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SUMMARY:F - Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. Theme: Saints and Sinners
DESCRIPTION:The winner will be selected from this year’s submissions of original\, unpublished short stories between 3\,000 and 7\,000 words with LGBT content on the broad theme of “Saints and Sinners.” This contest would not be possible without a generous grant from The John Burton Harter Foundation. \n\n\n\n\nOne grand prize of $500 and two second place prizes of $100 will be awarded. In addition\, the top stories will be published in an anthology. There will also be a book release party and reading held during the 22nd annual Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival in New Orleans in 2025. A list of the top finalists will be posted on our website and in our e-newsletter.\nEligibility: \n\nThe annual fiction contest is open to LGBTQ+ authors at all stages of their careers\, from all over the globe\, with stories in all genres.\nOnly previously unpublished stories will be accepted.\nStories that won this contest in previous years are ineligible; their authors remain eligible\, but must submit new work.\nStories submitted to this contest in previous years that were not finalists are eligible.\nStories that have won any other writing contests are ineligible.\nStories that do not adhere to the guidelines below will be disqualified. Please review our guidelines carefully.\n\n Guidelines: \n\nSubmissions should be in English\, standard manuscript format (double-spaced\, one inch margins\, 12 point Times or Times New Roman or similar font.)\nDo not double space between paragraphs. Use indent.\nPlease include a word count on first page under the title.\nYour name and contact information must NOT appear on the manuscript.\nNo bios or resumes. We only consider manuscript quality.\nWord Count: 3\,000 to 7\,000.\nSubmit only original\, unpublished short stories.\nPlease spell check and review your submission for typos.  Excessive typos may disqualify your submission.\n\nEntry fee: $20 per story. There is no limit on the number of stories each author may enter. \nDeadline:  October 1\, 2024 through Submittable.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-saints-and-sinners-short-fiction-contest-theme-saints-and-sinners/
LOCATION:Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Eye Contact: The Literary and Art Magazine of Seton Hill University Open Call for Submissions to Fall 2024 Issue! Theme: Innocence
DESCRIPTION:**Send one submission per email. Do not attach multiple files to your email or multiple submissions in one file.** \nSubject:  The subject headline of the email should say “Eye Contact Submission” followed by the category of your work (e.g.: “Eye Contact Submission: Poetry”). \nFile:  The file of the submission should be named what the title of the piece is. We do not accept untitled files. \nBody:  The body of the email should contain the following information in this order: \n\n\nTitle of Work* \n\n\nFull Name (no pseudonyms) \n\n\nCurrent Address \n\n\nEmail \n\n\nPhone Number \n\n\nOne Sentence biographical statement \n\n\n  \nAll submissions should be sent to: eyecontact@setonhill.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry\nYou may submit no more than 3 poems\, limited to two pages per poem. \nRepeat the title in the upper right corner of the second page. \nPlease send the file as a .rft\, .doc\, or .docx attachment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction\nYou may submit 2 stories\, limited to a maximum of 1500 words per piece. (Please note that pieces under 1000 words have a better chance of publication.) \nSubmissions must be typed and double-spaced. \nHave the title in the upper right corner of each page with page numbers. \nPlease send the file as a .rft\, .doc\, or .docx attachment.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-eye-contact-the-literary-and-art-magazine-of-seton-hill-university-open-call-for-submissions-to-fall-2024-issue-theme-of-innocence/
LOCATION:Eye Contact
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Zen Peacemakers Seeking Haiku Submissions. Theme: Moon
DESCRIPTION:November Haiku Submissions OPEN\n\n\n\n\nSubmit up to 3 haiku by October 25th \n\n\n\n\nTHEME: Moon\n\n\nHaiku Submission Guidelines\n\n\n\n\nHaiku poetry originated in Japan and was perfected by the great haiku masters: Matsuo Basho\, Yosa Buson\, Masaoka Shiki\, Kobayashi Issa and Chiyojo. Today haiku is an art form that is practiced internationally\, and in the spirit of promoting global peace and contemplative artistic expression\, Zen Peacemaker’s showcases three haiku a month on this page. \n\n\n\n\n\nHaiku sent must be based on the monthly theme. By submitting\, you acknowledge all work is original\, unpublished\, and not under consideration elsewhere (i.e.\, no simultaneous submissions please). We consider poems on the internet (e.g.\, Facebook\, Twitter\, Instagram\, blogs) to be previously published.\nBy sending their haiku\, authors agree to its publication on our website and social media.\nWe will consider both free form haiku and haiku written using the traditional syllable count of 5-7-5.\nDue to the volume of submissions\, we can only contact poets whose haiku will be showcased.\nHaiku submitted before the 25th of the month will be considered to be showcased the following month. Submissions are judged anonymously.\n\n“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine\, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so\, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself.” – Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-zen-peacemakers-seeking-haiku-submissions-theme-moon/
LOCATION:Zen Peacemakers
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Submisssions are Open to The Suburban Review on the Theme of: Disability
DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSIONS OPEN\nNote: Submissions for this issue don’t need to be ‘about’ disability at all\, but we are only accepting work from writers and artists with disability (self-declared).\nAs the disability pride movement blossoms online and IRL\, the fight for justice rages on against a backdrop of discrimination and government let-downs. Where does this leave disabled writers and artists? For our next issue\, DISABILITY\, The Suburban Review is looking for fiction that celebrates disruption and divergence\, comics that explode ableism\, and art that embodies the invisible. Send us your playful odes to community and interdependence\, and essays (or manifestos!) written out of\, or into\, disabled joy. \nWe allow simultaneous submissions. If it’s been accepted elsewhere please use Submittable to withdraw your submission. We only allow one submission per person (that means you need to choose if you want to submit fiction\, non-fiction\, or poetry). To submit poetry (that’s a maximum of 3 poems)\, make sure all the poems are in a single document. \nThe Suburban Review accepts previously unpublished work. We allow simultaneous submissions. If it’s been accepted elsewhere just let us know through Submittable or email us at submissions@theusburbanreview.com with “Withdrawing submission” as your subject line. We only allow one submission per person (that means you need to choose if you want to submit fiction\, non-fiction\, or poetry). To submit multiple poems (that’s a maximum of 3 poems)\, make sure they are in a single document. \nWe look forward to seeing your work! \nFICTION \n2000-2500 words—no more than that! (payment $275)\n1000-2000 words (payment $200) 500-1000 words (payment $150) \nCREATIVE NON-FICTION \n2000-2500 words—no more than that! (payment $275)\n1000-2000 words (payment $200)\n500-1000 words (payment $150) \nPOETRY \nSuite of three poems—no more than that! (payment $275)\nOne poem over 30 lines (payment $175)\nOne poem under 30 lines (payment $125)
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-submisssions-are-open-to-the-suburban-review-on-the-theme-of-disability/
LOCATION:The Suburban Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Rough Cut Press. Theme: Splinter
DESCRIPTION:WHO WE ARE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRough Cut Press publishes fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry. We release a monthly issue with works by emerging and established voices from within the LGBTQIA community. \nWe seek personal\, lyrical\, critical\, and experimental work in under 650 words. We don’t charge a submission fee\, and we offer each writer an honorarium. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSubmit Your Work\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe seek work of all genres by writers from the LGBTQIA community. We do not define or gatekeep what it means to be a queer writer: if you think your work belongs here\, then it belongs here. To get a sense of what we publish please read some of our former issues. We don’t know what we like until we see it. Each month we announce a different theme\, but don’t worry if the work you submit doesn’t quite fit: we often build issues and themes around work that takes us by surprise. \nSimultaneous submissions are encouraged; we ask that you notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. Written submissions are limited to 650 words. Please leave your name off of the submission itself and send one piece per submission\, in PDF format. We do not charge a submission fee or a subscription fee; we offer all published artists a $25 honorarium as compensation.* \nOur theme this month is Splinter. Please send your submission by 10/27/24. You will hear from us within sixty days of submission if your work is accepted for publication.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-rough-cut-press-theme-splinter/
LOCATION:Rough Cut Press
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241028T080000
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SUMMARY:P - Finding the Words Literary Festival Poetry Competition. Theme: Finding the Words
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the return of our biennial poetry competition\, which will be judged by the eminent novelist\, poet and Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst and acclaimed poet and playwright Inua Ellams. \nThe competition theme is Finding the Words\, representing the difficulty that any of us can face when trying to express our feelings. It covers grief\, life changes\, the end of a relationship or a new beginning. It could be about strength and resilience\, or about hope and vulnerability. The survivors of torture we support come to the UK as refugees and often struggle to find the words to explain their journey\, feelings and the trauma they experienced\, as they cope with language barriers in a new country. It can\, of course\, mean many different things to different people\, and your entry should represent what Finding the Words means to you. \nEntry costs just £5 but is free for anyone with lived experience as a refugee. Poems can be submitted from anywhere in the world\, of any style\, with a preferred length limit of 40 lines\, and must be the entrant’s original work. Entries must not have been published\, self-published\, broadcast or featured among the winners in any previous competition. \nAll funds raised will support our creative group projects for survivors of torture such as art\, music and writing groups\, including Write to Life\, the longest-running refugee writing group in Britain\, and the only one specifically for survivors of torture. \nDEADLINE\n5pm\, 28th October 2024 \n\nFirst Prize \n\n1-1 Mentoring session with Booker Prize winning author Alan Hollinghurst\nTwo VIP tickets to our London Library Event\nYour poem published in our quarterly newsletter The Survivor\, circulated to some 26\,000 supporters across the UK\, and on our website\nYour poem will be printed in the London Library event programme\, circulated to 150 esteemed guests including authors\, poets\, publishers and celebrities\nA year’s supply of Papier personalised notebooks and bundle of books\n\nRunners Up \n\nBook bundle\n All winners will have their poem featured on Freedom from Torture’s website with winners promoted on social media and promoted to press and media in the run up to the event10/28/2024) Finding the Words Literary Festival Poetry Competition: Finding the Words (P – fee-based)
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-finding-the-words-literary-festival-poetry-competition-theme-finding-the-words/
LOCATION:Finding the Words Literary Festival Poetry Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PN - Chicken Soup for the Soul Series Seeking: Dog Stories
DESCRIPTION:Dog Stories \nWe are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our dog topic that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic\, we do a new dog 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! \nDogs 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 canine friends come in all shapes and sizes\, just like they do. Tell us the new thing your canine 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. 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 dogs. \n***Please note: If you submitted a story or poem for a previous dog 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 dog 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 dog improve your life?\n– How does your dog warm your heart and make you smile?\n– How did your dog show kindness to a human or another animal?\n– How did your dog teach you to put things in perspective and not take yourself so seriously?\n– How did your dog teach you to forgive and move on?\n– How did your dog teach you to live in the present\, and BE present?\n– The crazy things your dog does\n– The crazy things you do for your dog\n– Has your dog demonstrated a surprising degree of empathy or comprehension of a situation?\n– How did your dog teach you about kindness?\n– Does your dog act a certain way with one family member and a different way with another?\n– Did your dog get lost and\, by some unexplainable miracle\, return home?\n– Has your dog ever done something extremely embarrassing?\n– How did your dog 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 dog seems almost human and can understand the things I’m saying or feeling\n– Does she talk back to you?\n– How my dog picked me\n– How my therapy dog has made a difference\n– How my dog 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-dog-stories-2/
LOCATION:Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Call for Submissions to Toad Shade Zine. Theme: Black and White
DESCRIPTION:The theme is Black and White. I’ve made a picture\, too. Apply it how you want. Do you have a character who doesn’t believe in nuance? Have all the colors been arrested and imprisoned? Make up a story\, apply your interpretation\, and send it in. \nThe winning story will get $50 again. Four more stories will be selected\, $20 each this time. \nAgain\, I know this isn’t a ton of money\, but I’m still not rich. \nSomeone just asked about poetry. Send in a poem if you like\, totally fine by me. \nLast time\, I had to force my co-workers to read the stories after they all said\, “Oh yeah\, that sounds like so much fun!” when I originally asked them if they wanted to judge the stories. It did turn out to be a lot of fun in the end. It was so much fun\, in fact\, that I’m getting a whole new batch of judges this time. Same setup as before\, maybe we’re not qualified\, but I’ve never let that stop me. The reading will be blind and fair. It didn’t matter last time\, but let’s cap the stories at 2\,000 words. No minimum. We’ll close early if we get 150 submissions\, but that seems unlikely. \nNo reprints\, please. Simultaneous submissions are ok\, and the zine will only be in print form\, so I don’t know if you count anything in it as ‘published’. Also\, I’m not asking for exclusive rights\, just the rights to include it in the zine. If you want to make my life a little easier\, remove your name from your submission ahead of time. The judging will be blind and if you can’t or won’t take your name off your submission\, I can do it. It’s not grounds for disqualification\, just an extra step. \nI don’t feel like anyone should have to say it\, but don’t send in anything written by\, or with the assistance of\, AI like ChatGPT\, Gemini\, or whatever else is out there. What’s the point? Wouldn’t it be a lot cooler if AI did your laundry anyway? Write your own story\, please.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-call-for-submissions-to-toad-shade-zine-theme-black-and-white/
LOCATION:Toad Shade Zine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Rowayat: A Literary Journal is Open for Submissions for Issue #10 on the Theme of Borders
DESCRIPTION:Issue 10 of Rowayat explores “borders” in all their forms: from the physical\, heavily guarded borders that divide the earth\, to the intangible but equally real psychological\, cultural\, and socio-economic borders that delineate our interior and exterior worlds. In our upcoming issue\, we delve into the lines that shape and limit the human experience\, challenging and redefining them through the lens of prose and verse.\nSubmit prose and poems that reflect your best-polished work. We’re looking for immediate\, fresh writing that reflects your deepest experiences of borders and how they affect your view of the world. We seek well-crafted poems\, prose and nonfiction that attempt to reappropriate the hardest borders\, be they cultural\, linguistic\, or bureaucratic in nature.\nWriters may submit poems or prose responding directly to the issue’s BORDERS theme as a whole. \nOur review process is semi-anonymous (our readers do not know the names of submitters\, and then they pass all submissions to the genre editors. You may submit to more than one genre (but only 1 submission per genre—thank you!). \nSubmission Categories :\nFiction (1500 – 10\,000 words) \nPoetry (three poems or two flash fiction) \nCNF/Nonfiction (All forms of essays\, memoirs\, travel literature\, author interviews\, and book reviews. 1500 – 3000 words) \n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-suburban-review-seeking-subissions-on-the-theme-of-disability/
LOCATION:Rowayat: A Literary Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Open Call for Moss Piglet Zine's December Issue. Theme: The Future
DESCRIPTION:The Krazines is accepting submissions  through Wednesday\, November 6th for its December 2024 issue with the theme\, The Future.  Send to info@krazines.com.  And read our Submissions Guidelines for image and text information.   \nThe future may be 100 years from now or five seconds after you read this sentence. You’re already living in the future\, if you see it from your perspective of ten or twenty years ago. What does the future mean to you? Express it in a story\, poem\, or essay. Share it with us as a submission for our year-end issue.\nSubmissions of Stories\, Essays & Poems\nPlease send text submissions in .doc\, .docx or PDF formats to info@krazines.com. \nAs our publication is digest-sized\, we prefer short poems and prose pieces.  Your stories and essays may go up to 1\,000 words\, but anything beyond that total won’t be considered. \nYou may provide multiple submissions\, but don’t go crazy. Someone has to read all of the stuff that comes across our desk. \nWe’re OK with simultaneous submissions and previously published work. Just cite the place where your writing has previously appeared. \nIf you have a fancy title like Poet Laureate\, Writer-In-Residence\, or you have been knighted by a King or Queen\, we’d be happy to include that information in our publication. \nYou retain all rights to your worK.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-open-call-for-moss-piglet-zines-december-issue-theme-the-future/
LOCATION:Moss Piglet Zine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize. Theme: Love\, Faith\, & Sex
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize — $2000 Awarded\n\n\n\nEnds on Thu\, Nov 7\, 2024 11:59 PM \n\n\n\nThe reading period for the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize runs from September 21 to November 7 (LC’s birth anniversary to death anniversary).\n$1000 will be awarded to a poem that explores the intersection of love\, faith & sex. Four finalists will each be awarded $250.\n\nABOUT THE PRIZE\nPoet\, novelist\, singer/songwriter\, artist\, music producer\, Buddhist monk\, Leonard Cohen has won countless hearts. \nI found his music six years ago and haven’t listened to much else since. Now every morning when I drop my daughter off to preschool\, she and I sing along to “Suzanne” on the way. Having spent countless hours with the Leonard Cohen Archive at the University of Toronto\, I’m in awe of the devotion he had for his craft\, blackening page after page. \nHis ability to blend the sacred and the profane\, the spiritual and the sensual remains unmatched. We are indebted to him for bridging the world of literature with the world of music. \nA couple of times in concerts\, he sang this two-liner: “no\, it wasn’t any good\, there’s no reason why you should remember me” while having given us a million reasons to remember him. \nWe hope this will push people who are aware of Cohen’s genius as a musician to turn to his poetry. It gives us deep honor to name this prize after the one and only Leonard Cohen and carry a part of his infinite legacy on our slim shoulders. \nAs Leonard would say\, forgive the poverty of these words for they do not reflect the abundance of our gratitude. \n— Karan Kapoor\, Editor-in-Chief\, ONLY POEMS \n  \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES\n\nSend us up to 3 pages of poetry. \nEach poem starts on a new page. \nIn the spirit of Leonard Cohen\, we ask that your poems deal in some way with the intersections of Love\, Faith\, & Sex. \nWe only accept previously uncurated work. \nWe love cover letters and would prefer knowing whose work we are reading. You are welcome to share your love for Leonard Cohen\, your publication history\, if any\, though that would not influence our decision. Please make sure that the document of your poems is stripped of any biographical information—use the cover letter field on Submittable for this. \nPlease withdraw your poems if they get accepted elsewhere. \nWe will respond to everyone by the end of this year. Winners will be announced and published in January. \nThere will be no deadline extensions. \nYour submission comes with an exclusive 33% discount off any of the annual ONLY POEMS membership tiers ($33-$82 value). \n\nPLEASE NOTE:\nThe Leonard Cohen Family Trust does not endorse this award\, ONLY POEMS\, or the prize winners. It is for their generosity we are allowed to name this prize after Leonard Cohen\, the Poet Laureate of the World.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-leonard-cohen-poetry-prize-theme-love-faith-sex/
LOCATION:Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Punk Noir Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Break-Up!
DESCRIPTION:November Submission Call\nBreak-Up!\nInterpret the theme any which way you choose\, all genres welcome. \nLots of things you can break … You want to make it painful\, have a go. You want to make it funny and slam the crockery\, sure\, go ahead. \nLooking for stories up to 1000 words. Reprints and simultaneous submissions accepted. Text in the body of the email or word document attached. Please include a short 3rd person bio. \nSubs will OPEN 1st November and CLOSE November 8. Send your subs to: punknoirmag@yahoo.com
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-punk-noir-magazine-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-break-up/
LOCATION:Punk Noir Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review Seeking Submissions about: Fall Feasts
DESCRIPTION:Submitting to Boudin\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER: Fall Feasts \nThis fall season\, Boudin is looking for your tastiest CNF\, poetry\, and hybrid work inspired by your favorite tales of friends\, family\, food\, and festivities. We want a delectable arrangement of food experiences: preparing turkeys and hams\, arguments with finicky family members over dinner\, eating at TV trays and in fast food parking lots\, snacking with friends you’re grateful for. Send us your most scrumptious\, foodie fiction\, CNF\, poetry\, and microfiction. \nEmail your work to boudin@mcneese.edu by November 10th\, 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). \n\nBoudin fine print \nNo material published in Boudin may be reprinted or reproduced\, in whole or in part\, without the permission of the authors. Writers retain all rights to their work. We ask for ourselves only that Boudin be credited with first publication. Unfortunately\, we are not a paying market; contributors to Boudin will receive our thanks and the promise that we’ll promote your work. \nWe encourage you to simultaneously submit your work while it’s under consideration at Boudin. If your submission is accepted by another publication\, please email boudin@mcneese.edu to withdraw your work. \nPlease only submit original work. If your work borrows from or quotes another writer\, please make explicit mention of this with your submission\, giving full attribution to any material you’re using from another source. \nPlease limit your submissions to four per calendar year. \nIn all genres\, we are particularly interested in seeing work from women\, people of color\, LGBTQ writers\, non-binary writers\, people with disabilities\, and other underrepresented groups. \nWe look forward to seeing your work! Surprise us. Spice it up!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-boudin-the-online-home-of-the-mcneese-review-seeking-submissions-about-fall-feasts/
LOCATION:Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PN -Tiny Spoon: a bite-size experimental literary magazine Seeking Submissions about: Superstition/Divination
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are now open for Issue 13: Superstition / Divination until November 30!\n\nHere we are – Issue 13. For this\, we chose a theme that embraces all that the number thirteen can mean. Specifically\, we call upon Superstition / Divination as our official theme\, to conjure all the ways that 13 toys with our relation to reality as a number of numeric dualities. It appears as a luck charm or a cursed omen depending on context. \nWe avoid the number 13 on elevators\, we feel a chill on a Friday the 13th; something just a little ominous looms – the potential for a correlation. The superstition adhered to the number 13 follows us\, whether or not we fully believe in its unlucky aura\, is it worth it to chance it? But what if…? \nOr\, is 13 misunderstood? As it represents karma\, tests of life\, and spirituality… in grappling with the abstract\, we seek something tangible. \nDivination is about correlation; how wisdom arises from pairing and juxtaposition. We peer into relationality and conjure meaning. The cosmos aids in this understanding\, letting pieces fall into alignment\, be it chaotic or planned. What follows the laws of nature and what refuses to? How do we read logic from the randomness of the universe? How does it speak to us through relationality? \nMoreover\, how are the ways that Superstition / Divination lean into the space of seeking understanding through the unknown; what about correlation across seemingly unconnected events? We look unto the expanse of divination\, the ancient divinatory spirit of our ancestors that pulled upon common chords of humanity and shared superstition journeys through time that reveled in communal beliefs. We embrace the historical nature of superstitions and divination as a tool to support communities in need. \nFor Issue 13\, we want your Superstition / Divination. What ways do you hold onto beliefs that guide your actions? How do you divine meaning from the world? Are superstition / divination two elements of the same essence? \nShow us your process\, your revelations. Share a spread or write into the correlation of cards or objects. Write into faith and belief that guides or binds you. We are here anticipating your revelations of the universe. How is it speaking to you? Scaring you? Lend us your divining wisdom. \n\nWhat We Look For:\nHere at Tiny Spoon\, we are especially interested in experimental work\, although not exclusively. If you’ve had trouble finding a home for your work because it doesn’t fit into generally recognized categories\, chances are your home is right here with us. \nWe seek work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring\, experimental\, innovative\, quirky\, thoughtful\, vulnerable\, electric\, eccentric. In other words\, your inner workings expanded and exposed\, raw and immediate; your fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Your voice is beautiful\, edgy\, infinite\, and unique\, and we want to raise it. \n\nPlease take a moment to review our guidelines before submitting. \nWe look forward to reading your work! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMIT\n\n\nPlease submit through our official form. Only those submitted here within the open call for submissions will be considered. \n\n\n\nGuidelines:\n\nFormat text: sent as .doc\, .docx\, .rtf\, or .pdf\nArt: .jpeg or .tif\nPlease label the file “Last Name_Title of Work”\nLength per piece: 1\,000 words max\nFont: 12 pt Garamond or a similar font\nUp to three pieces per submission. Any additional work after the first three will not be reviewed. Please refrain from inserting text submissions directly into the body of the email.\nPlease limit to one submission per issue.\nSimultaneous submissions allowed. Please let us know if it is published elsewhere.\nSubmissions are free!\nPlease provide a one sentence bio about yourself.\nCover letters are not required\, but you may send one if you’d like. We won’t show preference based on this.\nYou will maintain the rights to your work; if it is published elsewhere or in a collection\, we simply ask that you give us credit for first publication.\nSubmitted work will be considered for our print and/or online blog\, which allows us to accept more submissions since print space is limited.\n\n\n\n\nUpon submitting to Tiny Spoon\, we will add you to our monthly newsletter to be sure you are updated on all the latest information regarding submission calls and reading processes so you are always aware of the status of your work. Generally\, it takes us 3-6 months to read through our submissions. Please use the newsletter and social media to gauge where we might be in the process in lieu of individual emails–we will always let you know as soon as we have made our final decisions! \n\nContributor Compensation\nFor our contributors in the United States\, we send a complimentary copy of the issue in which they appear. \nIf outside of the US\, due to budgeting costs\, instead of a physical copy\, we provide a digital/printable version of the magazine.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-tiny-spoon-a-bite-size-experimental-literary-magazine-seeking-submissions-about-superstition-divination/
LOCATION:Tiny Spoon
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - The Winged Moon Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Hinterland
DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR HINTERLAND \nthe leaves bleed like paint on a canvas. lessened\, the light glowers over the distant hill. you furnish a language with loss\, break open words that fall in passionate embrace. ancestors whisper on your eyelashes across snowdrifts. you coil yourself into the wilt of yarrow\, the immensity of chasms. folk tales that dazzle with quiet\, spirit walks\, the sleeping land.  \nyou are invited to submit your work in the theme HINTERLAND. we are especially happy to receive writing about loss\, love\, sex\, nature and the liminal but with the singular imagery that the winged moon seeks to publish. \nSubmissions are open on 2 October until 13 November \nPLEASE read all of the guidelines and send us your work here .​​ \nWe publish: \nPoetry (around 30 lines is our limit) \nProse Poetry  (300 word limit) \nMicro Fiction (300 word limit) \nWe do not publish one line poetry\, haiku (unless in a haibun) or other poetry forms of that size. Nor do we publish any work that is disrespectful to any group. We are not especially favourable to work that references technology or the electronic world. Please read our last issue to have a feel for our writing and artistic preferences. \nBefore you send your work: \nPlease have a look on our website and subscribe to the magazine (you can for free) to read the previous issues and before submitting https://thewingedmoon.substack.com/ and to support The Winged Moon\, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. \nPlease only TWO written items per genre. \nArt submissions please send three maximum \nSimultaneous submissions are accepted and previously published work. Please let us know if it is.​ Also as we read all of the work after the deadline. So please bear that in mind before sending your work simultaneously. We will give a response within two weeks of the submission deadline.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-the-winged-moon-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-hinterland/
LOCATION:The Winged Moon
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Call for Submissions to Crab Creek Review. Theme: Embodied Lives
DESCRIPTION:For this fiction call “Embodied Lives\,”  we’re looking for stories of up to 3\,000 words that explore embodiment in all its complexity. How does the body—in its desire and strengths\, its fragilities and limits\, its autonomy and its subjugation to the larger systems of power that dominate our lives—shape who we are\, how we see ourselves and others\, and how we exist in relationship? How are mind and body in opposition to one another\, and how are they one? And what does it mean to be embodied when our bodies are—by choice or by force—rendered separate from our minds and wills and wants\, not fully our own?\nWe look forward to reading your authentic\, narratively engaging\, and well-crafted fiction on embodied life. \nGeneral Submissions \n\nThe reading period is open from September 15 through November 15\, or when our 300 Submittable Cap is hit.  The editors seek original\, unpublished poetry\, fiction and creative nonfiction via Submittable. Submissions are free\, and payment is in contributor copies. We look forward to reading your work\, and encourage early submissions. \nGeneral Submission Guidelines: \n\nOnly original\, previously unpublished work will be considered. This includes personal websites and social media.\nFor poetry\, send up to four poems. For fiction\, send stories of up to 3\,000 words. For creative nonfiction\, send essays of up to 1\,500 words.\nTitle your document with your name and the genre. (i.e.: GwendolynBrooks_Poetry; Adrienne Rich_Nonfiction.)\nInclude a cover letter in the provided space in the Submittable form (not in the document). Include your mailing address\, email and phone number\, a 50-word bio\, social handles\, and the titles of the pieces you are submitting.\nShould you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration\, please indicate this in your cover letter and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere.\nSend your work as a SINGLE attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF); docx preferred.\nPlease submit no more than one batch of poems or one prose piece per reading period.\nWe aim for a response time of 8 weeks\, but please do not query your submission status unless 4 months have passed.\nIf you need to update us on the status of your simultaneous submission\, please do so by adding a note to your submission\, in Submittable.​\n\nPoetry:\nSend up to four poems\, no more than eight pages total. We welcome your best work\, and have no restrictions on form or content\, except that we will not consider work that is defamatory\, discriminatory\, or that promotes hatred. 12pt standard font. One batch of submissions per reading period. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; please do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revisions concerns. \nCreative Nonfiction\nSend one piece up to 1\,500 words per submission period. We’re looking for well-crafted essays that exhibit depth and nuance\, a clear voice\, personal reflection\, and vivid scenes. Experimental\, lyric\, and non-traditional forms are encouraged. We do not publish literary criticism\, scholarly articles\, or reportage. Revisions may be made upon acceptance; do not withdraw and resubmit your work due to revision concerns.\n​\nThemed Fiction—Embodied Lives\n“Literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear\, and\, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed\, is null\, and negligible and non-existent.” (Virginia Woolf\, “On Being Ill”) \n“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body\, hour by hour\, and how do they cope inside of it.” (Miranda July\, It Chooses You) \nAs both Woolf and July suggest\, literature has long dismissed the body as little more than the vehicle for thought—a landscape the creative and critical self must cross (or maybe endure) in order to do the real work and to live the most meaningful life: a life of the mind. This relationship is a false binary\, though\, and progressively we understand (socially\, politically\, scientifically\, and even artistically) that mind and body are intricately in connection. \nFor this fiction call\, we’re looking for stories of up to 3\,000 words that explore embodiment in all its complexity. How does the body—in its desire and strengths\, its fragilities and limits\, its autonomy and its subjugation to the larger systems of power that dominate our lives—shape who we are\, how we see ourselves and others\, and how we exist in relationship? How are mind and body in opposition to one another\, and how are they one? And what does it mean to be embodied when our bodies are—by choice or by force—rendered separate from our minds and wills and wants\, not fully our own? \nWe look forward to reading your authentic\, narratively engaging\, and well-crafted fiction on embodied life.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-call-for-submissions-to-crab-creek-review-theme-embodied-lives/
LOCATION:Crab Creek Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Tales & Feathers Magazine: Submissions from creators who are BIPOC\, trans\, and/or disabled on the Theme: A Natural Desire
DESCRIPTION:Augur Magazine will be open exclusively to Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or those living on the land colonially known as Canada. \nTales & Feathers will be open internationally. \nWe especially encourage creators who are BIPOC\, trans\, and/or disabled to submit—don’t self-reject! \nThe themed call for Augur Magazine is for A NATURAL DESIRE. What does it mean to want and need? In this issue\, we’re looking for speculative stories and poems that explore: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaw connection\nLove and lust\nDesperately important platonic relationships\nCommunity in context\n\n\nEspecially when grounded in nature; flora; fauna; and other non-urban settings. Give us conflict and challenge; joy and celebration; and the spark of repair. Give us pieces that span genre from high fantasy to supernatural\, from myth to body horror\, from dreamy realism to deep scifi. \nWe are especially interested in pieces that explore desire from non-Western and Indigenous contexts\, or interrogate the ways in which Western relationships are often tied to colonialism and extraction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n— \nPlease query if you have not received a response by the end of January 2025. \nWant to know if you’re a fit? Snag a digital subscription or a single issue from our store! Want to know what’ll happen once you submit? Check out our article! \nWe do not accept AI-generated submissions. The actual text of your piece must be ideated and written by a human. Any piece found to be AI-written will result in a breach of contract\, should your piece be accepted. \nWHAT TO SEND TALES & FEATHERS\nCozy short fantasy stories\nTales and Feathers is a home for cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories. \nOur ideal submissions look like this: \n\nQuiet character-driven storytelling\nGentle moments\nRich fantastical worldbuilding\nEveryday moments\nStories that take place before or between or after the epic conflicts\nStories that offer warmth\, comfort\, and possibility\n\nWe welcome stories written in any fantasy genre or genres\, including stories that blur genre lines. We are especially interested in high fantasy\, fairy tales\, and myth. \nWe also welcome stories that have been translated into English and stories that engage with non-Western fantasy genre traditions. \nIf you think you match our tone\, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue\, free online\, or grabbing an issue\, to see what Augur has published before (especially 5.1\, their joy issue). \nWe accept multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks. \nOur submissions system\, Moksha\, should send you a verification email within 24 hours. If you do not receive one\, resubmit and send us an email letting us know what happened. \nText submissions should be formatted as follows: \n\nStandard manuscript format\n.doc\nWithout your name (for anonymous reading)\nPreferably\, in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font\n\nFinally: If you fit into our guidelines\, don’t self-reject! Submit\, submit\, submit! \n\n\nPLEASE DON’T SEND…\n\n\n\n\n\nPandemic stories\nGratuitously violent pieces\nHorror that uses neurodivergence or mental health as the horror element\nComedy that punches down\nStories that are “speculative” because a non-marginalized group suddenly experiences what it’s like to be a marginalized group (e.g. a man “has to live with sexism”\, a white woman is suddenly “treated like a woman of colour”)\nAnything that minimizes sexual trauma/any trauma as a plot device (eg. A woman is assaulted in order to motivate a man\, without dealing with her story or experience)\nCasual or blatant misogyny/bigotry/racism/etc.\nOtherwise insensitive pieces\nReprints\nStories longer than 5\,000 words for Augur Magazine\, or longer than 2500 words for Tales & Feathers Magazine\nPieces you’ve submitted before (unless they’ve undergone a significant rewrite)
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-tales-feathers-magazine-submissions-from-creators-who-are-bipoc-trans-and-or-disabled-on-the-theme-a-natural-desire/
LOCATION:Tales & Feathers Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Cagibi Journal. Theme: Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:We’re currently accepting poetry\, fiction\, nonfiction\, and translation submissions on the theme of Entanglement for Issue 24. In quantum physics\, entanglement is described as “a bizarre\, counterintuitive phenomenon” in which “two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space…a change induced in one will affect the other.” Entangled particles\, on the quantum level\, are not therefore separate but parts of a whole; to know one is to know the other. On a macro\, human level\, we can become similarly entangled\, caught in complex\, intense dynamics nearly impossible to escape. As a heightened form of attachment\, romantic or otherwise\, entanglement blurs the boundary between “where I end and you begin” (to borrow from Radiohead). \nFor Issue 24\, we want you to play with and explore the multifaceted nature of entanglement on the macro\, micro\, and yes\, quantum level. Show us your quagmires\, confusions\, and fated connections. Weave us tangled webs and puzzling paradoxes. Tie your characters into knots. We are here for it. \nGUIDELINES \n\nWe welcome works in translation. Also\, we welcome submissions from outside the United States.\nTO WITHDRAW\, IN WHOLE OR IN PART: For help on how to withdraw a partial of your submission\, or the whole submission\, see our Submission Guidelines page.\nSimultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you notify us immediately should your piece be accepted elsewhere.\nPreviously unpublished work only. Cagibi does not consider work that has previously appeared in print or online.\n\nSee below for additional Prose and Poetry guidelines. \nPROSE GUIDELINES \n\nIn fiction\, the editors welcome short stories\, flash fiction or short-shorts\, and lengthier stories. There is no word count limit; use your best judgment. For flash fiction\, up to 3 flash pieces under 1000 words each.\nIn nonfiction\, Cagibi is literary in focus\, which includes personal narrative essays; but to be clear\, we do not consider academic papers that are limited to a particular audience or that are footnoted/in-text referenced.\n\nPOETRY GUIDELINES \n\nYou may submit up to 3 poems at once\, depending on the length; use your best judgment.\nPlace your poems in one document.\nIf your poem is a book-length epic\, then you should think about excerpting.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-cagibi-journal-theme-entanglement/
LOCATION:Cagibi Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty. Theme: Short Takes: The Annual Letter
DESCRIPTION:Short Takes\nShort Takes are usually short prose pieces\, fiction or non-fiction (250-500 words)\, but can also be topical poetry. We’re especially interested in hearing about your experiences\, but you can include your thoughts\, dreams\, ideas and opinions. Humor and irony are always appreciated! \nPlease read and follow these instructions carefully. We regret that we cannot accept any submission that does not follow these guidelines. In particular\, make sure that the address on your email is correct.\n\nThe Annual Letter (Issue #73\, Winter 2024/2025)  \nWhat we are looking for: \nThis is the season when those Christmas/New Year letters start showing up. We’re sure you’ve had to read lots of bad ones: “Our life is perfect. Our family is doing so well [implied: better than yours].” \nYou can choose to write a good one for us. Or an honest one. Or one that is even worse than this example. But do make sure that yours is 500 words or less. \nPublication date: December 18\, 2024\nSubmissions accepted: November 13 to November 18\n(Please do not submit earlier or later than those dates.) \nEmail your letter to us in a Word document; be sure your name\, address\, and em \nEmail your letter to us in a Word document; be sure your name\, address\, and email address are in the Word document and that the subject line of the email is “Short Takes.” Address it to publisher@persimmontree.org. \nInclude a headshot and short bio (no more than 50 words) in the email. \nYou must be subscribed to submit; click here to subscribe. Submissions and subscriptions are free.
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LOCATION:Persimmon Tree
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Fiction Potluck Contest Seeking Submissions on the Theme: A Very Speculative Holiday
DESCRIPTION:A Very Speculative Holiday\nup to 6\,000 words \nHolidays abound across cultures and worlds—Christmas\, Hanukkah\, Kwanzaa\, and New Year’s on Earth; myriad celebrations in far-off planets or kingdoms waiting for discovery. Craft your short speculative story around a holiday that has meaning in whatever world you choose; in whichever speculative fiction genre you choose. Give us characters to care about\, settings and conflicts that leave the reader breathless\, strong voices\, and luscious prose that stops us in our tracks—tales that stick long after that all-important final line is read. \nPrizes!\nThis quarter is officially sponsored by Duotrope; the first place winner of this quarter’s challenge receives Duotrope service for free for two years (valued at $100)! \nGeneral Rules\n\n\nAll entries must be in English and original works of fiction.  \n\n\nThe competition runs on UTC time\, beginning and ending at midnight. \n\n\nYou must keep your entry private until after we post the top three winning stories. \n\n\nThe judges’ decisions are final. \n\n\nThe judges will contact everyone who includes the Title Information listed below.  \n\n\nThe judges cannot provide feedback for every piece submitted. \n\n\nWinning entries will be published as received. \n\n\nThe following are not accepted:​ \n\n\nSimultaneous submissions \n\n\nPreviously published works \n\n\nAI-generated content \n\n\nFanfiction\, erotica\, religious\, or political content \n\n\nPieces longer than the word count limit \n\n\nPieces submitted outside the competition month \n\n\nPieces submitted in .pdf or pasted into the body of the email \n\n\nPieces without the correct Title Information (below) will be rejected unread.  \n\n\n\nSubmissions\nOctober: up to 6\,000 words \nKeep formatting professional. You can find recommended settings on the submissions page. \nEntries must include this Title Information in this order at the top of the document body\, aligned left:  \nName or Pseudonym\, email \nEntry Title \nFiction Potluck \nWord Count  \nAccepted file types: .doc\, .docx\, .odt \nLive\, unlocked Google Docs or Microsoft Word links are accepted via email (submissions [at] writersworkout.net). We must be able to download your file. We will not request access and we are not responsible for locked docs. \n  \nThe selection team reads all entries that follow the submissions guidelines as explained below. Entries are read blind. The team chooses the finalists and contacts everyone.  \nFinalist author names and bios are posted on this page and announced in our monthly mailer.  \nThe guest judge reads the finalist pieces and chooses three winners. Each of the three winning pieces is published on our blog and linked through this page. Winning entries will be published as received.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-fiction-potluck-contest-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-a-very-speculative-holiday/
LOCATION:Fiction Potluck Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to WayWords Literary Journal. Issue #17 Theme: Kindness
DESCRIPTION:We want to see fresh\, inspiring pieces; give us chills\, fill us with awe. Show us all sides: your home is here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIssue 17: Kindness\nEditors’ tip: kindness comes in all shapes and sizes; show what happens when characters express kindness.  \n\n\nSubmissions \nSubmissions must be in English and include the required Title Information (below). \nLimits: \nup to 5\,000 words of fiction \ntwo poems up to 15 lines each \nPlease try to refrain from sending us abuse and suicide topics. \nFormatting: \nKeep formatting professional\, please: readable font\, empty lines for scene breaks\, empty margins\, etc. You can find recommended settings on the Submissions page. \nTitle Information\nPlease add the following to the top left of your document body (not in the header margin): \nName or Pseudonym\, email \nPiece Title  \nWayWords \nWord or Line Count \nIf your submission was previously published\, please credit your publisher below your word/line count. \nAccepted file types: .doc\, .docx\, .odt \nSubmissions accepted via email (submissions [at] writersworkout.net) OR Dropbox OR Duosuma. \nLive\, unlocked Google Docs or Microsoft Word links are accepted via email. \nWe must be able to download your file. We will not request access and we are not responsible for locked docs. \n\n\nThe Writer’s Workout will not review fanfiction\, religious\, political\, erotic\, or AI-generated content. \nRights\n​The Writer’s Workout requests one-time\, non-exclusive serial rights with worldwide distribution. \nWe accept simultaneous submissions\, previously published works\, and you retain the right to submit your work elsewhere after we publish it.  \nIf you need to withdraw\, please let us know. \nThis literary journal is published in digital and print. Contributors receive a digital contributor copy. The Writer’s Workout is a registered nonprofit organization run by volunteers.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-waywords-literary-journal-issue-17-theme-kindness/
LOCATION:WayWords Literary Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Coin-Operated Press Zines Seeking Submissions of Seasonal Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Submit to the Seasonal Poetry Zine!\n\n\nCoin-Operated Press invites your seasonal poetry submissions for our latest zine! \nWhich season will you choose: Spring\, Summer\, Autumn\, or Winter? We would love to see your poetry that captures your chosen season. This zine will be split into 4\, with each chapter featuring a different season. \nYou can make multiple submissions (please submit all of your work in the one form as the file upload can contain multiple submissions)\, but please only submit work that will fit on 1-2 A5 pages. If you have work that is longer/larger than this\, please send us an inquiry email\, as we are open to including longer formats. \nPlease fill in the form linked in the Current Callout tab. If your files are too large for the form\, please use www.wetransfer.com but please let us know in the form that you are sending files to us\, and be sure to label them with the name you used in your submission. \nThe submission form will ask you for the following details to be sent along with your work: \n\n\nThe name/credit you would like printed in the zine. \n\n\nYour pronouns. \n\n\nThe city and/or country that you live in. \n\n\nContact details that you would like printed in the zine. \n\n\nA short one-sentence bio. \n\n\nThe title of your work. \n\n\nA short description of your work and how it fits with the theme. \n\n\nIf you wish to remain anonymous\, please let us know in your submission form. Pseudonyms are also welcome.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-coin-operated-press-zines-seasonal-poetry/
LOCATION:Coin-Operated Press
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:FN - Oyster River Pages Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Aperture
DESCRIPTION:For this special issue\, we’re looking for works of short\, flash\, or micro-fiction and creative nonfiction on the theme of “aperture.” In photography\, the aperture is the space through which light enters the camera. In architecture\, apertures are commonly windows or doors: points of access or boundary between the interior and exterior spaces. An aperture can be a point of connection\, or control. It can be an opening\, a gap\, a portal\, or chasm. An aperture can be a wound. A point of entry\, or of no return. In fiction\, we’re looking for braided flash or micro snapshots\, surrealist\, realist\, magically realist\, speculative\, or even auto-fiction; fiction encountering the aperture of the void\, fiction exploring grief\, or borders\, or time travel\, or birth. Fiction examining the artist\, the photographer\, the painter. In creative nonfiction\, we’re looking for lyric essays as snapshots\, or memoirs as explorations of experience oriented around a single entry point. We’re looking for hybrid works\, works of ekphrasis\, essays\, and more. Wildly creative interpretations of the theme of “aperture” are welcome\, as are the explicitly literal – send us your discoveries\, musings\, glimpses\, and memories as stories. Please ensure work is submitted in a legible\, serif font (think Times New Roman or Garamond). We’re not too fussed about size or spacing. Please nothing longer than 3500 words. If sending flash\, please send no more than 3 pieces of up to 1000 words each\, and micros of no more than 10 pieces of 100 words each. Accepted authors can expect to engage in a brief editorial process – we hope you will submit with a willingness to discuss recommended changes with the aim of enhancing your work for publication. \nWe are especially eager to publish pieces that engage with the work of marginalized and decentered people—Black and Brown creators\, LGBTQ+ creators\, and creators of all levels of dis/ability\, and to that end\, we invite creators to self-identify in their submissions. \nPlease note that Oyster River Pages will not publish any work that has been created\, in part or in full\, or in collaboration with generative artificial intelligence. Should we find that work published on our site has been created with the support of generative artificial intelligence\, we reserve the right to remove such work from our site and rescind publication.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-oyster-river-pages-seeking-submssions-on-the-theme-aperture/
LOCATION:Oyster River Pages
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Free the Verse: Poetry Magazine Issue 12. Theme: Arc
DESCRIPTION:We are now accepting submissions for our Winter issue. While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Arc’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively. \nOur favourite poems are the unexpected kind. We love free verse poems that take familiar situations and turn them on their head\, using unusual metaphors and drawing parallels no one else would see. Poems with a sense of place and story are always welcome\, as are experimental pieces. You can read our latest issue\, Bodies\, to get a sense of the poetry we publish. \nThe deadline for this issue has been extended to November 25th\, 2024. Please read our general submission guidelines below before sending us your work: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease submit one poem per issue. If you wish to submit more\, our poetry competition (prize $100) allows unlimited entries. \n\n\n‘Arc’ is the title of the issue\, and therefore should not be the title of your poem. \n\n\nYour work must be original and unpublished\, either in print on online. We will accept work that has appeared on your personal website or equivalent. \n\n\nPlease include a brief third-person bio with your submission\, up to a maximum of 50 words. You are welcome to include details of previous publications\, but this will have no impact on whether your poems will be selected for our magazine. \n\n\nAt this time\, we only accept poems written in English. You are welcome to include words and phrases from other languages. \n\n\nIt is free to submit your work. At present we do not offer compensation to our authors. If your work is accepted for publication\, it will be published in our digital magazine. \n\n\nWe accept simultaneous submissions. If one of your poems is accepted for publication elsewhere\, please let us know immediately via our withdrawal form. \n\n\nYou must be over 18 years old to submit.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-free-the-verse-poetry-magazine-issue-12-theme-arc/
LOCATION:Free the Verse Poetry Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6167-1732953600-1732986000@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PN - Chicken Soup for the Soul Series Seeking: Cat Stories
DESCRIPTION:Cat Stories \nThe deadline for submissions is NOVEMBER 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-3/
LOCATION:Chicken Soup for the Soul Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6169-1732953600-1732986000@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:P - FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Dream
DESCRIPTION:Submissions of POETRY are open from November 1-30 for Issue 21: The DREAM Issue. As always\, we are open to broad interpretations of the theme. Here are some ideas (thank you dictionary.com): \nA succession of images\, thoughts\, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep; the sleeping state in which this occurs. \nAn involuntary vision occurring to a person when awake. \nA vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie. \nAn aspiration; goal; aim. \nA wild or vain fancy. \nSomething of an unreal beauty\, charm\, or excellence. \ndelusion fantasy idea image imagination nightmare fancy hallucination \nPLEASE READ OUR GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND SEND US YOUR ALL YOUR DREAMS. \n***Please read carefully as our submission process has changed!*** \nOur general guidelines are listed below.  \nOne note about guidelines: we’ve been in existence for 3 years and have never rejected someone solely on the fact that didn’t follow our guidelines perfectly. However\, as the volume of submissions increases – we need to ask you to thoroughly read the guidelines. \nSpecifically\, DO NOT PUT ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION in the file containing your poetry/art (name\, address\, etc.). We no longer have time to remove that information from your submission. Going forward\, any submission with identifying information in the file will be rejected without consideration. That would make us very sad – so PLEASE doublecheck. \n\nGeneral Submission Guidelines:  \nPlease note that at the core of both FERAL and Animal Heart press is love. Although we wish it didn’t need to be said\, we will not accept any work that is racist\, homophobic\, sexist\, or hate speech of any kind. We are committed to publishing a variety of new\, emerging\, and established voices. Further\, we are committed to inclusion and equity in publishing. We highly encourage submissions from underrepresented voices including\, but not limited to: women\, BIPOC\, LGBTQIA+\, and neurodivergent individuals. International submissions are welcome\, but we are only considering work in English at this time; no translations. \nAll submissions should be sent via email to: \nferalpoetryandart[AT]gmail[DOT]com \nPOETRY:\nFor poetry submissions\, please submit 1-4 poems and attach your submission in a single document (doc. docx. pdf.) Please do not put your name or any identifying information on the submitted file. We will consider all forms of poetry including erasure poetry and visual poetry.\n\n\nCover Letters: We’ve heard you loud and clear about how daunting many of you find writing cover letters\, so they are welcome but not required. At a minimum\, please provide your name and preferred pronouns.We are not currently accepting submissions of fiction\, CNF\, reviews\, videos\, etc. BUT if you think you have something you think we might like that falls outside these guidelines\, feel free to query. \nPlease submit only once in each category per submission period. Additional submissions will not be considered. We typically do not accept previously published poetry or art\, but if you have work that needs to be “rescued” just let us know the circumstances. Work that has been published on your personal social media pages or website is not considered previously published. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but PLEASE notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.\nIf your work is accepted\, we will request a bio at that time. We strive to respond to all submissions within 60 days (often sooner). Please do not query about your submission until 60 days have passed. \nThe entire staff of FERAL and Animal Heart Press work on a volunteer basis and receive no compensation\, therefore we are unable to pay you for your work at this time. If your work is accepted\, we request First North American serial rights as well as the right to archive your work on our website and in print\, and to use your work\, with credit given to you as the author\, for promotional purposes. Otherwise\, upon publication\, all rights revert back to the author under the condition that you will credit FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art as the original publisher should your work be reprinted. \nWe can’t wait to see the ways you surprise us.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-feral-a-journal-of-poetry-art-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-dream/
LOCATION:FERAL: A Journal of Poetry & Art
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:FN - Call for Short Story Submissions to Breaking Through the Penumbra Anthology. Theme: Rebirth\, Renewal and Reemergence
DESCRIPTION:Cicada Song Press is now open for submissions for our Spring 2025 Anthology: Breaking Through the Penumbra. Submissions are open September 1\, 2024 – November 30\, 2024. \nWe are soliciting flash fiction and short stories from 100 – 5\,000 words\, based on the theme: REBIRTH\, RE-EMERGENCE\, REAWAKENING (just like a Cicada).   We encourage all genres and creative non-fiction submissions.  We’re looking for engaging stories representing multiple viewpoints\, cultures and perspectives. We encourage stories from all fiction genres and creative non-fiction. \nPolish your story to your best ability\, but here at Cicada Song Press\, we want to help your words take flight.  If your piece is selected\, our editors will work with you to improve your piece to make it the best it can be. \nKeeping with our mission statement\, we encourage both unpublished and published writers from diverse backgrounds. \nThere is no entry fee for submissions\, and we do accept multiple submissions\, up to 3 per author. Your story may not have been previously curated in a magazine\, journal\, anthology\, etc. (but if you published it yourself on a webpage that is ok)\, and we do not accept AI generated stories. All story decisions will be made by the end of December\, 2024. \nSelected stories will be printed in our Breaking Through the Penumbra anthology\, expected in Spring 2025. Authors of selected stories will receive a free e-copy of the book\, along with the opportunity to purchase print copies at the publisher’s cost. We will also include one social media/website link printed alongside your story so your fans can find you. Story rights revert to the author immediately following publication. \nBe especially careful to include an accurate email address\, as this will be our sole means of contacting you. \nWe are not particularly choosy about manuscript format\, but a double spaced\, 12-point\, legible font is nice. If you’d like more guidance\, we suggest William Shunn’s guide to Proper Manuscript Format. We request .doc\, docx\, or .rtf format. \nIf you have more questions\, please contact us at submissions@cicadasongpress.com. Do NOT use this email for your submission\, only for questions. Submissions should be made using our form.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-call-for-short-story-submissions-to-breaking-through-the-penumbra-anthology-theme-rebirth-renewal-and-reemergence/
LOCATION:Breaking Through the Penumbra Anthology
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - The Dock Seeking Submissions on: Sounds of Desire
DESCRIPTION:For issue 76\, please note that we’ll have cap of 500 for poetry and fiction and 400 for nonfiction submissions. We’ll also have 100 free submissions for underrepresented writers in each genre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpring 2025 Web Issue: On Desire\nInspired by Oscar Wilde’s evocative words\, “In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants\, and the other is getting it\,” we invite you to delve into the complex layers of desire where the pursuit and attainment of what we yearn for create their own distinct trials and moments of reckoning. We seek work exploring the journey of desire—how we reach for what lies beyond our grasp and what it means when we finally attain it. How does desire shape our lives and identities? What sacrifices are made along the way\, and what new truths emerge when desire is fulfilled? We invite you to share stories\, poems\, and essays that explore these questions\, capturing the tension between longing and fulfillment and examining what it means to find what we seek truly. \nWe welcome submissions of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and hybrid forms that engage with the theme of desire in innovative and thought-provoking ways. Whether through explorations of unfulfilled longing\, stories of hard-won fulfillment\, or reflections on the complexities of wanting\, we invite you to examine the profound impact of desire on our lives. We encourage works that push the boundaries of form and perspective\, revealing how desire shapes and reshapes our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. \nWe highly encourage submissions from BIPOC\, queer\, and disabled writers and visual artists\, as well as collaborative works. Share your unique voice and perspective on what it means to reach\, to want\, and to find. \n\n\nPoems: Submit up to 6 pages of poems in one document. Each poem should be on a separate page. Please provide the title for each poem in the order they are being submitted on your cover letter. \n\n\nProse (fiction/nonfiction/essay): Submit up to 10 pages\, double-spaced\, in one document. If submitting more than one piece\, please provide the title for each one in the order they are submitted on your cover letter. \n\n\nTranslation – An English translation must be provided alongside the original piece. Both the original and its translation will be published. If collaborating with a translator\, please include their bio in the cover letter. \n\n\nHybrid: Submit following the guidelines for the genre it most closely resembles/is in conversation with. \n\n\nPlease include a brief bio (150 words max) with your submission\, including social media handles and your website. Please only submit to one call for submissions at a time.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-dock-seeking-submissions-on-sounds-of-desire/
LOCATION:The Dock
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PN - Tiny Spoon: a bite-size experimental literary magazine Seeking Submissions on: Superstition/Divination
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are now open for Issue 13: Superstition / Divination until November 30!\n\nHere we are – Issue 13. For this\, we chose a theme that embraces all that the number thirteen can mean. Specifically\, we call upon Superstition / Divination as our official theme\, to conjure all the ways that 13 toys with our relation to reality as a number of numeric dualities. It appears as a luck charm or a cursed omen depending on context. \nWe avoid the number 13 on elevators\, we feel a chill on a Friday the 13th; something just a little ominous looms – the potential for a correlation. The superstition adhered to the number 13 follows us\, whether or not we fully believe in its unlucky aura\, is it worth it to chance it? But what if…? \nOr\, is 13 misunderstood? As it represents karma\, tests of life\, and spirituality… in grappling with the abstract\, we seek something tangible. \nDivination is about correlation; how wisdom arises from pairing and juxtaposition. We peer into relationality and conjure meaning. The cosmos aids in this understanding\, letting pieces fall into alignment\, be it chaotic or planned. What follows the laws of nature and what refuses to? How do we read logic from the randomness of the universe? How does it speak to us through relationality? \nMoreover\, how are the ways that Superstition / Divination lean into the space of seeking understanding through the unknown; what about correlation across seemingly unconnected events? We look unto the expanse of divination\, the ancient divinatory spirit of our ancestors that pulled upon common chords of humanity and shared superstition journeys through time that reveled in communal beliefs. We embrace the historical nature of superstitions and divination as a tool to support communities in need. \nFor Issue 13\, we want your Superstition / Divination. What ways do you hold onto beliefs that guide your actions? How do you divine meaning from the world? Are superstition / divination two elements of the same essence? \nShow us your process\, your revelations. Share a spread or write into the correlation of cards or objects. Write into faith and belief that guides or binds you. We are here anticipating your revelations of the universe. How is it speaking to you? Scaring you? Lend us your divining wisdom. \n\nWhat We Look For:\nHere at Tiny Spoon\, we are especially interested in experimental work\, although not exclusively. If you’ve had trouble finding a home for your work because it doesn’t fit into generally recognized categories\, chances are your home is right here with us. \nWe seek work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring\, experimental\, innovative\, quirky\, thoughtful\, vulnerable\, electric\, eccentric. In other words\, your inner workings expanded and exposed\, raw and immediate; your fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Your voice is beautiful\, edgy\, infinite\, and unique\, and we want to raise it. \n\nPlease take a moment to review our guidelines before submitting. \nWe look forward to reading your work! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSUBMIT\n\n\nPlease submit through our official form. Only those submitted here within the open call for submissions will be considered. \n\n\n\nGuidelines:\n\nFormat text: sent as .doc\, .docx\, .rtf\, or .pdf\nArt: .jpeg or .tif\nPlease label the file “Last Name_Title of Work”\nLength per piece: 1\,000 words max\nFont: 12 pt Garamond or a similar font\nUp to three pieces per submission. Any additional work after the first three will not be reviewed. Please refrain from inserting text submissions directly into the body of the email.\nPlease limit to one submission per issue.\nSimultaneous submissions allowed. Please let us know if it is published elsewhere.\nSubmissions are free!\nPlease provide a one sentence bio about yourself.\nCover letters are not required\, but you may send one if you’d like. We won’t show preference based on this.\nYou will maintain the rights to your work; if it is published elsewhere or in a collection\, we simply ask that you give us credit for first publication.\nSubmitted work will be considered for our print and/or online blog\, which allows us to accept more submissions since print space is limited.\n\n\n\n\nUpon submitting to Tiny Spoon\, we will add you to our monthly newsletter to be sure you are updated on all the latest information regarding submission calls and reading processes so you are always aware of the status of your work. Generally\, it takes us 3-6 months to read through our submissions. Please use the newsletter and social media to gauge where we might be in the process in lieu of individual emails–we will always let you know as soon as we have made our final decisions! \n\nContributor Compensation\nFor our contributors in the United States\, we send a complimentary copy of the issue in which they appear. \nIf outside of the US\, due to budgeting costs\, instead of a physical copy\, we provide a digital/printable version of the magazine.
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to The Muleskinner Journal. Theme: Twist of Fate
DESCRIPTION:Journal Twelve: Twist of Fate\nor until sixteen submissions have been accepted. \nA twist of fate\, simple or complicated\, or a fork in the road.\nOr a sinkhole in the road. \nEarnestly\, we request the lightning strike\, the itchy trigger finger\, the crack in the tooth\, the miracle ingredient that kills you.\nWe crave the red herring\, the sub-rosa decision\, the back-breaking straw\, the missing link.\n\nFor Journal 12\, Muleskinner Journal seeks work ignited by that storm we didn’t see coming\, that small gesture that lifts the veil\, the sudden change of course\, the latent gene\, the hidden fear released\, the rabid dog unleashed\, the accidental journey\, the snap decision\, the impulsive act\, or the unexpected guest. \nWe are looking to experience\, witness\, or understand the twisty circuits of the psyche\, the gesture that makes all the difference\, or the thing of consequence you can’t explain. \nAs always\, our themes are prompts.\nYou may start with a Dylan song\, and end with a symphony.\nWe want you to write\, and send us what you write\, and we want everyone to read it\, and be moved by it\, and inspire others because of it\, and we want the world changed\, for the better\, as a result. \nWhat a twist of fate that would be. \nWhat we are looking for…\nMuleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following word counts to select a category to submit. Send no more than one piece at a time\, except where noted. Please submit in only one category at a time. \n\n\nMicro-Fiction:  25-50 words (1-3 pieces at a time) \n\n\nFlash: max. 1500 words each (1-3 pieces at a time) \n\n\nShort Story/excerpts from longer work: (max. 6000 words) \n\n\nCreative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words) \n\n\nPoetry: Any length or form. (1-3 pieces at a time) \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. \n\n\n\n We don’t care who you are\, as long as you are the author of what you submit.
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LOCATION:The Muleskinner Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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