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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
How you interpret the theme is up to you. We like stories that grab us from the beginning, make us think, and keep us enthralled, as well as essays and memoir with a strong voice and a unique point of view.
We invite you to join us in the radical act of creative freedom, to challenge constraint and to imagine liberation in both bold and quiet ways.
Games of chance, fate, the unknown. We’re interested in reversals of fortune, luck, the house. Spin the wheel of your imagination and send us your best work.
We’re interested in the thin line between indulgence and survival. Between love and addiction.
What do you hunger for?
We want writing that speaks to the weight and wonder of living as First Nations people — where past, present and future aren’t separate but walk together.
We encourage submitters to simply have fun with the theme, or ignore it entirely.
This issue, we’re looking for works that expand beyond fixed identities and toward more expansive ways of being.
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?
Is less more? Is more too much? Can less be enough? Is more actually more? We want this theme to feel open to countless interpretations.
We invite works that join us in asking: If Canada is a suburban nation, what are its suburban stories?
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?
How is the world inside your cup?
Now, without regressing into complete concealment, how can we repurpose the closet as a space for both safety and self-affirmation?
We want stories that draw blood, not for shock, but for honesty.
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.
Life is messy; how you respond is what makes you human.
Make us laugh. Make us fume. Make us grateful. Make us cry. Make us feel.
While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Signal’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.
Whether manic, abstract, or mundane—this isn't the place you need to mask what makes your work strange; unusual; wonderful.
Have fun! Be playful and most importantly, submit well thought out multilayered work that speaks to your deepest libidinal human drive in Jungian terms, the desire to express oneself beyond the pale!
Stripes Literary Magazine is always on the lookout for raw, different and divergent poetry.