Events

We’re looking for stories that explore embodiment in all its complexity.

What does it mean to want and need? Give us conflict and challenge; joy and celebration; and the spark of repair.

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. 

This is the season when those Christmas/New Year letters start showing up. We’re sure you’ve had to read lots of bad ones.

Kindness comes in all shapes and sizes; show what happens when characters express kindness. 

Which 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.

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.

While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Arc’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.

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.

Dream: A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep? A reverie? A wild or vain fancy?

Our theme is REBIRTH, RE-EMERGENCE, REAWAKENING (just like a Cicada).   We encourage all genres and creative non-fiction submissions.

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 are here anticipating your revelations of the universe. How is it speaking to you? Scaring you? Lend us your divining wisdom.

We 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.

Yutori: a Japanese concept of spaciousness that refers to slowing down to simply breathe and savour life.

For those who weren't alive yet and/or watching movies in the mid 1980s, that means the magazine is running a video game issue. We want to hear about anything game related, from the C64 to the N64 and into the present. Esports! Tron! Minecraft! We dare you to write something interesting about Pong.

Whilst the editors live in the United States, poets are more than welcome to write and submit political poems about where they are in the world.

We seek to present poetry, essays, and short stories that are compelling and in someway represent an aspect of the super present.