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PFN – Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Whelve
August 31, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
“Theme for September 2025: Whelve”
The given theme is about:
- To whelve is to bury, to cover, to hide—a quiet act of protection or forgetting.
- Autumn whelves the world: leaves fall, roots retreat, and silence settles in.
- This fall, we seek work that explores what lies beneath; stories hidden, memories preserved, emotions wrapped in metaphor. Whelve what needs shelter. Unearth what won’t stay buried.
- We are looking for work that embodies the act of whelving—the quiet burying, the gentle covering, the things hidden just beneath the surface. Autumn is a season of holding in, of golden beauty edged with retreat. Send us your best pieces that speak to fall’s glow and the hush that follows, stories and poems that explore what we protect, what we bury, and what refuses to stay hidden.
- NOTE: All the work, whether depicting the realities, secrets and mysteries of life or the beauty of nature in fall, should be written, drawn, or painted in a way that the setting of it gives the vibe of fall whether tragic or happy, gloomy or colorful.
Your work should be based around the given theme and its elements.
Compile everything for written submissions into one MS Word Document with the.doc or .docx extension
Any and every submission that does not comply with these guidelines will be automatically rejected.
We do not accept work previously published on social media or in another publication print or online.
We do not accept submissions that are formatted in an overly stylized manner
NOTE: Our query response time via email is 3 business days. Our submission response time is anywhere between 7-12 working days.
Submission Guide for Prose/Poetry:
| If Submitting | Minimum | Maximum | Instructions |
| Longer Poems | 1 | 3 | No more than 35 lines |
| Haiku/Senryu | 3 | 5 | Titles are optional |
| Short Story (Fic/Non Fic) |
1 | 2 | No more than 3000 words per story |
| Essay | 1 | 1 | No more than 2000 words |
| Prose | 1 | 2 | No more than 500 words per prose |
E-Mail Format for Prose, Story, Essay or Poetry:
- Subject: Submission for September ’25
- 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.
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