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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.

Love, fight, fear, hunt, tame or release it into the wild – Animal is the prompt for Issue 7. Please, no cruelty to animals…and, come to think of it, no wolves.

We want to know what the bassoonist is doing instead of showing up to perform.

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.

Send us your writing that interrogates obfuscation, from without, and within.

The Fame issue will explore all the fabulous, fascinating, and sometimes Faustian facets of rising in reputation and renown.

Please 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.

We're open to reading the slyly speculative, the strange, the uncanny, and the weird.

Authors will retain all rights and copyright to their works. WestWord requests one-time, non-exclusive rights to publish your work.

At Audience Askew, we like the strange, quirky, and unique—aiming to find thought-provoking stories, engaging poetry, and distinctive artwork that doesn’t quite fit in anywhere else.

Erosion can be the process of breaking down, of gradual destruction. It is usually silent, constant, and unavoidable. Relationships can erode, carrying away trust and belonging, just as stone can be worn smooth, its debris dissolved and carried away with the tide. We are looking for fiction that represents this process.

Gives us sories and poems of underwater cities, rising seas, harrowing travels, creation, destruction, thirst, and whales. Give us space whales! Tell us about a galaxy of oceans contained in a holographic fishtank, preach the gospel of Poseidon, or win millions with the help of a chance-taking cephalopod. The opportunities for observant and original writing are as boundless as expansive as the briny deep. 

What do you think of when you hear the word “safety”? What does it mean to feel safe? What does it mean to be safe? We want pieces that explore, provoke, challenge, reconsider, evoke, or explode that concept for you.

We are looking for variety and originality. Tickle us, haunt us, gobsmack us. Choose your words carefully and leave our readers wanting more. And do it in a small space.

We strive to create conversations here at The Ilanot Review that could occur nowhere else.