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For this we want submissions on all things dragons.

EXTINCTION considers the social and economic inequalities produced by capitalism’s climate catastrophes, its effects on gender, social relations, and the dialectic of classes and nations. It demands we look at what is possible beyond what has already been.

In this issue we invite you to unleash the feral animal that lives within your poet heart.

We're looking for weird and wonderful stories of not just the memories themselves, but of their production, their repercussions, their wider meanings. We're looking for false memories that might have changed history, that led to remarkable discoveries, that impacted lives.

Our themes are intentionally vague to leave the concept up to the writer’s interpretation.

Send us your whisker factory submissions.

It’s where we start each day, down on the earth, on the ground but getting up, comfortable in our skins, ground zero for ourselves.

Whether you have observed the annual migrations of birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles, mammals, or the temporary or permanent geographical dislocations of people, send us work that has moved you to commemorate these journeys.

Numbers as friends or enemies, stories of dyscalculia or math savants; stories about rounding errors, countdowns, numerology; lucky or unlucky numbers; stories about lotteries or elections are all fair game.

It's summer and the hermit crabs are everywhere! In honor of their shelled and many-legged goodness, the Icebreakers are requesting all submissions be hermit crab pieces.

We print poetry by emerging authors. We love writing that is beautiful and bad (in the Foxy Brown sense).

This issue is about 'silence' and we welcome poems up to 40 lines on that theme

We see “woman” as a broad category with space for an array of gender identities and expressions. We welcome contributions from bi+ women who identify as trans, non-binary, cis, and beyond.

We want to know about the road trip gone wrong, the family vacation from hell, and the time your mother-in-law almost burnt down the house on Thanksgiving.

Halfway Down the Stairs publishes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction and accepts work in most genres.