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SUMMARY:FN - Call for "Short Takes" Submissions to Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty on the Theme: Putting It All Away
DESCRIPTION:Issue #76–Fall 2025–Putting It All Away \n\nThere comes a time when we must put away all the stuff that has grown around us\, a time for clearing the decks. Often\, that means cleaning out the closet or the so-called “guest” room\, or putting away last season’s clothes. It can equally refer to our lives: to freeing ourselves from the overbearing or annoying people who just make us feel bad\, or the surfeit of tasks and obligations we’ve taken on (“I’m just a gal who can’t say no”). Or it can refer to our inner selves: it can mean breaking old\, bad habits\, or silencing the squalling inner child. January is traditionally the moment for grand resolutions promising self-improvement\, but fall is a season for new beginnings\, too\, with summer ending (in the northern hemisphere\, at least) and school starting up again. What have you put away? What should you? \nProjected publication date: Wednesday\, September 17\, 2025\n \n\n\n\n  \n\nShort Takes\nShort Takes are usually short prose pieces\, fiction or non-fiction (250-500 words)\, but can also be topical poetry\, sometimes even drawings or photography. We’re especially interested in hearing about your experiences\, but you can include your thoughts\, dreams\, ideas and opinions. Humor and irony are always appreciated! \nPlease read and follow these instructions carefully. We regret that we cannot accept any submission that does not follow these guidelines. In particular\, make sure that the address on your email is correct. \nYour submission must be under 500 words. Submit it to us as a Word document; be sure your name\, address\, phone number\, and email address are all in the Word document. Send us the document by an email addressed to shorttakes@persimmontree.org\, and type “Short Take” in the subject line of the email. \nInclude a headshot and short bio (no more than 50 words) in the email. \nYou must be subscribed to submit; click here to subscribe. Submissions and subscriptions are free.
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SUMMARY:PFN - South 85 Journal Seeking Submissions on the Theme: DELUGE | DROUGHT
DESCRIPTION:THEME ISSUE: DELUGE | DROUGHT\n\nIs less more? Is more too much? Can less be enough? Is more actually more? What has overwhelmed you? Underwhelmed you? When must we say\, Stop? When do we beg\, Keep going?\nWhere do we live? An environment of too much or not enough? Or both? Can we achieve balance or is our fate locked in the extremes?\nMaximalist or minimalist…in possessions? Passions? Food? Drink? Love? Questions? Answers? Time? Flowers?\nInundate ~ overflow ~ drown ~ shortage ~ lack ~ parched. Rebirth. Destruction.\nThe possibilities are endless\, and we want this theme to feel open to countless interpretation. As always\, we’re eager to see what you come up with!\n\n• Fiction submissions should be between 800 and 4000ish words. Please include word count. Flash fiction should be under 750ish words\, submitted to the flash category. One story per submission. \n• Nonfiction submissions should be no longer than 4000ish words. Please include the word count on your submission. \n• Poetry submissions should contain no more than 3 poems\, up to 6 total pages\, one poem per page. \n• Please send only one submission per category (Poetry\, Fiction\, Flash\, and Non-Fiction) during each reading period.  You are welcome to submit to multiple categories. We suggest including the title of your work in your file name. \n• Submission fee = $3 \n• We will publish novel excerpts\, provided they can stand on their own. We do not publish genre fiction or children’s stories. We encourage you to read archives of South 85 Journal and acquaint yourself with the material we publish before submitting your work. We encourage the use of a content warning if necessary\, in consideration of our manuscript readers. \n• Type should be no smaller than 12-pt. font. Please use a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial\, and refrain from script or “flowery” lettering. \n• All work will be considered for our Editor’s Choice Award of $100\, which be given to ONE piece in the issue. \n• Submissions should be saved in Word or Rich Text format. \n• Number pages consecutively\, double space\, and use margins of at least one inch. \n• Place your name\, email address\, and word count in an upper corner of the first page. \n• We do not solicIt work; each published piece comes to us through Submittable. \n• Converse MFA students\, grads\, and faculty are not permitted to submit work to South 85 Journal. \n• Writers whose work has been published in the journal are asked to wait one issue before submitting to the journal again (i.e. your poem appeared in Spring/Summer 2025\, so you’re cleared to submit again for the Spring/Summer 2026 issue and any after). \n• We accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere\, please promptly withdraw your piece via Submittable or email to withdraw individual poems: south85journal AT gmail DOT com. \nPlease include a professional bio of 50ish words written in the third person with your cover letter. \nSouth 85 Journal does not publish work which has been previously published\, either in print or online. Our reply time is typically eight weeks or so. If AI has been used in the creation of the work\, please indicate so.\nWe acquire exclusive first-time Internet rights only. All other rights revert to the author at publication\, but we offer formal\, written reassignments upon request. Works are also archived online. We are unable to pay for submissions\, however thanks to an anonymous donor\, ONE piece in the issue will be awarded the Editor’s Choice Award of $100. We ask that whenever an author reprints the work that first appeared in our pages\, South 85 Journal be given acknowledgment for the specific work(s) involved.\n  \n  \nSubmission fee: $3
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SUMMARY:F - Fiction Potluck Contest Theme for July 2025: Siblings
DESCRIPTION:FICTION POTLUCK\n\n\n\n\n\nJuly Challenge:\nSibling Relationships\n  \nup to 5\,000 words \nDeadline: August 15 \nFind submission links below the rules \n\n\nA Tip from our guest judge\, Will Kelly:\nI’m looking for plot driven narratives with strong characters. I enjoy reading slice-of-life pieces\, where the characters feel three-dimensional and relatable. I want personality to take center stage\, but that can come in a variety of ways: siblings banding together great\, sibling rivalries awesome\, siblings coming-of-age and learning about their true-selves amazing\, siblings looking back on mistakes they’ve made works for me. Whatever genre you write best is what I want to read. \nPrizes!\nThis quarter is officially sponsored by Duotrope; the first place winner of this quarter’s challenge receives Duotrope service for free for two years (valued at $100)! \nThe Basics\nFiction Potluck is free to enter and open to fiction writers of all ages around the world. One entry per person per challenge. \nSubmissions are accepted through Dropbox\, Duosuma\, and email (submissions [at] writersworkout.net). \nSubmissions are accepted six weeks at a time\, starting in January\, April\, July\, and October. The challenge and guest judge will change each open period. The guest judge picks the challenge—we never know what we’ll get! \nThe selection team reads all entries that follow the submissions guidelines as explained below. Entries are read blind. The team chooses the finalists and contacts everyone.  \nFinalist author names and bios are posted on this page and announced in our monthly mailer.  \nThe guest judge reads the finalist pieces and chooses three winners. Each of the three winning pieces is published on our blog and linked through this page. Winning entries will be published as received. \nGeneral Rules\n\n\nAll entries must be in English and original works of fiction.  \n\n\nOne entry per person per challenge. \n\n\nThe competition runs on UTC time\, beginning and ending at midnight. \n\n\nYou must keep your entry private until after we post the top three winning stories. \n\n\nThe judges’ decisions are final. \n\n\nThe judges will contact everyone who includes the Title Information listed below.  \n\n\nThe judges cannot provide feedback for every piece submitted. \n\n\nWinning entries will be published as received. \n\n\nThe following are not accepted:​ \n\n\nSimultaneous submissions (sorry\, it’s for anonymity. You’ll know within 15 days of closure if you can sub somewhere else!) \n\n\nPreviously published works (see above) \n\n\nAI-generated content \n\n\nFanfiction\, erotica\, religious\, or political content \n\n\nPieces longer than the word count limit \n\n\nPieces submitted outside the competition month \n\n\nPieces submitted in .pdf or pasted into the body of the email \n\n\nPieces without the correct Title Information (below) will be rejected unread.  \n\n\n​ \nSubmissions\nJuly: up to 5\,000 words \nKeep formatting professional. You can find recommended settings on the submissions page. \nEntries must include this Title Information in this order at the top of the document body\, aligned left:  \nName or Pseudonym\, email \nEntry Title \nFiction Potluck \nWord Count  \nAccepted file types: .doc\, .docx\, .odt \nLive\, unlocked Google Docs or Microsoft Word links are accepted via email (submissions [at] writersworkout.net). We must be able to download your file. We will not request access and we are not responsible for locked docs.
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LOCATION:Fiction Potluck Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PN - Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Seeking Submissions on: Suburb Nation
DESCRIPTION:Call For Papers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCall for Papers — Suburb Nation\n\nDeadline: August 15\, 2025 (Pacific Time) \nSubmission length: 7\,000-8\,000 words (including works cited and notes) in either English or French \n  \nCanadian fiction\, film\, and television increasingly abound with representations of suburban life\, such as Sort Of\, co-created by and starring playwright Bilal Baig; Run the Burbs\, co-created by and starring Andrew Phung; the film adaptations of Catherine Hernandez’s novel Scarborough and David Chariandy’s novel Brother; Larissa Lai’s speculative post-Greater Vancouver novels Salt Fish Girl and Tiger Flu; and Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl\, a collection of linked stories mostly set in “Misery Saga\, which is what you’re allowed to call Mississauga if you live there” (1). Foregrounding the lives of people of colour\, often first- and second-generation immigrants\, these recent depictions centre the suburbs in Canadian experience\, offering more varied representations than the stifling\, empty periphery of earlier treatments\, such as Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye\, Barbara Gowdy’s Falling Angels\, or even Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For. In her monograph Canadian Suburban\, Cheryl Cowdy quotes the speaker in Brand’s long poem Thirsty to describe how Canadian suburban imaginaries are marginalized by the assumption that the suburbs are “prefabricated from no great narrative” (xii). They seemingly lack culture and are rarely associated with “dissident artistic or poetic expression\,” Cowdy points out; more often\, suburbs serve as the butt of jokes and are seen as fertile ground for comedians\, such as Mike Myers\, Jim Carrey\, and the pop band The Barenaked Ladies (xii). \nThis special journal issue will examine literary approaches to suburban life in Canada across a range of mediums\, genres\, and periods\, paying attention to the suburbs as both an imaginative and a material form. We are especially interested in considering how the mid-twentieth-century popular representation of the suburb as a white\, middle-class\, automobiled enclave has been written otherwise across varied experiences of racialization\, diaspora\, and generation—and in the era of fossil-fueled climate change. What dreams and diasporas land immigrants and Indigenous people in suburbs? What histories are disrupted and which are forged in suburban lives and spaces? How do queer and trans people find and write themselves through suburbia? What other places and social lives are relationally entangled in the suburbs—in social connections\, in memory\, in colonial displacements\, and in material economies of labour\, production\, consumption\, waste\, and emissions? How are suburban arrivals and departures—and pasts and futures—narrated? What poetic practices engage suburban form and its social relations? \nWe invite papers of 7\,000-8\,000 words\, in English or in French\, that join us in asking: If Canada is a suburban nation\, what are its suburban stories? \n\nSubmission Guidelines\nAll submissions to Canadian Literature must be original\, unpublished work. Essays should follow current MLA bibliographic format (MLA Handbook\, 9th ed.). Word length for articles is 4\,000-8\,000 words\, which includes endnotes and works cited. \nPoetry\nWe accept submissions of original poems from Canadian citizens and permanent residents. All poetry submissions must include a short biography that lists previous publications or\, for as yet unpublished poets\, a few lines that give context for your work. \nDue to space considerations\, poems of 1-2 pages in length are preferred. Please do not include more than 5 poems per submission. Files must also be in Portable Document Format (.pdf) to ensure proper spacing and formatting. \nAccepted poems will be published in the journal and on the website. Note that your Social Insurance Number will be required for a small honorarium. Separate arrangements for payment will be made if your poem has been accepted for publication. \nArticles\nInclude the following information in your submission:\n\nAuthor bio (50-100 words)\nAbstract (maximum 150 words)\nFor special/themed issue submissions: (1) Specify which call for papers you are responding to\, and (2) indicate whether you would like your paper to be considered for a future general issue if it is not accepted into the special/themed issue\n\nSubmission length\n\nWord count: Between 7\,000-8\,000 words (including endnotes and references)\nShorter works between 2\,000-3\,000 words may be submitted for consideration for the Opinions & Notes section (specify upon submission). These are not peer reviewed so they are also not considered scholarly articles.\n\nDocument formatting\n\nFont: 12 pt.\, Times New Roman (or another default font such as Calibri or Arial)\nSpacing: Double-spaced\nPage layout: Standard\, with 1-inch margins on each side and 8.5 x 11-inch dimensions\nFile format: Word document (.doc or .docx)\nCitations: Formatted according to the latest edition of MLA style\n\nAnonymize your paper\nIf necessary\, submit an original version of your paper and an anonymized version with identifiable information removed\, such as acknowledgments sections. \nIn Microsoft Word documents\, author information must be removed from the file. \n\nOn Windows:\n\nGo to “Options” under the Tools menu.\nGo to “Security.”\nUnder “Privacy Options\,” select the box “Remove personal information from the file on save\,” then click “OK.”\nSave the file.\n\n\nOn Mac:\n\nGo to “Preferences” under the Word menu.\nGo to “Security.”\nUnder “Privacy Options\,” select the box “Remove personal information from the file on save\,” then click “OK.”\nSave the file.To ensure the integrity of the anonymous peer-review process\, every effort should be made to anonymize the identities of authors and reviewers.\n\n\n\nFeel free to contact us if you have questions about what is considered identifiable information or want support anonymizing your document. \n\n\n\n\nSubmission Checklistcles
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SUMMARY:P - Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025. The Theme is Summer
DESCRIPTION:☀️ Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition 2025\n​\nWe are delighted to invite haiku writers from around the world to take part in the Wales Haiku Journal 2025 Summer Competition. As a journal for all\, we welcome you to join us in celebrating the season\, wherever you are\, through the meditative form of haiku. This competition is a space to share your reflections on summer — its warmth\, transience\, quiet wonder\, and wild edges — through haiku that capture not only beautiful moments in natural world\, but the many resonances with human nature to be found within it. We look forward to receiving your unique evocations of the season and to publishing a global chorus of haiku that illuminate summer in all its forms.​​\n\nCompetition Rules and How to Enter\nTraditional\, experimental\, monoku\, or senryu — all haiku forms are welcome.There is no 5-7-5 requirement. Surprise us with your creativity. \n​ \n📅 Deadline\n15th August 2025 at midnight (GMT)Winners announced: 1st September 2025 \n​ \n💌 How to Enter\n\n\nPay your fee (see details below) via the donate button. \n\n\nEmail entries to waleshaikujournal@gmail.com \n\n\nSubject line: Summer Competition 2025 \n\n\nInclude: \n\n\nYour haiku(s) \n\n\nYour payment reference number \n\n\nYour name and country \n\n\nWhether you’re a 🔵 Non-Member or 🟢 Member​ \n\n\n\n\n​ \n💷 Entry Fees\nPlease select the appropriate pricing tier when entering: \n🔵 Non-Members’ Price \n\n\n£1 for 1 haiku \n\n\n£3 for up to 5 haiku \n\n\n£5 for up to 10 haiku \n\n\nYou may submit multiple bundles; each bundle must be accompanied by a matching payment. \n\n\n\n🟢 Members’ Price (For Wales Haiku Journal supporters and contributors) \n\n\n£1 for up to 3 haiku \n\n\n£3 for up to 7 haiku \n\n\n£5 for unlimited haiku (sent in one submission) \n\n\n​ \nHow to Pay: \nUse the donate button above. Include your payment reference number with your email submission. \n  \n🏆 Prizes\n\n\n🥇 1st Prize: £100 + Publication \n\n\n🥈 2nd Prize: £50 + Publication \n\n\n🥉 3rd Prize: £25 + Publication \n\n\nPlus: 12 additional haiku will be featured in a Special Wales Haiku Journal Competition Edition \n\n\nNote: All prize money will be sent via PayPal only. Winners must be able to receive PayPal payments. \n​ \n📣 Judging\nEntries will be reviewed by the Wales Haiku Journal editorial team and invited guest poets.Judging will focus on originality\, depth\, imagery\, and thoughtful engagement with the haiku form. \n​ \n🌐 Results\nWinners will be contacted by 25th August 2025.Results will be shared on the Wales Haiku Journal website and across our social media platforms. \n​ \n🧾 Legal & Rights\n\n\nAll submissions must be original and unpublished. \n\n\nAI-generated content and plagiarism will result in disqualification. \n\n\nBy entering\, you grant non-exclusive publication rights to Wales Haiku Journal\, with full attribution. \n\n\n​ \nQuestions?📧 Email us at waleshaikujournal@gmail.com
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LOCATION:Wales Haiku Journal Summer Competition
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SUMMARY:P - Submission Call for Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal Issue 13. Theme: Tea\, coffee
DESCRIPTION:Issue 13: Tea Time\nSubmission call \nTheme: tea / coffee \nHow is the world inside your tea or coffee cup? \nThe coffee is not just a coffee\, is a moment. Your moment. Silence\, recreation or inspiration\, there is you and yourself with your deep feelings and thoughts. That moment before the morning rush when dawn has not yet broken… Also\, tea is something some people drink only when sick\, but other people have an entire ceremony and cult for it. Think about London 5 o’clock or Japanese ocha\, the wonderful world of Japanese Tea. Do you like coffee or tea? What do you think about when you drink your coffee or tea and what is your perfect moment\, in the morning\, at lunch or later? \n  \nSubmission Rules : \n\nYou may submit: 1 haikuor1 tanka. In addition\, you may submit 1 haiga.  Only unpublished works. Please don’t submit your work simultaneosly on multiples journals\, I found several times works published or even featured in Editor Choice section in my journal and in a couple days published on other journals\, without specify they were first appeared in EG\, so they were submitted in the same time to many journals\, randomly.\n\nAlso\, if you later publish a work appearing in Enchanted Garden\, please cite it as first-publication. \n\nSend your works in Englishof the different categoriestogether in one single e-mail  (haiku/tanka only in the body of the e-mail\, as attachments will not be open. Send haiga as attachment .jpg please\, but if you can`t attach it\, paste it into the body).  Images should be your own work or in collaboration with an artist. No images from internet or AI images please! The names of the authors (poet and photographer/artist) must be included in the haiga photograph/artwork.\nIncludeyour name and country.\nSubject line:submission.\n\nThe e-mail for submissions and questions is haikuenchanted@gmail.com . \nResponse time: by the end of September \nPublication date: mid October.
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LOCATION:Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal
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SUMMARY:PN - RFD Magazine Seeking Submissions about: The Closet
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LOCATION:RFD Magazine
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SUMMARY:PFN - Thorn & Bloom Seeking Submissions for Issue 3 on: The Splinters We Carry
DESCRIPTION:Thorn & Bloom seeks work that examines the thorns embedded in societal conditioning—how they puncture autonomy\, distort self-perception\, and perpetuate cycles of harm. \n​ \nWe welcome submissions in any genre and any style\, and are particularly interested in stories that:​​ \n\n\nExpose systemic thorns: How do politics\, capitalism\, racism\, sexism\, or other structures wound us? \n\n\nUnmask psychological thorns: Shame\, guilt\, fear\, or inherited trauma—how do they shape identity? \n\n\nTrace the scars of compliance: Childhood lessons on obedience\, silence\, or self-sacrifice—what did they cost you? \n\n\nReveal moments of resistance: When did you first feel the thorn? How did you try to pull it out? \n\n\nInterrogate repression: What truths have you been forced to swallow? What happens when they claw their way back up? \n\n\n​ \nWe want stories that draw blood\, not for shock\, but for honesty. This issue is a space for rage\, grief\, defiance\, and the quiet acts of survival that keep us going. As the name reflects\, we believe that growth often comes through puncture wounds and acknowledging the thorns is the first step toward healing. \nWith a focus on inclusivity\, radical reflection\, and unapologetic truth\, this issue will confront the spines we’ve been forced to swallow—and the strength it takes to spit them out.​​ \nPUBLICATION: September 2025 \nPlease read the guidelines before submitting your work. Any work that does not meet our guidelines will automatically be disqualified. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuidelines\n\n\nredrosethorns publishes original short stories\, creative non-fiction\, fiction\, poems\, prose\, memoirs\, academia and more. \n\n\nPlease submit your work through our secure online forms found on the right side of this page. You may submit your work either by uploading documents in PDF or Word format. (If you experience any issues with uploading your document\, please reach out to us at contact@redrosethorns.com.) \n\n\nAll submissions must be uploaded to the forms portal on the right side of this page. To comply with GDPR and CCPA requirements regarding the secure handling of personal data\, we can only consider work submitted through our official submission portal. Please do not email your manuscript to our email address. \n\n\n\n\nOnly submit work that has not previously been published\, in print or online. \n\n\nYou retain all copyrights of your work\, and full license to use your work after Thorn & Bloom publication. \n\n\nAll written work needs to be 2500 words max. \n\n\nYou can submit as many pieces as you wish\, though only submit one piece at a time. Please note that not all pieces submitted may be selected.  \n\n\nWe do not charge for submissions\, however\, donations are always appreciated.  \n\n\nPlease note that we do not offer compensation for pieces published in our publications. Nor do we offer complimentary print publications. \n\n\nDEADLINE for all submissions: 15 August 2025 \n\n\nWe encourage folks of marginalised communities\, including but not limited to women – both cisgender and transgender women\, transgender men\, non-binary\, gender neutral\, and Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Colour to contribute their work.​ \n​Please get in touch with us with any questions\, concerns\, or compliments at contact@redrosethorns.com
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-thorn-bloom-seeking-submissions-for-issue-3-on-the-splinters-we-carry/
LOCATION:Thorn & Bloom Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Open Call for Submissions to Wild Greens Magazine. The Theme: Time
DESCRIPTION:The pendulums of a grandfather clock; the alarm on your iPhone; the light and shadows on a sundial; the seeping sand in an hourglass. We all keep the same time\, though it passes at different speeds. Smooth sailing. Stutter step. Slow as molasses. \nHowever you’re feeling time\, however you keep it\, we want to hear about it. \nWild Greens accepts personal essays\, poetry\, short stories\, and cultural commentary. \nPersonal essay: Submit one essay\, up to 2000 words. Written in a lively first-person voice about anything you are excited to tell readers. All essays should have an overall point or main idea that you want to get across. \nPoetry: Submit up to 5 poems per issue. We adore poetry of any type or variety! Please submit poems in a single document\, and name the document with the title of the first poem and the author’s name. \nShort fiction: Submit one piece of short fiction. Please keep fiction under 1000 words (or let us know if you have a longer work that you’d like serialized across several issues). Short fiction can be of any genre\, though it should in some way fit the theme of the issue for which you are submitting. \nCultural commentary: Do you have an urgent or timely piece\, like a response to a cultural event? What about an untimely piece\, like a review of a TV show that you just binged but that technically came out 10 years ago? Whatever culture you’re consuming\, we want to hear about it. Commentary is welcome; please keep it under 2\,000 words. \nAll writing is reviewed by our editorial staff\, and we will request revisions before publishing your writing. We’re happy to work with you from whatever stage your writing is in\, but please proofread before hitting submit!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-open-call-for-submissions-to-wild-greens-magazine-the-theme-time/
LOCATION:Wild Greens Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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