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SUMMARY:PN - Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Compose
DESCRIPTION:“Compose.” What does this word bring up for you? What needs to be composed? How do we compose? What happens when there is no composure? Are there moments we don’t need to compose (work\, music\, ourselves\, etc)? In this US election year\, what does compose mean? These are all just thoughts and questions. Surprise us by your own writing on these themes. \n\nPoetry & Creative Nonfiction Submission Guidelines\n\n\n\n\nPlease send us 1-3 poems (one poem per page) or one CNF piece that is no more than 2\,500 words (essay\, journal entry\, excerpt from a memoir or lager piece). \n\n\nWe read and publish work that is in English only. \n\n\nWe no longer take previously published work so send us what hasn’t appeared online or in print. \n\n\nWork should be 12pt text; set in Courier\, Arial\, Times New Roman (CNF – double spaced) \n\n\nWe pay attention to craft\, ease\, beauty\, rawness of your writing. Are we inspired\, moved? Is it thought provoking\, surprising\, inviting? \n\n\nWe only take poems within the submission window and via Duosuma through Duotrope (it’s free to set up an account). \n\n\nYou will be notified the month following your submission. Feel free to make simultaneous submissions but let us know ASAP if what you sent us is selected elsewhere. \n\n\nWe believe a writer should have full control of their work\, so all copyright and publication rights remain with the writer at all times. However\, we appreciate exclusive publication rights for three months after the piece has been published by us to ensure maximum impact. And if your piece appears anywhere after that\, please acknowledge that it was first published in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing (or “Snapdragon Journal”).  
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-snapdragon-a-journal-of-art-healing-seekig-submissions-on-the-theme-compose/
LOCATION:Snapdragon Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review Seeking Submissions for the Halloween Issue about: Monsters
DESCRIPTION:OCTOBER (Boo-din annual Halloween issue\, featuring The Skinner Prize) \n. . . It waits in between the shadows. It watches from just out of sight. The monster. The Other. The creature haunting the peripheries\, guarding the boundaries . . . \nFor our Halloween Boo-din issue\, we are looking for CNF\, fiction\, poetry\, and hybrid work that explores horror and legends surrounding monsters. Your pieces should involve either a re-imagined classic creature\, like vampires and werewolves\, or a new imagining of a monster as a meaningful element. We are looking for the subtle\, the creepy\, the unsettling. We will not accept any pieces with gratuitous use of violence or gore. \nAll work will be read blind and chosen by former Managing Editor/McNeese MFA graduate Abigail Skinner\, and the top piece will earn special mention/top placement\, and a broadside of their work. \nEmail your work to boudin@mcneese.edu by September 15th\, 2024. No fee! Aim to keep the fiction/CNF under 5\,000 or so words. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words).
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-boudin-the-online-home-of-the-mcneese-review-seeking-submissions-for-the-halloween-issue-about-monsters/
LOCATION:Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN -  Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy Seeking Submissions on: Reality and its other(s)
DESCRIPTION:We will consider only previously unpublished and philosophically informed creative work (though our understanding of “philosophically informed” is capacious). Please submit only one prose manuscript or up to five poems for each issue. Please submit poems in one document. All submissions should be made through Submittable. There is no submission fee. \nWe pay $200 for each piece that we publish (or $50 for each poem we publish). \nWe are generally looking for pieces that are between 1\,000 and 5\,000 words\, though we will happily consider submissions that are shorter or longer than this. However\, please do not submit any work that is more than 7\,000 words. \nWe realize that you might also want to submit the same manuscript to other literary journals. If you do\, please include a note to that effect in the cover letter you include with your submission and notify us immediately if the piece(s) you sent to us is(are) accepted for publication by another magazine or journal. \nPlease direct all inquires about the journal to bookxi@hamilton.edu.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-book-xi-a-journal-of-literary-philosophy-seeking-submissions-on-reality-and-its-others/
LOCATION:Book XI : A Journal of Literary Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - 53-Word Story Contest. Theme: A Set
DESCRIPTION:Image by Alex Green\, licensed through Pexels \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Prompt for September: Are you ready? Picture this: your fingers in place over the keys\, the blank-page backdrop is waiting for your story. What words will you collect there? Do you already know what you want to write? Will it follow the rules? Which way will all the words flow? It’s time to put them down. \nWrite a 53-word story about a set \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe winner for September will receive a free copy of What Dwells between the Lines: Fifty-Three 53-Word Story Contest Winners Plus Tips on Writing Remarkably Brief Fiction\, and their story will appear on this page for the month of October and will be published in Issue 269 of Prime Number Magazine on January 1\, 2025. \nPlease read our guidelines carefully\nNO ATTACHMENTS\, PLEASE!\nPaste your story in the body of your email to 53wordstory@gmail.com\nHINT: Each month\, when we offer a new prompt\, we introduce it with a short 53-word description that suggests several ways you might consider the prompt. Even the photo can offer a different way to look at it. What are we looking for? A story that surprises us in its approach to the prompt\, something unusual and creative. The first idea that pops into your head probably popped into the heads of others too\, so you might want to take another look at how your story can be different. Challenge yourself to find an unusual way to write a 53-word story about the prompt\, and don’t think you have to use the prompt in your story\, literally; implying the word works too. Surprise us! That’s what we are looking for. \nHere’s how to enter (please read our guidelines carefully before sending us your story): \n–Your story must be 53 words—no more\, no less—titles are not included in the word count. Stories with fewer than or more than 53 words will be disqualified. Send only stories; poetry with line breaks will not be considered.\n–There is no age limit. This is a FREE contest\, so there is no age restriction.\n–Be careful of word count. Hyphenated words count as one word.\n–Titles are not included in the word count. If your story is not titled\, we will create a title for publication.\n–One submission per person. ‘Nough said.\n–NO ATTACHMENTS! Paste your story into the body of your email. Stories sent as attachments\, or images embedded in the email\, will not be considered.\n–By entering this contest the author grants Press 53 First Serial Rights to publish the story in Prime Number Magazine and to archive it permanently on our website. All other rights remain with the author.\n–Email your story directly to 53wordstory@gmail.com by the 15th  day of the month\, midnight Eastern Time. NO ATTACHMENTS\, PLEASE! \nOur judges for the 53-Word Story Contest are the editors of Press 53 and Prime Number Magazine. Our winner for this month’s contest will receive a free book from Press 53\, and the winning story will appear here on the 53-Word Story Contest page for the entirety of the month following the contest\, and will also be published\, along with the author’s *photo and 53-word bio\, in the next issue of Prime Number Magazine. \n(*we will request your photo and 53-word bio if your story is our winner\, so be prepared!)
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LOCATION:53-Word Story Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PF - Ink Sweat & Tears Seeking Submissions on the Theme: (Re)place
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines\nWhat to Send\nSend your submission of\, ideally\, no more and no less than 4-6 pieces of poetry (or 1-2 short prose/flash fiction works) and include YOUR NAME in the subject line. [please cut and paste email address and add it to your address book – it’s a spam avoidance technique] We ONLY accept submissions by email. \nWhile nothing is sacred – and we will consider ‘political/current affairs’ contributions – we do reserve the right to reject any submission we feel is deliberately offensive or actionable. \nSorry\, we do not pay for submissions – we have no money. \nFormat\nYour submissions can be within the body of the email or as pasted into a single Word document. If you are sending a graphic\, including haiga\, then PDF and JPEG files are fine. \nDue to the vagaries of WordPress\, we are also asking for pdf or jpg submissions (as well as in doc format) of all concrete poetry. Please use a sans serif format. We use Didact Gothic on the site which can be downloaded for free but Trebuchet MS and other similar san serif fonts are also acceptable. Font size should be 10 pt. (We may ask you to adjust this as we are still working out the best way to feature concrete poetry.) \nPlease note the maximum word length we will publish is 750 words. \nWhen it comes to Word + Image poems\, please see our previously published work to check if your piece fits the criteria. Ekphrastic poetry does not count as Word + Image. \nAbout You\nPlease include a short biographical note about yourself in the THIRD PERSON\, 30-to-40 words max.  You may include links to publications or your blog or your website. Max 2 links. \nOnce we have accepted your work\, please do not send us edits or biography updates unless we have asked for them. This is very time-consuming and very difficult to keep track of. \nCopyright\nPlease DO NOT submit work that includes copyright material (such as pictures) belonging to other people/third parties unless you can supply us with written authorisation by that person/third party. \nAs the author you retain full copyright in your work. By submitting a piece of prose or poetry to us\, you are merely granting IS&T a non-exclusive right (or ‘bare licence’) to reproduce your work. \nNo Simultaneous Submissions\, Please\nNo simultaneous submissions please (and that includes work also being submitted to competitions) if only because it causes us unnecessary kerfuffle when\, having accepted a piece\, the author then gets it accepted elsewhere and wants to unsubmit it to us – or else even asks us to delete from the webzine a piece we have already published. \nImportant: Please note that\, because of the number of submissions we receive\, we can no longer accept work that has been previously published or is about to be published elsewhere; this includes personal blogs and Facebook. If\, after accepting or publishing a work on IS&T\, we find it published elsewhere on an earlier date\, we will remove it from our web site. (We would also be very grateful if you could keep from posting your works elsewhere after IS&T publication\, at least until we have decided on our Pick of the Month shortlist for the relevant month.)
The ‘not previously published’ criteria does not apply to Filmpoems or work submitted for our National Poetry Day or 12 Days of Christmas features.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-ink-sweat-tears-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-replace/
LOCATION:Ink Sweat & Tears
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Queens English Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:POETRY COMPETITION – WIN £100\nWe are delighted to announce our next poetry-writing competition to be judged by our resident poet\, Dorothy Pope. The competition is open to all and entry is free. Each entrant may submit two poems not previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please keep copies as those submitted will not be returned.\n\n\n\n\nThe competition has an open theme; entrants may write on any subject or subjects of their choice. Poems should reach Dorothy Pope by 15 September 2024 by post to 10 Runnelfield\, Harrow on the Hill\, Middx HA1 3NY or by email to\n\ndorothy.pope@hotmail.com\n\nResults will be announced on 30 September 2024. Poems sent by post should each be typed on a separate sheet with contact details on the reverse. Each emailed poem must be sent separately with contact details well separated from the poem. Every poem must be headed ‘Queen’s English Society Poetry Competition’ and must be a maximum of 20 lines in the author’s choice of form.\n\nThe author of the winning poem will receive £100 and the poem will be published on the Queen’s English Society website\, Facebook platforms\, and occasionally in the next issue of the Society’s quarterly magazine\, Quest. The runner-up will also be published.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-queens-english-poetry-competition/
LOCATION:Queens English Poetry Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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