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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
We like the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad at the same time. And we especially love to read the experimental, the surreal, and the genre-bending.
Tell us your stories of isolation, being left out, discriminated against. What about a time you did the excluding? Or flip it on its head and share the joy that comes from escaping the exclusion and finding your people. Surprise us (someone always does)!
This could be anything from first middle school dance to first female president.
To be considered for the prize, submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more, single-spaced, paginated, with a table of contents and acknowledgments.
We are looking for submissions that touch in some way on the place we find ourselves in the U.S., trying to right a teetering democracy. As our situation is not unique in the world, writers and artists in other countries should feel free to submit work that speaks to the situations in their countries.
All stories must end with the last line provided, and you cannot change it in any way.
Submit poems on any theme, up to 250 lines each. Prizes: TOM HOWARD PRIZE: $3,500 for a poem in any style or genre MARGARET REID PRIZE: $3,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value) Honorable Mentions: 10 […]
We are seeking prose and poetry that evoke feelings of abandonment, emptiness, loneliness, and the eerie ambiance of graveyards. Themes can also include the decaying remains of an old house or the bones of a relationship, depending on your unique execution.
Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.
Just as self implies other, the seen implicates the unseen. Like othering, not seeing is also a choice.
The focus of our winter 2024 journal will be: THE SELF-PORTRAIT In its grandest sense, a self-portrait may be presented as a painting, a collage, a poem, an essay, a story . . . Who is the you that you know? How do you express it? Call for Writers Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024 Selected […]
Pack up your suitcases, we’re going on vacation! Tell us your travel stories, whether across the ocean or in your own city. A woman out in the world is still something revolutionary.
Sing us a song. Cry if you want to. Make it happy or sad, funny or bittersweet. Blow out your candles and, just this once, tell us what you wished for.
Take a moment. Think about your most precious memories, those nostalgic mental Polaroids you carry in your heart for when you need them. I’d wager that a lot of those memories feature laughter.
We're hoping you find a pattern for the perfect poem, story, or essay that you will then share with us.
You are invited to explore and reflect on the power of connection, empathy, and support in the healing process. Connection is open to interpretation in the broad sense (e.g. human relationships, animals, and nature).
This competition invites creative responses from poets that critically engage with ideas of time and temporality and the question of who gets to say that something has ended.
Spirit: soul, essence. Breath, life. Liveliness, with a shadow of afterlife, of death, of the close unknown.
It’s election season, so this month we want to see stories about the government, its power, and how it can put its thumb on the scale.
In this issue, we want to highlight fiction and poetry inspired by Halloween. Send us your work about monsters, talking pumpkins, becoming best friends with a sleep paralysis demon, your childhood nightmares, or whatever your tell-tale heart desires.