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SUMMARY:P - Human Obscura Seeking Submissions to Their First Anthology. Theme: Blue
DESCRIPTION:2024 Humana Obscura Anthology\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheme: “Blue”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur first anthology will focus on a theme of “blue\,” and however you interpret it—as the sky\, the ocean\, the shade of a particular flower\, or an emotion. \nWe’re looking for work that is nuanced\, raw\, and imagistic with strong elements of the natural world or hints to the human-nature relationship. We tend to favor work that is unexpected\, evocative\, yet subtle\, with a strong sense of place and strong imagery. \nWe prefer shorter works that use brevity to its advantage\, with simple formatting and uncomplicated language. \nPlease keep in mind the seasonal nature of the issue you’re submitting to. \nWe will not accept works created by robots\, such as those created using AI technology like ChatGPT or similar means. Your work must be wholly created by you. \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES\nYou may submit up to 5 poems (or up to 10 haiku\, tanka\, or micropoetry 5 lines or less). Please include all poems in one document. \nWe publish poetry\, prose poetry\, micropoetry\, haiku\, and tanka. We prefer free-verse poetry that is accessible to readers\, is straightforward\, and avoids fancy language. \nWe opt for the less traditional\, Westernized style of haiku and tanka that does not follow strict syllable structures\, while honoring the haiku aesthetic and characteristics. \nWe do not publish experimental work\, and very rarely do we publish poems longer than one page. \nPlease edit your work before submitting. While typos aren’t enough to automatically reject your work\, it is important to submit your final\, edited piece(s). Upon acceptance\, we may suggest minor edits to your work. \nSubmissions. We only consider submissions sent through our online submission manager (Submittable). Emailed submissions will not be considered. Submissions must be accompanied by a brief third-person bio. Poetry submissions should be sent in a single document (.doc or .docx formats preferred). \nSimultaneous Submissions & Withdrawals. We accept simultaneous submissions\, but we must be immediately notified if a piece is accepted elsewhere. If you wish to withdraw one or several pieces from your submission\, please email us directly with the titles of the work(s) you are withdrawing. If you wish to withdraw your entire submission\, please use Submittable’s “Withdraw” option. \nIn keeping with the anthology’s theme\, a percentage of submission fees will be donated to Ocean Conservancy. Ocean Conservancy is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Washington\, D.C.\, United States. The organization seeks to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems\, prevent marine pollution\, climate change and advocates against practices that threaten oceanic and human life.
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Last Stanza Poetry Journal\, Issue #19. Theme: Fable
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions to Last Stanza Poetry Journal\, Issue #19: Fable\nThe theme for Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #19 is Fable\, and it will feature the works of Swedish folk and fantasy artist John Bauer [1882-1918]. \nThe deadline for submissions is December 31\, 2024. A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem. There is never a reading fee. An interview with the Editor’s Choice Award winner will be published in the same issue (optional). \nPoems can be any style\, but preferably non-rhyming. Submit up to three poems\, each no longer than 64 lines\, to laststanza@outlook.com as a single Word document or within the body of your email. There is no budget for author copies\, as proceeds are used to purchase copies for libraries. Published poems will be considered for a Pushcart Prize nomination. Authors retain all rights to their poems. Reprints are rarely accepted. If the poem has been previously published\, please credit the prior publication. \nLast Stanza Poetry Journal is published worldwide in ebook\, softcover\, and color-illustrated hardcover. It is available primarily from Amazon\, but some issues are also via these sites and others: Barnes & Noble\, Walmart\, Book Depository\, Blackwell\, and Powell’s.
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SUMMARY:PFN - Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) Seeking Submissions on: Animalia: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
DESCRIPTION:Bellevue Literary Review seeks high-caliber\, unpublished work\, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health\, healing\, illness\, the mind\, and the body. We encourage you to read BLR before you submit.\nAnimalia: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human\nBLR is seeking creative writing about the ways in which animals figure into our lives and the w Seeking Submissions onay they live theirs. Whether companion or wild\, predator or prey\, animals’ experiences of health can shine a light on our own. BLR invites submissions that explore how health and healing both transcend and interconnect species\, and what this can teach us about being human. \n\n\n\n\n\nFiction/nonfiction word max is 5\,000 words (though most of our published prose is in the range of 2\,000-4\,000 words).\nFiction: We seek character-driven fiction with original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance\, sci-fi\, horror). We have only occasionally published flash fiction. While we are always interested in creative explorations in style\, we do lean toward classic short stories.\nNonfiction: We are looking for essays that reach beyond the standard ‘illness narrative’ to develop a topic in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate engaging and creative analysis that allows anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. (Please\, no academic discourses or works with footnotes. )\nPoetry: We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing\, strong narrative\, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos. Please submit no more than three poems. Each poem should be on a separate page within a single document.\n\n\n\n\nGuidelines\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe happily consider simultaneous submissions\, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.\n\n\nManuscripts can only be accepted electronically via Submittable.\n\n\nFiction and nonfiction should not exceed 5\,000 words (double-spaced\, please). Most of our published prose is in the range of 2\,500-4\,000 words\, which allows us to publish more authors.\n\n\nYou may submit up to three poems as one submission. Each poem should be on a separate page within a single document. Poems can be of any length\, though shorter poems allow us to include more poets in our pages.\n\n\nThere is a $5 fee per general submission but it’s waived for current subscribers. (If you are not a current subscriber\, you can subscribe when you submit your work and take advantage of free submission.) These fees help BLR fund publication of the journal\, but if it’s a hardship for you\, please contact us.\n\n\nWe strive to provide several reviewers for each manuscript and kindly ask your patience in this necessarily slow process. But if you have not heard from us within five months\, feel free to inquire about your manuscript.\n\n\nBLR pays $75 for poetry and $150 for prose. Published authors will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears\, plus an additional 1-year subscription to BLR. There is an author discount for purchasing extra copies.\n\n\nAll submissions must be of previously unpublished work.* BLR acquires First North American rights\, and the right to reprint in anthologies and online. After publication\, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.
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SUMMARY:PFN - Living our Blessings: Aging\, Mortality & Gratitude. A Wising Up Anthology Seeking Submissions on Aging\, Mortality & Gratitude
DESCRIPTION:LIVING OUR BLESSINGS\nAging\, Mortality & Gratitude\nA WISING UP ANTHOLOGY \nWe invite stories\, poems\, memoir\, and non-fiction that explore how\, in ways small and large\, our awareness of aging and mortality intensify our appreciation of our present (and past) in ways we never anticipated. \nAge is a strange place—filled with abundance and scarcity\, more fixed and more fluid than we imagined before we arrived there. Our bodies teach us it is now or never. We have passed our apogee and the arc of our life bends relentlessly earthward. But our hearts won’t stop growing\, expanding\, revising\, and revisioning—and we have to acknowledge that as well. Here the surprising questions are often positive. All that angst\, was it really necessary? All that will and drive—did it steer us in the right direction or did it narrow our focus unnecessarily? Has the love\, the good\, both momentous and minute\, we have experienced in our lives gone fully recognized\, born fruit\, multiplied? Savoring can become a call\, a necessary rebalancing of the scales. \nOne of the simplest ways to do so is just to open to the mystery of the mundane and our own participation in it. It is often so simple it shocks us: The way\, after twenty-five or fifty years together\, we remain such an intriguing surprise to each other we still can’t finish each other’s sentences. The way we can so vividly recall a decisive\, perhaps anguished\, moment in our childhood or middle age and see it fall into place in an entirely new\, more beneficent\, story. The way a minute on the porch listening to the cascade of cicadas can feel like a baptism. \nlivingourblessings@universaltable.org \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES \nFOR ALL WISING UP ANTHOLOGIES\nPrint and Web \nWe make final editorial submissions on all submitted manuscripts only after the submission deadline.\nElectronic submissions only\, either Word or RTF.\nNO A.I. generated text. \nProse ≤ 5\,000 words. Poetry ≤ 5 poems.\nPayment in copies\nSubmit manuscripts electronically \nWe consider dual submissions and previously published work only if informed of this at time of submission.\nPreviously published work must be accompanied with a list of where and when it has been previously published\, including on the internet.\nWe do not pay reprint fees. It is the author’s responsibility to get needed permissions. \nA GENTLE REMINDER FOR WRITERS \nWe read all submissions with care because we value the time\, effort\, and aspirations of our writers. We ask that writers who submit show us the same consideration. Before submitting\, please read our Calls for Submissions carefully to make sure that the work you are submitting truly fits the theme in content matter and in tone\, for we are more than a literary press\, we are one with a clear social commitment to finding the We in Them\, the Us in You. We want work that has emotional depth and complexity and that invites us\, ultimately\, into wiser relation with each other. \nWe suggest you browse through our list of subjects and then our library and read excerpts from some of our other anthologies\,  as well as our mission statement  – A Welcoming Philosophy  – on the home page and our reasons for founding the Wising Up Press.  If you are interested in the Writers Collective\, we provide extensive information about that as well.
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LOCATION:Living our Blessings Aging\, Mortality & Gratitude. A Wising Up Anthology
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions about Apricity
DESCRIPTION:“Theme for January 2025: Apricity”\nThe given theme is about: \n\n\n\nApricity describes the warmth of the winter sun.\nThe given theme is all about Winter. You are free to incorporate the given theme into your work as you see fit. The setting should depict the winter season.\nWe are looking for everything related to Winter of Life and weather. Send us your best work depicting the wintery weather of life (harsh realities\, cold tragedies\, regrets\, and hurt) alongside the winter that leaves our skin cold with the kisses of chilling air and snowflake kisses.\nNOTE: All the work\, whether depicting the realities of life or the beauty of nature in winter\, should be written\, drawn\, or painted in a way that the setting of it gives the vibe of winter.\n\n\n\nYour work should be based around the given theme and its elements.12/31/2024) Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine: Apricity (NPF) \nPlease Note:\n\n\n\nKindly follow all of the given guidelines for your submissions to be considered.\nThere will not be second chances\, so make sure your work is spell-checked and grammar-checked properly the first time.\nYour submissions will not be considered if they are not according to the theme\, whether it be poetry\, prose\, photography\, or art.\nIf you’ve sent the same submissions to other journals or magazines and they get accepted before our acceptance/rejection/publication\, notify us immediately.\nNo AI-generated submissions will be accepted or considered for publication.\nAvoid fanciful\, difficult-to-understand language. Make sure your written pieces are easily understandable by the reader.\nNothing sexual\, political\, religious\, or racially offensive will be entertained.\nNo simultaneous or multiple submissions will be accepted to replace or change the first submission after the first submission has been rejected or accepted.\nSubmissions with grammatical or spelling errors or that do not fall within the parameters of the given guidelines will be automatically rejected. Please make sure you check your bio and submissions for any errors before emailing them to us.\nLast date to submit: December 31st\, 2024\n\n  \nSubmission Guide for Prose/Poetry: \n\n\n\n\nIf Submitting\nMinimum\nMaximum\nInstructions\n\n\nLonger Poems\n1\n3\nNo more than 30 lines\nNo more than 10 words per line\n\n\nHaiku/Senryu\n3\n5\nTitles are optional\n\n\nShort Story\n(Fic/Non Fic)\n1\n2\nNo more than 3000 words per story\n\n\nEssay\n1\n1\nNo more than 2500 words\n\n\nProse\n1\n2\nNo more than 500 words per prose\n\n\n\n\n\nCompilation Format for an MS-Word Document:\n\nA clear\, concise\, third-person bio in 50 words or less.\nClear titles for poems and prose. The magazine theme as a title is not acceptable.\nYour poems\, prose\, or stories that you want to send for publication.\nSocial media information for your primary Instagram\, Facebook\, or Twitter accounts\, as well as your primary poetry website No Discord\, TikTok\, Wattpad\, Pinterest\, YouTube\, Inkitt\, Emails or any other profiles will be accepted.\nCompile it into Microsoft Word with the.doc or .docx extension\n\nNOTE: No other form of submission\, such as PDFs or other file formats\, will be considered\n\nE-Mail Format for Prose\, Story\, Essay or Poetry:\n\nSubject: Submission for January ’25\nDescription: Your short introduction and your attachments to your email\nAttachments: MS Word Submission Document; pictures\, if any\, accompanying your written work\nKindly send everything in ONE email. If you forget to attach something in the main email\, mention it in the next email that you send. If you are sending all the elements of the submission in different/multiple emails deliberately\, your submission will be rejected.\nDO NOT embed any pictures within the Word document. Attach them to the email as separate attachments.\n\nNOTE:\nIf your subject is not as mentioned above\, your email will land in the wrong folder and we may not find it in time. Make sure it is labeled as mentioned.\nNo other form of submission except MS Word Document\, such as PDFs or other file formats\, will be considered\nWe are not accepting or including writer’s or poet’s self-portraits or logos for identity this time.
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LOCATION:Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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