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SUMMARY:F - Blink-Ink Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Museum
DESCRIPTION:Blink-Ink \nMuseum \nIn the beginning\, a museum was a temple of the muses\, whose songs inspire the arts and sciences. Today\, a museum collects\, preserves\, studies and displays wonders and marvels. Do you like museums? What kind\, and what if you ran it? \nWho might visit there\, or is that not encouraged? \nVisit a museum––can you hear the muses singing? \nSend us your best stories of approximately fifty words about museums in the body of an email to: blinkinkinfo@gmail.com. Submissions are open September 1st\, 2025 through October 15th\, 2025. No attachments\, poetry\, bios\, or AI generated content please. \nSend your best stories of approximately 50 words in the body of an email to blinkinkinfo@gmail.com. No attachments or bios please. We love poetry but do not publish it. \n\n\n\n\nWhat we love most is writing that has found that preternatural detail of thought or thing that cracks the story open and allows it to matter or to reveal a truth. \nNearly all of our issues are themed and guidelines specific to the current theme along with opening and closing dates for submissions to those issues will appear here on our website\, on our Facebook page and in New Pages and Duotrope. \nWe want your best\, original and unpublished work and will consider up to four stories at any one time. We do reply personally to every submission and every query. We aim to treat you right. \nSometimes we wish to make small changes in a piece we want to publish but will never do that without consulting you— with one exception: If you have offset the final line of a piece for no good reason\, we will put it back in the body of the piece where it belongs. \nThank you one and all
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SUMMARY:PFN - Open Call to Cosmic Daffodil Journal. The Theme: The Body Archive
DESCRIPTION:We carry what’s been carved into us—scars\, secrets\, the strange souvenirs of survival. For our upcoming issue\, we want stories\, poems\, and hybrids that unearth the horror of embodiment. Think haunted anatomy\, sentient scars\, inherited monstrosity. Is your skin a map or a mask? Show us where it hurts\, and how it changes you. \nImportant Guidelines \n\nMicrosoft Word Documents are no longer supported. Please use Google Doc links or PDFs.\nPlease keep in mind word counts: 300-600 words for flash-fiction and non-fiction\, 1000 words for short-story submissions.\nSubmissions that do not follow the theme (listed above) will get an automatic rejection.\nSubmission Withdrawals: Please do not send these to the CDJ email; it might get missed. Do so via Duosuma instead.\nCheck out our FAQ page if you have a question; it might be listed there. If not\, do email us and we will do our best to assist you.\n\n  \npoetry\nPoetry in any form or style. Your poetry submission may contain up to three to five (3-5) poems\, may be submitted as one file\, run fewer than 10 pages in length\, and must be unpublished. Please start each poem on a new page on your document. Title your poems OR specify ‘Untitled’ at the top of the document. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere. \nFlash Fiction\nFlash fiction (a.k.a. microfiction\, short-short story\, sudden fiction\, etc.) submissions should aim for a word count of 300-600 words or less per piece. You may submit up to two (2) pieces per issue\, may be submitted as one file\, should run fewer than 5 pages in length\, and must be unpublished. Add page numbers to your document. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere. \nflash Non-fiction\nFlash nonfiction submissions should aim for a word count of 300-600 words or less per piece. You may submit up to two (2) pieces per issue\, may be submitted as one file\, should run fewer than 5 pages in length\, and must be unpublished. Add page numbers to your document. Simultaneous submissions are welcomed so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere. \nShort story\nThe submission should aim for a word count of 1000 words or less. You may submit up to one (1) piece per issue\, may be submitted as one file\, should run fewer than 5 pages in length (double-spaced)\, and must be unpublished. Add page numbers to your document. Simultaneous submissions are welcome so long as you withdraw them when accepted elsewhere. \nGeneral guidelines\nCosmic Daffodil Journal currently focuses on submissions that follow a theme titled THE BODY ARCHIVE. Submissions that do not follow the theme will NOT be considered. \nPlease submit your written content as a PDF (preferred) or a Microsoft Word attachment (.doc or .docx). 12-point Times New Roman is preferred. If submitting several pieces (e.g. poems)\, include them all in one document. \n\nCover Letter Guidelines \n\n\nInclude a cover letter with the following information: \n\n\nName (as you would like printed) \n\n\nEmail address \n\n\nThird-person bio (50 words max) (anything longer will be cut off) \n\n\nAuthor website and any social media links – optional \n\n\n\n\n\nPlease send all submissions through our Duosuma page. Title submissions with the chosen category followed by your name (I.E.\, FICTION – ROWAN SERVAZIO). \n\nWe do not accept any work that condones racist\, misogynistic\, or anti-LGBTQIA+ narratives. \n\nWe do not accept any work that is A.I. generated; any submission that is found to be created from A.I. will be immediately rejected and the submitter will be banned from submitting to Cosmic Daffodil Journal for the foreseeable future. \n\nAuthors and artists can submit once per submission period. If interested in submitting again\, please wait until the next submission period opens. \n\nIf you need to withdraw a submission\, please do so from Duosuma. We no longer accept email withdrawals\, effective June 30th 2025.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-open-call-to-cosmic-daffodil-journal-the-theme-the-body-archive/
LOCATION:Cosmic Daffodil Journal
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SUMMARY:F - Writing Magazine Competition Theme: Travel Tales
DESCRIPTION:Take your reader on a journey in this month’s competition for short fiction that in some way involves travel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrize\nThe winner will receive £200 and publication in Writing Magazine\, with £50 and publication on the website for the runner-up. \n\n\n\nPrices\n\n\n\nStandard Rate\n£ 7.50\n\n\n\n\nSubscriber/Member Rate\n£ 6.00\n\n\n\n\nLog in\nYou must be a registered user of our site and be logged in to enter this competition.\nBy entering this competition\, you are agreeing to our standard competition terms and any specific terms for this draw. \n\n\n\nTerms & Conditions\n\n\n\n1. Eligibility\nEntry is open to any writer and entries must be the original and unpublished work of the entrant which is not currently submitted for publication nor for any other competition or award. There is no limit to number of entries. Entrants retain copyright in their manuscripts. \n2. Entry Fees\nFee for each entry is £7.50 BUT ONLY £6 for subscribers to Writing Magazine. \n3. Manuscripts\nManuscripts can be uploaded in pdf\, doc\, docx\, odt\, rtf and txt formats on single pages of your file\, with a front page giving your name\, address\, daytime telephone number and email address.\nPoetry manuscripts – please layout your poems in single spacing with double spacing between stanzas\, on single pages of your file\, with a front page giving your name\, address\, daytime telephone number and email address. \n4. Competition Judging\nCompetition judges will be appointed by Writing Magazine and their decision will be final\, with no correspondence being entered into. \n5. Notification\nWinners will be notified within two months of closing date after which date unplaced entries may be submitted elsewhere. Winning entries may not be submitted elsewhere for twelve months after that date without permission of Writing Magazine who retain the right to publish winning entries in any form during those twelve months.
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LOCATION:Writing Magazine Competitions
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Rattle on the Theme: Tribute to Rebels
DESCRIPTION:Our Spring 2026 issue will be dedicated to literary rebels—those poets who run counter to the literary mainstream. What that means is up to you. We want to hear from poets who publish in non-traditional ways\, who hold unusual beliefs\, who write what isn’t popular\, or feel that they don’t fit in. If you’ve been shunned or canceled by the establishment\, this is a chance to tell your story. The poems may be any length or subject\, but should be rebellious in some way. We no longer publish essays\, but always include a contributor notes section\, where we ask in this case why you consider yourself a rebel. \nSubmit up to four previously uncurated poems (or four pages of very short poems) at the same time\, either in a single file or up to four files. Do not include your name or contact info within the file(s) content. \n  \nOverview:\n\nRattle does not accept work that has been previously curated\, in print or online—poems may be self-published on social media\, blogs\, or message boards\, but cannot have been published in books\, magazines\, or similar collections open to the public. We want to be the first publisher to highlight the poems\, but never want to discourage anyone from sharing their poems themselves. For more on this\, read “Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art.”\nRattle does not accept work that has been predominantly generated by artificial intelligence. Poetry is a tool for expanding the human spirit\, which means poems should be written by humans. It is possible to use A.I. toward that aim in some cases\, so if used A.I. to assist in the writing process\, please explain in the notes to your submission.\nSimultaneous submissions are encouraged.\nContributors to the print magazine receive $200 and a complimentary one-year subscription. Poems for “Online” categories receive $100.\nAll submissions are automatically considered for the annual Neil Postman Award for Metaphor\, a $2\,000 prize judged by the editors.\nSeparate from general and themed (and always free) submissions\, we also offer the annual $15\,000 Rattle Poetry Prize and the Rattle Chapbook Prize—for each of those\, a submission fee of $30 includes a one-year subscription to the magazine.\n\nVERY IMPORTANT:\n\nSubmissions cannot be revised after submission. Note that typos and minor changes never affect our decisions—proofreading is what editors are for. If you’ve made a significant mistake\, use the internal messaging system to send a new file as an attachment.\nTo withdraw a single poem from a submission of multiple poems\, just log in\, click on the submission\, and send a message to let us know which you’d like removed. Do not withdraw the entire submission—if you do\, the submission will no longer be active and we won’t see it.\nDon’t include any contact information in the file(s) that you submit. Your name and contact info will be included in the Submittable fields\, and this will make it easier for us to read fairly.\n\nFor more detailed information about rights\, rules\, privacy\, and payments for publication\, see our full guidelines. \nNOTE: Please don’t query to ask if we have a reply to your submission yet. If the status says “received” or “in-progress\,” then it’s received and in-progress. We always go as fast as we can\, but we’re only human and the submission flow waxes and wanes\, so response times vary considerably.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-rattle-on-the-theme-tribute-to-rebels/
LOCATION:Rattle
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SUMMARY:PFN - Global City Review Inviting Submissions to Issue 26: Impermanence of Home
DESCRIPTION:Submissions \nThe designated theme for forthcoming Issue 26 is: Impermanence of Home. \nIn All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes\, Maya Angelou writes: “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” For many of us\, however\, there is no home to return to. Or what was once home has become unrecognizable. As we barrel further into the 21st Century\, the precarity of refuge  comes into sharper focus. Environmental catastrophe\, political and economic upheaval\, the enduring vestiges of colonialism\, rapidly evolving digital realities and the normalization of violence\, dispossession\, and psychic unrest all contribute to its disappearance. \nGlobal City Review is now accepting submissions for our 26th issue\, titled Impermanence of Home. This issue  invites contributors to consider the emotional\, political\, and physical dimensions of home in flux. We’re interested in stories\, essays\, poems\, and interviews that explore how sanctuary—whether a person\, place\, memory\, language\, or idea—can be lost\, reshaped\, reimagined\, or even fabricated. \nWe’re especially interested in work that addresses displacement and alienation in their many forms. Potential areas of focus include: \n\nEnvironmental collapse and ecological change\nForced migration\, exile\, and statelessness\nCensorship\, surveillance\, and the erosion of free expression\nHousing insecurity\, gentrification\, and urban dislocation\nCultural memory\, ancestral loss\, and intergenerational rupture\nDigital disorientation\, AI fatigue\, and virtual estrangement\nImagined or speculative forms of refuge\n\nWriters are encouraged to engage with both real and imagined geographies of impermanence. \nWe publish:\nshort fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and memoir (up to 15 double spaced pages)\npoetry (up to 5 poems; please format and submit as a single document)\ninterviews and essays (up to 15 double spaced pages)\nWe accept simultaneous submission. If your work is accepted elsewhere\, we ask you inform us immediately.\nNo multiple submissions. Please only send one submission per reading period.\nWe publish original\, previously unpublished work. \nFormat:\nAll manuscripts must be double spaced and numbered.\nTo be included on the first page of your submission:\nyour name;\ncontact information;\ngenre;\nword count; and\none to three sentences about how the work speaks to the designated theme of the forthcoming issue.\nWe accept .doc\, .docx\, and google doc formats. \nUpon acceptance of submissions\, GCR acquires the standard first serial publication rights. Each issue will be archived online indefinitely\, but both print and online rights revert to authors upon publication. \nWe strive to respond to your work in a timely manner. If you have not received notification within three months of submitting\, please contact us.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-global-city-review-inviting-submissions-to-issue-26-impermanence-of-home/
LOCATION:Global City Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:FN - Call for Submissions to The Markaz Review. Theme: Nationality
DESCRIPTION:TMR 55 • Nationality • November 2025\n\n\nNationality is a red-hot issue. The masked men and women of ICE in the US cast their net wide\, from Hispanic Americans and undocumented Venezuelan migrants to Irish tourists who overstay their visas\, and send them to decrepit detention centers in America’s MAGA-loving south. In Europe\, too\, nationality is a defining issue. The small boats filled with Kurds\, Sudanese\, Afghans\, and others arrive along the UK coast during a summer of far-right riots in front of asylum seekers hotels. Where people come from and their nationalities have become a defining issue of a world in crisis where people on the move refuse to stop fleeing conflict\, civil war\, drought\, and poverty. \nWhen it comes to securing equal rights for all the people in a land\, nationalism is an abject failure as Mahmoud Darwish writes in his poem “Passport”: \nAll the hearts of the people are my identity \nSo take away my passport! \nMore than half the Palestinians in the world remain stateless\, and the Palestinians citizens of Israel do not enjoy the same rights as their Jewish counterparts. Their nationalism means inbuilt discrimination and lower life expectancies. \nAccording to the Merriam Webster dictionary\, the five aspects of nationalism include national character\, loyalty and devotion to a nation; national status and membership to a particular nation; political independence or existence as a separate nation; and people with a common origin\, tradition\, and language and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation-state or an ethnic group\, an element in a larger unit. However\, the synonyms for nationality widen and enrich the word’s possibilities: ethnicity\, race\, family\, clan\, and kindred\, to name a few. In the age of social media threatening\, nationality no longer strictly refers to a country\, it could mean religion\, identity\, or pure and simple guilt by association as seen by rightwing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer’s successful campaign to stop badly wounded and starving Gazan children from receiving medical treatment in the US. \nNationality is the theme of The Markaz Review’s monthly 55\, for November. The issue will explore in creative nonfiction\, short stories\, interviews\, and poetry the vagaries of nationalism\, citizenship lost and found\, what it means to have more than one national identity or passport\, and to have none. So\, who\, what\, where is your tribe? \nQuery the editors: editor@themarkaz.org \nPlease use DUOSUMA for submissions.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-call-for-submissions-to-the-markaz-review-theme-nationality/
LOCATION:The Markaz Review
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