PFN – Submissions Open for Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine’s Halloween Special: Nocturnia

Theme: “Nocturnia” – A Halloween Descent into the Liminal

This Halloween, we invite you to journey into Nocturnia — a world caught between shadow and moonlight, where reality bends, the strange feels familiar, and the familiar turns strange. We’re looking for pieces that embody the spirit of Nocturnia: eerie, elegant, unsettling, or uncanny. This is not just horror — it’s the haunting echo in a quiet room, the bittersweet memory that resurfaces at midnight, the beauty in the grotesque.

What fits Nocturnia?
Gothic shadows and quiet dread
Supernatural whispers and spectral beauty
Witches, ghosts, monsters — reimagined or raw
Autumnal decay and rituals lost to time
Liminal spaces: doorways, dreams, forests, forgotten towns
The mask behind the mask

NOTE: All works, whether unveiling life’s hidden truths, exploring personal mysteries, or celebrating beauty in unexpected places, should feel as though they exist within the world of Nocturnia. Whether your piece is tragic or joyful, vibrant or grim, it should carry the essence of Nocturnia: haunting, surreal, introspective, and touched by the strange.

Submission Limit for This Special Edition

As Nocturnia is a curated Halloween special, we will be accepting a maximum of 30 written pieces (poetry and prose combined), 2 Essays and only 5 Short Stories. We encourage you to send your most striking, immersive work.

Submission Guide for Prose/Poetry:

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

NOTE: No other form of submission, such as PDFs or other file formats, will be considered

E-Mail Format for Prose, Story, Essay or Poetry:

• Subject: Submission for Nocturnia ’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.

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.