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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  Only unpublished works.\n\nPlease don’t submit your work simultaneously on multiple journals\, I found several times works published or even featured in the Editor Choice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
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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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SUMMARY:P - Adi Magazine's Spring 2025 Open Call for Poetry on the Theme: Alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them
DESCRIPTION:Adi is interested in 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.” What 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. \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: UP TO 5 POEMS\, NO MORE THAN 10 PAGES. Previously unpublished poems only. \nIf accepted\, we pay $150/poem.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-adi-magazines-spring-2025-open-call-for-poetry-on-the-theme-alternative-political-visions-for-a-world-in-desperate-need-of-them/
LOCATION:Adi Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - WestWord Journal Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Gold
DESCRIPTION:Unearthing Treasure in Your Stories\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe clock’s ticking on our GOLD themed submissions for Edition 9\, with just 10 days left before the end of May deadline.\n\n\nBut what if you’re stuck? What if you’ve been staring at that blank page\, thinking about the precious metal but finding only fool’s good is making it onto the page? Here’s some ideas to help you dig deeper. \nGold isn’t just a precious metal. It’s the light that shines through darkness\, illuminating our shared humanity. The warmth that brings us together when the world feels cold. The glow of beloved faces in firelight\, a setting sun\, candles on a table. \nFinding new stories to tell\n\n\n\nSure\, you could write about literal gold — treasure hunts\, inheritance disputes\, wedding rings — and those stories have their place\, and if told with heart and nuance\, I’m sure they’ll resonate with us. But gold is most powerful as a metaphor for the real truth of the story revealed slantways. \nGold is the moment of understanding between strangers. The thread of compassion running through difficult conversations. The quiet generosity that asks for nothing in return. It’s the ability to see yourself in others and find connection across divides\, to recognise our common ground even in conflict. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe charge a small submission fee (£5) in order to pay writers and cover our production\, design and admin costs. We understand that this will be unaffordable for some people so we have 4 free submissions available in each period. Contact us to get one. No need to provide any explanation or evidence\, just ask. They are first come\, first served so if you do need one\, best to get in touch as soon as the submission period opens. \nWORD COUNTS\n\nShort Stories: up to 3000 words\nFlash Fictions: up to 1000 words\n\n\nAll submissions must be sent through Submittable and we cannot accept email submissions. Anything sent via email will not be read.\nPlease submit no more than one story per category in each submission period. If you are submitting to more than one category then each submission must be made separately and the submission fee paid each time.\nPlease use a legible\, easy-to-read font of at least 12pt or 14pt.\nAll submissions must be previously unpublished (never published in print or online\, including a personal blog) and in .doc\, .docx\, or .pdf format ONLY.\nSimultaneous submissions are fine but please withdraw your submission via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.\nOur submissions are open to all adult writers worldwide. All work must be written in English.Micro Fictions: up to 350 words\n  \nSubmission Guidelines\n\n\nPlease do not submit stories which glorify murder\, racism\, sexism\, homophobia\, religious hatred or any other kind of bigotry and hate. Any sex must be relevant to the story. We won’t publish graphic stories of rape\, incest\, child abuse\, bestiality\, or excessive violence and we do not want to read them.\nThis doesn’t mean we won’t publish stories that are about difficult subjects\, but they must be written with nuance\, empathy\, compassion and love for our shared humanity at the heart of them. 💙\n\nAuthor Payment\nFor each edition\, the writers we publish will share 50% of the submission fees received (after Submittable fees are deducted). All stories selected for an edition will receive the same payment no matter the length of the story. \nWe will also nominate stories for prizes (Best of the Net\, Best Small Fictions\, Best Microfictions\, etc.). \nSubmissions fee: £5
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-westword-journal-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-gold/
LOCATION:WestWord Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Open Call to tiny wren lit. Theme: Inventory
DESCRIPTION:General Submissions\nIssue Nine: Inventory \n\n\nStart making a list. For Issue 9\, we’re asking you for your best inventory poems\, also known as list or catalog poems. As the name suggests\, an inventory poem is a form + device that rely on an inventory of people\, objects\, images\, characteristics\, ideas\, emotions\, etc. \nThe list may explicitly or implicitly convey or evoke a particular emotion\, realization\, or idea/meaning. You can also look at litanies for inspiration. \nBoth the Academy of American Poets + The Poetry Foundation have some great resources + examples: List Poems\,  Taking Stock with the Catalog Poem\, + Litany Poems. \nWe gravitate toward tiny poems with deep imagery + original\, striking figurative language. Read previous issues or buy a tiny chapbook to get a sense of what we like.​ \nSubmit up to six (6) tiny poems in a single Word document (.doc or .docx or .pdf). Each poem should be on its own separate page\, single-spaced\, + in 12-point font\, nothing fancy. Work should be your own + unpublished. Before you submit\, please read our FAQ page + also make sure that your poem is a list or contains a list.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-open-call-to-tiny-wren-lit-theme-inventory/
LOCATION:tiny wren lit
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Fox Tales Contests: Black Fox Accepting Submissions for the Spring 2025 Fox Tales Prize. Theme: Mixed Messages
DESCRIPTION:Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Spring 2025 Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Mixed Messages.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre\, as always. \nAs writers\, we love working with words\, but what happens when they fail us? We are asking writers to explore the chaos\, heartbreak\, and transformation that can come from misunderstandings\, made-up truths\, and intentions gone wrong. We’re looking for work about how missed connections can influence outcomes\, where silence appears to speak louder than words\, or where a simple miscalculation in communication leads to unforeseen consequences. We are always interested in all kinds of work. Whether it’s a humorous mix-up\, disastrous failure\, or the quiet tension of words left unsaid\, the theme of miscommunication should be at the heart of your work. \nPlease submit your strongest fiction\, nonfiction\, or poetry\, and we will choose one winner that we feel interprets the theme best. The prize is $325 and print publication in the Summer 2025 issue. All submissions are considered for print publication in the Summer 2025 issue. The contest entry fee is $12\, and submissions must be submitted before midnight (EST) on June 1\, 2025. \nPlease make sure your manuscript is double-spaced with 12-point font. Submissions should be no more than 5\,000 words. For poetry\, send up to three poems in the same document. For flash fiction\, send up to two stories in the same document. Author’s name and page number should appear in the top right-hand corner of every page. We also ask that you specify the category/genre of your work in the cover letter. Please see our Submission Guidelines before submitting. \nWe will select a winner by the beginning of August 2025\, and each entrant will receive a response. \nPlease DO NOT submit work that isn’t ready. Take your time and polish your work to the best of your ability before sending it in. No changes can be made to your submission after we receive it. \n***Writers\, please note that entry fees and feedback fees are non-refundable\, and payment to the winner is awarded via PayPal. We reserve the right to extend the contest deadline if necessary.*** \nThe Black Fox team looks forward to reading your wonderful submissions! \nSubmission fee: $12
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-fox-tales-contests-black-fox-accepting-submissions-for-the-spring-2025-fox-tales-prize-theme-mixed-messages/
LOCATION:Fox Tales Contests
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:N - Dorothy Parker's Ashes Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Noise
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.\nSubmit\nPlease be advised that we reserve the right to edit\, though all edits will be sent to writer before publication for approval. Please feel free to include a suggested title and art but we reserve the right to change the title and choose the art. We do consider previously published essays\, taking into consideration venue\, date\, etc. \nAll rights are non-exclusive. We do not currently offer payment. We accept no responsibility for anything from libel to hurt feelings. As Anne Lamott says\, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them\, they should’ve behaved better.” \nPreferred length. 500 to 2000 words. \nPlease send submissions along with a short bio pasted directly into your email to: info@dorothyparkersashes.com We ask for this to avoid potentially malware-laden attachments. Unless your formatting is a specific design element of your piece\, format should be single space with no paragraph indentation and one extra space between paragraphs.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-dorothy-parkers-ashes-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-noise/
LOCATION:Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - HerStry is Seeking Redemption Stories
DESCRIPTION:Redemption Stories\nIn July we’re thinking about radical forgiveness. For ourselves and for others. How have you found redemption in this world? Come back from the edge after nearly losing it all? How have you made up with someone you thought you could never forgive? Or maybe you are still seeking redemption. Maybe you can’t let the person who hurt you back into your life. Maybe your redemption has actually come in the form of letting go. \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\n\n\nSubmissions fee: $3\n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-herstry-is-seeking-redemption-stories/
LOCATION:HerStry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Stone's Throw Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Summer Break
DESCRIPTION:School’s out for summer\, and this month at the Throw\, we want stories of junior rocketeers discovering the darker side of summer break. We’re looking for noir coming-of-age tales\, set against the backdrop of freedom afforded by summer recess. Keep it dark\, keep it mean\, but don’t glorify violence committed against children . . . it’s got to be in service to the story. \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-submissions-on-the-theme-of-summer-break/
LOCATION:Stone’s Throw
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Talk Vomit Seeking Submissions on the Theme: The Uncanny
DESCRIPTION:Submissions\n\n \n\n  \nSummer quarterly submissions are open until June 7. \nTHEME: \nOur summer edition theme is the uncanny\, however you interpret that. What happens when settings look fine — happy\, even — on the surface\, only for a distortion to be lurking just out of sight? What can the uncanny help us understand about ourselves\, our relationships\, our communities? \nSubmissions may be sent using this Google Form. \nWe manage submissions through Google Forms\, linked above. \nThe details: \n\nNon-fiction under 4\,000 words\, fiction under 2\,000\, and poetry just generally kept to a minimum\nPlease submit one prose piece or two poems.\nTurnaround times vary. Expect a response within approximately one month of submissions closing.\nTalk Vomit believes wholeheartedly in simultaneous submissions and raises their eyebrows at places that don’t. BUT\, if your piece is accepted elsewhere\, please email talk@talkvomit.com as soon as you can. If you don’t\, it stands to be quite embarrassing for both of us.\nTalk Vomit asks for first serial rights. We aim to share most work on our website\, our Substack\, and in print\, as space allows. Upon initial publication\, all rights revert back to you\, although we ask you credit Talk Vomit in the event of republication.\n\nSome stuff we particularly like: \n\nGothic stories. Not high fantasy stuff\, usually\, but moody and atmospheric pieces that take a microscope to the underbelly of our communities and relationships\nFlash satire\nEssays that weave first-person with cultural criticism; essays with a fresh coming-of-age narrative (one can come of age at many times in their life\, in many ways; Monica is currently particularly interested in coming-of-age stories related to motherhood\, fwiw)\nCultural criticism\, in general\nBook reviews\, especially those in the 300-600 word range — unless you’re baking in some first-person narrative and lengthier criticism. If that’s the case\, follow our general nonfiction word limit.\nSerial stories. Feel free to pitch one at talk@talkvomit.com. Let’s get Dickensian about it.\n\nAt the end of the day\, we’re curating each quarterly to fit a theme and meet our editorial needs. We say no to a lot of a solid pieces that we simply don’t have room for. Don’t hesitate to submit to the next round if your piece is not accepted. \nIf your piece is a thinly-veiled homage to Lolita\, we will delete it without response. Read something else. \nPayment: We’re very pleased to pay our contributors thanks to print zine sales and supporters of our Substack. Our rates are DIY-zine rates\, but we hope they will increase. Fiction and nonfiction run in the $10-30 range; poetry in the $5-15 range. The rate will be higher for print exclusives. We issue honraria via Venmo and PayPal.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-talk-vomit-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-the-uncanny/
LOCATION:Talk Vomit
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Panorama: The Journal of Travel\, Place\, and Nature. Theme: Paris
DESCRIPTION:Issue 15: Paris\n\nJuly 2025 issue: Paris\nOpens for submissions 1st May 2025 and closes for submissions 14th June 2025. \nParis has been the site of opulence\, resistance\, rebellion\, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers\, philosophy and philosophers. In this issue\, our PARIS edition\, we are looking for writing which connects with the Parisian city streets\, the arrondissements\, the banlieues—from the gilet jaune to haute couture\, to anything that responds to the idealised\, imagined\, or very real versions of Paris. \nSections open to the public for the PARIS issue: \nGeneral and speculative nonfiction: we seek all forms of nonfiction writing. For PARIS\, we are particularly interested in the crossing-over that travel provides\, whether in the aspect of the journey or the destination. Share your literal or metaphorical journey. 1500-6000 words. Please send completed works to Nonfiction Editors Sarge Lacuesta\, Tolu Daniel\, and Tanya Ward Goodman through Submittable. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to nonfictioneditor@panoramajournal.org\, title email Paris/Nonfiction \nNew nature writing is a genre-fluid form that encompasses memoir/travel/and nature writing with an especial foregrounding of the challenges of the Climate Crisis. It is a form that loves to transgress borders. We would be delighted to receive writing with an ethical dimension and ecological awareness that encourages the reader to mindfully negotiate the shared landscapes of the human and more-than-human. 1500-3000 words. Below your title include a 50-word ‘taster’ paragraph that captures the essence of the piece in italics. Think of this as the carny pitch to hook curious passersby. What will they experience inside? Please send completed works to the New Nature Writing Editor\, Dr Kevan Manwaring through Submittable. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to newnaturewriting@panoramajournal.org\, title email: Paris/New Nature Writing. \nFlash fiction: we seek short works of fiction or hybrid works for the Flash Fiction section. Pieces must be between 150 and 300 words\, after edits\, and no longer than 350 words before edits. Preference will be given to those pieces that present a strong sense of detail and place and a fleshed-out narrative. Make every word count. For the Paris issue\, we are looking for place-based/travel pieces that explore navigating difficulty\, whether that means physically\, emotionally\, politically\, environmentally\, or all of the above. Submit your work to Flash Editor Paula Read via Submittable. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to flasheditor@panoramajournal.org with the title Paris/Flash Fiction. \nPoetry: we seek poetry with a diversity of voices\, formats\, and flavours. 1-2 pages. Please send completed works to Senior Poetry Editors David Ishaya Osu and Devi Laskar and Poetry Editor Amanda White through Submittable. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your covr letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to poetryeditor@panoramajournal.org\, title email Paris/Poetry. \n\n\n\n\nGuidance\n\n\n\n\nWe require a cover letter for all submissions\, with certain information provided [introduction\, background\, publication history\, social handles]. We also ask that all submitted work be sent as a Word Doc attachment\, double-spaced\, with page numbers. We are unable to accept work within emails\, or sent as PDFs. We regret that due to the number of submissions we receive\, submissions that do not meet our guidelines are declined. For more on our guidelines\, read our FAQs and Submissions page. All emails should be sent to the section editor as indicated\, and titled as requested. By following our guidelines\, you can help us accept your work more quickly. Thank you. \nDue to the number of submissions we receive\, and our goal of publishing as many writers as possible\, writers may only submit or query one work per issue. If your submission or query is declined for an issue\, and the submission call is still open\, you can submit another work or query again to that issue. Please submit all work via Submittable.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-panorama-the-journal-of-travel-place-and-nature-theme-paris/
LOCATION:Panorama Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Humour Me Magazine's Humour Me Gold Competition. The Theme: Competition
DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSIONS\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nINTRODUCING 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 competition opens Monday\, 10th March 2025. \n*UPDATE – OUR SUBMISSION WINDOW WILL NOW BE OPEN UNTIL JUNE 14TH\, WITH A PLANNED RELEASE DATE OF JULY 4TH* \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 now be notified by Monday\, June 23rd. Humour Me Gold will be published in our usual online magazine format on July 4th. Payment to the winners will be made via PayPal after the contract has been signed. \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-humour-me-magazines-humour-me-gold-competition-the-theme-competition/
LOCATION:Humour Me Magazine
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SUMMARY:PFN - Wild Willow Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Pomegranate
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines\n\n\nEach piece should begin on a new page.\nPoetry:\n\nAttach up to 3 poems in a single .DOC\, or .DOCX format.\nPoetry should be previously unpublished.\nEach piece should begin on a new page.\n\nFiction and Flash:\n\nAttach one fiction piece up to 2\,500 words OR three flash pieces up to 1\,000 words each in a single .DOC\, or .DOCX format.\n\n\nDouble-spaced\, proper indentation\, and readable font required.\nPieces should be previously unpublished.\n\n\n\nNonfiction:\n\nAttach one nonfiction piece up to 2\,500 words in a single .DOC\, or .DOCX format.\nDouble-spaced\, proper indentation\, and readable font required.\nPieces should be previously unpublished.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe accept simultaneous submissions – but please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere!\nWe do not accept AI submissions.\nWe do not accept submissions that contain graphic sexual content\, gratuitous violence/gore\, or work that is racist\, xenophobic\, homophobic\, transphobic\, misogynistic\, or ableist.\nCopyright for your work remains with you. We do ask however\, that contributors credit Wild Willow Magazine (or The Minison Project for past contributors) if their work is republished after first appearing in our issues\, and we reserve the right to republish your work in future collections.\nWild Willow Magazine does not charge fees to submit poems to the magazine.\nWe are currently an unpaying market\, but we do promote contributor work on our social media platforms
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-wild-willow-magazine-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-pomegranate/
LOCATION:Wild Willow Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Submissions for The Muleskinner Journal Fourteen are Open! Theme: Handle and Spout
DESCRIPTION:Let’s sing! \nOur theme for Journal Fourteen is \nHandle and Spout\nHere is my handle. My trucker name. The thing we hold onto. The thing the vandals broke. The it we take care of. Here be the agent\, the trainer\, the mechanic\, the event planner\, the bannister and the potholder. The people and things that make it happen\, or won’t let it happen. The neighbor who plows the snow when you need to get away. \nAnd here is my spout. My rant. My rap. My man-splaining. The device that lets us neatly pour the hot water over the tea bag without burning our hand or missing the cup. The thing that allows for the flow. And the flow itself. Hands-free and handle-free. \nFor Journal 14\, we embrace the idea that there are two kinds of people in the workplace\, in government\, and in your life – those who handle. And those who spout. We love them both. We also embrace the teapot\, the Neti pot\, and the melting pot. The handles and the handlers. The spout and the pour. Working Separately. Working together. Helping you quench and helping you breathe. \nFor Journal 14\, take any piece of this\, and send us your creation. \nWe’ll be pouring until June 15. \nWhat we are looking for…\nMuleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following word counts to select a category to submit. Submit in only one category. Send no more than one submission per issue. \n\n\nPoetry: Any length or form. (1-3 pieces) \n\n\nFlash or Micro Fiction: max. 1000 words each (1-3 pieces) \n\n\nShort Story/excerpts from longer (previously unpublished) work: (max. 6000 words) Please include word count on first page \n\n\nCreative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words) Please include word count on first page \n\n\nWe look for writing of all kinds that uses skill\, wit\, and determination to deliver the goods.  We accept and publish poetry\, short fiction\, flash fiction\, micro-fiction\, short scripts\, excerpts from longer works\, memoir\, criticism\, craft essays\, artwork\, journalism\, and shopping lists. \nWe don’t care who you are\, as long as you are the author of what you submit.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-submissions-for-the-muleskinner-journal-fourteen-are-open-theme-handle-and-spout/
LOCATION:The Muleskinner Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Speculative Nonfiction Seeking Submissions for Issue #9 on the Theme: Promise
DESCRIPTION:Speculative Nonfiction #9: Promise \nThe theme for this issue is Promise. We look forward to reading your work about how you relate to this word:  \nConsider the promise as widely as you can imagine. Promises made\, promises lost\, promises broken\, promises never uttered\, promises made mute by time\, promises betrayed\, promises reaffirmed. \nPromise is one of the few words that has no direct opposite. It is not a Janus word\, meaning two things at once. You can break a promise like a locket\, but can a broken promise be repaired? \nThe Latin word for promise is promissum from “send forth” so ponder\, imagine\, explore and send forth your promising speculations. We eagerly await them. \nWriters’ Guidelines: In general\, we publish work of 2\,500 words or less. This is not a strict limit\, however we ask that writers only submit work that aligns with the theme of the issue and is speculative in nature. \nReading Period: We will be accepting submissions for Issue #9 through June 15\, 2025 \nNote on Submission Fee: Speculative Nonfiction waives the submission fee for writers who make a financial contribution (any amount) to either the NAACP Legal Defense Fund or The Movement for Black Lives. Please send donation receipts to speculativenonfiction@gmail.com. Thank you for supporting these organizations working to dismantle white supremacy. Additionally\, if\, for reasons of financial hardship\, you are unable to pay the $3 submission fee\, please contact us directly at speculativenonfiction@gmail.com to request a fee waiver.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-speculative-nonfiction-seeking-submissions-for-issue-9-on-the-theme-promise/
LOCATION:Speculative Nonfiction
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Wild Greens Seeking Submissions for the July Issue on the Theme of: Sweat
DESCRIPTION:Beach sun on a hot summer’s day. The pick-up kickball game at your local park. Some nerves that make your heart rate spike. Working out\, working hard\, the fear that something won’t work out. What makes you sweat? \nWild Greens accepts personal essays\, poetry\, short stories\, and cultural commentary. \n  \nPersonal essay: Submit one essay\, up to 2000 words. Written in a lively first-person voice about anything you are excited to tell readers. All essays should have an overall point or main idea that you want to get across. \n  \nPoetry: Submit up to 5 poems per issue. We adore poetry of any type or variety! Please submit poems in a single document\, and name the document with the title of the first poem and the author’s name. \n  \nShort fiction: Submit one piece of short fiction. Please keep fiction under 1000 words (or let us know if you have a longer work that you’d like serialized across several issues). Short fiction can be of any genre\, though it should in some way fit the theme of the issue for which you are submitting. \n  \nCultural commentary: Do you have an urgent or timely piece\, like a response to a cultural event? What about an untimely piece\, like a review of a TV show that you just binged but that technically came out 10 years ago? Whatever culture you’re consuming\, we want to hear about it. Commentary is welcome; please keep it under 2\,000 words. \nAll writing is reviewed by our editorial staff\, and we will request revisions before publishing your writing. We’re happy to work with you from whatever stage your writing is in\, but please proofread before hitting submit!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-wild-greens-sweat/
LOCATION:Wild Greens Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - Friends Journal Seeking Submissions on: Affinity Groups and Worship
DESCRIPTION:How are Friends organizing today? We’ve noticed that many people get a sense of belonging from affinity groups they belong to\, whether based on identity (race\, gender\, or sexual orientation) or politics or spirituality. Our biannual Quaker Works section is full of Quaker groups outside of the traditional monthly/quarterly/yearly meeting structures that bring people together for a single purpose. How do these groups speak to us as individuals? Do they strengthen our participating in our local Friends meetings or compete with it? Does it even matter if they fit with traditional structures? \nFast Facts \n\nFeatures run 1200-2500 words.\nSubmissions close June 16\, 2025.\nQuestions? Email editors@friendsjournal.org\n\nLearn more general information at Friendsjournal.org/submissions.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-friends-journal-seeking-submissions-on-affinity-groups-and-worship/
LOCATION:Friends Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:FN - A Midsummer Tale Narrative Writing Contest. Theme: Heat Wave
DESCRIPTION:A Midsummer Tale is open April 1 – June 21 annually. \nAMT is a summer-themed narrative writing contest open to non-genre1 fiction and creative nonfiction. \nThe theme of the 2025 A Midsummer Tale writing contest is: Heat Wave. \nClimate change has led to more erratic and extreme weather events in recent decades. For this year’s A Midsummer Tale\, set your story during a heat wave or heat dome. \nYour story must be set during the hot summer months and the theme must play an integral role in the story. \nIdentify your story as fiction or creative nonfiction. For CNF entries\, please indicate whether names have been changed. \nLength: 1\,000 words minimum; 5\,000 words maximum. \nDeadline for entries: 11:59 PM Pacific Time June 21\, 2025. \nSend entries to amtcontest25@toasted-cheese.com with the subject line: A Midsummer Tale Contest Entry \nEntries are blind-judged by Beaver. Decisions are final. Winners are announced July 31. \nWinning stories are published in the September issue of Toasted Cheese. \n\nIf 50 or fewer eligible entries are received\, first place receives a $35 Amazon gift card\, second a $10 Amazon gift card & third a $5 Amazon gift card.\nIf 51 or more eligible entries are received\, first place receives a $50 Amazon gift card\, second a $15 Amazon gift card & third a $10 Amazon gift card.\n\nQuestions? Ask on the contest announcement post\, on Twitter @toasted_cheese or Bluesky @toastedcheeselj. \n1“Non-genre fiction” means literary or mainstream fiction. No science fiction\, fantasy\, mystery\, horror\, thriller\, romance\, western or other genre fiction\, please. \nGeneral Writing Contest Rules\nRead these first. These rules apply to all Toasted Cheese writing contests.\nNote: These guidelines are for contest entries only.\nFAQ answers: \n\nNo entry fee.\nNo registration.\nNo geographic restrictions.\nUse the email address (see note below) that you’d want a winning gift certificate sent to or include that email address in the bio paragraph.\nOne entry per author or set of authors. Only one gift certificate will be sent per entry (i.e. gift certificates will not be split between authors who share a credit for a single winning entry).\n\nDisqualifiers: \n\nNo attachments of any kind.\nNo simultaneous submissions.\nNo plagiarism or AI-assisted entries.\nDo not send before contest opens. Do not send after contest closes.\nDo not send to any email address other than the one specified for the contest.\nDo not send more than one entry. If you find an error in your submission after sending\, indicate “corrected version” in the subject line.\n\nTips: \n\nIf a genre contest\, write in that genre.\nFollow the theme(s).\nStay within the word count parameters.\nStories must be original and previously unpublished.\n\nHow to submit:\n\nFormat your submission as you would a regular submission to the journal. Your entry should include the following elements in this order: \n\nTitle (Word Count)\nStory\nName or byline and brief bio\n\nAbout six weeks after the contest closes\, you will receive a reply to your entry email with a notification of the winning entries. If your story is a winner\, it will include information about your gift certificate. Public announcement of winners is made first on the TC page\, then on social media. Toasted Cheese and its staff are not responsible for any electronic transmission problems. \nDue to the volume of entries we receive\, judges can’t provide feedback on individual entries. We also close the email address after sending the notification so replies won’t be read. If you need to contact us\, the notification will tell you how to do that or you can go here. \nFine print:\nBy entering a contest\, you grant TC exclusive electronic rights for a period of 90 days\, should your work be chosen as a winner\, as well as a non-exclusive right to maintain a copy of published work in the literary journal archives indefinitely. \nEffective January 2008\, you also grant Toasted Cheese the right to post an audio version (podcast) of your work on the site (authors of work published 2001–2007 will be contacted to obtain permission for this use). You retain all other rights\, including the right to re-publish the work in non-electronic form at any time. Any subsequent publication should include the credit “originally published in Toasted Cheese.””Exclusive electronic rights” means that you agree not to re-publish your work elsewhere online while the issue featuring your work is current. “Publish” means any public display of your work\, and includes your personal website and posting to message boards. You are welcome to link to the page featuring your work instead. Once the issue has been archived\, you are free to re-publish your work online. \nAbout email addresses: \nAmazon gift cards sent to winners who use AOL\, Yahoo\, and Comcast email addresses more often than not do not make it into the winner’s inbox. All three also have a history of bouncing replies/notifications and making submissions look unusual or unreadable on our end. Our recommendation is to use an email address from another provider when submitting any work to Toasted Cheese (or any other literary journal).
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LOCATION:A Midsummer Tale Narrative Writing Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Shooter Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme: The Sweet Hereafter
DESCRIPTION:Submissions open for “Sweet Hereafter”\n\n\n\nSubmissions are open for issue #20 of Shooter Literary Magazine\, with the theme of “Sweet Hereafter”. \nWe’re looking for stories\, essays\, memoir and poetry to do with afterlives: life after death\, life after work\, life after having a baby\, life after divorce… Anything to do with what follows a major change in life\, when someone or something ends and significant adjustment occurs. Pieces that treat heavy subject matter – grief\, heartbreak\, loss\, bereavement\, ageing\, death – with a light or humorous touch would be especially welcome. A positive (or wild\, or bizarre\, or comic) spin on what comes after a difficult ending or change would be in keeping with both parts of the theme. \nThe theme is open to wide interpretation\, but please adhere to the submission guidelines. In addition to thematic relevance\, we seek engaging\, elegant writing that maintains a high literary standard. \nWriters should send short stories and non-fiction of 2\,000-6\,000 words and/or up to three poems by the deadline of June 22\, 2025. Please submit according to the guidelines at https://shooterlitmag.com/submissions. \nDocuments should be in Word format\, 1.5 or double spaced\, with word count indicated at the end of the (prose) piece. Please submit only one piece of prose and/or up to three poems per issue. \nPlease include a brief biography in your email\, noting any prior publishing experience\, and send work to submissions.shooterlitmag@gmail.com by June 22nd\, 2025. \nSimultaneous submissions are fine but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. Any non-fiction or journalistic work selected for publication will be fact-checked. All work must be previously unpublished either in print or online. \nSuccessful writers can expect to hear from us within a few weeks of the deadline\, if not before; all other submitters will be informed of the outcome within two months. \nRights: \nShooter acquires first rights for print and online/e-book publication and reserves the right to publish work that has appeared in the magazine on its website and related social media. \nPayment: \nUpon publication\, writers will be paid £25 per story and £5 per poem. Stories that fall below the requested minimum of 2\,000 words will be paid at poetry rates. UK contributors will receive both payment and a copy of the issue in which their work appears; non-UK contributors may choose either cash payment or a copy of the magazine. \n 
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LOCATION:Shooter Literary Magazine
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SUMMARY:N - Open Call for Performance Research. Theme: On Musicality
DESCRIPTION:Current open calls for submissions\n\nVolume 31\, Issue 3 – On Musicality\nDeadline: 25 June 2025 \n  \nIssue Editors: George Rodosthenous and Demetris Zavros \nOn Musicality aims to operate at the intersection of multiple disciplinary boundaries\, emerging research areas and evolving creative paradigms. We invite proposals that explore the evolving relationships between musicality and various elements of the mise-en-scène in contemporary performance. This includes investigations into how musicality interacts with creative processes\, influences genre formation or redefinition and contributes to the subversion or development of theatrical conventions. Our aim is to trace and analyze this expanding tessitura of connections\, revealing new insights into the role of musicality in theatre-making today. \nMusicality is understood here as a relational force – emerging through the interplay of bodies\, technologies and environments – with the capacity to reshape how we experience time\, presence and agency in performance. This issue focuses on practices that place musicality at the centre of the creative process\, exploring its generative potential as a source of material\, rather than treating it as merely a complementary or incidental layer of performance. \nIn Musicality in Theatre: Music as model\, method and metaphor in theatre-making (Routledge\, 2014)\, David Roesner explores musicality as a ‘catalyst’ that enables the ‘interaction and interplay’ between theatre and music and determines ‘how they interact and react with each other’ (p. 235). Musicality is disentangled from ‘its common use as a descriptor of individual musical ability’ (p. 8) and becomes a heuristic concept that facilitates analysis. This allows Roesner to examine musicality as an aesthetic dispositif (Foucault) that manifests in various ways in the work of theatre (p.10) practitioners historically as well as in contemporary theatre praxis; the musicality dispositif\, Roesner suggests\, has been instrumental in re-imagining theatre\, while also problematizing the competing and historically predominant dispositif of the separation between art forms\, the resulting educational disciplines\, aesthetic practices/processes and associated economic and political implications. \nA tendency towards ‘musicalisation’ is similarly observed by Hans-Thies Lehmann as one of the stylistic traits he ascribes to postdramatic theatre (2006)\, alongside Varopoulou’s ‘theatre as music’ (1998\, 2002). Alison Oddey\, in Reframing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary landscapes for performance (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2007)\, also notices a shift ‘in the director’s compositional skills\, in the creating\, composing and editing of a textual score\, in a musical theatricality to be conducted\, in a role of director that might be described as being a conductor–composer–collaborator’ (pp. 23–4). Thomas Ostermeier postulates that ‘[t]heatre is the art of processes\, of rhythms\, and therefore\, the art of organising time’ (2016: 172) and Tony Gardner examines how time structures and signatures (2012) can be analysed and used in performance creation alongside ‘compositional linguistics’\, the idea of ‘speech as music’\, extending Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints system and exploring examples from film and theatre to develop a semiotic approach to time in performance. Such ideas resonate in global traditions – like the rhythmic architecture of Indian Kathakali\, the cyclical time of Japanese Noh and the time-sculpting pulse of the gamelan in Indonesian Wayang Kulit – which demonstrate musicality not as accompaniment\, but as dramaturgical engine. \nRoesner and Rebstock introduce the term ‘composed theatre’ (2012) to capture the multifarious ways of approaching ‘the theatrical stage and its means of expression as musical material … according to musical principles and compositional techniques and apply musical thinking to a performance as a whole’ (p. 9). The diverse (and even productively contradictory) approaches employed by practitioners associated with the analytical term are discussed as contemporary extensions/interrogations of lineages that connect to practices of ‘theatricalizing music’ or ‘musicalizing theatre’. The term\, which is useful in recognizing the growing tendency towards interart and hybrid genres in contemporary theatre practice\, can also be viewed as a further extension of examining musicality as a dispositif.  Heiner Goebbels’ work exemplifies this shift\, resisting traditional narrative structures and embracing multisensory experiences that encourage audiences to make individual connections between performance elements. Goebbels’ concept of theatrical polyphony extends musical de-hierarchization to all elements of theatre\, including lighting\, sound design and video\, creating new possibilities for audience engagement and reception. \nBuilding on existing work in music-theatre and composed theatre practices\, the editors invite contributions that respond to newly emerging understandings of musicality and musicalization\, within a (post)postdramatic theatre context and beyond. The issue also responds to the turn towards orality/aurality in theatre-making of the digital age (Radosavljević 2023)\, as well as the expanding role of new technologies and increasingly hybrid forms of performance practice. \nThe editors seek to expand\, further acknowledge and ‘musically’ (re)frame the discourse on directorial approaches that embrace alternative hierarchies\, by questioning the traditional\, centralized role of the director as sole auteur\, instead promoting more collaborative (Radosavljević 2018) and decentralized models of authorship (Sidiropoulou 2020). Meanwhile\, George Rodosthenous (2023) proposes a framework that integrates musicality and transformative mise-en-scène\, further blurring the lines between traditional directing and composition. \nThe issue also invites contributions that explore examples of the growing centrality of musicality in contemporary actor training pedagogies. For example\, Konstantinos Thomaidis maps recent developments in voice pedagogy (2019)\, highlighting a shift towards more integrated\, relational and embodied approaches\, some of which foreground musicality as a central mode of enquiry. Thomaidis also explores musicality in relation to ‘physiovocality’ (2014)\, illustrating alternative models of integrating voice and movement in Gardzienice’s practice. Ben Spatz likewise places musicality at the heart of training\, framing embodied practice as knowledge (2010\, 2015). \nWe are also particularly interested in emergent research methodologies in which musicality\, as introduced at the outset of this call for papers\, operates not merely as content but as a generative principle – a way of knowing\, structuring and sharing that challenges conventional scholarly formats and opens up novel epistemic and performative potentials. Projects exploring polyphonic and multimodal research designs\, such as Anna Helena McLean’s recontextualization of Polish theatre training techniques (2019) and Spatz’s multimedia citation of Gardzienice’s work (2014)\, showcase the potential for musicality to drive new forms of knowledge generation and transmission. Demetris Zavros’s Practice as Research in ‘music-centric’ theatre (2009\, 2012) also examines approaches to creative practice in relation to musical conceptual models and searching for productive conjectures in the field of performance philosophy (for example\, Deleuzian ‘refrain’ and ‘becoming music’). \nThe politics of musicality\, both in relation to aesthetic practice and process\, form a significant part of the investigation here. We are particularly interested in how the musicality dispositif can be productive in re-invigorating feminist and postcolonial modes of resistance in theatre making. Jennifer Walshe\, among others\, uses musicality as a deeply political tool by constantly re-defining music and its place in how cultural narratives are constructed and documented (for example\, Aisteach (2015)). In ULTRACHUNK (2018)\, created with Memo Akten\, Walshe performs alongside an AI-generated version of herself\, forming a live dialogue between human and machine. In her essay 13 Ways of Looking at AI\, Art & Music\, she frames this relationship as a ‘companion species’ (after Donna Haraway)\, offering a nuanced alternative to dominant tech dystopias. \nThis call for papers invites contributions that expand the discourse on musicality in contemporary theatre\, and approaches that challenge Eurocentric frameworks. We encourage innovative perspectives that reframe artistic hierarchies\, collaborative authorship and the intersections of embodied practices\, technologies and transformative research methodologies. From the collective polyphony of Balinese Kecak to the relational agency of West African Griot storytelling\, from the affective chant of Iranian Ta’zieh to the epistemological rhythms of Aboriginal Corroboree\, diverse global practices challenge dominant modes of authorship and production. We are especially interested in work that engages with these and other musical traditions\, performance practices and aesthetic philosophies from across the globe\, addressing how they shape the aesthetic\, epistemic\, and political dimensions of performance-making today. \nIndicative themes for contributions to this special issue will include\, but are not limited to\, the following areas: \n\nMusicality and Aesthetics\, Ethics and Politics\nMusicality and Composed Theatre\nMusicality and Collaboration/Re-imagination of Hierarchies\nMusicality\, Feminist and Postcolonial Modes of Resistance\nMusicality and Internationalization/Cross-cultural Collaboration\nMusicality and Approaches to Actor Training\, Directing and Rehearsal Methods\nMusicality and the Dramaturgy of the Mise-en-scène\nMusicality in Research Methodology Design and Documenting/Archiving Performance Praxis\nMusicalization and Writing: Writing as Composition\nMusicality and Polyphony/Chorality in Performance\nMusicality and Aurality/Orality\, Sound (Design) and Soundscapes\nMusicality in Digital\, Intermedial and Posthuman Performance Contexts\nMusicalization as a conduit between Semiosis and Materiality; Meaning and Affect\nMusicality and notions/experiences of Collectivity\, Community and Memory\nMusicality and Accessibility\, Disability and Inclusive practices\n\n  \nFormat \nAuthors are invited to submit 300- to 400-word abstracts (with a 100-word author bio) for articles (6\,000 words)\, critical essays and provocations (3\,000 words)\, including short essais (3\,000 words)\, interviews\, practice-research essays\, poetic interventions and other contributions that attend to (but are not limited to) any aspect(s) of the above. Non-standard formats such as artist pages\, highly illustrated articles and other contributions that use distinctive layouts and typographies are welcome. \nThe editors are committed to diversity and inclusion\, and warmly encourage contributions from all sections of the academic and artistic community\, including those who are likely to be under-represented in scholarship. \n  \nIssue Contacts: \nAll proposals\, submissions and general enquiries should be sent directly to Performance Research at: info@performance-research.org \nIssue-related enquiries should be directed to the issue editors:\nEmail:  George Rodosthenous: g.rodosthenous@leeds.ac.uk; Demetris Zavros; d.zavros@ljmu.ac.uk \n  \nSchedule: \nProposals: 25 June 2025 \nOutcomes: July 2025 \nFirst drafts: October 2025 \nFinal drafts: March 2026 \n  \nGeneral Guidelines for Submissions: \n\nBefore submitting a proposal\, we encourage you to visit our website – www.performance-research.org – and familiarize yourself with the journal.\nProposals should be created in Word – this can be standard Microsoft Word .doc or .docx via alternative word processing packages. Proposals should not be sent as PDFs unless they contain complex designs re artist pages.\nThe text for proposals should not exceed one page\, circa 500 words.\nA short 100-word author bio should be included at the end of the proposal text.\nSubmission of images and other visual material is welcome provided that there is a maximum of five images. If practical\, images should be included on additional pages within the Word document.\nProposals should be sent by email to info@performance-research.org\nPlease include your surname in the file name of the document you send.\nPlease include the issue title and number in the subject line of your email.\nSubmission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original\, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.\nIf your proposal is accepted\, you will be invited to submit an article in first draft by the deadline indicated above. On final acceptance of a completed article\, you will be asked to sign an author agreement in order for your work to be published in Performance Research.
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DESCRIPTION:We accept original submissions of short fiction in any genre (up to 3500 words)\, both formal and free verse poetry (up to 50 lines) as well as works of creative nonfiction (up to 3500 words).\n\n\nSubmissions for \nISSUE 10 // THEME: JOURNEY \n are now OPEN \n\n\n\nIn August 2025 we look forward to celebrating the 10th issue of inScribe\, devoted to the theme of “Journey”. Life itself is a journey – from past to present and beyond – marked by countless local ventures from here to there\, then to now. The stories we tell reflect this\, with the idea of a hero’s journey or quest being central to storytelling traditions across the globe. Journeying itself is a powerful image for describing  the many ways in which we experience change and transition\, while travel writing has proved a perennial source of entertainment and insight since ancient times. As we all experience life from our own unique perspective\, no two journeys are ever the same\, while every poem and every story has the potential to open up new avenues for fruitful exploration – for writer and reader alike! So\, where has your writing taken you? And where will it take us? We can’t wait to find out and share the journey together with our readers!  \nFor any enquiries\, please contact us at  inscribe@tabor.edu.au \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWRITE FOR US\n\n\n\n\n\nJOURNAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:\n​​ \n\n\nTo be considered for publication\, your work must be submitted via our online submission form\, here: https://fs20.formsite.com/john1420/zg9d1wbpmu/index \n\n\nThe submission form will ask you to attach your work as a Microsoft Word document. No other file types will be read by our editing team. \n\n\nPlease ensure the attached file bears the same name as the title of your work and that it does not contain your name or identify you in any way. \n\n\nWe ask that you format your submission using a plain\, size 12pt font (e.g. Arial\, Calibri or Times New Roman) with 1.5 line spacing. \n\n\nIn preparing your work for submission\, take note of any advertised themes for our up-coming editions. \n\n\nBe sure to edit and proofread your work thoroughly prior to sending it to inScribe. \n\n\nYou may submit as many works as you like\, but please complete a separate submission form for each title (also bear in mind that sending multiple works does not automatically improve your chances of publication – quality over quantity is far more important). \n\n\nBe sure to observe the maximum length of 3\,500 words per story (fiction and non-fiction) and 50 lines per individual poem. \n\n\n​ \n\n\nPUBLISHING REGULATIONS:\nAll submitting authors will be notified of the decision of the editorial team as to whether or not their submission has been successful. This decision is final\, and dispute will not be entered into.  \nAll work accepted may be subject to minor formatting and proofreading alteration without notice. Permission for any substantive corrections or editorial changes will be sought from the author prior to publication. \nGenerally\, we request that all submissions are of previously unpublished work. If you wish to submit work that has already appeared in print or online\, please indicate when and where it was published\, in the body of your submission email. \nCopyright remains with author; however\, inScribe journal reserves the right to re-print previously published works on our website and/or in subsequent print editions. \nShould your work be published elsewhere after appearing in inScribe\, we request as a courtesy that you acknowledge when and where it was first published with us. \ninScribe journal is a not-for-profit venture; any money raised via subscription and sales will be directed into the ongoing running cost of the website and to improve the quality and availability of the journal.
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