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SUMMARY:PFN - Fifth Wheel Press Blog Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Multispecies/Alterhuman
DESCRIPTION:We accept submissions from individuals who belong to the queer\, trans\, and/or gender variant communities. \nsubmission guidelines: Alterhuman/Multispecies\nSome people aren’t human. Actually\, mostly people aren’t: cats\, sharks\, trees\, rocks\, and everyone in between each hold histories and vital relationships that are too often sidelined in favor of anthropocentric narratives. For this call\, I want to see stories in which the idea(l) of human individualism is narratively and poetically challenged. Stretch and break the bounds of who is typically afforded a voice; who matters; who counts as an ally in the struggle for collective liberation; and who determines what it means to be a person at all. In addition to more conventionally multispecies/nonhuman narratives\, I’m particularly interested in works by/featuring alterhuman characters and themes\, and am looking for the complex\, imaginative\, thoughtful over the polemic/educational. \nRegular fwp length guidelines apply (up to 1500 words/no more than 3 pages of poetry/hybrid pieces). \nPlease submit via Duosuma; unless we have made prior arrangements with you\, email submissions will not be considered. Please allow 2-4 weeks for your submission to be processed. Submissions that are not formatted correctly or contain any racist\, homophobic\, transphobic\, ableist\, or otherwise intolerant content will not be considered. (Work that is based on lived experiences involving these topics is ok provided it does not glorify that kind of behavior.) \nContent warnings: We reserve the right to apply content warnings for sensitive topics to your work when published. Please also include them in your cover letter when submitting. \nPlease only send submissions via Duosuma unless you have been specifically given instructions to do otherwise. If you have accessibility concerns\, please reach out and we’ll make every effort to accommodate your submission. \nFor written work\, we offer a handful of optional add-ons related to feedback and expedited response times. Due to the volume of submissions we receive\, we are unable to provide feedback on submissions unless it has been selected and paid for at the time of submission. \nWe always accept reprints if you have the rights to give them\, including work published on personal blogs\, websites\, and social media. Also\, in the case of web portfolios\, Patreon & similar services\, and social media\, we don’t require that you inform us they were previously published\, since we don’t consider that “published” ourselves. \nAnthology and blog submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis during open periods\, with average response time between 4-6 weeks. Group photozine submissions and GARLAND submissions will be reviewed at the end of the submission period\, with average response time within 4 weeks. Manuscripts will be reviewed at the end of the submission period\, with average response time within 2 months. \nSubmissions that are not formatted correctly or contain any racist\, homophobic\, transphobic\, ableist\, or otherwise bigoted content will not be considered. We don’t tolerate right-wing bullshit\, or anything resembling it. Writing or artwork that is based on lived experiences from a marginalized perspective is okay provided it does not glorify bigoted behavior. \nWe do not accept work that has been created or assisted by Artificial Intelligence (AI). \nRepeated violations of submission guidelines will result in a permanent ban from submitting. Boundaries are important. \nWe pay contributors in the form of either profit-sharing (for published editions) or contributor stipends (for anthologies\, zines\, and blog pitches). Blog features offer free submissions but are unpaid. We nominate for Best of the Net\, Best Small Fictions\, and the Pushcart Prize! \nUnless otherwise stated or invited\, please submit only once per open call. All editorial decisions are final and not up for debate.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-fifth-wheel-press-blog-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-multispecies-alterhuman/
LOCATION:Fifth Wheel Press Blog
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SUMMARY:PFN - Exposition Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme: PARA/SOCIAL
DESCRIPTION:ANNUAL ISSUE SUBMISSIONS:\nEvery issue has a theme from which writers and artists can draw inspiration. We encourage those who submit to think outside the box; we look for stories that fit the theme yet make us think about it in different ways; we want work that satisfies and challenges traditional forms of storytelling. \nThe theme for our eleventh annual issue is “PARA/SOCIAL.” \nRead more about how to submit below! \nPARA/SOCIAL:  \nIssue XI begins with an infinite tension. \nPara – altered\, beside\, beyond\, against.\nSocial – the networks of intimacy\, recognition\, and belonging we carry with us. \nJoined together\, these words suggest closeness without reciprocity; connection without contact. We hear it most often in the context of celebrity\, cashiers\, counselors\, and colleagues – unreturned attachments we form out of unmet needs. \nBut what if PARA/SOCIAL is more than a warning label?  What if PARA/SOCIAL signals possibility? \nTo write into PARA/SOCIAL is to explore: \n\nThe tenderness of feeling known by someone who does not know you.\nThe estrangement of being “with” people while remaining apart.\nThe creative sparks that fly in parallel play — lives brushing close\, never fully merging.\nThe edges where community becomes illusion\, and illusion shapes community.\n\nFor this issue we invite work that traces the edges of intimacy and illusion. We seek longing projected across distance\, the distortions of connection\, and the gifts of being alongside – with or without perception and recognition. \nThis theme is not a verdict\, but an invitation: to consider how we live beside each other\, how we build connections through shadow\, screen\, and story\, and how we might reimagine the boundaries of the social altogether. \nLet PARA/SOCIAL pull you\, softly or wrenchingly\, in opposite directions. Let the word unravel and remake itself through your work. \nAuthor receives $50.00 USD for accepted work.  All submissions received by October 31 will receive guaranteed feedback from editors. \nPoetry\nWe accept submissions of up to three poems of any form and in traditional or experimental styles. Any additional poems will NOT be read. \n*Please include all poems in a single document! \nFiction\nWe accept submissions of short stories and stand-alone novel excerpts up to 5\,000 words. Pieces that exceed this limit will NOT be read. \nNote that we tend to lean toward literary fiction\, but exceptional genre fiction that fits the theme will be considered. \nFlash Fiction\nWe accept submissions of up to three pieces* of flash or microfiction. Each piece should be no more than 1\,000 words; there is no minimum word count. The shorter\, the better!\nPieces that exceed this limit will NOT be read.\nNote that we tend to lean toward literary fiction\, but exceptional genre fiction that fits the theme will be considered.\n*Please include all flash fiction in a single document! \nNonfiction\nWe accept submissions of memoir\, personal essays\, and creative nonfiction up to 5\,000 words. Pieces that exceed this limit will NOT be read. \nSubmission fee: $3.50\n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-exposition-review-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-para-social/
LOCATION:Exposition Review
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SUMMARY:F - Dance\, When They Want You to Cower Anthology Seeking Stories of: Queer Defiance\, Survival\, Hope\, and Love
DESCRIPTION:Dance\, When They Want You to Cower\n\n\n\nThis is a fundraising anthology for October Santerelli\nAll profits will be donated to October Santerelli \n\n\nInkd Pub is soliciting authors to donate stories for an anthology titled: \nDance\, When They Want You to Cower \nA queer anthology of defiance\, survival\, hope\, and love \nWe are looking for queer protagonists in any setting or genre where the narrative fits any of the above themes (defiance\, survival\, hope\, love). \nOur intended timeline: \n\nAcceptances by the middle of December 2025\nEdits completed in February 2026\nCrowdfunding in Winter 2026\nPublished in Spring 2026\n\nSubmissions: No AI\, 1 per author; no reprints\, no simultaneous submissions;\nSubmission Cost: Free\nWord Limit: 2\,000 to 6\,000 words\nSubmission Guidelines: Anonymous submission with no author name in document; 12 pt Times or Arial; .Doc or .Docx; double-space; first line indent; no tabs used.\nGenres: LGBTQIA+ \nPay: None: charity donation – Author copy for US address
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SUMMARY:PF - Cola Literary Review Seeking Submissions from BIPOC writers
DESCRIPTION:For the month of November\, we are open exclusively for our BIPOC Writers project. Fees for these submissions are waived. \n‍ \nTo see if your work is a good fit\, take a look at the recent work we’ve published in print and on our website. The best place to learn about whether or not we are open for submissions is on our Twitter or Instagram. \n‍ \nGuidelines: \n\nWork must be previously unpublished.\nWe do accept simultaneous submissions\, however please let us know immediately if your work gets accepted elsewhere by sending a message through Submittable. Please do not withdraw your submission unless you are withdrawing the entirety of its contents.\nPlease only submit once per reading period.\nPoetry submissions: please submit 3-5 poems in a single Word document with no more than one poem per page.\nFiction submissions: please submit 1 story or up to 3 flash with a maximum of 5000 words total. Please double-space and paginate your document.\nPlease include a brief bio (about 100 words or fewer) and a mailing address in your cover letter.\nPlease send us your work via our Submittable. We do not accept email submissions at this time. We also do not accept postal submissions\, unless you are currently incarcerated.\n\n‍
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-cola-literary-review-seeking-submissions-from-bipoc-writers/
LOCATION:Cola Literary Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Home on the Range. The Theme: Queer Pastoral
DESCRIPTION:Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral \nWe’re thrilled to announce a new book\, coming in 2027 and edited by Caleb Nichols. Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral will collect together exciting contemporary poets  writing about queerness and nature\, helping create a new canon of LGBTQ+ writers in a genre that has traditionally been off-limits to them. \nThe book will celebrate and complicate a poetics of queer nature\, from redefining the boundaries between the urban\, the rural\, and the wilderness\, to rendering the ways in which queer people make their homes in the pastoral traditions which have so often excluded them. Send us your strangest\, sexiest\, thirstiest\, poems that\, broadly speaking\, fit with or interrogate the theme of queer pastoral. Published examples of the genre include Richard Scott’s poem\, ‘Pastoral’\, from his excellent collection Soho\, Mícheál McCann’s ‘Late Blight’ from Devotion\, or Seán Hewitt’s ‘Dryad’ from Tongues of Fire\, but many other possibilities abound. We welcome poems that celebrate queerness in nature; poems that queer the idea of nature; poems that bring the natural world into urban or queer spaces or situations; poems that complicate and/or interrogate these ideas. \nThis call is open to queer writers at any stage of their careers: from widely published poets to first-time submitters and everyone in-between. You may submit 1-3 poems on the theme\, but please only submit once.\nThe book will be edited by Caleb Nichols and released via fourteen poems in early 2027. We will have an open call for all queer poets that feel moved by the themes\, whether published or new to writing. The submission window will run from September 15th until December 15th and we will be accepting a maximum of 3 poems per submission. \nSubmission guidelines \nPlease send a single Word or pdf document containing your work\, with a small additional paragraph about yourself. We judge the poems blind\, so try to keep your name off the actual poetry document if possible. Don’t worry too much about what to say in the paragraph. We just want to know a little bit about you\, how you identify\, if you’ve been published elsewhere\, and what your work is like. Please don’t include any graphics or images in the bio or in your submission. \nWe’re based in London\, but publish poets from all over the world. Submission is free and\, with our anthologies\, you retain your copyright. We know how difficult it is to get published\, so we’re happy for you to submit elsewhere simultaneously. We don’t publish work that has already been published online or in print. \nCan’t wait to read your poems!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-home-on-the-range-the-theme-queer-pastoral/
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SUMMARY:PFN - The Muleskinner Journal Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Sabotage
DESCRIPTION:Journal Sixteen\nSabotage\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSo fun to say.\nIt thumps like a shoe dropped into the gears. It smolders like a slow fuse lit under the floorboards.\nFor Journal Sixteen\, we are looking for sabotage. Sweet or bitter. Large or small. It might be a quiet refusal\, a deliberate misstep\, a coded message\, or a love letter never sent. It might be the body rebelling against itself\, a system collapsing from within\, a character who undermines their own desires. It might be the artist’s hand trembling on purpose\, the poem that undoes its own logic\, the narrative that eats its tail. \nAs always\, we invite you to interpret this theme liberally—bend it\, twist it\, betray it. Sabotage it\, if you must. \nSend us your beautiful wreckage\, your quiet detonations\, your elaborate ruses\, and your betrayals of self. We’ll be listening for the sound of gears grinding\, the machinery silenced. \nDo your worst. It’s Sabotage! \n \nWhat we look for…\nMuleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following guidelines for your submission. Submit in only one category. Send no more than one submission per issue. \n\n\nPoetry: Any length or form. (1-3 pieces) \n\n\nFlash or Micro Fiction: max. 1000 words each (1-3 pieces) \n\n\nShort Story/excerpts from longer (previously unpublished) work: (max. 6000 words) Please include word count on first page \n\n\nCreative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words) Please include word count on first page \n\n\nWe look for writing of all kinds that uses skill\, wit\, and determination to deliver the goods.  We accept and publish poetry\, short fiction\, flash fiction\, micro-fiction\, short scripts\, excerpts from longer works\, memoir\, criticism\, craft essays\, artwork\, journalism\, and shopping lists. \nWe don’t care who you are\, as long as you are the author of what you submit. \nAnd\, we hate to have to say this\, but please respect yourself\, your readers\, and other writers\, and do not do that silly and shameful AI thing.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-muleskinner-journal-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-sabotage/
LOCATION:The Muleskinner Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Nightfall Poetry Anthology. Theme: Night
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNighttime is different from daytime\, but our culture often fails to capture that simple feeling. Night falls\, and we switch on the lights\, going about our business.  \nSometimes\, it’s not until we switch off the lights that night enters us.\nIt has its own magic. It’s own demons. It can be spooky or comforting. You can wrap the cloak around your shoulders and feel a sense of ease or fear\, or both. \nWe are seeking poems that explore what nighttime means to you. We invite poets of all backgrounds and experience to submit up to 3 poems for our upcoming NIGHTFALL: POETRY ANTHOLOGY. \na thousand flowers books is a small independent poetry press looking to expand the diversity and reach of our books\, weaving connections between people\, creating more opportunities for poets\, and increasing the range and number of poetry readers around the world.  \nSubmission Guidelines: \n\n\nTheme: Night (interpret freely) \n\n\nSubmission: Up to 3 poems  \n\n\nFormat: PDF  \n\n\nCompensation: $50 honorarium offered per selected submission \n\n\nDeadline: December 15\, 2025 \n\n\nInclude a brief bio (100-150 words)\nFor questions\, please email us at submissions@athousandflowers.org \n\n\nFor questions\, please email us at submissions@athousandflowers.org \nSend us your poems of insomnia\, moonlight\,  shadows\, and dreams…
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-nightfall-poetry-anthology-theme-night/
LOCATION:Nightfall Poetry Anthology
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - Call for Submissions to Broadsided Press. Theme: Signs of Life: Artists and Writers Respond to AI
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines\n\nSubmit a poem/flash prose of 30 lines/200 words (or less) responding to one of the four prompts below. \nWe will select four (or more) to publish as broadsides alongside the notebook pages artists have provided (you may indicate in your submission cover letter which notebook inspired your poem\, but we will determine the pairings). \nPrompt 1: “I Am Not a Robot” Begin with this title\, offered to so many of us\, so often.  How can you convince us? \nPrompt 2: “Only I can see ___” The authority of the individual is a press against the “generality” and “aggregate” of AI.  What can only you see? \nPrompt 3: HOMOPUNKT: This more technical prompt asks you to send us work using only one kind of punctuation\, and to use too much of it. (Homo = one; Punct = punctuation; K = Punk). Is it the…. \, the \\\\\ the ((((\, the ????\, or even the ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽? AI would not want you to use such crazy-excessive stuff\, use it! \nPrompt 4: What’s on your Golden Record? Send us an Epistolary poem to alien life. The Golden Record was sent into space on the NASA Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Launched in 1977\, it sought to connect\, in a human way\, with other life.  What would you send? \n  \nBroadsided seeks poetry and prose that is evocative\, riveting\, and not too esoteric. Broadsides are out on the streets\, and we hope that they compel all kinds of people to stop\, read\, and consider. We want them to draw in readers\, not push them away. That said\, we want smart\, difficult work. Work that challenges and speaks strongly. \n  \nSubmission Fee: $3
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-call-for-submissions-to-broadsided-press-theme-signs-of-life-artists-and-writers-respond-to-ai/
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