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SUMMARY:PFN -  PRISM international Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Swan Song
DESCRIPTION:‘I am writing only for my shadow\, which is now stretched against the wall in the light of the lamp. I must make myself known to him.’ \n— Sadegh Hedayat\, “The Blind Owl” \nIt is said that the swan sings only one beguiling song throughout the course of its life\, releasing this song at the moment of its death. This is\, of course\, untrue\, but it begs the question: what would your final gesture be? \nWhen faced with an ending\, what expression must spill forth? A swan song is a farewell\, a declaration\, a last sounding breath after a long silence. We invite you to share these final acts of resistance\, joy\, affirmation\, confession\, celebration\, or consumption. Consider whether you will share a song of fond remembrance or one of sorrow. Will it be bittersweet or might it take another form entirely? Perhaps your swan song will reflect on the past\, or perhaps it will look forward into the unknown. How will you make yourself known to your shadow? What needs to be said? \nShare these swan songs with us\, dedicate them to a particular someone\, or perform them for yourself alone. Send us your final gestures in prose\, poetry\, or hybrid forms. Make them lasting or fleeting. \nExamine your relationship with endings of all kinds: in love\, life\, or mortality\, through migration or change. What other endings might compel you to speak? Experiment with musicality in your words; imagine the sound of your final gesture\, whether it be a cry\, wail\, lullaby\, or whisper; an aria\, symphony\, or ode. Take the form in any direction that finality inspires in you. We encourage submissions that refuse to go quietly. \n  \nReply times range between six to twelve months\, and we may not be able to respond to emails regarding the status of a submission. \n\nPRISM does not publish the same writer twice in a publication year. \n\n\nGENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:\n\n\n\nSubmissions must be made through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or mail\, except from incarcerated writers. For all other submitters\, we charge a $3.00 reading fee per submission. Writers for whom the $3.00 fee is prohibitive are welcome to submit using the Inclusive Access option on Submittable. \nSubmissions should be typed\, double-spaced\, and paginated. Please specify the genre of your submission in your cover letter. All submissions should be set in Times New Roman\, 12-point font. \nInclude in your cover letter your full contact information (including your email address) and a bio of 50 words or fewer that makes reference to where you live. \nWe accept simultaneous submissions\, and we ask that you let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere\, OR withdraw it from our Submittable. We purchase first North American serial rights and pay $40 per printed page for prose and $45 per printed page for poetry. Contributors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears. \nWe encourage submissions from Indigenous writers\, writers of colour\, writers with disabilities\, LGBTQQIP2SAA+ writers\, and writers from other intersectional and marginalized groups\, including low-income earners. If you identify as one or more of the above and would like to let us know\, please mention it in your cover letter. \n\nPROSE GUIDELINES\n\n\nWe accept fiction\, creative non-fiction\, comics\, hybrid works\, and literary essays. We do not publish rhetorical\, academic\, or strictly journalistic non-fiction.\n\n\nOur preferred length for submissions is 4\,000 words or less. We have a limited page count and aim to feature a variety of voices.\n\nSubmit only one piece at a time\, unless you are submitting flash fiction or non-fiction (under 1\,000 words)\, in which case you may submit up to three pieces in a single document. Please wait to hear back before submitting again.\n\nClick here to submit prose. \nIf you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted\, please email Sierra Louie at prism.prose@ubc.ca. \n\nPOETRY GUIDELINES\n\n\nSubmit up to four poems\, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit six one-page poems.\n\n\nWe welcome cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics.\n\n\nIn your cover letter\, please specify the number of poems you are submitting and list the titles of the poems.\n\n\nPoetry submissions should be typed and single-spaced. If you would like to submit poems with alternate spacing\, please mention it in your cover letter and submit a PDF instead of a Word document.\n\n\nClick here to submit poetry.  \nIf you have any questions about these guidelines or a piece you’ve already submitted\, please email Ayda Niknami at prism.poetry@ubc.ca.
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SUMMARY:PF - Call for Submissions to Mslexia Magazine. Theme: Snakes
DESCRIPTION:Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to women. \nMslexia was set up to support women writers and to showcase their work. We welcome submissions in English or English dialect. The majority of our submission categories are open to anyone who self-identifies as a woman\, regardless of background or location. \nThere are 17 ways to submit\, from a four-line poem to a 3\,000-word lead article\, from a 300-word bedtime story to a 700-word memoir performance piece – so there’s bound to be something to suit your kind of writing. Including big-name commissions and as-yet-undiscovered newcomers\, we publish over 60 women in every issue. \nScroll down to explore our different submission slots. \nWe’ve done our best to describe what we’re looking for\, but nothing beats seeing actual examples in print. So please consider buying a sample copy of the magazine before you submit. Every reader of Mslexia is a potential contributor – and vice versa. \nYou can submit here via the website\, or by post to Mslexia\, PO Box 656\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE99 1PZ \nIf you are submitting online\, you will receive an automated email acknowledgement that your submission has been received. If submitting by post\, please enclose an SAE or include an email address if you would like to receive an acknowledgment. \nAll entries are read anonymously\, so please do not put your name or contact details anywhere on the text pages of your entry. (This information should be restricted to your online Entry Form or to a cover sheet for postal entries.) \nThe file types we accept are: .doc\, .docx\, .rtf\, .pdf\, .txt\, .pages\, .odt. We do accept image files\, .jpg\, .png etc.\, for our Eyeverse\, Writing Nest\, and Bear Necessities category\, but please ensure the image is of print-quality (300dpi or above).
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SUMMARY:PFN - About Place Journal Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Careful/Care-full Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Careful/Care-full Collaboration\nCreative collaboration is an opportunity to summon and practice ways of being in the world and with each other that challenge myths of exceptional individualism as constructed within colonial and capitalist contexts. This type of collaboration can acknowledge and affirm that making art is not an isolated event\, and has the potential to share and/or redefine power between artists and the communities in/with which they work. The dynamic and responsive work that emerges from entangling minds\, perspectives\, and positionalities speaks and models on the page or screen\, through the body or soundwaves\, the care and imagination that is integral to community building and kin-making.  Creative collaboration is a method and commitment to seeding and nurturing webs of knowledge\, histories\, practices\, and relationships with each other and the places that are sacred to us. \nGuided by this understanding\, the Spring 2025 issue of About Place Journal invites submissions that contemplate what it means to collaborate with others through practices and processes that are careful and care-full\, that is collaborations that are cautious at various stages and shaped by an ethics of care between the artists\, for their communities\, and throughout the process of co-creating. \nKeeping in mind the core values  of the Black Earth Institute to use Art to “promote an understanding of the interconnectedness of all living beings and this earth we share” and to “work toward a society based on Justice\, Spirit\, and Earth Centeredness…” this issue invites joint submissions from artistic collaborators that make transparent the practices\, processes\, and creations that connect them to each other\, honor the earth\, engage with spirit\, and promote/fight for justice in ways that require careful and care-full attention to individual and communal needs and desires. \nWe are interested in submissions that define community and care\, and that consider how/why collaboration necessitates careful or care-full approaches to creating\, re-vision relationships with art\, artists\, community\, nature\, and/or the divine. \nQuestions to explore include\, but are not limited to: How does collaboration lead to care and what connects the two? How does conflict within collaboration lead to new ways to care about each other? What practices shape your work as an individual? As a collaborative unit? As a community? How are care-focused interspecies or inter-technological collaborations imagined or practiced? How does engaging with spirit or the spirits shape your creative practice? How\, when\, and why do we share our work with each other? \nWe welcome your poetry\, prose\, and hybrid forms of collaborative expression. Interviews\, recorded dialogue\, or other forms that document creative collaboration are also welcomed. Submissions from collaborative partners or groups will be prioritized over those of individuals. \nAbout Place Journal Submission Guidelines\nWork can include: \n\nPoetry: up to 3 pieces which do not exceed 50 lines each. Acceptable file types include doc\, docx\, odt & rtf. If your poetry submission contains special formatting\, we suggest submitting a PDF in addition to your Word doc.\nFiction\, essays\, creative nonfiction and other prose: up to 3 pieces which do not exceed 4000 words each. Acceptable file types include doc\, docx\, odt & rtf.\nThe total number of submitted pieces cannot exceed 5\, even if your submission includes items from several genre categories.\n\nPlease provide a numbered list with the title of each work you are submitting (1 to 5 works) in the field of the Submittable form where indicated. \nEach submission must be accompanied by a document in doc\, docx or rtf format that provides a bio for each collaborator or your group. Bios must be in the third person and not exceed 150 words each. A single artist statement\, when relevant\, may be included in this document and should also not exceed 150 words. Please include your website\, Twitter and Instagram links if desired. \nBy submitting\, you guarantee you hold the rights to the work\, and you grant About Place Journal the rights to publish the submitted work with first serial rights (FNASR). After publication\, rights revert to the author. Original\, previously unpublished work only. All pieces must be submitted through Submittable\, starting January 1\, 2025.
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SUMMARY:PN - Sídhe Press Anthology Series Seeking Submissions about: Grief
DESCRIPTION:GRIEF \nEdited by Sue Finch and Annick Yerem \nUpdate 5/3/25 We would now like to read more poems about grief for the world\, a country\, a place\, a home\, etc. \nSubmissions are now open for our next anthology. We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people\, but also grief for animals\, grief for a place\, a home\, a time\, an idea\, our health\, the world\, climate change. Ambiguous grief\, anticipatory grief\, collective grief\, reflective grief\, rituals of grief. \nSubmission Guidelines \nSimultaneous submissions and work you have posted on social media are both welcome. Please let us know right away if your work gets accepted elsewhere! \nPlease read the submission guidelines carefully. We work hard to put together anthologies that our editorial team and our contributors can be proud of\, and these guidelines help us in our work. We will reject work which does not meet these guidelines. \n\nPoems and CNF should be formatted in A5 in a Word doc (this is 14\,8 cm x21 cm!)\, Times New Roman\, pt 12.\n\n\nYou may submit up to 2 poems or 1 CNF. Poems should not exceed a maximum of 30 lines\, CNF  250 words. Please do not include your name in the documents containing your poems.\n\n\nPlease title your document with the title of your poem(s).\n\n\nSend your submissions to submissions@sidhe-press.eu with the subject heading `Grief`\n\n\nWe are always happy to get a friendly greeting in the submission. Take the time to find out about the press and say hi!\n\n\nPlease clearly state (in the body of the email only) the name under which you would like to publish the poems. Please also include any social media handles or your website. Please do not send a bio.\n\n\nWe don´t take any submission fees\, but should you be able to afford it\, we would be grateful if you could leave us a tip at https://ko-fi.com/annickyerem.  Sídhe Press currently receives no funding.\n\n\nWe are working with KDP\, the book will be out in print. If you are published in this anthology\, you will receive an ebook version of the book. Poets retain their copyright\, please credit Sídhe Press if your work is published elsewhere.\n\nSídhe Press will not tolerate any form of racist\, misogynistic\, homophobic\, transphobic or ableist work. Should you choose to submit something like that\, we will not only never publish you\, we will also inform all the editors we know.
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