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SUMMARY:F - Timeless Reflections Magazine Seeking Short Stories on the Theme: A Valued Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:What do you consider a valued inheritance? It could be an object of sentimental value\, a lesson from a loved one\, a characteristic passed down through generations\, a spiritual blessing or gift\, or even something else you consider valuable. \nWe are looking for short stories about anything that has had a meaningful impact on you\, which a valued person or relationship has passed down. Be creative and thoughtful. Please send us your best work! \n\n\n\nTimeless Reflections is published semiannually\, in spring and fall\, online and in print. We accept most genres except erotica and horror. Simultaneous submissions are considered if we are notified of the work being accepted by another publication. Reprints are considered with disclosure of previous publications. \nBy submitting\, the author who has his or her written work selected for the magazine agrees that he/she is the original creator of the work and that he/she holds the copyright to the work. The author agrees that Timeless Reflections/Diamante Lavendar is granted usage of the work for display\, promotion\, marketing\, email newsletters\, press releases\, and for use in Timeless Reflections Magazine and on the Timeless Reflections/Diamante Lavendar website and social media accounts.  The author’s name will be displayed with the written work.  The work and author’s name will also be archived on this site and will be available for public view.  The author maintains all copyrights of the work. The work will not be resold\, copied\, exchanged or downloaded from this site.
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SUMMARY:PFN - Submit to 3Elements Literary Review using the Elements: Cherry Tree\, Surveillance\, Menu
DESCRIPTION:The three elements for the current submission period are: Cherry Tree\, Surveillance\, Menu.\nDue August 31\, 2025\, for our fall issue\, no. 48.\n\n\nWhat does 3Elements enjoy reading?\nWe appreciate good writing in any genre. We especially like edgy writing that offers insight into darkness. We prefer character-driven stories as opposed to plot-driven ones. We relish a piece with a great deal of heart and more than a little bit of Truth (note the capital “T”). We want to read a story that makes us feel edified or philosophical or amused or creeped out or angry or melancholy or inspired or\, best yet\, all of these things together. \n  \nWe find stories that include gratuitous violence distasteful. Sexism\, racism\, or other forms of intolerance are intolerable to us. That said\, you can certainly reveal a character through his/her prejudices; just don’t use a story to perpetuate negative stereotypes or ignorance. The world is already bursting with both. \n  \nUsing the elements\n3Elements Literary Review  is a themed literary journal\, and all THREE elements (the specific words\, Cherry Tree\, Surveillance\, Menu) given for the submission period must be included in your story or poem for your work to be considered for publication. NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER. \n  \nYour story or poem doesn’t have to be about the three elements or even revolve around them; simply use your imagination to create whatever you want. You can use any form of the words/elements for the given submission period. For example\, if the elements are: Flash\, Whimsy\, and Seizure; we would accept the usage of Flashed\, Whimsical\, and Seizures. \n  \nHow to submit your work\nWe will only accept previously unpublished (including digital/online content) work submitted to us through Submittable. You can easily submit material to us from our Submit page. Any work that is sent to us as an attachment\, or in the body of an email\, through our ‘Contact’ page\, or any other way outside of Submittable will automatically be declined. \n  \nLength\nThere is no minimum word count\, but please keep your fiction and nonfiction submissions under 3\,500 words. Poetry must be under two typed pages. \n  \nBio\nIf you’re accepted for publication in 3Elements Literary Review\, we\, as well as the readers of our publication will naturally want to know a little more about you\, as well as your writing background\, so providing us with a bio is very helpful!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-submit-to-3elements-literary-review-using-the-elements-cherry-tree-surveillance-menu/
LOCATION:3Elements Literary Review
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SUMMARY:PFN - Ivo Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Connections
DESCRIPTION:How to Submit \nFor poetry and flash or micro-fiction\, please submit up to five (5) pieces of up to 100 lines for poetry. We consider micro-fiction to be up to 350 words\, and flash to be 351 – 1000 words. \nFor longer works of fiction\, non-fiction\, or dramatic works please send up to two (2) pieces of up to 3000 words. \nFor dramatic works\, we consider works that would be able to produced as a 10 minute play or shorter. We love long dramatic monologues\, but will also consider ensemble pieces. \nSend submissions to editorivoreview@gmail.com. The subject line should be the THEME of the issue for which you are submitting work and the CATEGORY of the submission. (Example: LOST – POETRY)  Please include a short cover letter with a short author’s bio in the body of the e-mail and attach submissions in a single .docx attachment. \nSubmissions that do not follow these simple guidelines will not be read. \nCurrently we are reading for Issue One: CONNECTIONS until August 31st\, 2025. \n  \nWhat We Look For \nWe are looking for prose\, poetry\, fiction\, non-fiction\, hybrid works\, and dramatic works from emerging and established writers from around the world\, particularly writers from historically underrepresented communities. We love the concept of narrative – we want to read storytellers telling stories in whatever form that takes for you. \nWorks should be primarily in English. \nWe consider simultaneous submissions but if a work is accepted elsewhere please let us know. We will be thrilled for you! We consider reprints but please indicate the original publication so that it can be credited – with a link to the work if possible so that we can also link to that publication. \nWe will not consider AI generated work.  At this time we are also not considering translations. \n  \nRights and Expectations  \nYou retain all rights to your work. By submitting work to Ivo Review you are granting us the non-exclusive rights to publish your work in our online issues and to continue the display of that work on the online site. You are confirming that you are the author of the submitted work and that you retain the rights to submit it for publication. Works published online in Ivo Review will be considered for future anthologies\, and authors will be contacted for permission and with information about payment if we are interested in using your work again in that way.  We will promote your work\, but we will never attempt to sell your work or to include it in any publication other than the issue in which it was originally published without your permission. \nIf a piece has not been previously published before Ivo Review\, please credit us in any future publications. \nAt this time\, we are not a paying market – though we do hope to be able to correct that soon. We do have every intention of nominating for Pushcart and other prizes including Best Small Fictions\, Best Microfiction\, and Best of the Net. \nOur anticipated response time is currently four weeks or less\, but we are a very small operation and so cannot promise that it will not take us a bit longer. If you have not heard from us after six weeks\, please feel free to contact us for an update. We will not take it personally!
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LOCATION:Ivo Review
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to NonBinary Review Issue #42: Erased from history
DESCRIPTION:History\, as the old saying goes\, is written by the winners. This means that in most histories\, the stories are about discovery and conquest rather than plunder and genocide. It also means that some of those losers of history have been forgotten – erased by the cultures that overran them. Historical erasure isn’t limited to countries or cultures. Underrepresented societal groups – those denigrated by the dominant culture – are often left out of histories\, their contributions to society\, including their arts\, inventions\, and scientific discoveries\, are either attributed to others\, or left out entirely. \nWe are looking for stories of people or things that have been erased from history\, the mechanism by which that erasure is effected\, or the consequence of erasure. We want the story of the lizard people that originally colonized earth\, leading to the widespread theory that many world leaders are lizard people. The reason why Atlantis was erased from history and relegated to myth. The fact that gravity was invented by an illiterate Burmese restaurant owner in 1146CE. \nWe are NOT looking for dry factual histories (no term papers\, please)\, personal screeds or jeremiads\, or the life and personal stories of individuals from an erased group (for instance\, the story of your grandfather who was killed in the Holocaust). These stories are important\, but not the focus of this issue. \nIMPORTANT NOTICE\nZoetic Press does not accept AI generated content. If our editors judge that your content is AI-generated\, it will be declined. \nAll submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme and be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman\, or they will be rejected. Submitters may include up to THREE poems per submission\, but each must be a separate file. NonBinary Review pays a $10 flat fee for poetry. \nIf your work was accepted for Issue #38: Rituals or Issue #39: Mistaken Identity\, we’re sorry\, but we cannot accept your work at this time (see our general guidelines.) \nWe have different teams evaluating poetry\, prose\, and art. If you submit to the wrong genre\, your submission will be declined. \nPoetry\nAll submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme and be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman\, or they will be rejected. Submitters may include up to THREE poems per submission\, but each must be a separate file. NonBinary Review pays a $10 flat fee for poetry. \nProse\nAll submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme\, and be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or they will be rejected. NonBinary Review  pays 1¢ per word for prose with a limit of 3000 words.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-nonbinary-review-issue-42-erased-from-history/
LOCATION:NonBinary Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2) Seeking Works for their 50th Anniversary from Previously Unpublished Poets Only
DESCRIPTION:*Update: Aug 1st\, 2025* \nDue to the overwhelming response to this special submissions form\, we’ve now filled all the available space we had in our 2025 issues for poems submitted to this form. Any poems submitted after August 1st\, or submitted before August 1st but still awaiting a response\, will now be considered for our winter 2026 issue\, which will come out in January 2026. \nThank you for your understanding\, and for your submissions! \n— \nAs part of CV2’s 50th Anniversary celebrations\, we’re pleased to offer this special submissions form\, open exclusively to those whose poetry has never before been published in print\, and whose poetry (at the time of submission) has not been accepted for publication in any other print formats. \nOver its 50-year history\, CV2 has had the privilege of providing dozens of writers with their first print publications\, and this year\, as we celebrate this milestone anniversary for the magazine\, we hope to support a fresh wave of emerging poets in the same way. \nSubmissions to this exclusive portal are free of charge (for both Canadians and non-Canadians)\, and the poems submitted will be treated like any other submission to the magazine\, in that each one will be read and carefully considered by our editorial team. Submitters to this exclusive portal will receive a response to their submissions within three months of submission\, and\, if accepted\, their work will appear in a 2025 issue of CV2 Magazine\, so as to be part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations this year. \nIf your poetry has previously been published online\, but never in print\, you are welcome to submit (bearing in mind that the specific poem(s) you submit must not previously have been published in any format). While those who have previously published in print writing in genres other than poetry are welcome to submit\, priority will be given to those who are entirely unpublished\, depending on the number of submissions received and the space available in our 2025 issues. \nSubmitters must confirm in their cover letter that they A) Have never had their poetry published in print\, and B) That\, at the time of submission\, their work has not been accepted for publication by any other print outlets. See below for full submission guidelines. \nNB: This submission portal is for writers whose poetry has never before been published in print\, and whose poetry (at the time of submission) has not been accepted for publication in any other print formats\, only. All submitters who do not qualify under these terms are invited to submit to our General Submissions forms\, also open now. \nSubmissions to this exclusive portal are free of charge (for both Canadians and non-Canadians)\, and the poems submitted will be treated like any other submission to the magazine\, in that each one will be read and carefully considered by our editorial team. \nSubmitters to this exclusive portal will receive a response to their submissions within three months of submission\, and\, if accepted\, their work will appear in a 2025 issue of CV2 Magazine\, so as to be part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations this year. \nWhile those who have previously published writing in genres other than poetry are welcome to submit\, priority will be given to those who are entirely unpublished\, depending on the number of submissions received and the space available in our 2025 issues. \nSee below for full submission guidelines. We look forward to reading your work! \n  \nFull Submission Guidelines: \nContemporary Verse 2 only accepts one submission per submitter at a time (submissions to our two annual contests\, the 2-Day Poem Contest and the Foster Poetry Prize\, do not count). \nAny submissions that do not follow correct guidelines or do not include full contact information will not be considered for publication and will not receive a reply. \nCV2 welcomes submissions of original\, previously-unpublished work. By submitting to this portal you are confirming that the work submitted is entirely your own (not including translations) and has not previously been published in any format. \nYou may submit no more than 5 poems\, to a maximum of 6 pages. \nCV2 welcomes poetry submissions in French\, as well as translation projects\, including both French to English and English to French. \nCV2 accepts translations of works in any language. \nIf submitting a translation\, please include in your cover letter permissions and a bio from the original artist\, and a citation of the original source of the work. \neg: “Title of Poem.” Title of Collection. Publisher\, Year of Publication. \nPlease upload your submission as a single attachment of a Microsoft Word\, TXT or RTF (rich text format) document.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-contemporary-verse-2-cv2-seeking-works-from-previously-unpublished-poets-only-for-the-50th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2)
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - The Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge: Perseids
DESCRIPTION:Illustrations by Jing Li\nAt seventeen syllables\, haiku is the shortest poem in world literature. It is now also the most popular form of poetry in the world\, written in nearly every language. And yet\, as haiku has spread internationally\, one of the most important aspects of the tradition has largely been lost—the community of poets. \nIn Europe and the United States\, haiku is often regarded as the domain of literary elites\, but this is not the case in Japan\, where haiku is deeply rooted in communal activity. Millions of amateur Japanese poets belong to haiku groups (clubs\, really)\, which are sponsored by different “schools” of haiku\, each with its own magazine. Most daily and weekly newspapers carry a haiku column featuring poems submitted by their subscribers\, sometimes on the front page. \nTo help bring back this social dimension\, we are inviting our readers to participate in the monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge. Each month\, moderator Clark Strand will select three poems to be published online\, one of which will appear with a brief commentary. Each quarter\, one of these poems also will appear in the print magazine alongside an extended commentary. In this way\, we can begin to follow the seasons together—spring\, summer\, fall\, and winter—and share the joy of haiku together as a community. \nRequirements: \nAnyone can submit haiku to the monthly challenge using the form below. To be considered for publication\, your haiku must: \n\nBe written in three lines of 5\, 7\, and 5 syllables:\nGetting the syllables of a haiku to sit naturally inside of its seventeen-syllable form is the primary challenge. Each haiku is a word problem in search of a satisfying seventeen-syllable solution.\nContain the “season word” assigned for that month:\nA haiku isn’t only a word problem. To the seventeen syllables the poet must add a turn of thought that results in more than seventeen syllables of meaning—along with a word that refers to one of the four seasons. How the poet uses “season words” like autumn sun or dew will typically determine the effectiveness of the poem.\n\nPart of the reason haiku appeals to so many people is that its rules are simple and easy to follow\, yet it can take a lifetime to master them. Ten million people currently write haiku in Japanese. There is no reason why millions can’t write haiku in English\, too\, provided they agree on the basics. The turn of thought you add to that simple formula of 5-7-5 syllables with a season word is entirely up to you. \nSubmissions close on the last day of the month at 11:59 pm ET\, and the results will be posted the week after. Monthly submissions are anonymized and the winning poems are selected in a blind process. \nTo learn more about the history and principles of haiku\, check out Clark Strand’s online course with Tricycle\, “Learn to Write Haiku: Mastering the Ancient Art of Serious Play.” \n\nThis Month’s Season Word:\nSubmit as many haiku as you please using the submission form at the bottom of our home page. Just be sure to include this month’s season word. \nSummer season word: “Perseids” \nperseid shower\nmaybe the dark does require\nan extra dipper \nSubmit as many haiku as you please on the season word “Perseids.” Your poems must be written in three lines of 5\, 7\, and 5 syllables\, respectively\, and should focus on a single moment of time happening now. \nBe straightforward in your description and try to limit your subject matter. Haiku are nearly always better when they don’t have too many ideas or images. So make your focus the season word* and try to stay close to that. \n*REMEMBER: To qualify for the challenge\, your haiku must be written in 5-7-5 syllables and include the word “Perseids.” \nHaiku Tip: Learn What to Say When Someone Tells You\, “That’s Not a Haiku!”\nThose who submit Formal Haiku to the English language specialty magazines (i.e.\, those devoted to haiku and related forms) are often told by the editors of those magazines\, “That’s not a haiku!” Sometimes an editor will suggest a revision\, removing up to half of the poem’s 17 syllables to get something shorter. In the process\, they will often also remove the season word. \nHow did it come to this? The answer could fill a book. But the long and short of it (pun intended) is this: If you regard haiku as a poetic form\, you can agree with others about what a haiku is and turn your attention to writing good poetry in that form. If you regard haiku as a free verse poem\, the spirit or techniques of which are its defining feature\, you will be stuck arguing endlessly about what a haiku “is” or “is not.” English language haiku poets have wasted over a century doing exactly that. Like the sonnet\, the haiku form is a vessel to be filled with whatever the poet has to say. That is how it functions in Japanese literature and how Japanese poets have always understood it. If we render our thoughts in 5-7-5 syllables and manage to include a season word\, we have written a haiku. What remains to decide is whether what we have said is worth saying and how well we have said it—not whether our poem is a haiku or not. \nAnd so\, the next time a haiku specialist tells you that your poem is “not a haiku\,” ask them to tell you what a haiku is. But don’t let them go on and on. If they can’t explain it simply\, in a way that a six-year-old could understand\, they will never get there. You’d be better off starting a magazine of your own. \nA note on the Perseids: About this spectacular annual event\, season word editor Becka Chester writes: “Considered the best meteor show of the year by NASA\, the Perseids begin in mid-July and peak in mid-August. Prime time for their viewing is just before dawn\, with scattered sightings occurring from 10 pm onward. It is best to view them far from bright city lights. \n“The showers occur yearly as the Earth passes through a cloud of dust particles from a comet called 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The comet’s particles become heated as they hit our atmosphere and appear as bright streaks across the heavens. \n“The Perseid shower was named because the meteors seemed to originate from the constellation Perseus.” \nNote that this year the Perseids will peak just before dawn on Wednesday\, August 13th \, when you can view up to 100 meteors per hour under optimal conditions. \n\nJune’s Winning Poem:\nSummer season word: “Summer Lake” \nthe heads of swimmers\nthe only things not swallowed\nby the summer lake \n— Marcia Burton \nIllustration by Jing Li\nYou can find the honorable mentions\, additional commentary\, and June’s haiku tips here.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-monthly-tricycle-haiku-challenge-perseids/
LOCATION:The Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Red Wolf Journal Seeking Submissions for the "Recovering Greenness" Anthology
DESCRIPTION:submission guidelines\n  \n\n\nRecovering Greenness: An Anthology of Poems \n \nWe invite poem submissions on the theme of “Recovering Greenness”. Submit your new previously unpublished poems to: redwolfeditions@gmail.com. A selection of your poems will appear on this site first before the PDF release in October 2025. \nSubmit to redwolfeditions@gmail.com. \nPublication date: first week October 2025 \nEditorial here
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-red-wolf-journal-seeking-submissions-for-the-recovering-greenness-anthology/
LOCATION:Recovering Greenness Anthology
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Etymology Press. Theme: Sonder
DESCRIPTION:Etymology is the study of the origin and history of words. \nHere\, we know words are not inanimate. They live\, they evolve\, and they change. More so\, words have the power to live in us\, evolve us\, and create change in our communities. Let us do this work together. Let’s tell the stories of our community\, together\, one word at a time. \n\n\n\nEach issue\, we publish five pieces in print. Up to three honorable mentions (or multimedia work) may be published on our website along with each issue. If we publish you this month or even if we don’t\, please\, keep submitting. We want to see your work over and over and over again. \nWe look for work that is creative\, grounded in concrete images\, and playful. (Note: playful doesn’t equal light. We want your horror\, your heartbreak\, and your fury. We just want it delivered in interesting\, surprising ways that remind us why we fell in love with language to begin with.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeptember\nSubmission Deadline: August 31 \nSubmission Guidelines \n  \n\n\nThe Online IssueHow to submit:\n\n\n  \n\n\nEmail submissions as an attachment to etymologypress@gmail.com\nAttachments should be in document format\, not PDF.\nSubject your email “Submission for *word* / *Genre*” For example: “Submission for Genus / Poetry”\nPlease include a short author bio in the body of the email. 50-150 words.\nSimultaneous submissions are welcome\, but please contact ASAP if work is to be published elsewhere.\nWe are happy to publish reprints\, so long as the author notifies us of previous publications so that we can give proper credit.\n\n\n  \nPoetry\nWe look for poetry that has a strong sense of voice and is rooted in imagery. We love playful poetry\, fresh language\, and metaphors that haunt our dreams. \nPoetry submissions should include 3-5 poems. \n  \n\n\nNarratives\nWe look for narratives (true or fictional) that have a strong sense of voice and are rooted in concrete images. All genres welcome. Graphic Narrative and other experimental forms are encouraged. \nStories should be between 500-5\,000 words. \nStories should be double spaced\, 12pt\, Times New Roman font. \n\n\n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-bad-lilies-seeking-poetry-submissions-for-the-month-of-august-no-theme/
LOCATION:Etymology Press
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SUMMARY:P - Drawn to the Light Press Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Magic.
DESCRIPTION:Submissions Issue 16 October 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nThe submission period for issue 16\, October 2025\, opens on Sunday\, 27th July and closes on Sunday\, 31st August\, at midnight. \nThe theme for this issue is ‘Magic’. \nSend no more than 3 previously unpublished poems using Times New Roman 12 and single spacing. Include a short bio of 50 words or less\, and written in the third person. \nEntrants must be 18 and over. \nSend all entries to orla.a.fay@gmail.com
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-drawn-to-the-light-press-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-magic/
LOCATION:Drawn to the Light Press
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SUMMARY:PN - Call for Submissions to Tiny Spoon: a bite-size experimental literary magazine. Theme: Translation/Transference
DESCRIPTION:Submissions\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSubmissions are now open through the end of August!\n\nWe view the theme // Translation // Transference // as a space for opening portals\, to lift the underbelly of deep meaning which swims below the surface and haunts the layers of each word. To translate is to: transition: expose: excavate: interpret: converse: mediate through an artistic rendering: to build a fresh\, new dewy consciousness. Let your language levitate. Let linguistics lavish the tongue through time and space. \nThis is a conversation among all of us–  \nWhat is the act of transfer? What is the act of translation? \nWhat is being transferred\, between or among what entities? \nDoes translation exist beyond a linguistic veil? \nWhat is gained or lost within this act? What is the transformation? \nHow is meaning shaped\, deconstructed\, reconstructed\, hidden\, or obliterated through acts of translation?  \nWe think of ways in which translation opens meaning that would be otherwise unavailable – yet what nuances can be lost – or what meaning can be lost or repressed? What truths can it reveal or bury? What deception can run wild? How do we claim or reclaim this space? \nWe welcome your translation of translation – what does this mean to you? Does the translation arrive word by word? Word to action? Entity to image? As always\, we welcome a broad\, experimental interpretation of this theme. \nWe want your hybrid concoctions\, works opposed to normative\, your open interpretation\, diving into an echo creation which uproots expectation\, cracks wide open the transmuting space that is communication. Expand upon our vast consciousness that which is expression\, comprehension\, and understanding\, then fold it upon itself and send it down stream. \n\nWhat We Look For:\nHere at Tiny Spoon\, we are especially interested in experimental work\, although not exclusively. If you’ve had trouble finding a home for your work because it doesn’t fit into generally recognized categories\, chances are your home is right here with us. \nWe seek work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring\, experimental\, innovative\, quirky\, thoughtful\, vulnerable\, electric\, eccentric. In other words\, your inner workings expanded and exposed\, raw and immediate; your fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Your voice is beautiful\, edgy\, infinite\, and unique\, and we want to raise it. \nWe look forward to reading your work! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMIT\n\n\nSubmissions are now open for Issue 14. \nPlease use this form to submit your work. \nPieces submitted via email or not following guidelines will not be accepted. \n\n\n\nGuidelines:\n\nFormat text: sent as .doc\, .docx\, .rtf\, or .pdf\nArt: .jpeg or .tif\nPlease label the file “Last Name_Title of Work”\nLength per piece: 1\,000 words max\nFont: 12 pt Garamond or a similar font\nUp to three pieces per submission. Any additional work after the first three will not be reviewed. Please refrain from inserting text submissions directly into the body of the email.\nPlease limit to one submission per issue.\nSimultaneous submissions allowed. Please let us know if it is published elsewhere.\n\n  \n\nSubmissions are free!\nPlease provide a one sentence bio about yourself.\nCover letters are not required\, but you may send one if you’d like. We won’t show preference based on this.\nYou will maintain the rights to your work; if it is published elsewhere or in a collection\, we simply ask that you give us credit for first publication.\nSubmitted work will be considered for our print and/or online blog\, which allows us to accept more submissions since print space is limited.\n\n  \n\nPlease note\, that due to ensure the consistency and respect the time of our small and dedicated team\, we ask that all submissions submitted to this call are in their final form upon submission. We’re aware small edits may arise in the proofing of the issue if your piece is accepted.\nIf the submission call is still open\, you may however\, please submit the revised piece using the official form and note that it is a revision.\nWe are a small staff of three. Tiny Spoon has lots of love that goes into production. That said\, it can take around 6 months for an issue to come to fruition. Please do not email us to inquire about the status of the piece (unless you are letting us know it has been accepted elsewhere). We we email you with results of the issue. Please do keep in contact over social media and newsletters to see where we might be in the process or what else we having going on! We appreciate your patience and understanding!\n\n\n\n\nUpon submitting to Tiny Spoon\, we will add you to our monthly newsletter to be sure you are updated on all the latest information regarding submission calls and reading processes so you are always aware of the status of your work. Generally\, it takes us 3-6 months to read through our submissions. Please use the newsletter and social media to gauge where we might be in the process in lieu of individual emails–we will always let you know as soon as we have made our final decisions! \n\nContributor Compensation\nFor our contributors in the United States\, we send a complimentary copy of the issue in which they appear. \nIf outside of the US\, due to budgeting costs\, instead of a physical copy\, we provide a digital/printable version of the magazine.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-call-for-submissions-to-tiny-spoon-a-bite-size-experimental-literary-magazine-theme-translation-transference/
LOCATION:Tiny Spoon
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Whelve
DESCRIPTION:“Theme for September 2025: Whelve”\nThe given theme is about: \n\n\n\nTo whelve is to bury\, to cover\, to hide—a quiet act of protection or forgetting.\nAutumn whelves the world: leaves fall\, roots retreat\, and silence settles in.\nThis fall\, we seek work that explores what lies beneath; stories hidden\, memories preserved\, emotions wrapped in metaphor. Whelve what needs shelter. Unearth what won’t stay buried.\nWe are looking for work that embodies the act of whelving—the quiet burying\, the gentle covering\, the things hidden just beneath the surface. Autumn is a season of holding in\, of golden beauty edged with retreat. Send us your best pieces that speak to fall’s glow and the hush that follows\, stories and poems that explore what we protect\, what we bury\, and what refuses to stay hidden.\n\nNOTE: All the work\, whether depicting the realities\, secrets and mysteries of life or the beauty of nature in fall\, should be written\, drawn\, or painted in a way that the setting of it gives the vibe of fall whether tragic or happy\, gloomy or colorful.\n\n\n\nYour work should be based around the given theme and its elements. \n  \nCompile everything for written submissions into one MS Word Document with the.doc or .docx extension\nAny and every submission that does not comply with these guidelines will be automatically rejected. \nWe do not accept work previously published on social media or in another publication print or online. \nWe do not accept submissions that are formatted in an overly stylized manner \nNOTE: Our query response time via email is 3 business days. Our submission response time is anywhere between 7-12 working days. \n  \nSubmission Guide for Prose/Poetry:\n\n\n\n\n\nIf Submitting\nMinimum\nMaximum\nInstructions\n\n\nLonger Poems\n1\n3\nNo more than 35 lines\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 2000 words\n\n\nProse\n1\n2\nNo more than 500 words per prose\n\n\n\n\n\nE-Mail Format for Prose\, Story\, Essay or Poetry:\n\nSubject: Submission for September ’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.\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.\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\, photography\, or art website No Discord\, TikTok\, Wattpad\, Pinterest\, YouTube\, Inkitt\, Emails or any other profiles will be accepted.\nCompile everything except for photos\, if any\, into one 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
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-prosetrics-the-literary-magazine-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-whelve/
LOCATION:Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:7240-1756627200-1756659600@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN - Lunch Ticket Seeking Submission for Issue 28
DESCRIPTION:Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting to Lunch Ticket. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will not be considered.\nPoetry Submission Guidelines: \n\nPlease submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).\nIf your work has been published in Lunch Ticket\, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.\nAll submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title\, submission title\, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter\, and not in any attached files or the submission title.\nWe allow simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a simultaneous submission\, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere\, you must notify us immediately.\nWe do not accept previously published work (this includes work published in personal blogs or social media).\nWe do not accept AI-generated work.\nSubmitters must be 18 years of age or older.\nAll submitters are added to our bi-monthly newsletter email subscriber list.\n\nWe look forward to sampling your work! \nPoetry: \n\nSubmit up to 3 poems per cycle. Submit all poems in the same document.\nWe recognize that poetry often calls for its own particular formatting. When in doubt\, use 12-pt Times New Roman font.\n\nFiction:\n\nAll prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.\nSubmissions should not exceed 3\,500 words (source text not included in the word count).\nIf your piece is 750 words and under\, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.\n\nFlash Prose:\n\nAll prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.\nSubmit one flash piece per cycle. We only accept prose that is 750 words or less. (If your piece is 751 to 3\,500 words\, please submit it to Creative Nonfiction or Fiction.)\n\nCreative Nonfiction:\n\nAll prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.\nSubmissions should not exceed 3\,500 words (source text not included in the word count).\nIf your piece is 750 words and under\, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-lunch-ticket-seeking-submission-for-issue-28/
LOCATION:Lunch Ticket
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Submission Window #8 Open for Wildfire Words
DESCRIPTION:As usual\, we are looking for writing on your own choice of theme that grabs our attention\, pulls our heart strings\, leaves us open-mouthed or holding our breath\, makes us think\, make us laugh or cry\, and/or is strikingly original. In short\, poems or flash-fiction that excite us enough to share them with wildfire words readers. During this submission window\, each writer may make one submission as a single file containing a maximum of 3 items — poems and/or prose. Each item can be in any form\, but no longer than 50 lines or 300 words\, including title\, stanza breaks\, dedication or footnotes. For all submissions to Wildfire Words\, we choose only content that follows our inclusivity policy of respect for all writers\, regardless of their background\, beliefs\, ethnicity\, identity. \nWe encourage you to make an audio recording of each item on your phone or computer and submit it with your text or on its own without your text. Publishing audio is our speciality\, because it amplifies the strength and meaning of your writing. If you prefer to join one of our online recording sessions to submit\, click on this link. \nYou are also invited to supply a biography of yourself in no more than 60 words\, If any of your work is published\, your writing “bio” will be\, too. \nTo submit your text and bio (with or without audio) please click on this link. \nTo submit audio after submitting text and bio\, click on this link. \nSubmitted writing must be your own original work\, in English\, and unpublished in print or online\, including your own website. Where an original writer teams up with a translator into English\, we will consider publishing the work\, provided biographies of both writer and translator are provided. \nIf your work is published in wildfire words ezine\, it will be on a non-exclusive basis for at least one year. The copyright remains yours for all poems\, flash\, bios\, and audio recordings you submit for publication. \nHow we decide which poems to publish \nOur decisions on whether to publish an item are not anonymous. We see the writer’s bio with the text. Published authors have generally set a quality benchmark which we can use to gauge their new work. The work of writers with little or no published work is assessed on quality and potential. In such cases\, we may contact the writer to suggest some tweaks that would make us keen to share the work on Wildfire Words. \nWe do not charge for submissions — or for feedback\, if we choose to offer it on work not accepted on first review. Our publishing service is non-profit-making\, created with a love of sharing creative writing and social and personal growth it produces. Donations to support Wildfire Words’ sustainability are welcome\, but voluntary. A donation does not affect whether we publish a submission. \nWe aim to include writers worldwide. We respect all people and their well-being\, beliefs\, individuality\, and free speech\, and expect the same from writers. We’ll publish any work that adds fresh creative spice to this feature. We’ll evaluate your jewel\, whether it’s a cut and polished dazzler or a rough stone with interesting lustre.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-submission-window-8-open-for-wildfire-words/
LOCATION:Wildfire Words
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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