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SUMMARY:PN - Rabbit: A Journal for Nonfiction Poetry Now Accepting Submissions for Issue 39.  Theme: Mutiny
DESCRIPTION:Rabbit is currently accepting poetry submissions for Issue 39: the MUTINY Issue. \nWhen you don’t trust the captains\, it’s time to take back the ship. \nFor Rabbit: MUTINY\, we seek rogue poems that resist the usual rules of resistance. We’re after nonfiction poems\, in all aesthetic registers\, that scorn the tyranny of planned obsolescence\, false idolatry\, rabid anthropocentrism\, bad governance\, and the logic of the market above all else. Send us your long-sighted\, large-hearted\, reverent/irreverent calls to arms.  Any increment of subversion or transgression\, down to and including dumb insolence\, is eagerly solicited for this issue. Now is not the time to be a civic coward. \nWe invite poets to send up to 3 poems in one document through Rabbit’s Submittable site. Please include in the cover letter of your submission: \n• full contact details (postal address\, email) \n• 50-word max. bio \n• a short (50-word max.) response to the following: “Name a poem or a work that refuses to obey orders\, that incites rebellion\, or that questions the validity of authority\, and why it gets you.”
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-rabbit-a-journal-for-nonfiction-poetry-now-accepting-submissions-for-issue-39-theme-mutiny/
LOCATION:Rabbit Poetry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PN - Call for Submissions to Dorothy Parker's Ashes. Theme: Wounds
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.\nSubmit.\nPlease submit first-person essays* anytime before the deadline prior to publication date. Please be advised that we reserve the right to edit\, though all edits will be sent to writer before publication for approval. Please feel free to include a suggested title and art but we reserve the right to change the title and choose the art. We do consider previously published essays\, taking into consideration venue\, date\, etc. \nAlthough the essay holds the central role at DPA\, we are open to other genres\, including experimental\, poetry and flash non-fiction\, as long as there is a first-person point of view. \nAll rights are non-exclusive. We do not currently offer payment. We accept no responsibility for anything from libel to hurt feelings. As Anne Lamott says\, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them\, they should’ve behaved better.” \nPreferred length. 500 to 2000 words. \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease send submissions along with a short bio pasted directly into your email to: info@dorothyparkersashes.com We ask for this to avoid potentially malware-laden attachments. Unless your formatting is a specific design element of your piece\, format should be single space with no paragraph indentation and one extra space between paragraphs.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-call-for-submissions-to-dorothy-parkers-ashes-theme-wounds/
LOCATION:Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Still Point Arts Quarterly Seeking Submissions.  Theme: The Houses of My Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Steven Cordes on unsplash.com\n\n\n\nThe focus of our summer 2024 journal will be: \nTHE HOUSES OF MY DREAMS \n“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house . . . ”\n― J.X. Burros \nCall for Writers\nSubmission Deadline: April 1\, 2024\nSelected writers will have their work published in the\nsummer 2024 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly\nINFORMATION AND SUBMISSION FORM \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Houses of My Dreams—Writing Submission FREE\n\nOPEN\n\nCloses on Monday\, April 1\, 2024 11:59 PM PDT (in 32 days) \nThe Houses of My Dreams | Journal Submission | Summer 2024 \n  \n“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house . . . ” ? J.X. Burros \nStill Point Arts Quarterly is accepting writing submissions (fiction\, creative non-fiction\, essays\, poetry; 5000 words maximum) on the theme The Houses of My Dreams. The deadline for writing submissions is April 1\, 2024. Accepted work will be published in the summer 2024 issue of Still Point Arts Quarterly. Writers will be notified no later than May 15\, 2024. \nDATES AND DEADLINES \nApril 1\, 2024 – Submissions Close (Deadline) \nMay 15\, 2024 (or earlier) – Notification of Writers \nJune 1\, 2024 – Still Point Arts Quarterly Summer Issue Released \nGENERAL GUIDELINES AND POLICIES \n\nPlease do not email or call us to ask about the review process or results. We will email you when we have made a decision regarding your submission.\nIf we decide to publish your work\, we will send a writing agreement for your review and signature. Typically we ask for one-time print and digital rights. You may republish your work at any time.\nPlease know that we typically receive well over 100 poetry submissions\, and we accept between 5 and 8. To keep things somewhat orderly\, we limit all writing submissions to one piece per person.\nWe do accept reprints.\nIf we have published your work previously\, we have no waiting period for submitting work again. We’ll gladly accept good writing whenever we receive it.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-still-point-arts-quarterly-seeking-submissions-theme-the-houses-of-my-dreams/
LOCATION:Still Points Arts Quarterly
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - HerStry is Collecting Stories about Motherhood
DESCRIPTION:HerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We’re looking for work from bigender/polygender persons\, cisgender women\, intergender persons/intersex persons\, nonbinary persons/gender non-conforming persons\, transgender women/transfeminine persons\, two spirit. In other words\, if you are a cis man\, please refrain from submitting. \nMothers have a lot to say about mothering. Trust us\, we know. We’re dedicating the month of May to telling those motherhood stories. Don’t sugarcoat it. We want the messy parts of mom life—the up-all-night\, covered-in-poop\, haven’t-showered-in-two-weeks parts. And we want the parts you love\, too. The first words\, the proud parent moments\, the things you never imagined. Or maybe you don’t want to be a mom or aren’t able to. We want those stories too. The struggles that have come with it\, or the freedom. \n** HerStry is always happy to share stories anonymously—if your story is selected for publication\, simply let your editor know you would not like your name shared ** \nTHE RULES:  \n\nAll stories must be true and about you.\nStories must follow the theme in some way\, interpretations can be wide.\nStories must stay between 500–3\,000 words.\nDocuments should be double spaced\, 12Pt font with 1 inch margins.\nSubmissions must be in .doc or .docx form—we do not accept PDFs.\nStories are read blind. Please DO NOT put any identifying material on your manuscript. Manuscripts that don’t follow this rule will be automatically disqualified without being read. We realize personal essays may contain your name; a first name is fine.\nPlease include a third person bio. Cover letters are fine\, but not necessary (we don’t read them\, we’re more interested in what you’ve written).\nPlease submit only once per theme.\nWe do not accept previously published stories.\n\nHerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We’re looking for work from bigender/polygender persons\, cisgender women\, intergender persons/intersex persons\, nonbinary persons/gender non-conforming persons\, transgender women/transfeminine persons\, two spirit. In other words\, if you are a cis man\, please refrain from submitting. \n WANT PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK? \nYou can now receive helpful feedback by selecting the “personalized critique” option on our submissions page. While getting your work critiqued does not guarantee publication\, we can help make it great for your next submissions\, whether it’s to us or someone else. \n$3 submission fee goes toward keeping HerStry sustainable. All accepted pieces receive $20 payment.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-herstry-motherhood-fee-based/
LOCATION:HerStry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal Seeking Submissions for The Music Issue
DESCRIPTION:Did the sounds of women’s music at your local coffeehouse or a house party encourage you to come out? Did you break up with a lover to the sound of women’s voices? Were you raised listening to women’s music or attending women’s music events? Did you wonder why Aretha\, Gladys\, and Chaka weren’t considered women’s music? Do you understand women’s music as pedestrian\, thrilling\, conservative and/or a site for resistance? \nThis upcoming issue of Sinister Wisdom will be a holistic retrospective on the women’s music cultural movement. We invite contributions that both reflect and shed new light on the complex herstories of the women’s music movement—joys\, sorrows\, triumphs\, challenges\, and lessons. This is an explicitly trans-inclusive issue that welcomes submissions from people of all genders and walks of life who have experiences with the women’s music movement. \nSome topics of interest for this issue include: \n\n\n\n\n\nWomen’s festivals and other sites of performance\n\n(e.g.\, festivals in the Southern states\, coffeehouses\, bookstores\, restaurants)\n\n \nThe women’s music industry\n\n(e.g.\, technicians\, producers\, record labels\, and record distribution systems)\n\n \nExperiences hearing women’s music outside of traditional performance venues/spaces\n\n(e.g.\, first encounters with women’s music in a friend’s living room)\n\n \nBIPOC experiences in the women’s music movement\nDisabled experiences in the women’s music movement\n\n(e.g.\, Deaf and HoH experiences with ASL interpreting at concerts\, lived experience with DART\, OASIS\, and similar programs throughout the years)\n\n \nTrans experiences in the women’s music movement\n\n(e.g.\, trans men and women at festivals and in women’s musical community\, transmasculine performers with histories in the women’s music movement\, experiences of genderqueer teens)\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nPublishing since 1976\, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural\, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open\, consider\, and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues.\nThe deadline to submit is April 1. Please send submissions in one document (up to 10 pages\, double-spaced) to Submittable. Include a brief bio in the body of the email\, along with any social media links. For questions please email sinisterwisdom@gmail.com \n  \n\nSubmission Guidelines\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWRITING \nMaterial may be in any style or form\, or combination of forms. \nMaximum: five poems\, two short stories or essays\, OR one longer piece of up to 5\,000 words. \nPlease proofread your work carefully; do not send us changes after the deadline. \nPlease send a short contributor biography between 25 and 125 words with your submission. \nSinister Wisdom acquires first North American serial rights for all work that we publish. By acquiring first North American serial rights\, authors guarantee that publication in Sinister Wisdom will be the first publication in North America. That is\, the work has not appeared previously in another journal\, in a book\, online\, or in other forms of publication. In rare instances\, Sinister Wisdom will reprint work that has been previously published. Authors should discuss with the editor and publisher PRIOR to submission. \nWe STRONGLY prefer that you submit your work through Submittable\, our online submission management system. Using Submittable ensures that both of our editors have an opportunity to see and consider your work and helps us ensure a timely response to your submission. If you CANNOT use Submittable for some reason (you are incarcerated\, for instance\, or you do not have internet access)\, please see the guidelines below. \nSubmit to Sinister Wisdom
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-sinister-wisdom-a-multicultural-lesbian-literary-art-journal-seeking-submissions-for-the-music-issue/
LOCATION:Sinister Wisdom
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Call for Submissions to Canthius.  Theme: Trash
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nNote: Submissions are restricted to “writers of marginalized gender identities\, including trans\, Two Spirit\, non-binary\, agender\, cis women\, genderqueer\, GNC\, and intersex writers.”\nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS\nCanthius is seeking submissions on the theme of TRASH for its 14th issue. Whether you write about the things we throw away\, ignore\, discard\, or scavenge for\, we want to read your poems\, prose\, and hybrid works. How do you define trash? How does trash intersect with our ecological and social spheres and communities? How do we live\, breathe\, and write trash? In what ways do we embody\, become\, reject what is worthless? Do you think trash is beautiful\, valuable\, something to be treasured? Who defines what is or is not our filth? \nSend us your work about treasures you’ve reclaimed\, leftovers\, pulpiness\, messiness\, griminess\, and excessiveness. What you’re afraid to touch with a ten foot pole. In short\, send us your trashiest and filthiest work. \nCanthius is an intersectional feminist magazine that publishes poetry and prose by writers of marginalized gender identities\, including trans\, Two Spirit\, non-binary\, agender\, cis women\, genderqueer\, GNC\, and intersex writers. We are committed to publishing diverse perspectives and experiences and strongly encourage Indigenous women\, Black women\, and women of colour to submit. We also welcome submissions in Indigenous languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGUIDELINES\nWe consider unpublished work of poetry and prose (both fiction and creative non-fiction). We welcome experimental works. Please limit prose submissions to 2500 words and poetry submissions to three poems. We accept simultaneous submissions\, but please let us know if another publication accepts work you’ve submitted to Canthius. \nAlong with your submission\, please include a cover letter with your name\, home address\, email address\, phone number\, the date\, and the name(s) of the piece(s) you’re submitting. If you are comfortable disclosing your racial background and/or gender identity in your cover letter\, we encourage you to do so. This information will be held in confidence and will be used solely to help us uphold our mandate to publish diverse work. For prose submissions\, please include a word and page count in your cover letter. Finally\, your cover letter should include a short bio that tells us a bit about yourself and lists your previous publications\, if any. Please include a header on each page of your submission with your name. \nWe respond to all submissions by email. Our average response time is 12 to 15 weeks. Please be sure to designate Canthius as an approved sender to prevent our response from being caught in your email spam filters. \nWriters accepted for publication will receive $50 for one page\, $75 for two pages\, $100 for three\, $125 for four pages\, and $150 for five pages or more\, regardless of genre. Contributors will also receive a complimentary a copy of the issue and a discounted price on any further copies of the issue in which their work appears. \nThanks for sharing your writing with us – we can’t wait to read it! \nPlease note that Submittable caps the number of submissions we can receive during each calendar month. Every first of the month\, the cap is reset and the forms will open again. For this reason\, we open submissions across different calendar months. Please plan accordingly if you can\, and reach out to us if you have any difficulty submitting during our open submission periods.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-call-f-or-submissions-to-canthius-theme-trash/
LOCATION:Canthius
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Crab Creek Review Seeking Submissions about Displacement or the Immigration Experience
DESCRIPTION:All work must be submitted through Submittable. \nWhat We Are Seeking:\nWe are looking for short fiction that explores the displacement or immigration experience. Separation\nfrom one’s country or culture—whether voluntary or not—generates a range of feelings/experiences:\ndisorientation\, grief\, nostalgia\, curiosity\, surprise\, and a negotiation of a new sense of self\, to name a few.\nSend us fiction—flash or full length—that uncovers some nuance of this experience. Pieces may include\ncharacters moving countries or characters being displaced within their country of birth due to a change in\ncircumstances. They may include experiences of internal displacement from a previous\, defining\nsituation. They may include the visceral\, the poignant\, the philosophical\, even the humorous.\nThis call is merely a starting point\, as we are interested in being surprised by any aspect your work seeks\nto explore in connection to the theme.\n​\nWe welcome work from writers who are Black\, Indigenous\, and people of color\, writers of all sexual\norientations and gender identities\, writers of varying socio-economic status\, and writers with physical or\nmental differences. \nThe Specifics:  \n\nFiction may be up to 3\,500 words.\nFlash fiction (stories under 1\,000 words) may include up to three pieces per submission.\nAll work must be previously unpublished.\nAll works must be submitted through Submittable.\nSimultaneous submissions accepted\, however please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.\nWork not originally in English must be translated into English. For work in translation\, translators are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint any material under copyright that exceeds the guidelines of fair use or does not have a Creative Commons license.\nWe only accept work that is the creative effort of humans. Crab Creek Review is dedicated to publishing work by diverse writers whose voices need to be heard. The lived experience of being human is critical to our mission\, therefore we are not open to work that has been fully or mostly written or generated by AI (artificial intelligence). We are open to prose and poetry that has experimented with and incorporated technology in creative ways\, as long as the role of AI is clearly explained. All submitters will be asked to confirm and disclose the role that AI and other non-standard technologies have played in the creation of their submitted work.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-crab-creek-review-displacement-or-the-immigration-experience/
LOCATION:Crab Creek Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Moss Puppy Magazine.  Theme: Slither/Swim
DESCRIPTION:Our goal as a literary magazine is to feature and share literature that defies norms\, challenges conventions\, and embraces the unsettlingly beautiful and oddly innovative.  We are a platform for emerging writers and artists to share their unique perspectives and voices\, with a commitment to embracing and supporting diverse voices.  Our core values guide everything we do\, shaping our vision and ensuring that we provide a literary haven that nurtures creativity\, fosters community\, and amplifies marginalized voices.  We’re dedicated to nurturing emerging writers and artists\, fostering a diverse\, collaborative community in the literary world. \nGuidelines\n\n\nRestrictions: You must be 18+ to submit. Do not submit work that encourages or promotes hate (racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, fatphobia\, etc.). If your work is not accepted\, wait until the following submission period to submit again.  Please don’t forget to include content warnings in your submissions! \nSimultaneous Submissions: Encouraged – just withdraw if it’s accepted elsewhere! \nPreviously Published: No – we ask for First North American serial rights and credit if placed elsewhere. Rights revert back to you after publication. \nResponse Time: ~2 weeks. Please reach out if you have not received a response more than 2 weeks after submitting. \n\n  \n\nPoetry\n\n\nPreferred Formatting:​ \n12 point font \nTimes New Roman \ndouble-spaced \nSubmit up to three poems separately using the appropriate Google Form. \nPoems can appear within one document\, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes. \n  \n\nProse\n\n\nPreferred Formatting:​ \n12 point font \nTimes New Roman \ndouble-spaced \nindented \nSubmit up to 3\,000 words of prose using the appropriate Google Form. \nProse can appear within one document\, but should be submitted separately for organization purposes.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-moss-puppy-magazine-theme-slither-swim/
LOCATION:Moss Puppy Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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