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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Friends Journal on the Theme: Indigenous People and Friends
DESCRIPTION:The history of Quaker relations with Indigenous peoples is full of contradictions. William Penn famously negotiated the Treaty of Shackamaxon with the Lenape when he arrived in their territory (what is now known as Pennsylvania)\, but 55 years later his sons famously cheated them out of huge tracts of lands. There are stories of Friends organizing food aid\, but then part of the starvation was due to the mass deaths caused by diseases Friends brought. Friends opened boarding and day schools for Native American children\, but then ran them with a patronizing zeal that cut students off from their families\, culture\, language\, and spirituality. \nIn January 2026 we’re looking at Indigenous Peoples and Friends\, both the history and current relations. \nWe’d like to center Indigenous perspectives for this issue\, but we realize that even this brings up complicated identities: how much Native ancestry does one need to qualify? What kind of cultural background suffices? I hope a lot of personal storytelling explains the nuances of identity. \nWe’d also like to lift up the various choices Indigenous peoples and Indigenous Friends have made. There are majority-Native Quaker meetings\, both individual congregations and yearly meetings\, which have adopted but also adapted the colonizer’s Christianity. Other Indigenous Friends have sought to maintain and reclaim Native spiritualities\, and of course there are those who fall along the various points in the theological spectrums of worldwide Quakerism. We’d like to know what kind of powerful resources you’ve found in your own tradition and also what oversights and corrections might be needed. \nFriends Journal is also seeking out voices from outside the United States for this and all issues. Friends in regions such as Latin America and Africa are welcome to share their stories. \nFast Facts \n\nFeatures run 1200-2500 words.\nQuestions? Email editors@friendsjournal.org\nLearn more general information at Friendsjournal.org/submissions.
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SUMMARY:F - Rat Bag Lit Seeking Microfiction/Drabbles on the Theme: Funerary Raccoons
DESCRIPTION:Submit to Rat Bag Lit \nStarting with our launch of October 15th\, we publish a new microfiction or drabble piece Monday through Friday on the Rat Bag Lit substack. Stories are available for free for 4 weeks\, before switching to a subscriber-only archive. \nA Drabble is exactly 100 words\, no more\, no less\, with a maximum 15 word title. \nThis month’s theme is: Funerary Raccoons \nRats and raccoons go together like… well\, something. We all like trash. Also\, funerals. Probably? We don’t know what it means either. We want to read your spin on the theme. Do with it what you will. Open genre. \nYou can submit 2 pieces\, if you’d like. If your submission has been declined\, you are welcome to try again. \nNo cool-down period after publication – we’d be happy to read more of your work! \nWe will select a maximum of 13 pieces for digital publication in November/December – pays $1. \nNo reprintses genres and blurs the lines between literary and genre. Work that keeps us up at night\, stories that make us laugh\, and the strangest dreams that pop out of your odd little noggin. Bold ideas\, tight prose\, snappy dialogue\, speculative elements. Something we haven’t seen and\, hell\, maybe something we’ll wish we hadn’t. Mysterious\, haunted mansions\, crackling campfires\, electric space stations\, lonely abandoned farmhouses. That story that you hold close to your heart but has been rejected a billion times\, but you keep sending it out because you believe in it\, damnit? Yeah. Send us that one. \n\n\n  \n  \nRat Bag Lit\nFiction that crosses genres and blurs the lines between literary and genre. Work that keeps us up at night\, stories that make us laugh\, and the strangest dreams that pop out of your odd little noggin. Bold ideas\, tight prose\, snappy dialogue\, speculative elements. Something we haven’t seen and\, hell\, maybe something we’ll wish we hadn’t. Mysterious\, haunted mansions\, crackling campfires\, electric space stations\, lonely abandoned farmhouses. That story that you hold close to your heart but has been rejected a billion times\, but you keep sending it out because you believe in it\, damnit? Yeah. Send us that one. \nYes to aliens\, alternate worlds\, apocalyptic game shows\, bigfoot\, blue collar\, cats\, cemeteries\, coming-of-age\, cosmic\, cryptids\, cults\, cursed objects\, dark\, dating fails\, dystopian\, elder millennials\, embarrassing moments\, female narrators\, food service\, gen x\, ghosts\, girl power\, gothic\, grim reapers\, grumpy unicorns\, fairytale revamps\, found family\, haunted mansions\, hidden worlds\, horror\, humor\, liminal spaces\, mermaids\, modern-day wizards\, mythology revamps\, occult\, ordinary people finding portals\, paranormal\, post-apocalyptic\, sad robots\, secret societies\, squishy soft science fiction\, shitty roommates\, snark\, social commentary\, silly\, steampunk\, stoners\, swapped gender roles\, supernatural\, talking animals with bad attitudes\, teenagers\, time travel\, tongue-in-cheek\, underdogs\, unreliable narrators\, urban fantasy\, weirdos\, witchcraft \nProbably no to action / adventure\, all vibes no story\, boring stories\, children’s stories\, celebrities\, cliches\, cozy\, dead wife/husband/parent/partner\, emotional manipulation\, espionage\, excessively purple prose\, hate of any kind\, historical fiction\, humor that denigrates\, kids with cancer\, military fiction\, modern politics\, mystery\, political satire\, rage bait\, religious fanaticism\, sappy romance\, sword & sorcery\, thriller\, tired tropes\, tragedy\, werewolves\, vampires\, zombies \nWe don’t want: \nNo AI-generated stories. If it didn’t come from the depths of your own weird brain\, we don’t want to read it. We will not consider stories written\, co-written\, created\, or assisted by AI and machine-learning languages such as ChatGPT. We do not use AI-generated images. \nNo hate speech. We aren’t interested in your bigotry\, homophobia\, racism\, sexism\, or transphobia\, or anything along those lines. \nNo fan fiction. We won’t publish anything that violates someone else’s copyright. We’d prefer you come up with your own characters and worlds. The exception to this being mythological fiction\, in which case\, make it modern and interesting as you breathe new life into old (public domain) tales. \nNo hard-core erotica. I mean\, if you send us something hot\, we’ll read it\, but if you make Ratty blush\, we probably can’t publish it. That being said\, we are not prudes. If you can walk the line without crossing it\, by all means\, send it in if you think it fits our vibe. \nNo hard-core violence and gore. We don’t want to read it\, even with a trigger warning. Keep it off-page please. \nDON’T SELF REJECT \nIf you love your story and think it fits our vibes\, why not take a shot and send it our way? Worst case if you’ll get another rejection to add to your pile\, and maybe we’ll love it. \nWe encourage submissions from traditionally unrepresented and/or marginalized writers. \nOur readers would appreciate if you would please include any relevant content warnings at the top of your manuscript.
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