simultaneous submission, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere, you must notify us immediately.
- We do not accept previously published work (this includes work published in personal blogs or social media).
- We do not accept AI-generated work.
- Submitters must be 18 years of age or older.
- All submitters are added to our bi-monthly newsletter email subscriber list.
We look forward to sampling your work!