P – Free the Verse Poetry Competitions Theme: Remembering
We’re looking for all kinds of poetry on the theme of Remembering. As always, we encourage you to bend the rules with both content and form.
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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
We’re looking for all kinds of poetry on the theme of Remembering. As always, we encourage you to bend the rules with both content and form.
Conversations, painful or joyful discussions, debates, gossip, pillow talks, or conversations you've always wished you could have had.
Make it funny, heartfelt, quirky and real.
The Golden Quill Writing Contest is a tri-genre contest that awards a total of $1,650 in prizes and publication in the 2025 issue of The NightWriter Review.
In Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist the spoon represents the importance of balancing creativity and career. We encourage poets to allow the oils of creativity to fall from their spoons in exchange for the pleasure of creating and having their poetry published.
How do we negotiate lesbian/queer desire across cultures and geographies? What does it mean to belong to a body?
We’re searching for LGBTQ+ characters who have a central position within the story. This will be a diverse and inclusive anthology.
The work must be written by a trans/genderqueer person, or at least one of the authors must be trans/genderqueer.
Inspired by Kelli’s own pup of the same name, this theme invites us to explore how the familiar shifts meaning—how something as simple as a tree can become a companion, a memory, a symbol. Focus your poetry on the relationships between dogs, trees, and the familiar.