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SUMMARY:PFN - Antler Velvet Arts Magazine: The buck edition: prompt 'cocoon'
DESCRIPTION:the buck edition: prompt ‘cocoon’\n\n\n✥ COCOON ✥ to retreat and find sanctuary\, unveiling the essence of comfort and familial warmth before emerging refreshed ✥ THERE IS NO LIMIT TO RESTORATION ✥ embracing the old bonds\, birthing tranquility\, a perpetual dance of relaxation in the cocoon’s embrace ✥ SANCTUARY OF STILLNESS ✥ an eternal space of retreat\, intertwined with the spirit of familial love ✥ in the act of cocooning\, the soul’s peace is already nurtured ✥ COMFORT IS ALREADY HERE ✥ rest\, rest\, rest ✥ the cocoon asks you\, are you ready to retreat? ✥ are you prepared to be held? ✥ YOUR FAMILY IS WATCHING ✥ YOU ARE LOVED ✥ DO NOT RUSH \n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re into poetry\, flash fiction\, nonfiction—pretty much anything creative. Our editions are on the smaller side\, with 25-35 pieces of content total. Poetry entries tend to be highly competitive\, so make sure to send us your best work! \nWith these rules in mind you may: \n– Upload up to 5 poems (please include them all in one document) \n– Upload up to 2 essays up to 2000 words (can be academic or stream-of-consciousness) \n– Upload up to 2 fiction pieces under 1000 words \n– Due to a surge in popularity\, AV will only have submissions open for a month for each edition. This is to ensure enough curation and formatting time provided to our small team of editors! \nAll successful creators will be emailed upon the release of the online magazine. \nFeel free to submit again if your previous work wasn’t the right fit for us. We’re cool with simultaneous submissions too\, just give us a heads-up if your work finds a home elsewhere. And\, of course\, no previously published stuff\, please. \nLooking forward to checking out your awesome work!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-antler-velvet-arts-magazine-the-buck-edition-prompt-cocoon/
LOCATION:Antler Velvet Arts Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Rose Books Reader. Theme: Primal Scream
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions:\nRose Books is now open for prose submissions for our first Rose Books Reader\, entitled “Primal Scream”—a printed collection of work by writers who inspire us. In particular\, we are looking for prose that explores characters or narrators somehow on the edge or on the brink\, in chrysalis or transition\, in various states of emergency or desire\, struggling to cope with the realities of our contemporary world in real or surreal ways\, with some success or no success at all. We’re looking for an engagement with emotional extremes or environmental collapse or feelings of bodily entrapment; work that is desperate\, unhinged\, hallucinatory\, hormonal. In keeping with Rose Books’ mission—“we believe in taking risks for the sake of beauty”—we’re particularly keen on work that takes risks in either theme or style. \nWe are less interested in coming-of-age in NYC stories\, vanilla relationship problems\, or self-created ennui from being very online. \nPlease keep submissions to less than 3\,000 words—we are open to previously unpublished stories\, essays\, flash fiction\, and prose poetry. Simultaneous submissions are okay\, please just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. \nUnfortunately\, we are not able to offer compensation for submissions at this time\, but contributors will receive a copy of the Reader and we will promote your writing and publicize the Reader in every way we can. \nPlease email submissions in a Word doc (12 pt. font\, Times New Roman\, double spaced) with a brief bio to rosebooksreader [at] gmail [dot] com. The submissions window will close on September 10\, 2024.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-rose-books-reader-theme-primal-scream/
LOCATION:Rose Books Reader
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Hinterland Magazine: "Journeys" Special Issue: Nonfiction Open Call
DESCRIPTION:Hinterland Magazine is pleased to be open once again for submissions for a special issue on the subject of “Journeys” to be published in Late 2024. Based on the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “travel: to make a journey of some length”\, we are looking for creative non-fiction that redefines travel writing. Surprise and amaze us with your work about journeys and voyages through places\, spaces and time by 23.59 GMT on 13th September 2024. \nAt Hinterland we are committed to publishing the best in creative non-fiction from around the globe. We are always thrilled to feature work from established\, well-known authors but have a particular interest in discovering new voices and in pieces that sit outside the usual categories: we ask only that it be a work of non-fiction. \n\nSubmissions should be made via Submittable only (see below).\nBefore you submit\, we strongly recommend purchasing a copy of Hinterland in order to get a feel for the range and style of nonfiction that we publish (www.hinterlandnonfiction.com/shop).\nAll work should be new\, previously unpublished material.\nWe accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere\, kindly let us know.\nFor our Non-fiction Open Call\, we accept work between 1251-5000 words. We also accept extracts from longer works\, or works in progress; please ensure the extract works as a stand-alone piece. If you have a short piece of between 500-1250 words\, please submit this through our Flash Non-fiction Call.\nPlease submit your work in a legible 12pt font and double-spaced.\nYour work will be considered for all upcoming issues; it might help you to know that we operate a 4- to 5-month editorial lead time.\nWe typically pay £100 for a long-form article\, or £25 for shorter articles and contributions to our regular features.\nWe charge a small readers’ fee of £3 for all submissions. Please get in touch with us if this fee presents a hardship for whatever reason. Subscribers can submit their work to us for free.\nPlease do not submit the same piece to multiple calls. We will always consider a piece for all open calls\, where appropriate.\nWe regret that\, due to the number of submissions received\, we cannot provide feedback.\nIf you have had a piece published with us recently\, please wait 9 months after publication before submitting to us again.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-hinterland-magazine-journeys-special-issue-nonfiction-open-call/
LOCATION:Hinterland Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Writing Heights Anthology Series. Theme: Love
DESCRIPTION:Love is a universal theme in music\, literature\, pop culture\, philosophy\, biology\, politics\, and government. Romantic love is but one tiny piece of that puzzle. A child’s love for their stuffed animal\, an immigrant’s love for their new home\, or the nostalgic love for a childhood best friend: each a form of love. \nThe ancient Greeks divided love into many types in order to better understand the concept. Ancient Greek philosophy focused on \n\nAgape: charity or universal love\nEros: romantic\, passionate love\nPhilia: affectionate regard or friendship\nPhilautia: compassionate self-love\nStorge: instinctual familial love\nXenia: hospitality\, “guest-friendship”\n\nLove\, in all its forms\, can be both inclusive and divisive. It can build consensus or tear away the fabric of a community. Love conjures images of joy\, happiness\, and satiety… but also loss\, despair\, and indifference. Love can be freeing\, constraining\, or punishing. \nWhatever your experience of love\, it is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Submit your short fiction\, narrative nonfiction\, and poetry exploring love as it resonates with you in any of its many forms. \nNote: This anthology is intended for general readers. Erotica\, rape scenes\, or gratuitous violence are prohibited. Limited sex\, violence\, and profanity are permissible as long as it suits the story. It cannot feel gratuitous or be included for shock value. Submissions intended for children or middle grade readers will not be accepted. \nSubmission Guidelines \nBlind Submissions: Because we judge all submissions blindly\, submitted files MUST NOT contain any identifying information about the author. Including your name\, address\, email or any other personal information in the file will result in immediate disqualification. \nLength: Short fiction and creative nonfiction/memoir submissions should be a maximum of 5000 words. Poetry submissions can be up to 3 poems contained in a single file with a maximum of 10 pages. \nFile Format: Submit all files as a Word .doc or .docx file. The file name should contain the title of the piece (or first poem) only. All pieces should be in Times New Roman\, 12 point font. Contact the anthology coordinator at anthology@writingheights.com for exemptions. Poets may also submit\, via email\, a .pdf of their poems to indicate preferred formatting. Bear in mind that the final printed page in the book will not match an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. \nEditing: While accepted pieces will undergo an editing process\, all submissions should be edited and proofread prior to submission. \nMultiple Submissions: Multiple submissions accepted\, but only two submissions per writer. \nSimultaneous Submissions: Please no simultaneous submissions. \nOriginal Work: We are looking for original\, unpublished work only. Previously published work will not be accepted. \nSubmission Fee: $15/entry \nPayment: Accepted pieces will receive a $50 payment
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-writing-heights-anthology-series-theme-love/
LOCATION:Writing Heights Anthology Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - The Garden Party Poetry Contest 2024. Theme: Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Contest Details\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER: \n\n\nAt least 3 poems will be picked as winners by the lead judge and the collective\, with featured publication and promotion! \n\n\nEach winning poet will have their choice between 1) a $50 payment\, or 2) choosing a charity of their choice (either in their community or we can share a small list of reputable choices)\, which GPC will match for a total donation of $100! \n\n\n​ \nGUIDELINES: ​ \nAll submission entries should be accompanied by a 2-4 sentence bio with any relevant links in the body of the email. Please attach your poetry contest manuscript as a pdf / doc / docx to the email. \nADDITIONALLY:  \n\n\nEntries must be ~3 pages max\, with up to 3 poems \n\n\nIE—at maximum\, you can submit a single 3-page poem\, OR three 1-page poems\, OR a 2-pager and a 1-pager\, etc. \n\n\n\n\n​Please start each poem on a new page \n\n\nNo previously published work \n\n\nAll styles are welcome—traditional\, experimental\, hybrid\, etc. \n\n\nSimultaneous submissions are accepted\, but please keep us in the loop if you hear back elsewhere  \n\n\nPlease include your pronouns in your bio/submission so we can properly refer to you <3​ \n\n\n& one entry per person\, please​ \n\n\n​ \nAny entry received after the selected dates will not be considered for publication. We read every manuscript\, and will select our winners within two months of submissions!​ \n​ \nThank you for your trust in us!!!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-garden-party-poetry-contest-2024-theme-mental-health/
LOCATION:The Garden Party Poetry Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Writing Magazine Competitions. Theme: Friendship
DESCRIPTION:30th July is International Friendship Day\, so send us stories in any style or genre where friendship of some kind is a key element. \nYour entry should be 1\,500-1\,700 words. The closing date is 15th September 2024. \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 in Competition Showcase for the runner-up. \nEligibility\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.\nNotification\nWinners will be notified within three 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.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-writing-magazine-competitions-seeking-submssions-on-the-theme-of-friendship/
LOCATION:Writing Magazine Competitions
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PN - Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Compose
DESCRIPTION:“Compose.” What does this word bring up for you? What needs to be composed? How do we compose? What happens when there is no composure? Are there moments we don’t need to compose (work\, music\, ourselves\, etc)? In this US election year\, what does compose mean? These are all just thoughts and questions. Surprise us by your own writing on these themes. \n\nPoetry & Creative Nonfiction Submission Guidelines\n\n\n\n\nPlease send us 1-3 poems (one poem per page) or one CNF piece that is no more than 2\,500 words (essay\, journal entry\, excerpt from a memoir or lager piece). \n\n\nWe read and publish work that is in English only. \n\n\nWe no longer take previously published work so send us what hasn’t appeared online or in print. \n\n\nWork should be 12pt text; set in Courier\, Arial\, Times New Roman (CNF – double spaced) \n\n\nWe pay attention to craft\, ease\, beauty\, rawness of your writing. Are we inspired\, moved? Is it thought provoking\, surprising\, inviting? \n\n\nWe only take poems within the submission window and via Duosuma through Duotrope (it’s free to set up an account). \n\n\nYou will be notified the month following your submission. Feel free to make simultaneous submissions but let us know ASAP if what you sent us is selected elsewhere. \n\n\nWe believe a writer should have full control of their work\, so all copyright and publication rights remain with the writer at all times. However\, we appreciate exclusive publication rights for three months after the piece has been published by us to ensure maximum impact. And if your piece appears anywhere after that\, please acknowledge that it was first published in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing (or “Snapdragon Journal”).  
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-snapdragon-a-journal-of-art-healing-seekig-submissions-on-the-theme-compose/
LOCATION:Snapdragon Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review Seeking Submissions for the Halloween Issue about: Monsters
DESCRIPTION:OCTOBER (Boo-din annual Halloween issue\, featuring The Skinner Prize) \n. . . It waits in between the shadows. It watches from just out of sight. The monster. The Other. The creature haunting the peripheries\, guarding the boundaries . . . \nFor our Halloween Boo-din issue\, we are looking for CNF\, fiction\, poetry\, and hybrid work that explores horror and legends surrounding monsters. Your pieces should involve either a re-imagined classic creature\, like vampires and werewolves\, or a new imagining of a monster as a meaningful element. We are looking for the subtle\, the creepy\, the unsettling. We will not accept any pieces with gratuitous use of violence or gore. \nAll work will be read blind and chosen by former Managing Editor/McNeese MFA graduate Abigail Skinner\, and the top piece will earn special mention/top placement\, and a broadside of their work. \nEmail your work to boudin@mcneese.edu by September 15th\, 2024. No fee! Aim to keep the fiction/CNF under 5\,000 or so words. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words).
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-boudin-the-online-home-of-the-mcneese-review-seeking-submissions-for-the-halloween-issue-about-monsters/
LOCATION:Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN -  Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy Seeking Submissions on: Reality and its other(s)
DESCRIPTION:We will consider only previously unpublished and philosophically informed creative work (though our understanding of “philosophically informed” is capacious). Please submit only one prose manuscript or up to five poems for each issue. Please submit poems in one document. All submissions should be made through Submittable. There is no submission fee. \nWe pay $200 for each piece that we publish (or $50 for each poem we publish). \nWe are generally looking for pieces that are between 1\,000 and 5\,000 words\, though we will happily consider submissions that are shorter or longer than this. However\, please do not submit any work that is more than 7\,000 words. \nWe realize that you might also want to submit the same manuscript to other literary journals. If you do\, please include a note to that effect in the cover letter you include with your submission and notify us immediately if the piece(s) you sent to us is(are) accepted for publication by another magazine or journal. \nPlease direct all inquires about the journal to bookxi@hamilton.edu.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-book-xi-a-journal-of-literary-philosophy-seeking-submissions-on-reality-and-its-others/
LOCATION:Book XI : A Journal of Literary Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - 53-Word Story Contest. Theme: A Set
DESCRIPTION:Image by Alex Green\, licensed through Pexels \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Prompt for September: Are you ready? Picture this: your fingers in place over the keys\, the blank-page backdrop is waiting for your story. What words will you collect there? Do you already know what you want to write? Will it follow the rules? Which way will all the words flow? It’s time to put them down. \nWrite a 53-word story about a set \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe winner for September will receive a free copy of What Dwells between the Lines: Fifty-Three 53-Word Story Contest Winners Plus Tips on Writing Remarkably Brief Fiction\, and their story will appear on this page for the month of October and will be published in Issue 269 of Prime Number Magazine on January 1\, 2025. \nPlease read our guidelines carefully\nNO ATTACHMENTS\, PLEASE!\nPaste your story in the body of your email to 53wordstory@gmail.com\nHINT: Each month\, when we offer a new prompt\, we introduce it with a short 53-word description that suggests several ways you might consider the prompt. Even the photo can offer a different way to look at it. What are we looking for? A story that surprises us in its approach to the prompt\, something unusual and creative. The first idea that pops into your head probably popped into the heads of others too\, so you might want to take another look at how your story can be different. Challenge yourself to find an unusual way to write a 53-word story about the prompt\, and don’t think you have to use the prompt in your story\, literally; implying the word works too. Surprise us! That’s what we are looking for. \nHere’s how to enter (please read our guidelines carefully before sending us your story): \n–Your story must be 53 words—no more\, no less—titles are not included in the word count. Stories with fewer than or more than 53 words will be disqualified. Send only stories; poetry with line breaks will not be considered.\n–There is no age limit. This is a FREE contest\, so there is no age restriction.\n–Be careful of word count. Hyphenated words count as one word.\n–Titles are not included in the word count. If your story is not titled\, we will create a title for publication.\n–One submission per person. ‘Nough said.\n–NO ATTACHMENTS! Paste your story into the body of your email. Stories sent as attachments\, or images embedded in the email\, will not be considered.\n–By entering this contest the author grants Press 53 First Serial Rights to publish the story in Prime Number Magazine and to archive it permanently on our website. All other rights remain with the author.\n–Email your story directly to 53wordstory@gmail.com by the 15th  day of the month\, midnight Eastern Time. NO ATTACHMENTS\, PLEASE! \nOur judges for the 53-Word Story Contest are the editors of Press 53 and Prime Number Magazine. Our winner for this month’s contest will receive a free book from Press 53\, and the winning story will appear here on the 53-Word Story Contest page for the entirety of the month following the contest\, and will also be published\, along with the author’s *photo and 53-word bio\, in the next issue of Prime Number Magazine. \n(*we will request your photo and 53-word bio if your story is our winner\, so be prepared!)
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-53-word-story-contest-theme-a-set/
LOCATION:53-Word Story Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PF - Ink Sweat & Tears Seeking Submissions on the Theme: (Re)place
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines\nWhat to Send\nSend your submission of\, ideally\, no more and no less than 4-6 pieces of poetry (or 1-2 short prose/flash fiction works) and include YOUR NAME in the subject line. [please cut and paste email address and add it to your address book – it’s a spam avoidance technique] We ONLY accept submissions by email. \nWhile nothing is sacred – and we will consider ‘political/current affairs’ contributions – we do reserve the right to reject any submission we feel is deliberately offensive or actionable. \nSorry\, we do not pay for submissions – we have no money. \nFormat\nYour submissions can be within the body of the email or as pasted into a single Word document. If you are sending a graphic\, including haiga\, then PDF and JPEG files are fine. \nDue to the vagaries of WordPress\, we are also asking for pdf or jpg submissions (as well as in doc format) of all concrete poetry. Please use a sans serif format. We use Didact Gothic on the site which can be downloaded for free but Trebuchet MS and other similar san serif fonts are also acceptable. Font size should be 10 pt. (We may ask you to adjust this as we are still working out the best way to feature concrete poetry.) \nPlease note the maximum word length we will publish is 750 words. \nWhen it comes to Word + Image poems\, please see our previously published work to check if your piece fits the criteria. Ekphrastic poetry does not count as Word + Image. \nAbout You\nPlease include a short biographical note about yourself in the THIRD PERSON\, 30-to-40 words max.  You may include links to publications or your blog or your website. Max 2 links. \nOnce we have accepted your work\, please do not send us edits or biography updates unless we have asked for them. This is very time-consuming and very difficult to keep track of. \nCopyright\nPlease DO NOT submit work that includes copyright material (such as pictures) belonging to other people/third parties unless you can supply us with written authorisation by that person/third party. \nAs the author you retain full copyright in your work. By submitting a piece of prose or poetry to us\, you are merely granting IS&T a non-exclusive right (or ‘bare licence’) to reproduce your work. \nNo Simultaneous Submissions\, Please\nNo simultaneous submissions please (and that includes work also being submitted to competitions) if only because it causes us unnecessary kerfuffle when\, having accepted a piece\, the author then gets it accepted elsewhere and wants to unsubmit it to us – or else even asks us to delete from the webzine a piece we have already published. \nImportant: Please note that\, because of the number of submissions we receive\, we can no longer accept work that has been previously published or is about to be published elsewhere; this includes personal blogs and Facebook. If\, after accepting or publishing a work on IS&T\, we find it published elsewhere on an earlier date\, we will remove it from our web site. (We would also be very grateful if you could keep from posting your works elsewhere after IS&T publication\, at least until we have decided on our Pick of the Month shortlist for the relevant month.)
The ‘not previously published’ criteria does not apply to Filmpoems or work submitted for our National Poetry Day or 12 Days of Christmas features.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-ink-sweat-tears-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-replace/
LOCATION:Ink Sweat & Tears
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Queens English Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:POETRY COMPETITION – WIN £100\nWe are delighted to announce our next poetry-writing competition to be judged by our resident poet\, Dorothy Pope. The competition is open to all and entry is free. Each entrant may submit two poems not previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please keep copies as those submitted will not be returned.\n\n\n\n\nThe competition has an open theme; entrants may write on any subject or subjects of their choice. Poems should reach Dorothy Pope by 15 September 2024 by post to 10 Runnelfield\, Harrow on the Hill\, Middx HA1 3NY or by email to\n\ndorothy.pope@hotmail.com\n\nResults will be announced on 30 September 2024. Poems sent by post should each be typed on a separate sheet with contact details on the reverse. Each emailed poem must be sent separately with contact details well separated from the poem. Every poem must be headed ‘Queen’s English Society Poetry Competition’ and must be a maximum of 20 lines in the author’s choice of form.\n\nThe author of the winning poem will receive £100 and the poem will be published on the Queen’s English Society website\, Facebook platforms\, and occasionally in the next issue of the Society’s quarterly magazine\, Quest. The runner-up will also be published.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-queens-english-poetry-competition/
LOCATION:Queens English Poetry Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:N - Friends Journal Seeking Submissions for the December Issue on: Spiritual Optimism vs Spiritual Pessimism
DESCRIPTION:One of the greatest spiritual divides we see these days doesn’t seem to be theological or even political but related to our enthusiasm for the future. Is climate change hurtling us to an unlivable planet and extinction of humanity or are we in the beginning stages of a new age of sustainability? Is democracy advancing across the world with isolated backlashes or is an authoritarian future turning the screws on us? The last 50 years have brought us undeniable advances in race relations\, more mainstream LGBTQ+ acceptance than we might ever have imagined\, and improved health and environmental standards yet there is plenty to be worried about. \nHow do we balance out spiritual optimism vs. spiritual pessimism? How do Friends in the 2020s look at the future? \nFeatures run 1200-2500 words.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-friends-journal-seeking-submissions-for-the-december-issue-on-spiritual-optimism-vs-spiritual-pessimism/
LOCATION:Friends Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - Open Call to Tales Anthology Series. Theme: Tales from the Kitchen
DESCRIPTION:OPEN CALL: closing Sept 16\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTales from the Kitchen\n​ \nEditor’s Tip: For much of recorded history\, the kitchen has been the center—the heart—of the home. Food can bring people together or tear them apart. Important conversations happen around the kitchen table\, kids learn self-sufficiency\, and traditions begin in this space. \n\n\nEdited by Theresa Green \nTheresa is looking for well-developed concepts\, inviting storytelling\, clear description\, and an occasional laugh to break the tension. Genre is yours to play with*. Pieces will be reviewed and writers contacted in the order received. \n\n\nSubmissions \nSubmissions must be in English and include the required Title Information.  \nTry to keep your submission under… \n7\,500 words for fiction (1 per person) \n50 lines for poetry (2 per person) \nTimes New Roman or Arial\, size 10 or 12\, single spaced \nIndented paragraphs except for poetry \nEmpty margins on all four sides \nEmpty line for scene breaks \nTip: Keep your formatting simple!\nRemember\, you’re formatting for review\, not for publication. Don’t hide your gorgeous prose behind stylized asterisks and flourishes. \n\n\nTitle Information\nEntries must include this Title Information in this order at the top of the document body\, aligned left:  \nName or Pseudonym\, email \nEntry Title \nTales \nWord or Line Count  \nIf your submission was previously published\, please cite your success below your word/line count.​ \nAccepted file types: .doc\, .docx\, .odt \nSubmit via email OR Dropbox OR Duosuma. \nLive\, unlocked Google Docs or Microsoft Word links are accepted via email (submissions [at] writersworkout.net). Set your document permissions to “anyone with the link” so we can download it. We will not request access and we are not responsible for locked docs.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-open-call-to-tales-anthology-series-theme-tales-from-the-kitchen/
LOCATION:Tales Anthology Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Usawa Literary Review Seeking Submissions on: Faʻafafine or Gender & Its Discontents
DESCRIPTION:Usawa: Call for Submissions – December 2024 Issue \n\n\n\n\nGENDER AND ITS DISCONTENTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotograph by: Ryan Stowers\nFa’afafine\nTaken in Faleapuna at a road side shop \nFaʻafafine (translated: “in the manner of a woman”) are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. \n\n\n\n\nFor its December 2024 Issue\, Usawa Literary Review invites contributions in form of poetry\, short fiction\, reviews\, interviews\, essays\, creative nonfiction\, queer auto-fiction\, (and any other genre-bending genre which queers the concept of genres)\, around the theme\,  ‘Gender & Its Discontents ’. \nGender is perhaps one of the most naturalised\, and hence problematic of strands which make our social identities. When intersected with class\, caste\, or sexual orientation\, gender can provide us with immense social and cultural capital\, or conversely\, become the reason that such positions are denied to us\, violently\, deliberately. In Amrita Mahale’s novel\, Milk Teeth (2018)\, we witness Kartik Kinni\, a privileged\, upper caste male lead a shameful\, double life as closeted homosexual frequenting railway toilets to have sex. The Pink Chaddi Campaign\, a nonviolent protest campaign launched in 2009\, by the Consortium of Pub-going\, Loose and Forward Women\, entailed women from all over India sending pink underwear (chaddis) to offices of an ultra-conservative\, right-wing group which had\, on and around Valentine’s Day\, resorted to moral policing and violence against pub-going couples (especially women). In the Bollywood film\, Chandigarh Kare Aashqui (2021)\, we see how the heroine’s revelation that she is a post-op transwoman causes anxieties in her alpha-male\, gym-trainer lover\, and reveals him to be homophobic. Gender also serves as the naturalized pathway to normalcy\, a position of dominance\, or a source of existential angst and never-ending struggles for recognition – depending on where in the myriad\, multi-layered hierarchies we find ourselves.      \nFor our December Issue\, we solicit submissions across categories\, which interrogate what gender means to us; how it intersects with class\, caste\, and sexuality to influence our lived realities; how different forms of kinship relations emanate from and support different gender configurations and vice versa; how individuals – males\, females\, intersex – irrespective of their sexual orientation\, resist\, and consolidate their gendered selves; how the hegemony of heteronormativity structures modern cultural discourse\, as well as our own ideas of personhood\, and the ways we can and do resist this. \nFeel free to rummage through your memories\, parse popular culture\, reflect on contemporary socio-political developments\, and critique through your fiction\, poetry\, essays\, interviews\, and reviews\, those gendered structures which make the world around you\, which make you\, you\, and how these can be challenged\, subverted\, consolidated\, and written. \nWe look forward to your submissions. \nOur submission process has changed. We now accept submissions only through our website. Please familiarise yourself with the updated submission process and do NOT hesitate to ask for help at info@usawa.in or social@usawa.in \nDeadline: 20 September 2024 \nWe pay our contributors \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Guidelines \nUsawa Contributor Registration: Please fill the form for each submission. All submissions except visual narratives will be made through the form. \nSubmission Format: \nAll submissions apart from visual narratives are to be made through the form. Please follow the instructions attached to ensure that your submission reaches us. \nCompose your brief (~80 words) bio in the third person at the end of your submission. Please ensure to include your photograph and social media handles. \nPayment Policy: \nAs of December 2023\, Usawa has become a paying market. \nSubmission Limitations: \nYou may submit up to one entry for each genre during a given submission period. \nAlthough we prefer exclusive submissions\, we understand if you choose to make simultaneous submissions. In such cases\, please promptly notify us if another publication accepts your piece before our review. To withdraw your submission\, kindly contact the sectional editor and the Managing Editor by email. \nPlease be aware that any work published in Usawa cannot be reprinted in any other publication\, whether online or in print\, until six months after the initial publishing date. After this period\, we request that you send us a formal intimation and credit Usawa wherever the piece is republished by contacting our Managing Editor. \nSection Guidelines \nPoetry:  \nPlease submit 4-6 poems. \nUsawa will be publishing unpublished poems only. However\, poems that have been shared on the author’s social media are acceptable. \nIf you have previously published work that strongly resonates with our theme kindly share the same with our Poetry Editor\, Babitha Marina Justin\, at babitha@usawa.in stating why you would like the piece to be considered. The body of editors will review it collectively and take a decision accordingly. \nShort Fiction: \nSubmit short fiction of length between 2000-5000 words. \nWhile our primary focus is on literary fiction that explores the depth and complexity of the human experience\, we are also open to exceptional works of genre fiction that push boundaries and offer fresh perspectives. Bring us stories with emotional depth\, vivid characterization\, and inventive storytelling. \nOur Fiction Editor\, Kinshuk Gupta\, can be reached at kinshuk@usawa.in for queries. \nNonfiction:  \nSubmit nonfiction of length up to 5000 words. \nWe are looking for pieces that reflect honesty of the experience\, personal or from the point of witness. What are you subverting? Why? Send us well-crafted writings\, especially essays\, or even hybrid pieces\, in a way that we look at the world anew even though the facts remain the same. We’re most excited by not only reading about things little known or talked about\, but also by pieces that subvert and surprise. \nOur Nonfiction Editor\, Smita Sahay\, can be reached at smita@usawa.in for queries.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-usawa-literary-review-seeking-submissions-on-fa%ca%bbafafine-or-gender-its-discontents/
LOCATION:Usawa Literary Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - New Verse Review Seeking Submissions about Halloween
DESCRIPTION:Halloween Mini-issue: New Verse Review will run a poetry submission window from September 15-21 for a special Halloween-themed mini-issue. We are looking for gothic poems ranging from the horrifying to the hilarious\, from the uncanny to the atmospheric. We are also interested in other poems appropriate to the season and its holidays: autumn\, Hallowtide\, Dia De Los Meurtos. The issue will be dedicated to the memory of Fred Chappell\, a great poet of the weird and fantastic. \nGuidelines \n\nDuring the submission window\, submit up to five previously unpublished poems (no more than five total pages) as a .doc or .pdf attachment to submissions@newversereview.com. Include a brief third-person bio (no more than 75 words in length).\nSimultaneous submissions are welcome\, but please send a prompt follow-up email if a submitted poem is accepted elsewhere.\nFeel free to query after two months if you have not received a response.\nRights return to authors upon first publication in NVR\, though NVR does retain the right to reprint work across its media and platforms.\nNVR will consider translated poems\, as long as the original is in the public domain or the translator has secured\, or intends to secure\, permission to publish the translation from the original’s copyright holder. In your cover letter\, note who owns the copyright to the original and whether permission to publish the translation has been obtained.\nSubmitters are encouraged to sign up for a free or paid subscription to New Verse Review. Social media reposting is always welcome. In short\, please help spread the word!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-new-verse-review-seeking-submissions-about-halloween/
LOCATION:New Verse Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Myths\, Gods & Immortals Anthology Series Seeking Submissions about: Achilles
DESCRIPTION: Flame Tree are bringing you a brand new gorgeous hardcover series brimming with myths and short stories. \n  \nDiscover the mythology of humankind through its heroes\, characters\, gods and immortal figures. Myths\, Gods & Immortals brings together the new and the ancient\, familiar stories with a fresh and imaginative twist. Each book brings back to life a classic mythological or folkloric figure\, with completely new stories alongside the original tales. New and emerging writers from open submissions reveal hidden themes\, casting fresh perspectives on well-known stories\, alongside specially commissioned text on the origins and the cultural background of the mythology. The first four books in the series are Medusa\, Odin\, Circe and Anansi. We’re now opening up submissions for the next two books: Achilles and Morgana le Fay. \n  \n \n\nAchilles\nAchilles\, the great warrior of the Trojan War\, was considered the epitome of heroism in Greek mythology. His bravery in combat is famously depicted in Homer’s Iliad\, but every hero has their flaws. Authors from classical times all the way through to late Antiquity and the modern era have interpreted his character in a multitude of ways\, and this latest book will look at the man behind the myth. There is much to explore\, from his exploits in the war and interactions with Agamemnon\, Patroclus\, Hector and more\, back to his early days as an infant dipped into the River Styx\, exposing one vulnerable heel. Stories submitted for consideration need to explore new or expanded angles to the character: have him follow alternative paths\, present different viewpoints\, give deeper background\, or perhaps pursue story lines that are hinted at in the original tales and poetry. \nSubmissions to: Achilles@flametreepublishing.com \n  \nTerms:\n\nMultiple submissions are fine but must be in separate emails.\nSimultaneous submissions are fine but you must have the right to license your story in an anthology.\nFor accepted stories we pay Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) rates of 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories\, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints.\nWe will aim to read each story and confirm its status within 4 months of the submission deadline.\nPayment for the chosen stories will be made within 30 days of the final advertised publication date (see our website flametreepublishing.com for details)\, although some may be paid earlier than that.\nSubmission does not imply the right to publication. Each story will be read and assessed by the selection panel.\nLet us know in your submission email whether your story would be a reprint or is currently unpublished.\n\nImportant Notice about Submissions and Guidelines\nWe’re always looking for better ways of working so we’ve tweaked our submission process to allow us to read more stories\, and spend more time assessing the balance of our books. So follow these rules to avoid your story getting lost in our system! \n\nSubmissions must use the dedicated email address.\nThe subject line of the email must be the story title.\nThe file with the story must be attached to the email (.docx\, .doc or .rtf format).\nThe name of the file must match the name in the subject line.\nIf submitting more than one story\, please submit one story per email.\n\nOther useful tips for a more successful submission:\n\n\nThe file name of the submission must be the story name only.\nPlease just use spaces between words in the title (not _ or – ).\nIf the story name starts with A or The\, please use it at the beginning of the file name.\nIf you’d like to add some details about the story\, confirm if it’s new or a reprint\, or add a short bio of yourself\, please add to the body of the email not as an attachment.\nStory length is most likely to be successful at 3\,000-4\,000 words\, but we will still read stories slightly outside this range.\nIf submitting a story that has recently been submitted to us for consideration to another anthology\, please state this in the submission email.\nDeadline for submissions is 22nd September 2024.\n\nThank you\, and good luck!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-myths-gods-immortals-anthology-series-seeking-submissions-about-achilles/
LOCATION:Myths\, Gods & Immortals Anthology Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Palette Poetry Rising Poet Prize
DESCRIPTION:Palette Poetry invites innovative work from emerging poets for The 2024 Rising Poet Prize. This contest is open to poets who have not yet published a full-length collection at the time of submission. We look forward to celebrating new and exciting work\, so please send us your best poems. The first-place winning poet will be awarded $3\,000\, publication\, and an interview in Palette Poetry. The second-place and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200\, respectively\, as well as publication. The top ten finalists will be selected by Palette editors\, and Guest Judge Morgan Parker will choose the three winners from among the ten finalists. \nMorgan Parker is the author of five books\, most recently the essay collection\, You Get What You Pay For. Previous titles include Who Put This Song On?\, a young adult novel; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a Pushcart Prize\, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” She lives in Los Angeles with her dog\, Shirley. \nSubmission Guidelines: Please read carefully! \n\nFor this prize\, we are only accepting unpublished work from new and emerging poets: poets without a full-length collection published at the time of submission. Poets with no publication history are especially encouraged to submit. Poets with only chapbooks published are also eligible. Poets with self-published full-length collections\, however\, are ineligible.\nSubmissions are open internationally\, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is welcome\, as long as the poem is largely written in English.\nDO NOT INCLUDE your name or identifying information in the document OR submission title box.\nWe are only accepting unpublished work. If your poem has been published elsewhere\, even on a blog or on social media\, it is not eligible.\nWe accept simultaneous submissions—just please send us a note if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.\nYour submission must be no more than three poems and under ten pages. Please submit all your poems in ONE document. Please begin each poem on a new page and include each poem’s individual title.\nWe do accept multiple submissions (of one to three poems apiece)\, but each submission will include the $20 reading fee.\nPlease include a brief cover letter in the cover letter box with your publication history\, if any. This is where you can include your name and/or bio! If you select the editorial feedback option\, this cover letter is also where you can name which poem you’d like feedback on. To safeguard our reading staff\, please include content warnings in the cover letter\, if applicable\, as well.\nReview our FAQ page for frequently asked questions.\nNOTE: If after submitting you notice an error in your submission\, please message us rather than withdrawing and resubmitting your submission. We can open it to editing once so you can correct the error.\nPalette Poetry does not accept AI-produced work.\nContest closes September 22\, 2024. Submitters will be notified of their submission status 8-12 weeks after the contest closing date.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-palette-poetry-rising-poet-prize/
LOCATION:Palette Poetry Rising Poet Prize
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2024
DESCRIPTION:judged by jane yeh & glyn maxwell \n\nfirst prize £2\,000\nsecond prize £1\,000\nthird prize £500\nplus 20 commendeds\nplus — winners read with judges at 2024 online international prize-night celebration on mon 9 dec\n\n  \n\npoems on any subject (see below)\nsubmit via email by mon 23 sep 2024\nresults announced mon 9 dec 2024\n\nrules\n\nPoems: Poems may be submitted from any country\, may be on any theme\, & must be in English\, must each be no longer than 45 lines\, must show title & poem only\, must not show poet’s name\, must be the original work of the entrant (no translations) & must not have been previously published; no text alterations accepted after submission; no limit on number of poems or number of subsequent submissions.\n\n\nSubmission: Email only\, no postal entries: email your poems as attachments (.doc\, .docx\, .pdf\, .rtf only) to poems@coffeehousepoetry.org; include in email: Poet’s Name & Address\, Phone Number\, List of Titles\, Number of Poems\, Total Fees\, & PayPal Receipt Number.\n\n\nFees: £6/€7/$8 per poem (Sterling/Euro/US-Dollars only); pay online (see below\, PayPal account not required).\n\n\nTimeline: Submit by midnight (your local time) on Mon 23 Sep 2024; prize-winners will be contacted in week commencing Mon 2 Dec 2024.\n\n\nAcknowledgement/Results: Submissions acknowledged within 14 days of receipt; results posted on website after Mon 9 Dec 2024; judges’ decision is final; no correspondence entered into.\n\n\nEmail Address: By including email address you agree to receiving emails regarding annual Troubadour International Poetry Prize.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-troubadour-international-poetry-prize-2024/
LOCATION:Troubadour International Poetry Prize
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:F - Raconteur Press Anthology Series Seeking Coffee Stories
DESCRIPTION:Coffee Stories Volume 2 \nBecause we KNOW how many of us drink the stuff—we’re going to need TWO volumes of this one. The perfect cuppa joe. The nectar of the gods. The safety liquid you hand your partner in the morning. We love the stuff\, and can’t get enough. But how did we FIND that flavorful bean? We invite our authors to visit our favorite coffee merchant\, King Harv’s Coffee\, and pick a variety from his amazing list. Then write a fantastical story about the detective work\, the journey\, the adventure of finding the oh-so-perfect plant. Don’t limit yourself to this planet! OR SF! Sword and Sorcery works too! \nFrom Dave at King Harv’s Coffee: It all began when we took over the dome at the old South Pole station for the use as a coffee greenhouse.  As you undoubtedly well know\, the coffee was banned from world trade to by that ridiculous Antarctic treaty\, and it became clear to us that coffee grown on alternate planets and celestial objects was the only thing that made economic sense. Shockingly this has never been reported on in the main stream media!\nContracts: 10/12/24\nPublication: 11/08/24 \nGuidelines for all our anthologies: \n5\,000 to 8\,000 words. Length and genre are negotiable\, as long as the story fits the concept\, and is entertaining. Any submission must be in Times New Roman (preferred\, but you can use Georgian or other readable font)\, 12PT\, double spaced\, with your name\, title of the story\, and your email on it. Name the file as [STORYTITLE]-[YOURLASTNAME]—[ANTHOLOGYTITLE]. Send it in a .docx format as an attachment—no links. \nRaconteur Press will hold the rights for one year after publication\, after one year the rights will revert to the author\, but we continue to pay you as long as the anthology is selling. Authors receive an equal percentage share of the proceeds from the anthology\, along with the Press\, our editors\, and administration. Yes\, you read that right. We don’t take 80% off the top and split the 20% left over between all the authors. We’re all in this together. This is why our anthologies are limited to ten stories. \nRaconteur Press uses Pubshare (pubshare.com) to distribute payments and handle tax forms for anthology authors\, so authors who contribute must have a free pubshare account. \nIMPORTANT: when you set up your Pubshare account you MUST choose the method by which you want to receive your royalties. There are currently two choices: PayPal at the beginning of each month\, or paper cheque each quarter. BE SURE that you have chosen a method of payment and input the required information. If you don’t Pubshare will hang on to your royalties until you choose and method of payment and input the required information. \nSubmit to: racpresssubmissions[at]gmail.com
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-raconteur-press-anthology-series-seeking-coffee-stories/
LOCATION:Raconteur Press Anthology Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to The Woolf. Theme: Animal
DESCRIPTION:Love\, fight\, fear\, hunt\, tame or release it into the wild – Animal is the prompt for Issue 7. Send us your most excellent (<2500 words)\, but please\, no cruelty to animals…and\, come to think of it\, no wolves. \nSubmission Guidelines \n\nWe only accept original\, unpublished work. If your work has already appeared in The Woolf\, please wait two issues before submitting again.\nOnly work sent through the official submission platform will be considered.\nNo name or identifying information should appear on the piece you’re submitting (we review the work blind).\nSimultaneous submissions are encouraged\, but please withdraw your work pronto if it has been accepted elsewhere (and if so\, congrats!).\nSubmissions are and will remain free. While submitting\, you’re welcome to toss something into our tip jar to help us offset expenses – it’s always appreciated.\nWhile we can’t pay contributors at this time\, we promise to promote your pieces once the issue goes live and nominate the best work for international awards where we can. (In fact\, this micro from Issue 1 was selected for the Best Microfiction 2022 anthology.)\nDespite our name\, any reference to wolves or Virginia Woolf could raise our hackles – so proceed with caution.\nFinally\, please don’t send us work that makes us question our faith in this already fragile world – stuff that’s gratuitously sexual\, overly violent\, discriminatory\, vile or just kind of morally repugnant. And since we apparently have to spell this out: no animal cruelty.\n\nCreative nonfiction <2500 words\nShort fiction <2500 words\nFlash fiction <100 words\, up to 3 pieces in one document\nMicrofiction <100 words\, up to 3 pieces in one document\nProse poetry <300 words\n\n\n\n\nRights and terms  \n\nBy submitting your work\, you grant us first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. After first publication\, you retain ownership rights. If your work later appears elsewhere\, we’d love a credit for the first publication.\nSmall editorial adjustments to accepted submissions may be made in the name of clarity and flow. For more significant changes\, the author will be contacted. All other editorial decisions\, including art direction\, are the domain of The Woolf and final.\nWe reserve the right to remove contributions from the website without notice.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-the-woolf-theme-animal/
LOCATION:The Woolf
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - The Allingham 2024 Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions
DESCRIPTION:2024 POETRY AND FLASH FICTION COMPETITIONS\nThe Allingham Festival 2024 Flash Fiction and Poetry Competitions are now open! Entries will be accepted through Sunday\, September 29th. \nInternational entries are welcome! \nThe 2024 Allingham Festival will take place in Ballyshannon from November 6-10. Winning entries from past years are posted on the Allingham website – www.allinghamfestival.com \nThis year’s submission deadline is 29 September 2024 for both on-line and postal entries. \nFirst Prize in both Flash Fiction and Poetry is €300. Winners will be invited to read their winning entries at the Literary Lunch on Saturday 9 November. \nThe following rules are for the Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions for adult writers who will be 18 or older by Wednesday\, 6 November 2024. The rules\, entry forms and deadlines for Allingham Children’s Art and Writing Competitions are listed separately on this website. \nTerms and Conditions for Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions for adults:\n\n\nAll entries must be the original work of the entrant. Entrants must be 18 years old or older on or before 6 November 2024. \n\n\nAI-enhanced work is strongly discouraged. William Allingham spent a lifetime expressing himself in his own voice\, and you should\, too. \n\n\nEntries must not have been published elsewhere (online\, digital\, or in print) before 6 November 2024. Entries which are declared first-place winners in other writing competitions before 6 November 2024 will not be eligible. \n\n\nFirst-place winners of 2022 and 2023 Allingham Poetry or Flash Fiction competitions are not eligible to re-enter in 2024. \n\n\nMembers of the 2024 Allingham Festival Organising Committee and their immediate families are not eligible to enter the Poetry or Flash Fiction Competitions. \n\n\nAll entries must be written in English. \n\n\nEntries must be typed or printed using a standard font – see specifications below. Handwritten entries will not be considered. \n\n\nEntries can be submitted on-line or by post. The deadline for receipt of both postal and on-line entries is 23:59 on Sunday\, 29 September 2024. \n\n\nEach entrant may submit up to 5 poems\, maximum 40 lines per poem. \n\n\nEach entrant may submit up to 5 flash fiction pieces\, maximum 700 words each. \n\n\nJudges’ decisions are final. No correspondence will be entered into regarding the shortlist or the winners. Entries will not be returned. \n\nHOW TO ENTER\n\n\nSubmit online entries as doc\, docx\, or pdf files. Each entry – each poem or flash fiction piece – must be submitted as a separate file. Postal entries must be typed or printed on A4 pages. \n\n\nPage number format must include page number and total page count for each entry. Example: Page 1 of 3\, Page 2 of 3\, etc. \n\n\nFlash Fiction pieces must be submitted in 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font\, with 2 cm margins on A4 pages. Use 1.5 or double-spacing. Include title of entry and page number(s) on all pages. 700 words maximum. \n\n\nPoetry formatting\, including spacing\, is at the discretion of the author. Include title of each entry and page number(s) on all pages. 40 lines maximum. \n\n\nEntries must be accompanied by an application form. For online entries\, the entry form serves as an application form. For postal entries\, print an application form and include it with your entry or entries. \n\n\nInclude the title of your story or poem and its page number(s) on all pages\, but not your name or any other personal details. Personal information must appear only on the application form. \n\n\n\n\nENTRY FEES\nThe entry fee is €7 for each poem or flash fiction piece. \nPoetry and flash fiction competitions are separate\, and entries to the two competitions must be made separately. \nExample: if you wish to submit one piece of flash fiction and three poems\, fill out an entry form for the flash fiction and submit the entry along with the fee. Fill out a separate entry form for the three poems and send the form and the three poems along with the fee. \nPoems and flash fiction entries must be submitted in separate emails or in separate envelopes.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-the-allingham-2024-poetry-and-flash-fiction-competitions/
LOCATION:Allingham Festival 2024 Flash Fiction & Petry Competitions
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - The Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2024
DESCRIPTION:The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly\, as interestingly\, and as tenuously as you wish. \n1ST PRIZE: £400\n2ND PRIZE: £75\n3RD PRIZE: £25\nThe judge will also select up to 15 additional poems to be published alongside the prizewinners in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review. \nABOUT THE JUDGE\nAaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His latest collection\, American Divine\, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award\, came out in 2021. His work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, The Paris Review and POETRY. \nHe was also a contributor to Issue 5 of The Passionfruit Review. \nA NOTE FROM THE JUDGE\nLove\, love\, love—what better theme can there be? Love can expand outward into most anything and still be what it is. As Chaucer’s Madame Eglantine’s brooch pin says: Amor vincit omnia (Love conquers all). \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES\n\nThe entry fee (per submission of up to 3 poems) is £4.\nSubmissions are open to all poets writing in English.\nPoems must be previously unpublished.\nStrong language is fine. Abusive or discriminatory language is not.\nSimultaneous submissions are welcome – just let us know promptly via the submissions manager if you need to withdraw any of your poems.\nPoems up to 40 lines – including spaces – will be considered. We consider longer poems as general submissions!\nThe review process will be kept strictly anonymous. Do not include any identifying information in your attached documents. Poets whose work is known by or recognisable to the judge will be disqualified.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-passionfruit-poetry-prize-2024/
LOCATION:Passionfruit Poetry Prize
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:F - Call for Submissions to Pure Slush Music Folio Series. Theme: Absent Basoonist
DESCRIPTION:The Absent Bassoonist Music Folio 4\n\n\nThe Absent Bassoonist is the 4th in Pure Slush’s Music series. \nHere is the set-up for the anthology … \nThe Quonsettville Community Orchestra is set to open the newly-rebuilt LaChute Cultural Center with a sparkling concert. \nThe concert on Saturday 18th June 2023\, will include the first public performance in 68 years of Dudley Donegal O’Day’s magnificent (and very underrated) Triple Bassoon Concerto (transcribed for two bassoons). \nBut on the night of the concert\, First Bassoonist Solomon Schweitzer never arrives. \nWhy? \nWe want to know what Solomon is doing instead of showing up to perform. \nWhat do you believe happened to Solomon? \nTo set the scene for the anthology\, click here for the story An Empty Chair. \nFor some simple facts about Solomon (so we’re all on the same page)\, click here. \nFor a map of Quonsettville\, where the action in The Absent Bassoonist is set\, click here. \nYour The Absent Bassoonist submission must be: \n\noriginal\, so previously unpublished online or in print (so that includes authors’ websites and blogs)\n150 word minimum limit for stories / maximum 1000 words. (That’s for each story: maximum number of stories you can submit is 3.)\nnot poetry (we are not seeking poetry)\nmust include mention of Solomon Schweitzer\, his whereabouts\, and his reason/s for not showing up to the concert.\nPLEASE NOTE: Solomon is not dead. Nor does he show up to play at the end of the concert. Nor does Bethany Thackeray know where he is nor was she involved in his non-appearance. Solomon and Bethany are not secret lovers or conspirators\, and she is genuine in her claim she does not know why he has not arrived for the performance\, nor does she know where he might be.\n\nPlease include the word BASSOON\, plus your name and the title of your submission\, and the word count. (Please note: word counts do not include titles or your name.) \nYou must be minimum 18 years of age to submit.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-call-for-submssions-to-pure-slush-music-folio-series-theme-absent-basoonist/
LOCATION:Pure Slush Music Folio Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PN - Chicken Soup for the Soul Series Seeking Cat Stories
DESCRIPTION:Cat Stories \nThe deadline for submissions is SEPTEMBER 30\, 2024. \nWe are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our cat topic book that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic\, we do a new cat book approximately every eighteen months so here is another chance for you to share a story or two about the member of your family who just happens to walk on four feet! \nCats have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten our days and enrich our lives. What would we do without them? They are also wonderful and amazing teachers. The lessons we learn from our feline friends come in all shapes and sizes\, just like they do. Tell us the new thing your feline friend has taught you. How smart she is or how she outsmarted you! How he made you smile. How she “rescued” you after you “rescued” her. How he brought your family closer together\, helped you find love\, inspired you to change something in your human life. How she rules the roost! Stories can be serious or humorous\, or both. We can’t wait to read all the heartwarming\, inspirational\, and hysterical stories you have about your cats. \n***Please note: If you submitted a story or poem for a previous cat book and we DID NOT publish it\, here is your chance to submit it to us again. If you submitted a story and we DID publish it in a previous cat book\, please do not submit it. We will not publish it again. \nHere are a few ideas but we know you will come up with more on your own: \n– How does your cat improve your life?\n– How does your cat warm your heart and make you smile?\n– How did your cat show kindness to a human or another animal?\n– How did your cat teach you to put things in perspective and not take yourself so seriously?\n– How did your cat teach you to forgive and move on?\n– How did your cat teach you to live in the present\, and BE present?\n– The crazy things your cat does\n– The crazy things you do for your cat\n– Has your cat demonstrated a surprising degree of empathy or comprehension of a situation?\n– How did your cat teach you about kindness?\n– Does your cat act a certain way with one family member and a different way with another?\n– Did your cat get lost and\, by some unexplainable miracle\, return home?\n– Has your cat ever done something extremely embarrassing?\n– How did your cat teach you about humor?\n– Did you train him\, or did he train you?\n– Who rescued who?\n– Learning about loyalty and unconditional love\n– My cat seems almost human and can understand the things I’m saying or feeling\n– Does she talk back to you?\n– How my cat picked me\n– How my therapy cat has made a difference\n– How my cat changed my family\n– Your work at a shelter or rescue organization and have great stories from there \nRecipe for a Winning Chicken Soup for the Soul Submission\nA Chicken Soup for the Soul story is an inspirational\, true story about ordinary people having extraordinary experiences. It is a story that opens the heart and rekindles the spirit. It is a simple piece that touches our readers and helps them discover basic principles they can use in their own lives. These stories are personal and often filled with emotion and drama. They are filled with vivid images created by using the five senses. In some stories\, the readers feel that they are actually in the scene with the people. \nChicken Soup for the Soul stories are written in the first person and have a beginning\, middle and an end. The stories often close with a punch\, creating emotion\, rather than simply talking about it. Chicken Soup for the Soul stories have heart\, but also something extra—an element that makes us all feel more hopeful\, more connected\, more thankful\, more passionate and better about life in general. A good story causes tears\, laughter\, goose bumps or any combination of these. \nThe most powerful stories are about people extending themselves\, or performing an act of love\, service or courage for another person. \nGuidelines for a Chicken Soup for the Soul story\n\nTell an exciting\, heartwarming or funny story about something that has happened to you or someone you know. Your story should be written in the first person and should be about yourself or someone close to you.\nTell your story in a way that will make the reader cry\, laugh\, get goose bumps or say “Wow!”\nThe story should start “in the action” and draw in the reader. Do not start your story with an introduction about what you are going to say\, or end with a concluding paragraph about what you just said.\nDon’t be afraid to speak from the heart. Many people tell personal stories for the first time in our books\, and they find it to be a cathartic and productive experience. We do let you use a pen name for your story if you do not want to use your real name.\nDon’t try fancy moves with tenses. Writing in the present tense about something that happened in the past rarely works.\nKeep your story to 1200 words or less. Tighten\, tighten\, tighten!\nYour story must be true. No fiction\, no creative writing.\n\nWhat a Chicken Soup for the Soul story IS NOT:\n\nA sermon\, an essay or eulogy.\nAn “as told to” story written by you for someone else. If you ghost-write a story for someone\, we thank you for helping that person share his or her story. That person’s name will be listed as the author and he or she can acknowledge your help in the bio section.\nA term paper\, thesis\, letter or journal entry.\nAbout politics or controversial issues.\nA biography or testimonial.\nA journalistic article about a third party that reads like a newspaper article.\n\nGuidelines for a Chicken Soup for the Soul poem\n\nWe love poems that tell a story. A Chicken Soup for the Soul poem does the same job as a story. The reader goes away having learned your story\, just through poetry instead of prose.\nWe do not publish poems that do not tell a story.\nWe also do not publish poems that seem overly focused on rhyming and read more like greeting cards.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-chicken-soup-for-the-soul-series-seeking-cat-stories-2/
LOCATION:Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to F(r)iction. Theme: Censored
DESCRIPTION:For this issue\, F(r)iction seeks to uncover the redacted with Censored! Let’s investigate the burning of books\, witches\, and bridges as we delve into all things sanitized. What are the secrets a family withholds about their past? What histories do we bury\, whitewash\, or blackout? What voices are lost to time\, imprisoned\, and expunged? Bring us stories\, poetry and creative nonfiction that wants to hide truths\, or protect others from them. Join us as we contemplate blacklists\, consider authoritarianism\, and debate the trade off between freedom and safety. Imagine an microchip in a person’s brain that keeps them from talking about certain things… and how it might go wrong. Ponder a dress code that erases identity completely. Or maybe the part of yourself you obscure to fit in. Question a person scouring their socials to delete their younger self for a job. Send us your writing that interrogates obfuscation\, from without\, and within. \nForm: \n\nShort stories: 1\,001 – 7\,500 words\nCreative nonfiction: up to 6\,500 words\nFlash fiction: (up to three pieces in the same document) up to 1\,000 words per piece\nPoetry: (up to five poems in the same document) up the three pages per poem\n\nOur Submission Guidelines \nWe accept work\, written in English\, from anywhere in the world—regardless of genre\, style\, or origin—and welcome speculative writing and experimental literature. \nWe read all submissions anonymously. Please include your name and contact information in your cover letter only and remove any identifying information from both the submitted manuscript and the file name as well. \nWe accept\, and encourage\, simultaneous submissions and only ask that you withdraw your piece(s) using Submittable upon acceptance elsewhere. \nThere is a small reading fee for general F(r)iction submissions ($2.50)\, but authors accepted will be awarded payment for their work. Our staff is almost entirely comprised of volunteers\, so this fee goes toward paying all the contributors who are printed in our beautiful pages. F(r)iction pays contributors $10 per final printed page\, plus two contributor copies. \nWe edit every piece accepted for publication; for this collaborative process we will pair you with one of our Senior Editors. All our editors have been trained to help guide the development of each piece to reach its fullest potential in keeping with the author’s vision. This does not mean we will take on a wild jumble of words and half-formed musings. But it does mean that we value your work and want to help each piece to be as unforgettable as possible. \nWe respond to every submission as quickly as possible\, usually within one or two months. \nOther notes:\n● All genres are welcome\, but especially those that celebrate the weird\, take risks with form and content\, and are driven by a strong\, unique voice.\n● All work must be previously unpublished. This means if your work has appeared in any print or online source (this includes personal blogs\, websites\, and social media pages)\, we cannot accept it.\n● No AI submissions: We currently do not accept work from artificial intelligence (“AI”) generators or similar.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-friction-theme-censored/
LOCATION:F(r)iction
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:5765-1727683200-1727715600@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN - Didcot Writers Writing Competition. Theme: Contronyms
DESCRIPTION:Our current theme is: contronyms\nA contronym is a word that can mean two things\, which are opposites. We can dust a cake to add something to the surface\, or we can dust a shelf and remove something. Something can be held fast\, meaning it cannot move\, or it can be moving fast. A sanction can mean permission for something or punishment for something. See what contronyms you can come up with (feel free to google) and see what direction it takes your creative writing. \nDeadline for submissions: 30th September 2024 \nSubmission guidelines:\n\nSubmit your entry via the google form linked under ‘How to Submit’ below. Please note the entry fee for those who are not participants at our free online events.\nRespond to the theme/challenge/prompt. If you’ve got the perfect piece of work but it doesn’t fit the current challenge\, get in touch to suggest a theme for next time!\nThere is no lower word limit. The upper word limit (not including title) is 500 words.\nThere are no strict formatting requirements\, but nothing too weird please.\nPlease title your document with your entry title\, and also put the title at the top of the work. Do not include your name in the document as entries will be read anonymously. Full credit will be given to the author if the work is published.\nNo really bad swear words or explicit content\, please.\nSubmissions are welcomed from around the world\, but must be in English.\nWe don’t mind simultaneous submissions\, or if your entry has been published elsewhere in the past\, but please make sure your work is copyright cleared for it to be published online if chosen. (For example\, if you need to include the line ‘first published in…’ to comply with a former publisher’s terms\, let us know.)\nIf your work is selected as winner or ‘Reader’s Choice’ it will be published on our website. We reserve the right to make minor edits. We would like to leave your work on our site indefinitely\, but if you would like it removed after a minimum of 12 months online please get in touch.\nThere will be no monetary payments to authors for work accepted as this is a non-profit competition run by volunteers; there is a possibility your work may be included in a printed/ebook anthology in future – we will get in touch if we want to include your work.\nWe will keep your data in accordance with GDPR\, and use your email address only to contact you to announce the competition winners and let you know of new competition opportunities (maximum one email a month after the announcement of winners). You can unsubscribe at any time\, just email didcotwriters@gmail.com.\n\nHow to submit:\nIf you have not attended one of our events (online or otherwise) in the last 12 months you will need to pay a fee of £4 per entry. If you are unable to pay this fee\, all you have to do to receive a free entry is attend one of our events (there are lots of free events and many are online – see bit.ly/didcotwriters-calendar for dates\, and email didcotwriters@gmail.com for the links). \nPay the competition entry fee via PayPal here or via SumUp here (it’s the same price to you in both places\, but SumUp take less commission\, so we like them better). \nFor multiple entries: even for event participants only your first entry is free\, no matter how many events you have attended. So for second and subsequent entries to the same competition please pay the £4 fee using the link above. If you want to pay for multiple entries to the same competition you can do it as one transaction. \nSubmit your entry via the google form here (you will need to sign in). \nPlease make your document title the same as the title of your entry\, and include your title in your document (it’s not counted in the word count). All this saves us a headache later.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-didcot-writers-writing-competition-theme-contronyms/
LOCATION:Didcot Writers Writing Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - F(r)iction Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Fame
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Red Carpet for a notable (and maybe notorious) issue of F(r)iction! The Fame issue will explore all the fabulous\, fascinating\, and sometimes Faustian facets of rising in reputation and renown. Let’s questions the costs of social media stardom\, relish the heights of heroism\, and contemplate the most infamous of individuals and events. Fame might take the shape of a recognized discovery in science\, or in a string of high-profile crimes. It might be a potion that brings glory into a person’s life\, or a pursuit that ultimately brings their downfall. It might even be the short-lived legacy of a high school embarrassment\, or a testament to peaking during youth. Maybe an AI gains an audience and begins to question itself? Or a person’s worst moment is captured on video and broadcast to the world? We’re seeking your short stories\, poetry\, flash fiction\, and CNF that ponders the impacts of celebrity\, whether practical or fantastical. \nForm: \n\nShort stories: 1\,001 – 7\,500 words\nCreative nonfiction: up to 6\,500 words\nFlash fiction: (up to three pieces in the same document) up to 1\,000 words per piece\nPoetry: (up to five poems in the same document) up the three pages per poem\n\nWhat We Look For in Submissions \nOur editors have drafted up this fantastic page on our website to share what we look for in our submissions. We strongly recommend you read this and check out the examples before submitting to get an idea of our general publishing aesthetic. \nWe also highly recommend checking out a past issue of F(r)iction. We have several pieces available online\, but there’s nothing like holding a glossy\, full-color issue in your hands. You can check out all of our issues in our shop. \nOur Submission Guidelines \nWe accept work\, written in English\, from anywhere in the world—regardless of genre\, style\, or origin—and welcome speculative writing and experimental literature. \nWe read all submissions anonymously. Please include your name and contact information in your cover letter only and remove any identifying information from both the submitted manuscript and the file name as well. \nWe accept\, and encourage\, simultaneous submissions and only ask that you withdraw your piece(s) using Submittable upon acceptance elsewhere. \nThere is a small reading fee for general F(r)iction submissions ($2.50)\, but authors accepted will be awarded payment for their work. Our staff is almost entirely comprised of volunteers\, so this fee goes toward paying all the contributors who are printed in our beautiful pages. F(r)iction pays contributors $10 per final printed page\, plus two contributor copies. \nWe edit every piece accepted for publication; for this collaborative process we will pair you with one of our Senior Editors. All our editors have been trained to help guide the development of each piece to reach its fullest potential in keeping with the author’s vision. This does not mean we will take on a wild jumble of words and half-formed musings. But it does mean that we value your work and want to help each piece to be as unforgettable as possible. \nWe respond to every submission as quickly as possible\, usually within one or two months.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-friction-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-fame/
LOCATION:F(r)iction
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN  - Eastern Iowa Review Seeking Submissions on: Heaven/Sky
DESCRIPTION:Theme: Heaven/Sky \nWhat might you write about? How about …\nThe stars\, planets\, sun or moon.\nThe air we breathe.\nBarometric pressure.\nThe birds or flying insects\, lightning or clouds.\nSpiritual metaphor or how you see God (without getting “preachy”).\nThe universe & what may be beyond\, if anything. Is it endless or finite?\nThe color blue as it relates to the heavens.\nFlight.\nIs heaven real? (Tell us in a prose poem or lyric essay\, preferred.)\nSunrises or sunsets\, storms or hail or tornadoes\, hurricanes\, derechos\, etc.\nEMPs – will it happen? WHAT will happen?\nSolar flares? Will one end life on earth?\nOr a mix of several of the above\, allusions to these\, other literary devices where ideas about “heaven” or “sky” are involved.\nEtc.\, etc.\, etc.\nPlease use your boundless\, limitless\, imagination and give us a beautiful or startling or eerie prose poem\, lyric essay\, piece of creative nonfiction\, or short work of fiction (any genre) having to do with the heaven(s) / sky. Lyrical pieces are highly sought after. \n___ \nNo reprints\, please. And we’d prefer if it was your own work rather than something generated by a computer program. You know how silly that looks for a writer\, right? \nResponse time will vary from 1 day to 6 or 8 weeks\, rarely longer. Please don’t check on a submission if you haven’t heard back from us\, until at least 2 months since you submitted it\, though we doubt very much if it’ll take that long. And yes\, we do read what is sent — but often early on we’ll determine that a work simply isn’t for us\, and hence the quick turnaround. Usually the longer we keep it\, the more likely we’re considering it\, but then occasionally we’ll decide to grab it immediately\, so length of time in-progress isn’t really an indication of anything. \nSend only one piece of writing in this genre in this reading period until you hear back from us.  Feel free to send one piece in each genre at the same time. \nWe will likely publish pieces staggered over 2 or 3 months\, but then we might publish them all at once. Who knows? Be patient. And it really doesn’t help to ask us “when will this be published\,” because often we just don’t know. Our schedules differ and we’re busy people too\, and we’d rather not have to deal with emails that ask questions we don’t know the answers to. \nPlease send! We can’t wait to read your beautiful themed work. \nNonfiction: up to 5000 words. \nProse poetry: any number of lines. \nFiction: up to 1000 words. \nPROSE POETRY: According to our definition\, it is in paragraph form only\, no line breaks\, no slashes\, no block text\, tight wording (like poetry but in prose form). We are seeking prose poetry that fits this definition.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-eastern-iowa-review-seeking-submission-on-heaven-sky/
LOCATION:Eastern Iowa Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Call for Submissions to Necessary Fiction. Theme: Hunger
DESCRIPTION:Send us unpublished fiction or flash fiction\, not reprints\, up to 3\,000 words. Simultaneous submissions are fine. Do not send multiple submissions. We request that submitters wait 1 month after receiving a response before submitting a new piece to help us avoid back-ups in the queue. Please double space your submission. Use an unobtrusive font so we can focus on your story and not how difficult it is to read. \nHere are 10 things we’ve noticed about our broad aesthetic tendencies over the years: \n\nWe’re often fans of the absurd\, the off-kilter\, and the darkly comic.\nWe tend to fall for beautiful language or an unexpected phrase.\nWe’re interested in how a story gets told.\nWe prefer stories that are stories\, not static moments or a character’s memories lacking broader context.\nWe’re open to reading the slyly speculative\, the strange\, the uncanny\, and the weird.\nWe love when stories take a risk.\nWe rarely find body part humor all that funny.\nWe publish fiction; please don’t send us poems. We aren’t qualified for those.\nWe find that stories dependent upon very particular pop culture references sail right over our heads.\nWe especially encourage marginalized and traditionally underrepresented writers to submit\, though your piece does not have to encompass those themes.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-call-for-submissions-to-necessary-fiction-theme-hunger/
LOCATION:Necessary Fiction
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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