Not platonic, familial, or devotional, this is the rascal love where your heart sweats and you lose your mind. The world well lost for lust. Dreaming days followed by sleepless nights.

The Pine Cone Review was born out of a dream to showcase the complexities of the brown existence.

For the 10th issue of illiterature. we’re seeking work that is without the smallest unit of meaning.   We especially encourage submissions that are hard to place elsewhere.

Left Unsaid. We like the phrase's suggestion of mystery, innuendo, high stakes, and emotional conflict. Sometimes what's left unsaid is the cause of pain, sometimes it's the source of power. 

How is the environment changing and why? What can inspire change or conversation? What's your/our relationship to the climate?

Primordial appetites – mother’s milk, a father’s warm touch, the flashy colours of a toy train, the appetite to love, the insatiable curiosity to delve into the mysteries of life. Gulp down this theme of appetite, allow it to reveal the hungers within you.

Where do we see and feel syncopation, within and beyond music? How do we experience syncopation in everyday life, society, socially?

The relationship between music and poetry is self-evident, and we want to explore how music in the air in forms poems on the page.

Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung that refers to “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.” This makes our focus eclectic, but we do have subjects that we favor.