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SUMMARY:PFN - Men Matters Online Journal (MMOJ) Seeking Submissions on The Bachelor Spectrum: Explorations of Masculinity Outside Marriage
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean for a man to navigate the world as a bachelor? In the 21st century\, marriage rates have fallen dramatically across many countries. While the proportion of men (and women) who will never marry increases\, their counterparts who do eventually tie the knot are doing so later in life – and thus experiencing a prolonged period of bachelorhood. \nIt is worth noting\, of course\, that this is not an entirely modern phenomenon. There have always been men who remained lifelong bachelors\, whether due to choice\, circumstance\, or a combination of factors. Poverty\, economic uncertainty\, and long-term incarceration are perennial obstacles to marriage and fatherhood\, for example. On the other hand\, men of the past have also forsaken or postponed marriage via initiation into particular religious orders and military regiments. \nFrom the Knights Templar to Japan’s “herbivore men”\, the bachelor is often a complex figure caught in the shifting tides of gender norms\, cultural flux\, and sociohistorical change. We invite poets\, fiction writers\, and creative-non-fiction writers to explore the multifaceted lives of unmarried men across the spectrum of identity—straight\, queer\, cis\, trans\, and beyond. \n  \nWe are seeking works that delve into: \n\nThe historical and cultural evolution of bachelorhood.\nThe joys and struggles of single life in contemporary society.\nThe intersections of masculinity\, queerness\, and bachelorhood.\nForms of attachment and fatherhood outside of marriage (e.g. cohabitation\, single fathers\, baby daddies)\nGlobal and cultural variations in the perception of unmarried men\, including the unique roles of Hindu sannyasis and yogis\, as well as Christian clergy\, Buddhist monks\, and other religious ascetics who remain single and celibate as part of their spiritual vocations. These men embody bachelorhood not as a state of independence\, but as a devotion to faith\, meditation\, and service\, challenging societal norms surrounding partnership and masculinity.\nMedia portrayals and personal experiences that challenge or embrace traditional tropes.\nLoneliness\, freedom\, intimacy\, and the search for self in the absence of partnership.\n\n  \nWe welcome works that engage with these themes in fresh\, thought-provoking ways. Whether you offer a lyrical ode to solitude\, a sharp critique of societal norms\, or a story that redefines what it means to be a bachelor\, we want to hear from you. \nPublication date: Last week of June 2025 \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES \nPlease submit your manuscript as a Word Document. The text of your work should be in Garamond\, 12-point size. Manuscripts should have 1.5 spacing on A4-sized paper with margins of 1.25” (right and left) and 1” (top and bottom). \nPoetry: \nUp to 5 poems. There is no minimum or maximum word limit but poems that run up to a maximum of 40 lines are preferred. \nFiction and Creative Non-Fiction: \nA single work\, maximum of 5\,000 words. \n  \nHow to submit your work: \nSubmit your work through email: menmattersonlinejournal@gmail.com In the email cover letter please indicate that this is an original and unpublished work that is being submitted. \nAttach your individual submissions in separate attachments. Make sure there are no personal details in the files containing the submissions. \nIn a separate file provide a brief biography in third person (maximum 100 words) \nFile format: Word Document. The text of your work should be in Garamond (12 point size)\, with 1.5 spacing. \nSimultaneous submissions are welcome. It is your responsibility to inform us in time when the work submitted here is accepted somewhere else.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-men-matters-online-journal-mmoj-seeking-submissions-on-the-bachelor-spectrum-explorations-of-masculinity-outside-marriage/
LOCATION:Men Matters Online Journal (MMOJ)
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to LIT eZINE Magazine. Theme: The Inner Workings of My Mind
DESCRIPTION:Terms and Guidelines\n\nAll work needs to be accompanied by a short bio not exceeding 150 words\, written in the third person along with a link to your website or social media where readers can follow and support you.\nYou may also submit a photograph of size 250 x 250 px to be published with your bio. (The photograph is optional but we recommend it as readers love to get to know their favourite authors)\nWe are unable to provide monetary compensation for accepted submissions at this time. However\, we don’t charge any reading fees either.\nWhat we do give you is a chance to widen your audience by posting live links along with your work so your readers can find you.\nThis is voluntary labour of love and we aim for the widest possible circulation and exposure for our writers by keeping our magazine free of cost for the readers.\nYou may submit not more than three works across genres at one submission. However\, you can submit your work again for the next editions.\nIf you submit two or more works\, preferably in different genres\, you will automatically be considered for the “Author Spotlight” section. You may also request to be considered for the same. If your work is chosen to be featured in this section\, you will be required to do an additional interview.\nSubmissions:\n\nSubmit all written work as a .doc or .docx. or pdf file. However\, we prefer .doc or .docx files.\nThe submission may also include a photograph or copy of a work of art to accompany it (in .jpeg or .png format) only if that is also your work and you hold a copyright to the same.\nPlease use standard formatting and Times New Roman font\, size 12 points.\nSubmission size-\nPoetry: 50 words to 1000 words\nMicro poetry: Less than 50 words. We do not hold you to any character limits.\nShort story: 1000 to 4000 words\nFlash Fiction: Less than 1000 words\nMicropoetry has to be submitted as a set of 3 to 5 poems on the same common theme to be freely chosen by the poet. They must be collectively titled according to the theme chosen.\nDownload the submission format here.\nTo submit photography and artwork\, please contact us directly by email.\n\n\nAs this magazine will be circulated all over the world\, we require you to be the owner of the copyright and world rights to the submitted work.\nBy submitting your work to us\, you have permitted us to publish the same in our magazine in any format/formats that we choose and to maintain records of the same in our archives.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-lit-ezine-magazine-theme-the-inner-workings-of-my-mind/
LOCATION:LIT eZINE Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - Gypsophila Zine Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Untitled Digression(s)
DESCRIPTION:Volume 3 Issue 7 submissions are now open! The theme for this issue is “Untitled Digression(s).” This issue is our first collaborative feature as well! With combined work from MRND and Hugo Santos Silva. We are so excited to feature these wonderful artists and to see what you — our writers — come up with for this issue.\nSubmissions will close April 30\, 2025 with the issue set to publish May 31\, 2025.\n\n\nWe have just a few house rules for you to read over and follow before getting into the submission process. Please read these carefully! Failure to follow all rules submissions under an incorrect tag will result in automatic disqualification of your submission. \n\nRules are as follows!\n\n\nLimit of TWO (2) submission forms per person\nLimit of FIVE (5) poems and TWO (2) Short Stories per submission\nNO CHAPBOOKS\nLimit of 500 words for prose works\nLimit of between 500 – 3k words for short stories (grace of 500 words over if needed)\nSelecting “Both” under “Submission Type” means you have BOTH poetry/prose AND a short story included in your document\nImages are NOT ACCEPTED as submissions or with submissions\nAll works must be submitted as a PDF\, Word or Google document
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-gypsophila-zine-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-untitled-digressions/
LOCATION:Gypsophila Zine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Icebreakers Lit. Theme: Close Encounters
DESCRIPTION:Theme (Close Encounters) \nIcebreakers wants your almost\, maybes. Your brushes with the other worldly. Your longings. Send us your work that explores your interpretation of “close encounters” (Aliens in no way required. Though of course we still love them <3 ). \nCollaboration \nAt our minty liquid core\, Icebreakers is about fostering connection within the lit community. As such\, general and themed submissions should  be the work of two or more authors / artists (no max). If you’re coming to the party with collaborators already in mind\, great! If not\, please  see our “spin the bottle” opportunity here. \nWhat we accept \nIcebreakers is interested in poetry\, flash\, fiction\, essays\, creative nonfiction (CNF)\, that weird little thing you wrote in your notes app but don’t know what to call\, etc. We want your art\, and we know that art comes in many glorious forms. We aren’t too picky about rules\, but to keep this reasonable\, here are a few requests: \n\nPoetry: up to 3 pieces in any form\, any length\nMicro Fiction & CNF: 1 piece\, 300 words or less\nFlash Fiction & CNF: 1 piece\, 1000 words or less\nFiction\, CNF\, & Hybrids: 1 piece\, 2500 words or less\n\nWe also accept simultaneous submissions and previously published work. Just let us know if you’re published elsewhere so we can do a little celebratory dance with you.\nCover letter and bios \nWe love getting to know you\, but no need to be super formal. Most importantly\, please include the names of all collaborators. Also include a publication-ready bio for each contributor with your social media handles. One to three sentences should do the trick. If you would rather collaborate on a single amalgamated bio\, that’s cool\, too!\nOther stuff \nYou may find yourself on the submissions portal of a strange literary magazine\, with a beautiful poem or story\, and you may ask yourself\, “Well\, how did I get here?” And you may ask yourself\, “Who the hell are these Icebreakers people?” And you may ask yourself\, “What do they want from me??!” If that’s the case\, hop on over to our website for more info.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-icebreakers-lit-theme-close-encounters/
LOCATION:Icebreakers  Lit
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - HerStry Seeking Submissions for the New "Coming Out" Series
DESCRIPTION:June is Pride Month\, and we want to share the beautiful (and often tought) moments of coming out. Everyone has a different story and a different path to coming out. Some of us have been hurt while some of us have been embraced in ways we never imagined possible. Don’t be afraid to share the rawness of it all\, the hurt as well as the beauty. \n** HerStry is always happy to share stories anonymously—if your story is selected for publication\, simply let your editor know you would not like your name shared ** \nTHE RULES:  \n\nAll stories must be true and about you.\nStories must follow the theme in some way\, interpretations can be wide.\nStories must stay around 3\,000 words.\nDocuments should be double spaced\, 12Pt font with 1 inch margins and in an easy to read font. Submissions not following these guidelines are subject to disqualification. Our editors read a lot of work\, please have mercy on our eyes.\nSubmissions must be in .doc or .docx form—we do not accept PDFs.\nStories are read blind. Please DO NOT put any identifying material on your manuscript. Manuscripts that don’t follow this rule will be automatically disqualified without being read. We realize personal essays may contain your name; a first name is fine.\nPlease include a third person bio. Cover letters are fine\, but not necessary (we don’t read them\, we’re more interested in what you’ve written).\nPlease submit only once per theme.\nWe do not accept previously published stories.\n\nHerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We’re looking for work from bigender/polygender persons\, cisgender women\, intergender persons/intersex persons\, nonbinary persons/gender non-conforming persons\, transgender women/transfeminine persons\, two spirit. In other words\, if you are a cis man\, please refrain from submitting. \n WANT PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK? \nYou can now receive helpful feedback by selecting the “personalized critique” option on our submissions page. While getting your work critiqued does not guarantee publication\, we can help make it great for your next submissions\, whether it’s to us or someone else. \n$3 submission fee goes toward keeping HerStry sustainable and paying our staff. All accepted pieces receive $20 payment. \n DUE MAY 1ST \nSubmission fee: $3
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-herstry-seeking-submission-for-the-coming-out-series/
LOCATION:HerStry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Seeking Submissions on: Feminism\, Antifeminism\, and the Mobilization of Regret
DESCRIPTION:Feminism\, Antifeminism\, and the Mobilization of Regret\nFeminism is forward-looking and world-building. Feminists everywhere can call to mind the manifestos\, mobilizations\, solidarities\, creative inspirations\, legal propositions\, and revolutionary paradigms that inspire us to action and move us toward more just futures. At the same time\, we may also be haunted by obstacles encountered\, losses experienced\, and regrets felt along the way. With over fifty years of feminist history behind the journal—and\, we hope\, another fifty years of feminist troublemaking ahead—Signs seeks essays that delineate both how feminists may experience\, theorize\, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may\, alternatively\,  thwart the development of feminist futures. \nAs Andrea Long Chu asserts\, “Where there is freedom\, there will always be regret. . . . Regret is freedom projected into the past.” Janet Landman\, similarly\, has conceptualized regret as signifying the “persistence of the possible.” On the one hand\, how can feminists engage these generative qualities of regret—freedom and possibility—in our thinking and action? If there are choices that we\, individually or collectively\, regret\, how might our regrets motivate political or personal choices? On the other\, how do false narratives deployed by the Right\, such as threats of regret over abortion or gender transition\, act to undermine individual transformation and broader social change? \nWe seek essays that make theoretical\, analytical\, and/or activist interventions. We welcome papers that engage the complex dynamics and larger contexts of regret\, from the personal\, emotional\, and creative realms to the social\, political\, and empirical; or that consider how regret converges with or departs from related affective terrains of shame\, guilt\, grief\, or nostalgia. As always\, Signs encourages transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions\, debates\, and forms of literary\, artistic\, and cultural representation and that minimize disciplinary or academic jargon. \nPossible areas of focus might include: \n\nHow is regret\, as affect and as political discourse\, constructed in relation to gender\, race\, class\, sexuality\, nationality\, and history? Whose harms are considered regrettable\, and whose are merely collateral damage?\nHow do regressive cultural phenomena such as “gender-critical” discourse; crusades against diversity\, equity\, and belonging initiatives; book banning; or “incel” culture position the loss of white\, heterosexual\, cisgender hegemony as regrettable? How can feminist action and discourse counter such framings?\nSome feminist and antiracist social media movements\, such as #MeToo/#BalanceTonPorc/#YoTambien\, #ShoutYourAbortion\, or #BlackLivesMatter\, resist social discourses that cast violent harm as a result of regrettable individual actions (such as what someone was wearing or where they were walking). Such movements resist regret and transform silence into speech; are they successful in dismantling power structures?\nRegret may stem from conflict within feminist movements. For example\, regret may result in or from efforts to “call in” or “call out” negative behavior in our classrooms\, communities\, and online spaces. Must such regret end in irresolvable conflict\, or can it produce new coalitions?\nSetbacks in progress toward political goals—for example\, the overturning of Roe v. Wade—may lead to regret for past strategic choices. Such regret has the potential to cause paralysis or apathy; can it instead embolden us to develop new and more effective strategies?\nThe social\, political\, and economic conditions of late capitalism around the world—such as lack of childcare\, eldercare\, healthcare\, and housing—force impossible “choices” in relation to parenting\, intimate relations\, and work and create the conditions for regret. Nationalist ideologies of gender and family recast such constraints as “natural” and necessary. How can feminists counter such constraints and distortions?\nIn “From a Survivor\,” Adrienne Rich writes regretfully of her marriage and her husband’s suicide\, “I don’t know who we thought we were / that our personalities/ could resist the failures of the race. . . . / Like everybody else\, we thought of ourselves as special.” Where and how do regret and its related affects (shame\, grief\, loss\, nostalgia) appear in or structure feminist art and literature?\n\nThe deadline for submissions is May 1\, 2025. Laura Green (Northeastern University) and Chris Bobel (University of Massachusetts Boston) will serve as guest editors. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Signs’ Editorial Manager system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/signs/default.aspx and must conform to the guidelines for submission available at http://signsjournal.org/for-authors/author-guidelines/.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-signs-journal-of-women-in-culture-and-society-seeking-submissions-on-feminism-antifeminism-and-the-mobilization-of-regret/
LOCATION:Signs Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Bi Women Quarterly's Summer 2025 Issue. Theme: Finding Community
DESCRIPTION:Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to bi+ women who identify as trans\, non-binary\, cis\, and beyond.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummer 2025: Finding Community\n\n\n\n\nHow do bi+ people find community? Write about your experience navigating the world as a bi+ person and trying to find your own community\, whether that be a friend group\, chosen family\, knitting circle\, or so on. Did you join a club or organization that led to you making some of your closest queer friends? Did you meet your best friend on a dating app? Did you start a group or meetup? Explain how you successfully overcame the struggles society forces upon us as LGBTQ+ individuals and how\, through it all\, you found your own community. Submit by May 1\, 2025. \nBWQ features the voices of women with bi+ sexualities (i.e.\, bi\, pan\, fluid\, and other non-binary sexualities). 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease submit your words in a word document (.doc\, docx or .rtf) or in the body of an email. Use single spacing\, 11 pt font in Adobe Garamond Pro (or closest available font). Please do not send pdfs. Different spacing and formatting is okay if submitting poetry but please use Adobe Garamond Pro (11pt)\, if possible. Images should be high resolution and submitted electronically in .jpg or .png format. \nBi Women Quarterly and Robyn Ochs\, Editor reserve the right to reprint your work in current and future related publications\, in print and/or online. We will attempt to notify you in advance if we do so. You retain ownership of your work and may re-use it\, provided that its previous appearance in Bi Women Quarterly is noted\, along with our website (e.g.\, “This piece previously appeared in Bi Women Quarterly (at BiWomenQuarterly.com”). \nNote that Bi Women Quarterly is a print and digital publication. Issues of BWQ are sent via mail and then posted online in both magazine and PDF format at BiWomenQuarterly.com \nSubmission length: there is no minimum length. Maximum length: 1500 words. Please do not send pieces over this count unless requested by the editor or approved by her. Mail all submissions and pitches to biwomeneditor@gmail.com. \nBefore submitting your writing\, please run it through spell check and grammar check. Consider\, too\, asking a friend or two to read your piece for you and provide feedback. \nPLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING AT THE TOP OF YOUR SUBMISSION:\n\nYour name:\nYour email address:\nYour Twitter or other social media handles (if public):\nThe name you wish to use in BWQ: (you are welcome to use a pseudonym or modify your actual name):\nName of the piece you are submitting:\nA short\, 1 to 2 sentence\, 3rd person bio that includes your geographic location (e.g.: Robyn Ochs lives in the Boston area and is the editor of BWQ.) to follow your piece:\nFinally\, you are encouraged — but not required — to submit a photo with your work. Photos should be at least 300 dpi\, and have good contrast. This can be a headshot of yourself or an image relevant to your submission that you have the rights to use.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-bi-women-quarterlys-summer-2025-issue-theme-finding-community/
LOCATION:Bi Women Quarterly
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Syncopation Literary Journal Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Canadian Poets on Music
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this call is for writers born and/or residing in Canada and Canadians living abroad.  \nSubmission Guidelines: \nPlease read the full posting carefully. Failure to follow the Submission Guidelines may result in your work being rejected by Syncopation Literary Journal. We DO NOT accept simultaneous submissions but respond to writers in a very timely manner. Please note that it can be difficult for small journals to publish existing song lyrics. Consider paraphrasing when using another artist’s lyrics in your submission. \nSyncopation Literary Journal seeks to amalgamate the realms of music and literature. Syncopation is a free online\, open-access journal. We would like to showcase original Canadian poetry in a Special Feature to be published on the website as part of Volume 5\, Issue 1 in February 2026. All submissions must relate to music. Please submit only 1 poem. Your poem should be original (unpublished). Please email your poem to nwelshsyneditor@gmail.com as a Word document attachment by May 3\, 2025. Please include the following in your document: \n\n1.) A Cover Letter with a brief introduction to your poem and a brief statement describing your connection to Canada. \n2.) An Author Bio of 50 words or less. \nPlease include the following in the subject line of your submission: “Submission: Canadian Poets on Music.” All submissions should be in English. Email submissions only. We welcome submissions from both musicians and non-musicians. To see examples of the writing we publish\, please read our past issues\, available on the website. Please no graphic violence\, sexually explicit subject matter\, or overuse of profanity. While we do not pay our contributors\, there is no fee to submit. Publishing your work in Syncopation is a great way to showcase your writing. \nContributors retain all copyrights to their work. If you republish your work elsewhere at a later date\, you must cite Syncopation Literary Journal as a previous publisher. Reproduction of any form is strictly prohibited without the copyright holder’s permission.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-syncopation-literary-journal-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-canadian-poets-on-music/
LOCATION:Syncopation Literary Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Liars' League Looking for Stories about being: Down & Out
DESCRIPTION:Submit your work to be read LIVE at our next event\, DOWN & OUT on Tuesday 10th June at The Phoenix \n\n\nFallen from grace\, or falling on your face\, out for the count or out-out on the town\, down in the dumps or deep below the earth (or the waves)\, on the road with no fixed abode … be creative and show us what you can do with this theme! As ever\, we’re looking for unpublished short fiction of 800-2000 words\, & will consider flash fiction\, short stories & even novel extracts (so long as they can stand alone). Please see full guidelines here\, then email to liars@liarsleague.com by 11.59pm UK time on Sunday 4th May.\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\, IN SHORT:\n– New fiction\, i.e. unpublished (print/web/audio)\n– Stories which are on-theme\n– Anonymised (no name on the document)\n– Word count: STRICTLY 800-2000\n– Send to: liars@liarsleague.com \n\nStories must be \n1. Unpublished (in print or online)\, unbroadcast\, and not a prizewinner in any previous competition. \n2. Between 800-2000 words long. \n3. Submitted to liars@liarsleague.com by 11.59pm (UK time) of the deadline day for the theme in question. Deadlines and monthly themes can be found here. \n4. Submitted as an MS Word (.doc\, .docx) or .rtf document\, ideally with 1.5 or double spacing. NO PDFs PLEASE. \n5. Attached to an email which has the story title\, the month of the event and the theme in the subject header: e.g. Love Story\, February\, He & She. Please put your name at the bottom of your email but NOT on your story\, as we prefer to judge anonymously. \n6. A prose short story. This means no poetry\, no scripts\, no non-fiction. We’ll look at novel extracts\, but only if they work as stand-alone pieces. \n7. ON-THEME. This means that there should be a traceable link to the theme\, or that the theme should be invoked or interpreted as a central part of the story. Simply featuring a bar called “Duck & Dive” if that’s the theme is not enough; but make your main character a dodgy dealer in stolen goods\, and we’ll be interested. \nWriters must be \n1. Willing to have their name and the text of their story up on this site if they win. \n2. Willing to be paid for their work in kind. Unfortunately\, Liars’ League does not currently pay contributors in $ or £. However\, if your story is chosen\, you will benefit from the following: \n– Publication of your story on this site: it will also be considered for future print anthologies published by our partners Arachne Press \n– Free drinks all night (if you are able to attend the event). Teetotallers will be fed. \n– A reading of your work by a professional actor (CLICK HERE to see a blog post on what that’s like\, written by five-time winning author Mike Clarke) \n– An MP3 and a link to a YouTube video recording of the reading \n– SUBMITTING FROM ABROAD? If you *cannot* attend the event\, due to living abroad or some other obstacle\, we will send you a free book to thank you for your contribution\, as drinks are rather messy to post. You can choose your favourite title from our selection of four anthologies (one award-winning!)\, or any book by any of our authors. \nIMPORTANT: By submitting your work to Liars’ League you are giving us permission to add your email address to our mailing list – this means we can inform you of the winning stories and send updates\, links to our latest stories\, and competition and submission opportunities approximately monthly. If you want to be removed from our mailing list you can email us at any time with Unsubscribe in the subject line. We’ll never share your data with anyone else – promise. \nSubmission of your work also gives us permission to upload the text and an audio and video recording of your story (if successful) onto our website\, YouTube channel and podcast so that everyone can enjoy it. If this is an issue just email and we’re happy to discuss. \nAnd finally … \n1. Please submit no more than ONE story per theme. This is for reading-time reasons. \n2. Please don’t resubmit any story we have previously rejected unless we ask you to\, however much it has changed. \n3. Please don’t be discouraged. We really want to see your work – so send it in! For some further thoughts on what works for the League see this article by Liars’ League regular Niall Boyce
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-liars-league-looking-for-stories-about-being-down-out/
LOCATION:Liars’ League
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6763-1746345600-1746378000@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:F - Stone's Throw Seeking LGBTQ+ Noir Tales
DESCRIPTION:Happy Pride Month! Rock and a Hard Place Press is a proud ally of the LGBTQ+ community\, and this month\, we want stories where the pride rainbow isn’t quite as bright. Queer characters (and queer people\, for that matter) put up with enough bullshit from homophobes and transphobes\, and this month we want noir tales where they turn the tables on the haters in fabulous and brutal ways. \nInterested in Submitting?\nStone’s Throw will open for submissions the first three days of every month\, from 12AM on the first through 12AM on the fourth (with some wiggle room here and there to account for the editors being human). We’re looking for all the same dark fiction\, crime\, and noir as our usual submissions\, but with a target length between 1\,000 and 2\,000 words\, and aligned with the monthly submissions prompt (see below). We’ll read through each story\, choose the one story that shines brightest\, and publish it online the following month\, paying $25 per accepted story. \nAfter a year\, we’ll collect all twelve stories into a Stone’s Throw Annual Anthology\, to be published alongside our other print issues. \nPLEASE NOTE — If you have been accepted within the calendar year for Stone’s Throw\, you are ineligible to submit again during that same calendar year. However\, we look forward to reading your submissions during our regular RHP Magazine open calls!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-stones-throw-seeking-lgbtq-noir-tales/
LOCATION:Stone’s Throw
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Adi Magazine Seeking Submissions n: Alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them
DESCRIPTION:Adi is thinking about alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We want examples from outside of the mainstream\, stories about practices\, ideas\, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic\, socio-cultural\, religious\, or imperial (colonial) powers. We privilege perspectives from the Global South\, always interested in how we might reorient our political universe towards those organic alliances\, intertwined liberation theologies\, grassroots movements\, and revolutionary philosophers. But we are also interested in the experiences of all marginalized peoples everywhere as they have explored alternative economies\, subversive strategies\, and surprising solidarities. Pieces could be based on historical events\, or could focus on imagined futures that subvert current empires. \nIn the words of James Baldwin\, “Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well\, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star\, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place\, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.” \nWhat realignments\, restorations\, revisions and resurrections might we uncover and foster with the stars aflame? \nPlease interpret this call expansively and imaginatively. Familiarize yourself with the range and spirit of our archives; Adi tends toward creative\, experimental approaches to political writing\, measuring the effects of policy through the intimate lives and experiences of people with a particular focus on those on the margins and in the Global South. We’ve previously published fiction on ghosts in a post-fossil fuel world; intervention through the eyes of a fugitive lion;  healthcare bureaucracy and restrictions on reproductive rights; the reimagination of the myth of the faceless woman; and a family’s decision on citizenship while facing an American apocalypse.  \nWe do not want dreary political agitprop. We love work that bends genres\, that embraces the absurd\, that excavates interior lives alongside external conflicts. Send us work that analyzes\, satirizes\, fabulizes\, and fantasizes\, that disturbs\, beguiles\, moves\, challenges\, surprises\, and ignites. \nSUBMISSION LIMIT: 5\,000 words.  One unpublished submission per author\, please.  \nFor short fiction\, up to 5\,000 words\, payment is $500. \nFor flash fiction\, under 1\,000 words\, payment is $200. \nTranslators: we’d love to hear from you\, too! If you have unpublished work from writers who fit the bill\, please get in touch. (If the story’s already been translated\, just go ahead and submit\, but if not\, feel free to email us with a blurb about the potential story and we’ll take it from there). \nAdi does not accept submissions generated with AI. 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-adi-magazine-seeking-submissions-n-alternative-political-visions-for-a-world-in-desperate-need-of-them/
LOCATION:Adi Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Meat for Tea: The Valley Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme: "Jerky"
DESCRIPTION:We use Duosuma. Please DO NOT send submissions via email.\nYou will be instructed to re-submit via Duosuma. \nPlease read ALL the submission guidelines below carefully before proceeding. \nA few important notes:\n•Always include a third-person bio. Pronoun preferences are encouraged!\n•Don’t send untitled images\, unless they are truly untitled\, then please specify.\n•Don’t send low-res images with the intent on sending higher-res images upon approval\n– our timeline is TOO TIGHT to allow this! – Send print-ready files only\, please!\n•Don’t send anything but finished\, clean copy. (Same reason – our timeline is too tight!)\n•AI generated content will be summarily rejected. Please don’t bother.\n•We do not have time to send individual proofs of your work in the layout.\nAnd again\, please read all of the guidelines below before submitting. \nAfter reading all the guidelines carefully\, please email if you have any questions!\nThank you for your cooperation and understanding. \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES – PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY: \n\nWriters: Writing submissions should be works of poetry and short prose no longer than 1500 words in length\,\n8000 words for short fiction and essays\, 1200 words for flash and microfiction. \nPlease only send CLEAN COPY. We do not edit copy.\nIf a work is accepted for publication\, it appears letter-for-letter as submitted.\nSubmissions with obvious typographic errors will be rejected.\nWe reserve the right to format copy to our layout standards.\nPlease also note that due to tight deadline and printing timelines\,\nrevisions likely will not be even possible after a work is accepted.\nTherefore\, please only submit works you’re fully confident in having published. \nAll writing should be sent as an editable document\,  ideally Microsoft Word Format (.doc or .docx\,) or RTF.\nBe aware that any formatting you use in your document will be changed to fit our layout specifications.\nDon’t get fancy unless you have something that is required for the piece (such as special formatting for a poem.)\nWe STRONGLY encourage very general formatting for most written work.\nYour font will be changed\, we don’t use indents for paragraph breaks\, and we will re-format as needed.\nPlease keep the formatting simple.\nSee below\, as well. \nEmbedded images in a text document might lead to rejection\, due to difficulty in layout.\nIf you feel you must have embedded images\, please email us before submitting. \nIMPORTANT: PDF is NOT an acceptable file format\, except for the rare case of a work depending strictly on physical formatting and font(s).\nPlease email us FIRST if you want to submit a PDF for a text piece.\n(WHEN IN DOUBT\, DON’T SEND PDF UNLESS YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY SURE THE TEXT MUST BE IN A STRICT FORMAT.\nThis basically means\, if you’re using unusual fonts and/or formatting that is absolutely critical to the piece.) \nSO:\nDISCLAIMER: We shall still reserve the right to reformat PDF submissions to fit our layout standards.\nSubmitting as PDF is not an assurance that we will print the item as it looks in the PDF. Additionally\, if we are forced to re-format from a PDF we will not be responsible for errors in the format conversion.\nIf you have questions about this policy regarding your work\, please contact us via email before submitting. \nMust include a third-person bio\, 100 words maximum. \nNo submitting written work via email or a file transfer service unless requested. Please use Duosumo. \nDue to time constraints\, physical submissions via regular mail will NOT be considered for inclusion. \nSimultaneous submissions are accepted as long as the submitter notifies us IMMEDIATELY  upon their work being accepted elsewhere. The best way to notify us of a piece accepted elsewhere when submitting  through Duosuma is to immeditely withdraw the piece. There is no assurance we will know it is withdrawn unless\nyou withdraw it directly through Duosuma. Email is inadaquate for withdrawls for Duosuma submissions.\nIf we accept a submission\, it will be printed. Our timeline is so tight that there is no other option. \nPlease note: you are free to withdraw a piece for any reason via Duosuma  unless we have accepted it for publication. We don’t “hold work hostage”. \nAlso note: due to the frequently large volume of submissions and our limited publication space\, sometimes we may not get to accepting or rejecting a submission during the submission cycle in which it was presented. \nSubmission fee: $4.75  The small submission fee is to help defray the cost of shipping physical contributor’s copies.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-meat-for-tea-the-valley-review-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-jerky/
LOCATION:Meat for Tea
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Open Call to Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review. This month's Theme: Pride
DESCRIPTION:Once again\, we are living through a pivotal moment in history. Queer lives\, specifically our trans siblings\, are under attack. The current presidential administration has removed LGBTQ+ and HIV resources from government websites. Google has removed Pride month and several other diversity holidays from their calendar. The National Park Service has removed “transgender” and “queer” from the Stonewall Monument website. All of these attacks are meant to do one thing: erase queer people. \nBoudin is currently looking for creative work that speaks to queer existence and experience. We are looking for fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry that speaks on the beautiful moments of queer life\, the not so beautiful moments\, and even the everyday uneventful moments. The goal of this issue if to remind everyone that queer people have always been here and will always be here. We cannot be erased. \nNo fee! Aim to keep the fiction/CNF/hybrids under 5\,000 or so words. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words). \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 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. Let us know if your writing borrows from or quotes another writer. \n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-boudin-the-online-home-of-the-mcneese-review-pride/
LOCATION:Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - The Pan Haiku Review Seeking: Haibun or tanka prose only
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nPHR Issue 5\nDo get ready for all haibun (and tanka prose) edition Part Two\, (PHR5)\nin the Summer of 2025! \nSubmission window: May 3rd to May 11th\n9 days\, two weekends! \nmaximum one piece\nWhich can be up to 1\,500 words\nsubmitted within the body of the email itself. \nPan Haiku Review does not accept simultaneous submissions.\nPreviously unpublished work only. \nPlease proofread carefully and closely\nbefore sending out your work. \n \nIMPORTANT:\nI want to read haibun and tanka prose that excites.\nIt should leave THE DOOR AJAR to the world\, and work with tension.\nTension can be included via storytelling\, topic\, twists\,\ninteresting combinations of genre writing. \nPlease think about titles:\nWhat title might look intriguing enough in the contents section\,\nor index\, to tempt the reader to pay a visit to your piece first
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-pan-haiku-review-seeking-haibun-or-tanka-prose-only/
LOCATION:The Pan Haiku Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - The First Humour Me Gold Writing Competition. The Theme: Competition
DESCRIPTION:INTRODUCING HUMOUR ME GOLD! \nHumour Me Gold is our first writing competition. Why Gold? Because all winners will get the same prize. No silver and bronze here! \nSince we became a paying market in December of 2022\, we’ve been independently funded. However\, we could use a little help. The more funds we raise\, the more paying opportunities we can offer to deserving independent writers like you. \nHumour Me Gold isn’t just about money. We’ll be selecting four stories. Each author will be paid £50\, four times our standard rate. However\, we will also conduct a written interview with each winning author\, featuring alongside their story. This will put your writing and you in front of hundreds of our readers. \nAll we are asking to help us fund this and future issues is an entry fee of £3.50 (that’s a little under five US dollars\, depending on exchange rates). Please see full entry details below! \nThe theme is ‘Competition’. Remember\, it needs to make us laugh! (In a good way) \nWord count – 1k to 5k \nEntry fee to be paid via PayPal using address ‘Humourmemag@outlook.com’. Please reference your name and story title when making the payment. \nAll entries to be sent to – Humourmemag@outlook.com. \nThe winning authors will be notified by Monday\, June 2nd. Humour Me Gold will be published in our usual online magazine format on Monday\, June 16th. Payment to the winners will be made via PayPal no later than Friday\, June 14th. \n  \nPlease read the general submission rules below before submitting. \nGENERAL SUBMISSION RULES \nPlease send all submissions attached to an email as a word/image document\, as well as a short bio. Bio can be sent as an attachment or in the email body. \nThe below paragraph ONLY applies if the submission is successful and the author is offered a publication contract (of which the below is an excerpt) : \nThe Author grants permission for the Publisher to include the Work in the digital publication Humour Me Magazine\, for publication in the English language throughout the world\, for an exclusive period of 1 year from the date of publication\, and a non-exclusive basis for as long as the magazine remains live. The Publisher reserves the right to include the Work in any future ‘best of’ compilations put forth by the Publisher\, in either digital or print format. The Author agrees not to publish or permit others to publish the Work in any form prior to its publication by Humour Me Magazine. \nWe are happy to accept all types of humour\, from sharp satire to slapstick. While humour is subjective\, we will not tolerate any form of bigotry or discrimination toward any ethnicity\, gender identity\, sexuality or disability. \nWe will not accept multiple submissions. \nWe will allow simultaneous subs\, please do just let us know if you have been accepted somewhere else in the meantime. \nWe will not accept submissions that have been previously published or displayed in any format\, anywhere. \nWe will not accept the use of AI \nWe will not respond to any submissions that do not meet the submission criteria. We also will not respond to rejection follow-up emails. \nWe reserve the right to edit submissions for publication. \nAll payments to be made via PayPal at least 48hrs before magazine publication. \nPlease send all submissions to: humourmemag@outlook.com \nEntry fee: £3.50
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-first-humour-me-gold-writing-competition-the-theme-competition/
LOCATION:Humour Me Gold
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to The Writers' Journal\, Volume 2. Theme: Doors
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions \nVolume 2: Doors \n \nThe Writers’ Journal is happy to announce we are open for Volume 2 submissions.  The theme for Volume 2 is DOORS. \nAs the winter chill passes\, we are now ready to open our doors to sunshine and the scent of floral-filled fresh air. \nDoors mean different things to different people. For some\, opening doors conjures new love\, opportunity\, and adventures\, but others see closed doors that symbolize rejection\, loss\, and goodbyes to loved ones. Some doors of rich stained wood may symbolize an air of elegance. Some are painted rich shades of jewel tones\, while others are made of glass\, allowing passersby a peek inside. Some doors revolve\, sweeping us from a public to a private world with just one spin\, and some even open into magical adventures. \nWhether doors conjure memories or set your mind on a fictional adventure\, whether you are a poet or prose writer\, we welcome your creative work. We want to see you stretch yourself and surprise us with something new\, something haunting\, passionate\, extraordinary. We are looking for stories and poems that live in our thoughts long after we have read the last word. \nWe welcome new and seasoned writers and look forward to reading your work. Please be sure to read and follow the submission instructions. \nWriting Submission Instructions\n\nMemoir\, cnf and fiction stories are limited to one (1) composition of 150 to 1\,500 words.\nPoetry submissions are limited to three (3) poems of 25 lines or less submitted in one document.\nAll submissions must be double-spaced\, 12-point\, Times New Roman font\, and in Word doc format.\nAll submissions must be original and by writers over 18 years of age.\nAdd your bio of up to 75 words to the end of your submission.\nSimultaneous submissions are permitted.\nNo graphic or gratuitous violence or sexual content\, no AI-generated stories\, or previously published material is acceptable.\nEmail submission to: submit@writers-journal.com. Put your name and genre in the subject line of your email. (i.e. Barbara Hurwitz\, fiction)\n\nWhile we are unable to pay writers for their work\, there is no fee to submit\, and we hope that sharing your published work will bring you the joy it brings to us. We will provide you with a PDF copy. Hard copies and ebooks will be available for purchase online. \nIf your submission is accepted\, we will require your written authorization before publication in our journal. If not accepted\, please wait for the next volume to submit again.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-the-writers-journal-volume-2-theme-doors/
LOCATION:The Writers’ Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Time of Singing Contest Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Elegies
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines\n\n\nTime of Singing welcomes poetry that talks about God and our relationship with Him and each other–as well as general inspirational and nature poems. I prefer poems that don’t preach\, and “show” rather than “tell.” Sermons and “greeting card” poetry have valid purposes\, but aren’t appropriate for this magazine. \nI suggest you obtain a sample back issue to help you ascertain TOS’s style. $5.00 to TOS\, P.O. Box 5276 Conneaut Lake\, PA  16316 (Make checks payable to Wind & Water Press). Remember small\, “indie” presses need the support of readers and poets. \nPlease submit up to 4 to 5 poems at a time. That way I can get a better idea of your work. Please be patient with the process. I try to respond within 3 months. It may take up to a year to see your work in print. \nI welcome fresh rhyme\, beg for more forms\, appreciate well-crafted free verse\, and consider poems up to 40 lines in length. \nPlease include a SASE with all submissions by regular mail\, and send them to: \nTime of Singing \nP.O. Box 5276 \nConneaut Lake\, PA 16316 \nYou may also submit poems via email to the following address: \ntimesing@zoominternet.net \nPlease put “Poetry Submission” in the subject line and full contact information in the e-mail and on every poem. \nI will comment on work that has merit and is close to publication\, and will clear major revisions with the poet. All contributors receive one copy of the issue in which their work appears and the opportunity to purchase more at the contributor’s rate. \nOf course\, subscriptions are always welcome! One year (four issues) is $21.00 ($25.00 US for Canadian friends). I hope that you’ll consider supporting small press poetry. \nThank your for your interest inTime Of Singing. I look forward to reading your work. \nLora Zill\, Editor \n\nSubmission fee: $5
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-time-of-singing-contest-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-elegies/
LOCATION:Time of Singing Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Heron Tree Seeking: Found poems that incorporate the word "twelve" or "dozen"
DESCRIPTION:Heron Tree volume 12 will be dedicated to found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929. \nWe will be accepting submissions in the following categories: \n\nFound poems created from any source material(s) published in or before 1929.\nIn honor of our 12th regular volume\, we’re inviting found poems (still created from sources published in or before 1929) that incorporate 12 in some way. For instance\, a poem could have 12 syllables\, 12 words\, or 12 lines; it could use the word “twelve” or “dozen;” it could be an erasure of page 12 or Chapter 12 of a particular book; it could be created from a word-pool you generated by gathering every twelfth word of a source; it could be a cento combining 12 different sources. These are just suggestions!\n\nWe encourage you to download and read some collections of found poetry that we have published in the past: Found in the Public Domain\, Songs\, From the Blue Fairy\, Of Climates & Continents\, and all the poems in volume 8\, volume 9\, volume 10\, and volume 11. \nMore information: \n– We are interested in all approaches to found poetry construction and erased or remixed texts. \n– Poems that are not in one of the categories listed above will not be considered. \n– If you are working with a text that was translated into English\, the English translation must also be published in or before 1929. \n– Send up to 5 poems with a cover letter to submit.herontree@gmail.com. \n– In your email cover letter\, please include a list of your poems’ titles. \n– The poems should be attached in a single doc\, docx\, or pdf file. If your pieces are better viewed as digital images\, insert them as jpegs within a single doc\, docx\, or pdf file. \n– All submissions will be read blind\, so do not include your name in the file with the poems. \n– In the same file as the poems\, provide a different process paragraph for each poem. It should identify the source(s) for the poem and clearly explain your method of composition. If a poem combines found material and your own words\, that’s fine\, but your process statement must make that clear. You can find examples of process paragraphs in our previous collections of found poetry. If a poem is accepted for publication\, the process paragraph will be published with it. \n– Simultaneous submissions are welcome with timely notification of acceptance elsewhere. \n– Poems that have previously appeared online (temporarily or permanently\, on your own or a third-party site) should not be submitted\, nor should work that has already been published electronically or in print. \n– Once you send your submission\, you’ll receive an automatic email reply. If you don’t receive the reply\, please check your spam folder and add Heron Tree to your contacts to ensure that you receive future communications about your submission. \n– If your work is accepted by Heron Tree\, you agree to grant us exclusive first publication rights and the non-exclusive right to include your work in the volume 12 collection and our online archives. You agree that if your poem subsequently appears elsewhere you will credit Heron Tree as the original publisher. \n– Accepted poems will be published weekly on the Heron Tree website beginning in summer 2025 and will be included in a free downloadable PDF volume available later. \nHeron Tree does not charge a fee for submitting nor provide payment for publication. \nThese guidelines are subject to change.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-heron-tree-seeking-found-poems-that-incorporate-the-word-twelve-or-dozen/
LOCATION:Heron Tree
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SUMMARY:P - Songs of Eretz Poetry Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme: In the kitchen
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO SUBMIT\nFailure to follow these simple guidelines will result in your submission being discarded or returned to you unread!\n ***1. Please resist the urge to include anything with your submission that we do not specifically request\, especially your bio (we like to read or view as blindly as possible)\, credits (we treat the novice and the experienced equally)\, or explanatory notes (if you believe your poem or artwork requires an explanation\, please revise it until it doesn’t).*** \n  \n\n Submit up to THREE POEMS to:  \n\nsubmissionssofe@gmail.com \nThere is no fee to submit.\n \n  \n\n Your Subject Line should be formatted as follows:  [Poetry Submission][Title][Specific Form of poem such as Free Verse or Shakespearean Sonnet\, etc. ] followed by [Poet’s Last Name].\n If you are submitting more than one POEM\, each should appear in a separate email and include a separate cover letter. If your poem has multiple numbered sections\, each section will “count” as ONE poem. If your poem contains more than three sections\, query first.\n5. Your poem(s) must appear in the body of your email(s).  WE DO NOT ACCEPT ATTACHMENTS FOR POETRY.  If your poem needs to be presented in an attachment due to special formatting\, query first.\n\n\n6.For poetry\, include a cover letter in the body of your email(s) with answers to the following questions \n(and remember NOT to include a biography at this process stage): \n– Is yours a simultaneous submission or not?  We DO accept them. \n– How did you discover Songs of Eretz? \n– How would you like us to indicate your name if we publish your work (ie: your byline\, for example\, “By Sammie Smith”)?  NOTE:  We do NOT accept any type of work composed by a collaboration of poets. \n– What is your contact information?  Include at least your city & state.  Include your country if you reside outside of the United States.  It is strongly recommended that you include your phone number as well\, in case we need last-minute input from you (this has happened). \n– Would you like to be added to our Email List? \nAgain – Do NOT include a biography at this process stage. \n\n\n Reprint Policy:We DO NOT accept previously published work.\n Simultaneous Submissions Policy:We accept sim subs for poetry.\n\n Multiple Submissions Policy: Please wait until after your poem(s) are published in or rejected by Songs of Eretz before sending more.\n\n\n Response Time: Please query if you have not received at least a preliminary response in twenty-onecalendar days.  We no longer guarantee editorial feedback.\n\n\n Rights To Your Poetry: If your work is accepted and you agree to join the ranks of the other fine poets who have been published in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review\,your work will appear in the quarterly issue for which it was submitted. In exchange\, you will grant Songs of Eretz the first worldwide publication rights\, first worldwide electronic rights\, non-exclusive archival rights in perpetuity\, non-exclusive anthology rights in perpetuity\, and non-exclusive reprint rights in perpetuity.\n\n\nAll other rights will revert to you upon publication\, but we would appreciate the courtesy of allowing Songs of Eretz an exclusive for a few months if that is not too much trouble. \n\n12. Acknowledgement:We expect to be acknowledged as the venue of the first publication should you reprint your work.\nPublished Format:  Songs of Eretzreserves the right to make the editorial decision to publish any poem aligned left\, right\, or centered. If your poem is concrete or requires a special format\, please query first.\n\n  \nQueries:  Use Editor@SongsOfEretz.com for poetry queries.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-songs-of-eretz-poetry-review-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-in-the-kitchen/
LOCATION:Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Submission call for Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal Issue 12 Theme: "At the Sky Gates"
DESCRIPTION:Submission rules\n\nYou may submit: 1 haikuor1 tanka. In addition\, you may submit 1 haiga.  Only unpublished works.\n\nPlease don’t submit your work simultaneously on multiple journals\, I found several times works published or even featured in the Editor Choice section in my journal and in a couple days published on other journals\, without specifying they were first appeared in EG\, so they were submitted at the same time to many journals\, randomly. Also\, if you later publish a work appearing in Enchanted Garden\, please cite it as first-publication.  \n\nSend your works in Englishof the different categories together in one single e-mail  (haiku/tanka only in the body of the e-mail\, as attachments will not be open. Send haiga as attachment .jpg please\, but if you can`t attach it\, paste it into the body of the e-mail).  Images should be your own work or in collaboration with an artist. No images from internet or AI images please! The names of the authors (poet and photographer/artist) must be included in the haiga photograph/artwork.\nInclude your name and country.\nSubject line: submission.\n\nThe e-mail for submissions and questions is haikuenchanted@gmail.com . \n\nSubmit between:1 – 15 May(works received before or after will not be considered)\n\nResponse time: by the end of June \nPublication date: mid July.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-submission-call-for-enchanted-garden-haiku-journal-issue-12-theme-at-the-sky-gates/
LOCATION:Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PN - Call for Submissions to RFD Magazine. Theme: Resilience
DESCRIPTION:RFD is a reader-created journal and has been since 1974. It is now one of the oldest continuously published gay journals.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pn-call-for-submissions-to-rfd-magazine-theme-resilience/
LOCATION:RFD Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Arc Poetry Magazine Seeking Submissions on: The New Material Ecopoetics
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a poet engaged with the physical material of the world around us? How does poetic form change in the encounter with other beings? How do we write collaboratively with—rather than about—nonhuman beings and ecologies? \nFor the Fall 2025 issue\, Arc is seeking experimental eco-poetry that engages with the possibilities of organic form. We welcome experiments with lyric\, visual poetics\, material poetries\, and sound poetries. Send us your big swings! \nSub­mis­sions should be pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English or translations of poetry into English (please confirm you have the appropriate rights and permissions to publish your translation). Submissions on this theme will be accepted until May 15\, 2025. \nPoetry Submission Guidelines\n\nSubmissions must not exceed three poems or 360 lines of poetry. (Note: poets may submit to this themed call as well as our general poetry submissions; submissions to this call do not count towards our limit of considering three poems per poet per calendar year.)\nSubmissions of more than one poem must be broken up into two or three documents and submitted separately along with your biog­ra­phy. In order to submit the files separately you must go through the submission process for each piece you wish to submit. This allows you to provide each submission with the title of your poem\, and it allows us to group the submissions more easily and update you about the status of each individual poem.\nSubmissions must be typed and sin­gle spaced (dou­ble spaces will be inter­preted as blank lines). Submissions of visual poetry or concrete poetry should be in PDF format. Spoken Word poems can be submitted as text or audio or video recordings.\nSubmissions must include your name and email address on each page.\nCover Letters must include the poet’s name (as it would appear in the publication if accepted)\, email address\, and mailing address\, as well as a brief biog­ra­phy\, which should be two to three sentences or approximately 30 words long.\nSubmissions of visual poetry or concrete poetry should be submitted as PDFs. Spoken Word poems can be submitted as text or audio or video recordings.\nPoets may submit poems that are simultaneously submitted elsewhere. However\, poems that have been accepted by another publication should be withdrawn from Arc immediately\, using Submittable.\n\nArc‘s rate for poetry of $50 per page. Payment is issued upon pub­li­ca­tion along with one free copy of the issue in which the work appears. With acceptance\, Arc secures First Cana­dian Serial Rights\, meaning the poems should not appear in any print or digital publication before the release of the issue in which the work appears. All rights will revert to the author upon publication. \nArc cannot promise to respond to inquiries regard­ing the sta­tus of sub­mis­sions before the com­ple­tion of a reading period.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-arc-poetry-magazine-seeking-submissions-on-the-new-material-ecopoetics/
LOCATION:Arc Poetry Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Yaffle's Nest Competition Theme: Poems about the best songs of all time
DESCRIPTION: \nCompetition\n \n\n\nB.O.A.T \nBEST songs OF ALL TIME \npoetry competition \n**A huge thanks to all those poets who have entered our Yaffle’s Nest BOAT (poems inspired by the Best Songs of All Time) comp. We don’t do things by half and while many comps just have prize money we do that and produce anthologies too. And this year we’ve added a judge to the mix. Unfortunately\, we haven’t managed to cover costs up to press so we have no other choice but to extend our deadline. The good news is those who didn’t quite manage to get their subs to us have another six weeks to enter! The new deadline date is 17th May. Thank you. ** \nYaffle’s Nest invite you to submit poems about what you consider to be the best songs of all time. \nYou can respond in any way you like\, just make your poems as good as they can be. \nIf you can’t whittle your favourites own to one – send us as many poems as you like. \nAll longlisted\, commended\, highly commended and winning poems will be included in the eventual anthology. \nThe anthology will be a stand alone book where every contribution will be equal\, however the final placings turn out. \nThe aim is to get the anthology into as many book shops as we can. \nThis will be the first of what we hope will be many of our new ‘Best Of All Time (BOAT) series of anthologies. \nPrizes:\nWinner: £200 \n2nd Prize: £50.00 \n3rd Prize: £25.00 \nThe winner\, runners-up and those on the long-list\, will be announced on 7th June 2025 \nPlease pay for your entry using PayPal yafflesnest@gmail.com \nYou are allowed to enter as many times as you want. \nWe look forward to reading your work. \nYaffle’s Nest Team \nSole Judge \nEmma Purshouse \nWhat am I looking for?   \nI enjoy crafted\, tightly written poems. Poems that tell stories.  Poems that come at things from unusual angles. Poems that I can walk into and have a good look round.  Poems that sparkle and sing. I’m looking for the tales that only you can tell. \nWhen I judge competitions I read poems aloud\, so a piece that feels wonderful in the air is always a pleasure to discover. \nI have wide ranging poetry tastes and am as likely to pick a poem that makes use of a traditional form as I am a piece of prose poetry.   \nI’m really looking forward to reading your work.” \nRules:\nThe prize is open to any poet in the world who is over 18 years of age writing in English. \nCompetition Rules\n1. The maximum length for each poem is 40 lines excluding the title. Breaks between stanzas do not count towards the total. \n2. Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published\, self-published\, published on any website or recorded (poems read at open mics are OK as long as they were not recorded). No posthumous or AI generated entries please. \n3. Entries must be in English and we will not be accepting translations of poetry. \n4. Each poem should be sent as a separate word document. The name of each document should be the name of the poem it contains and have no identifying marks other than the title on either the page or in the document name. \n5. Font should be Georgia (or similar) 12 point. Pages should not be numbered\, there should be no colour\, pictures or borders and no explanatory notes. \n6. Online entries – Pay online using PayPal. Your covering email should include: your name and address\, and the titles of your poems. The title of your email should be Yaffle Prize\, your name and PayPal transaction number eg: John Smith 9PO79127H87167P. \n7. Send your poems to: yafflesnest[at]gmail[dot]com \n8. No corrections can be made after receipt\, nor fees refunded. \n9. Worldwide copyright of poems remains with the author\, but Yaffle’s Nest will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning poems on its website\, in competition publicity and in the resulting anthology. \n10. The judge’s decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into. \n​11. Please do NOT use song lyrics in your poems. There may be copyright issues and we are a small company with limited funds. Titles are fine\, there is no copyright on titles.  \nEntry implies acceptance of the rules. Failure to comply with entry requirements will result in disqualification. \nReceipt: Yaffle’s Nest will acknowledge all entries\, if you do not see acknowledgement please check your spam filter – adding our email address to your contacts should prevent this happening. \nResults will be published on our website and social media \nThe Zoom Prizewinning event take place in Summer 2025. \nPlease pay for your entry using the PayPal email yafflesnest@gmail.com \nENTRY FEE:\n£6 for one poem \n£13 for 3 poems \n£20 for 6 poems
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-yaffles-nest-competition-theme-poems-about-the-best-songs-of-all-time/
LOCATION:Yaffle’s Nest Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:FN - Open Call to Griffith Review on the Theme: Best Dressed
DESCRIPTION:Griffith Review 90: Best Dressed \nNo matter how much or how little you care about what you wear\, your sartorial choices are inextricably stitched into your social\, cultural and personal identities. Clothing not only dictates how we define ourselves and relate to others – throughout history\, it’s also been a mode of expression\, resistance\, revolution and disruption. Put on your Sunday best for this edition of Griffith Review\, which goes behind the seams to unpick the many paradoxes of fashion. \nThings for you to note: \n* We’re looking for non-fiction and fiction that responds to the theme. \n* We want pieces that are no longer than 4\,000 words (they can\, of course\, be much shorter than this). \n* We’ll let you know the outcome of your submission within eight weeks of the call-out closing date. \nFull submissions only – no pitches\, please. \nSubmissions close: 11:59 pm AEST\, 18 May 2025 \nPublication date: November 2025
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-open-call-to-griffith-review-on-the-theme-best-dressed/
LOCATION:Griffith Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - The Literary Times Magazine Issue 06: "Forbidden"
DESCRIPTION:Theme for Issue VI: “Forbidden”\n\n\n\n\nForbidden (adjective): not allowed; banned or prohibited.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean for something to be forbidden? Is it an unspoken rule\, a law etched in stone\, or a quiet\, lingering fear that keeps us from crossing the line? Forbidden is the space between desire and denial\, between curiosity and consequence. It is the unseen boundary set by society\, morality\, or even the self—a barrier that tempts as much as it restricts. To forbid something is to give it power. The unspoken\, the hidden\, the unattainable—these are the things that haunt the mind\, that shape history and human nature alike. Love forbidden by culture or bloodlines. Knowledge kept under lock and key. Art deemed too dangerous. Words that must never be uttered. Places no one should enter. Thoughts one must not think. But who decides what is forbidden? And what happens when the forbidden is pursued\, uncovered\, broken? Does it lead to liberation or ruin\, enlightenment or chaos? In this issue\, we explore the boundaries drawn around us—by law\, by faith\, by fear—and the ones we are willing to cross\, no matter the cost. \n\n\n  \n\nSubmission Guidelines:\n\n\nWe accept submissions from writers of all levels\, but we prioritize polished and well-crafted works.\nSubmissions should be original and previously unpublished.\nSimultaneous submissions are accepted\, but please inform us at theliterarytimesmag@gmail.com if your work is accepted elsewhere.\nWe do not accept works containing; self-harm\, sexual content\, graphic violence\, Hate speech or discrimination towards any group\, religion or individual.\nAll written submissions should be in English\, formatted as a Word document or PDF. Use a standard font (Times New Roman\, Arial\, or similar) and a font size of 12. Double-space prose submissions and use single spacing for poetry.\nSubmissions will be accepted via google forms. Please write your full name/pen name\, authentic email address (preferably a Gmail) and a brief bio (50-100 words)\nPlease provide an authentic email address so that we can contact you in the future to inform you that your work has been accepted for submission. It is important to provide a valid and active email address to ensure effective communication and to keep you updated on the status of your submission.\nClearly specify the genre or category your submission falls under (e.g.\, poetry\, fiction\, nonfiction) or it may lead to rejection.\nBy submitting your work\, you grant us first-time publishing rights. Upon publication\, the rights revert back to you\, the creator. We kindly request that you credit our magazine if your work is subsequently published elsewhere.\nTheme’s interpretation is completely up to the writer/artist but failing to adhere to the theme can also result in your submission being rejected\, even if your work is well-written or technically sound.\nIf you haven’t received a response from us within 1 month after the deadline\, please consider your submission declined. We appreciate your patience and understanding.\nIf your Work does not get accepted\, don’t get discouraged\, rejection doesn’t define your worth as a writer or artist. Keep submitting!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-literary-times-magazine-issue-06-forbidden/
LOCATION:The Literary Times Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Instant Noodles Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION:The Old Scratch Press team asks that all fiction/non-fiction pieces adhere to a word count of 1000 words or less. \nThe second theme for 2025 is SANCTUARY. “Start thinking now\,” says contributing editor Nadja Maril. \nWhat ideas does the word sanctuary evoke for you? Are you thinking about being rescued\, or offering rescue? Where do you find sanctuary? Where does the word take you? Try writing a story about yourself\, something you observed\, or something entirely imaginary. \nPlease don’t use AI to make your writing or your art. \nDo look at the magazine. We have unusual covers\, great writing and art\, and we always submit to Best of the Net. \nThis issue publishes AUGUST 1\, 2025. \nThere is no submission fee for authors\, and no cost for readers. All content will be publicly available within the INSTANT NOODLES website .https://instantnoodleslitmag.com/ \nAll work must be original and must belong to the author. Works that have been previously published will not be considered. Stories must be complete and self-contained (i.e.\, do not submit chapters of a larger work). NOTE: Accepted works will be published as submitted without editing; as such\, in addition to the originality of the work itself\, we are looking for manuscripts that are clean and press ready. Be sure to review your grammar\, spelling\, tenses\, proper punctuation\, and other general rules of the written word before hitting “Send.” \nPlease include a brief bio (0-200 words\, with links) to be included on the contributors’ page of the magazine if your work is chosen. Feel free to use AI to write\, edit\, or tighten up your bio. \nWe follow up each issue with a live Zoom reading!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-instant-noodles-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-sanctuary/
LOCATION:Instant Noodles
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PF - WayWords Literary Journal Issue 19 inviting writers to explore themes of "Mountain".
DESCRIPTION:Editors’ advice: a mountain could be desolate or teaming with life; it could be a struggle\, an idea\, or a large thing in an otherwise small space. It could also be a hurdle or something to conquer. \nSend fiction (up to 5\,000 words) or poetry (up to 15 lines\, limit two per writer). \n\nRequired Title Information in the order listed\, at the top of each piece\, aligned left: \nName or Pseudonym\, email address\nEntry Title\nWayWords\nWord or Line Count \nSubmissions without correct Title Information as listed above will be rejected unread.\nSubmissions including fanfiction\, religious\, political\, or erotic content will be rejected unread.\nPlease do not submit AI-assisted content.\nPlease try to avoid subjects of abuse or suicide. Recovery subjects are welcome! \nPlease visit our website to explore our other publications\, competitions\, and resources. \n\nRights:\nWayWords requests one-time\, non-exclusive serial rights with worldwide distribution.\nWe accept simultaneous submissions\, previously published works\, and you’re welcome to submit your work elsewhere after we publish it.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pf-waywords-literary-journal-issue-19-inviting-writers-to-explore-themes-of-mountain/
LOCATION:WayWords Literary Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Fiction Potluck Contest Spring 2025. Challenge: Ocean
DESCRIPTION:up to 5\,000 words \nA Tip from Alyson: \n\n\nStories for this theme have a chance to really immerse us in the ocean’s depths—from mythical creatures and mysterious islands to terrifying trenches and lighthouses standing against time and tide. While each of these stand up on its own\, I’d also love to see deep emotional connections as well\, be it romances\, friendships\, or anything in between. \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)! \nSubmission links are below the submissions guidelines. \nOne entry per person. \n\n\nGeneral Rules\n​ \n\n\nAll entries must be in English and original works of fiction.  \n\n\nOne entry per person per challenge. \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\n  \nThe following are not accepted:​ \n\n\nSimultaneous submissions (sorry\, it’s for anonymity. You’ll know within 15 days of closure if you can sub somewhere else!) \n\n\nPreviously published works (see above) \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\nUp to 5\,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\n\n\nRights \nYour submission grants The Writer’s Workout (WW) exclusive electronic rights for 90 days. WW reserves non-exclusive rights to digitally publish winning entries indefinitely. Winning pieces will be published as received.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-fiction-potluck-contest-aprils-challenge-ocean/
LOCATION:Fiction Potluck Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - SWAMP: An Online Magazine for Postgraduate Creative Writing Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Small Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to students enrolled in postgraduate programs. \nSubmissions for Issue #35 are open! \nSWAMP Writing is currently taking submissions of previously unpublished poetry\, short fiction\, creative non-fiction and memoir from writers currently enrolled in a postgraduate program in any university across the globe. \nIssue #35’s theme: Small Worlds.The intimate spaces\, fleeting moments\, and hidden corners where life reveals its depth. A single room\, a brief encounter\, or a whispered thought\, these tiny realms often hold a quiet power that is often left unexpressed. \nWe look forward to reading your work! \nKeep submitting. Our editorial team looks forward to the honour of reading your poetry and prose. Please ask any other postgraduate Creative Writers you know to submit as well. \nSend your work to us via email at:  swampwriting@gmail.com \nWhen sending your submission: \n\n\nPlease include your name and university in the body of the email. Please also include what level of postgraduate study you are performing (Honours\, Graduate Diploma\, Masters\, PhD\, etc). A cover page is not necessary if you include all this information in your email. \n\n\nPlease type “Poetry”\, “Short Fiction”\, “Creative Nonfiction” or “Memoir” in the subject field (depending on the submission) to ensure your piece is processed by the appropriate editor in due course. \n\n\nPlease attach your written work as an attachment (Microsoft Word compatible files only)\, so we know how to format your work. If possible\, please attach each submission separately (i.e. three files for three poems). \n\n\nPlease also note: \n\nPlease do not submit work which is currently under consideration at other publications. This is purely to avoid any troubles if multiple publications select your work. \nPoets should not send more than three (3) poems for consideration at any time. \nProse writers can submit one or multiple submissions\, totaling no more than five thousand (5000) words. \nWhile we’re not a multimedia publication\, we do welcome experimental/contemporary written work. If your creative writing work is in another form (e.g. graphic novel)\, please insert “Other” into the subject field. \nSWAMP is not a refereed journal and will not publish research\, or scholarly\, essays. We also do not publish audio or video work. At this stage\, we regret to inform that SWAMP will not pay for submissions. \nCopyright remains with the author of each individual submission. SWAMP only request the rights to publish your work indefinitely. SWAMP will not remove submissions from the website if and once published. \nAny submissions after the submission date will be considered for the following issue.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-swamp-an-online-magazine-for-postgraduate-creative-writing-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-small-worlds/
LOCATION:Swamp
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Waffle Fried: A Literary Magazine on the Theme of: Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Print Issue #2\nresilience [rəˈzilēəns]\nnoun\nThe process of adapting well in the face of adversity\, trauma\, or stress\n\nLook. The world is\, essentially\, a dumpster fire\, regardless of where you live. If you turn on the news\, you see more tragedy. Hop on social media and fall into doom scrolling because there’s just so much doom out there to scroll through. \n\n\nFor Issue #2\, we’re looking for work on “resilience”. We would prefer to see work that is directly related to current events and the experience of simply being a human during perpetually unprecedented times; this is not a requirement\, but it is what we would like to read. The theme of “resilience” must be obviously present in your work\, though there is no specific way you are required to do this. Tell us about survival: what it is and what it means. Tell us about coping in a dumpster fire world. Tell us about what scares you and how to overcome it. You get the idea! We low key really hate toxic positivity\, so it’s totally fine if your work doesn’t come with a neat or positive conclusion. \n\n\nDO NOT tell us about bigotry. We are not interested in reading about blatant homophobia\, racism\, transphobia\, Islamophobia\, etc. Work submitted that includes these themes\, outside of specific purposes (ie discussing coping with/overcoming/etc homophobia\, misogyny\, etc)\, will be discarded and we reserve the right to block future submissions from any author who submits hateful and/or inappropriate material. \n\n\nSend us your fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry. We are especially interested in flash fiction/CNF\, prose poetry\, and erasure. \n\nPlease include a CW/TW if appropriate. If you’re not sure if your work needs one\, throw it on there anyway. Better safe than sorry and we promise we’ll appreciate it.\n\nWe are especially interested in flash fiction/CNF\, prose poetry\, and erasure. Fiction and CNF: 1500 words max; up to 3 poems\, up to 3 visual art pieces.\n\nAll contributors will receive a complimentary copy of Issue #2. Submissions close 4/30.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-waffle-fried-a-literary-magazine-on-the-theme-of-resilience/
LOCATION:Waffle Fried: A Literary Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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