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SUMMARY:F - Call for Submissions to Crab Creek Review. Theme: Embodied Lives
DESCRIPTION:For this fiction call “Embodied Lives\,”  we’re looking for stories of up to 3\,000 words that explore embodiment in all its complexity. How does the body—in its desire and strengths\, its fragilities and limits\, its autonomy and its subjugation to the larger systems of power that dominate our lives—shape who we are\, how we see ourselves and others\, and how we exist in relationship? How are mind and body in opposition to one another\, and how are they one? And what does it mean to be embodied when our bodies are—by choice or by force—rendered separate from our minds and wills and wants\, not fully our own?\nWe look forward to reading your authentic\, narratively engaging\, and well-crafted fiction on embodied life. \nGeneral Submissions \n\nThe reading period is open from September 15 through November 15\, or when our 300 Submittable Cap is hit.  The editors seek original\, unpublished poetry\, fiction and creative nonfiction via Submittable. Submissions are free\, and payment is in contributor copies. We look forward to reading your work\, and encourage early submissions. \nGeneral Submission Guidelines: \n\nOnly original\, previously unpublished work will be considered. This includes personal websites and social media.\nFor poetry\, send up to four poems. For fiction\, send stories of up to 3\,000 words. For creative nonfiction\, send essays of up to 1\,500 words.\nTitle your document with your name and the genre. (i.e.: GwendolynBrooks_Poetry; Adrienne Rich_Nonfiction.)\nInclude a cover letter in the provided space in the Submittable form (not in the document). Include your mailing address\, email and phone number\, a 50-word bio\, social handles\, and the titles of the pieces you are submitting.\nShould you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration\, please indicate this in your cover letter and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere.\nSend your work as a SINGLE attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF); docx preferred.\nPlease submit no more than one batch of poems or one prose piece per reading period.\nWe aim for a response time of 8 weeks\, but please do not query your submission status unless 4 months have passed.\nIf you need to update us on the status of your simultaneous submission\, please do so by adding a note to your submission\, in Submittable.​\n\nPoetry:\nSend up to four poems\, no more than eight pages total. We welcome your best work\, and have no restrictions on form or content\, except that we will not consider work that is defamatory\, discriminatory\, or that promotes hatred. 12pt standard font. One batch of submissions per reading period. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; please do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revisions concerns. \nCreative Nonfiction\nSend one piece up to 1\,500 words per submission period. We’re looking for well-crafted essays that exhibit depth and nuance\, a clear voice\, personal reflection\, and vivid scenes. Experimental\, lyric\, and non-traditional forms are encouraged. We do not publish literary criticism\, scholarly articles\, or reportage. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns.\n​\nThemed Fiction—Embodied Lives\n“Literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear\, and\, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed\, is null\, and negligible and non-existent.” (Virginia Woolf\, “On Being Ill”) \n“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body\, hour by hour\, and how do they cope inside of it.” (Miranda July\, It Chooses You) \nAs both Woolf and July suggest\, literature has long dismissed the body as little more than the vehicle for thought—a landscape the creative and critical self must cross (or maybe endure) in order to do the real work and to live the most meaningful life: a life of the mind. This relationship is a false binary\, though\, and progressively we understand (socially\, politically\, scientifically\, and even artistically) that mind and body are intricately in connection. \nFor this fiction call\, we’re looking for stories of up to 3\,000 words that explore embodiment in all its complexity. How does the body—in its desire and strengths\, its fragilities and limits\, its autonomy and its subjugation to the larger systems of power that dominate our lives—shape who we are\, how we see ourselves and others\, and how we exist in relationship? How are mind and body in opposition to one another\, and how are they one? And what does it mean to be embodied when our bodies are—by choice or by force—rendered separate from our minds and wills and wants\, not fully our own? \nWe look forward to reading your authentic\, narratively engaging\, and well-crafted fiction on embodied life.
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LOCATION:Crab Creek Review
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SUMMARY:F - Tales & Feathers Magazine: Submissions from creators who are BIPOC\, trans\, and/or disabled on the Theme: A Natural Desire
DESCRIPTION:Augur Magazine will be open exclusively to Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or those living on the land colonially known as Canada. \nTales & Feathers will be open internationally. \nWe especially encourage creators who are BIPOC\, trans\, and/or disabled to submit—don’t self-reject! \nThe themed call for Augur Magazine is for A NATURAL DESIRE. What does it mean to want and need? In this issue\, we’re looking for speculative stories and poems that explore: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaw connection\nLove and lust\nDesperately important platonic relationships\nCommunity in context\n\n\nEspecially when grounded in nature; flora; fauna; and other non-urban settings. Give us conflict and challenge; joy and celebration; and the spark of repair. Give us pieces that span genre from high fantasy to supernatural\, from myth to body horror\, from dreamy realism to deep scifi. \nWe are especially interested in pieces that explore desire from non-Western and Indigenous contexts\, or interrogate the ways in which Western relationships are often tied to colonialism and extraction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n— \nPlease query if you have not received a response by the end of January 2025. \nWant to know if you’re a fit? Snag a digital subscription or a single issue from our store! Want to know what’ll happen once you submit? Check out our article! \nWe do not accept AI-generated submissions. The actual text of your piece must be ideated and written by a human. Any piece found to be AI-written will result in a breach of contract\, should your piece be accepted. \nWHAT TO SEND TALES & FEATHERS\nCozy short fantasy stories\nTales and Feathers is a home for cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories. \nOur ideal submissions look like this: \n\nQuiet character-driven storytelling\nGentle moments\nRich fantastical worldbuilding\nEveryday moments\nStories that take place before or between or after the epic conflicts\nStories that offer warmth\, comfort\, and possibility\n\nWe welcome stories written in any fantasy genre or genres\, including stories that blur genre lines. We are especially interested in high fantasy\, fairy tales\, and myth. \nWe also welcome stories that have been translated into English and stories that engage with non-Western fantasy genre traditions. \nIf you think you match our tone\, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue\, free online\, or grabbing an issue\, to see what Augur has published before (especially 5.1\, their joy issue). \nWe accept multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks. \nOur submissions system\, Moksha\, should send you a verification email within 24 hours. If you do not receive one\, resubmit and send us an email letting us know what happened. \nText submissions should be formatted as follows: \n\nStandard manuscript format\n.doc\nWithout your name (for anonymous reading)\nPreferably\, in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font\n\nFinally: If you fit into our guidelines\, don’t self-reject! Submit\, submit\, submit! \n\n\nPLEASE DON’T SEND…\n\n\n\n\n\nPandemic stories\nGratuitously violent pieces\nHorror that uses neurodivergence or mental health as the horror element\nComedy that punches down\nStories that are “speculative” because a non-marginalized group suddenly experiences what it’s like to be a marginalized group (e.g. a man “has to live with sexism”\, a white woman is suddenly “treated like a woman of colour”)\nAnything that minimizes sexual trauma/any trauma as a plot device (eg. A woman is assaulted in order to motivate a man\, without dealing with her story or experience)\nCasual or blatant misogyny/bigotry/racism/etc.\nOtherwise insensitive pieces\nReprints\nStories longer than 5\,000 words for Augur Magazine\, or longer than 2500 words for Tales & Feathers Magazine\nPieces you’ve submitted before (unless they’ve undergone a significant rewrite)
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