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PFN – Swim Meet Lit Mag Call for Submissions, Theme “Submerge”
Submissions to Issue 3: SUBMERGE will open on June 10th
The theme for Issue 3 is SUBMERGE. Feeling under the weather lately? Diving into a pool of cold, calm water? Been sinking deeper into the social media algorithm every night? Ten drafts deep into rewriting a poem? SUBMERGE can be interpreted in many ways, and we’re excited to see how submitters respond to this prompt. Above all, though, we’re just looking for great work. If your piece doesn’t respond to the theme, we will still consider it with equal weight.
All submissions will be considered with equal weight, but we will move Tip Jar submissions to the top of our queue for an even quicker response!
Free General Submissions – open on June 10th, 2022
$3.00 Tip Jar Submissions: open on June 10th, 2022
$12.00 Feedback Option: open on June 10th, 2022 (please send only one piece per submission, regardless of genre)
Poetry: Up to 3 poems, up to 50 lines each, in one document. Please begin each poem on a new page.
Prose submissions: One piece of up to 1500 words. Flash pieces are also welcome! Please include the word count in the submitted document. If you have something longer, please email us with a pitch (it doesn’t have to be formal – just communicate how long the piece is, what it’s about, and why it might be a good fit for us).
We don’t have a strict theme, but our editor is particularly interested in submissions from swimmers (current or former), or about swimming – whatever that means to you. Swim meets bring many people together, and we hope to offer an accessible place for a diverse range of creators to share their work on swim meet lit mag. If your work has nothing to do with swimming, that doesn’t mean we don’t want to see it! Above all, we want quality, even if it doesn’t respond to our themes.
As a publication based in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), we’d like to offer a space for local creatives, emerging and established, to share their work and build a community. However, we are happy to receive submissions from anywhere in the world.