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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 \nWhat we are looking for…\nMuleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only.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\n\n\nFlash or Micro Fiction: max. 1000 words each (1-3 pieces) \n\n\nShort Story/excerpts from longer (previously unpublished) work: (max. 6000 words) Please include word count on first page \n\n\nCreative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words) Please include word count on first page \n\n\nWe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.
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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.
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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!
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LOCATION:Wild Greens Magazine
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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.
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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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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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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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SUMMARY:PFN - inScribe: Journal of Creative Writing Seeking Submissions for Issue 10 on the Theme: Journey
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.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-inscribe-journal-of-creative-writing-seeking-submissions-for-issue-10-on-the-theme-journey/
LOCATION:inScribe Journal of Creative Writing
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Open Submission Call for Raconteur Press Anthology Series Theme: Alien Family Values - Chosen Kindred
DESCRIPTION:Alien Family Values – Chosen Kindred\nWith guest editor Sandra Medlock! \nIn the midst of war\, family life goes on\, taking new form as adoptions\, fosters\, and blood relatives all choose love over conflict. Disruptions leave civilizations reeling in the wake of battles\, while homes shelter aliens\, humans\, any species that need succor. \nTell us the stories of how this happens\, who is involved\, what the consequences will be\, and why it came to be that this choice was the best possible outcome. \nFrom Sandra: “I’d like to focus on positive stories for this volume—a family emphasis\, but one that doesn’t go dark. Pretty close to what we had in the first\, but a feel-good\, family-first vibe.” \nOpens: 05/10/25\nCloses: 06/29/25\nContracts: 07/12/25\nPublication: 08/08/25 \nGuidelines for all our anthologies (psst! this is important!): \n5\,000 to 8\,000 words. Length and genre are negotiable\, as long as the story fits the concept and is entertaining. Any submission must be in Times New Roman (preferred\, but you can use Georgian or other readable font)\, 12PT\, double-spaced\, with your name\, title of the story\, and your email on it. Name the file as [STORYTITLE]-[YOURLASTNAME]—[ANTHOLOGYTITLE]. Send it in a .docx format as an attachment—no links. Refer to the submission guideline graphic below for how to format your story—It has all the information you need! Feel free to download it for reference. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaconteur Press will hold the rights for one year after publication; after one year\, the rights will revert to the author\, but we continue to pay you as long as the anthology is selling. Authors receive an equal percentage share of the proceeds from the anthology\, along with the Press\, our editors\, and administration. Yes\, you read that right. We don’t take 80% off the top and split the 20% left over between all the authors. We’re all in this together. This is why our anthologies are limited to ten stories. \nIMPORTANT: PLEASE do NOT submit stories until the date the call opens. We don’t want to hang on to your piece for longer than necessary. You might find another market for it\, or it decides to grow into a novel\, or…so go ahead and write it\, but tuck it away\, and revisit it before submitting. \nRaconteur Press uses Pubshare (pubshare.com) to distribute payments and handle tax forms for anthology authors\, so authors who contribute must have a free Pubshare account. \nIMPORTANT: when you set up your Pubshare account\, you MUST choose the method by which you want to receive your royalties. There are currently two choices: PayPal at the beginning of each month\, or paper cheque each quarter. BE SURE that you have chosen a method of payment and input the required information. If you don’t\, Pubshare will hang onto your royalties until you choose a method of payment and input the required information. \nDOUBLE SECRET PROBATION IMPORTANT: One story submission per anthology. And the counting of submissions shall be one submission. The number of submissions shall not be two. Three is right out. \nSubmit to: racpresssubmissions[at]gmail.com \nQuestions about our publishing schedules can be addressed to Production[at]raconteurpress.com. \nFinally\, if you want to ensure your manuscript is read and is seriously considered for publication\, read this. \n\nPrintable schedule and open call list of 2025 anthologies can be downloaded here.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-open-submission-call-for-raconteur-press-anthology-series-theme-alien-family-values-chosen-kindred/
LOCATION:Raconteur Press Anthology Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Free the Verse Poetry Competitions Theme: Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our first international poetry competition of 2025! We’re looking for all kinds of poetry on the theme of Remembering. As always\, we encourage you to bend the rules with both content and form. \nDeadline for entry: June 30th 2025 \n\n\nThere will be one prize winner. The winning poet will receive a prize of $100 (USD)\, plus publication of their poem as a standalone piece on Free the Verse. Payment will be made via PayPal. \n\n\nThe entry fee is $3.49\, and you may submit 1 poem per entry. Multiple entries are permitted. All fees are used to cover our operating costs. \n\n\nAll entries must be original work that is owned by the entrant. We accept poems which have previously been published\, and simultaneous submissions are permitted. We do not accept poems previously published in our magazine\, Free the Verse. \n\n\nThe winning poet will be notified by email within 2 months of the competition closing. \n\n\nYou will retain the copyright to your work. By entering the competition\, you grant Free the Verse the right to publish your poem and name on our website and in any associated marketing materials. \n\n\nThis is an international competition – however\, at this time\, we only accept poems written in English. You are welcome to include words and phrases from other languages. \n\n\nYou must be over 18 years old to submit. \n\n\n  \nEntry Fee: $3.49
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-free-the-verse-poetry-competitions-theme-remembering/
LOCATION:Free the Verse Poetry Competitions
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Callout for Submissions to Last Stanza Poetry Journal\, Issue 21: Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The theme for Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #21 is Conversation. Conversations\, painful or joyful discussions\, debates\, gossip\, pillow talks\, or conversations you’ve always wished you could have had. \nThe deadline for submissions is June 30th\, 2025. A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem. There is never a reading fee. An interview with the Editor’s Choice Award winner will be published in the same issue (optional). \nPoems may be any style\, but preferably non-rhyming. Submit up to three poems\, each no longer than 64 lines\, to laststanza@outlook.com as a single Word document or within the body of an email. There is no budget for author copies\, as proceeds are used to purchase copies for libraries. Published poems will be considered for a Pushcart Prize nomination. Authors retain all rights to their poems. Reprints are no longer accepted. \nLast Stanza Poetry Journal is published worldwide in ebook\, softcover\, and color-illustrated hardcover. It is available primarily from Amazon\, but some issues are also available via these sites and others: Barnes & Noble\, Walmart\, Book Depository\, Blackwell\, and Powell’s.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-callout-for-submissions-to-last-stanza-poetry-journal-issue-21-conversation/
LOCATION:Last Stanza Poetry Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - My Writing Journey Competition. Theme: The worst writing mistake I’ve ever made
DESCRIPTION:The My Writing Journey Competition is free to enter and open to writers from around the world.\n\n\n\n\nWrite us a 600-word essay on the theme: The worst writing mistake I’ve ever made. \nMake it funny\, heartfelt\, quirky and real. We’ll publish the best piece in our newsletter and on our blog – plus the winner receives NZ $200 (R2 000 or £100). \nCOMPETITION RULES:\n\nSend in your entry in the body of the email\, not as an attachment.\nUse the subject line ‘My Writing Journey Competition’ in your email.\nEntries must be no more than 600 words and must be the author’s original work.\nEntry is free.\nThe competition is open to anyone aged 16 and over.\nAll submissions and enquiries can be sent to Nichola:  nichola@nzwriterscollege.co.nz\nThe competition is open to any writer living anywhere in the world.\nOnly one essay per entrant is allowed.\nPrizewinners will be notified via email as well as on our website; please ensure you supply a valid email address with your entry.\nWriters retain full copyright over their work.\nThe judges’ decision is final; no disputes will be entered into.\nIf your entry has not been acknowledged within three working days\, please contact us as your email may have got lost in transit.\nAbsolutely no generative AI to be used (ChatGPT etc.). If we deem stories were not written by a human\, they will be excluded.\nThe Writers’ College reserves the right to extend the competition deadline or cancel the competition should the entries not be of publishable quality or up to the required standard.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-my-writing-journey-competition-theme-the-worst-writing-mistake-ive-ever-made/
LOCATION:My Writing Journey Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest 2025. The Theme: Risk
DESCRIPTION:THE 2025 GOLDEN QUILL WRITING CONTEST\nGet your words ready! The theme for the 2025 SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest is: RISK. \nThe Golden Quill Writing Contest is a tri-genre contest that awards a total of $1\,650 in prizes and publication in the 2025 issue of The NightWriter Review to the first\, second\, and third place short story\, creative nonfiction piece (essays and memoir)\, and poem engaging with this year’s theme: risk. \nThis year’s final entries will be judged by Juliet McDaniel\, the author of Mr. and Mrs. American Pie\, the novel upon which the hit Apple TV+ series Palm Royale is based (fiction); Deanne Stillman\, the author of American Confidential\, Twentynine Palms\, Mustang\, and Desert Reckoning (creative nonfiction); and San Luis Obispo County poet laureate Caleb Nichols (poetry). \n  \nCONTEST RULES & GUIDELINES\n\nThe 2025 theme is “risk”. All submissions must engage with the theme in some way.\nAll submissions must be previously unpublished.\nThe contest is open to writers 18 years old and over residing in the United States and Canada.\nFiction and creative nonfiction (essays and memoir): up to 5\,000 words.\nPoetry: up to 60 lines of poetry per poem; up to 3 poems per submission.\nPlease use industry standard formatting as applicable to your form: Times New Roman\, 12 pt.\, double-spaced\, one-inch margins.\nFirst-place winners in each category will receive a $350 cash prize and publication in the 2025 issue of The NightWriter Review.\nSecond-place winners in each category will receive a $150 cash prize and publication in the 2025 issue of The NightWriter Review.\nThird-place winners in each category will receive a $50 cash prize and publication in the 2025 issue of The NightWriter Review.\nAll entries will be considered for publication in the 2025 issue of The NightWriter Review.\nAll submissions will be online through our Duosuma submission portal.\nMultiple submissions are welcome\, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry.\nSimultaneous submissions are welcome\, but please withdraw the piece immediately if accepted elsewhere.\nEntry fees are nonrefundable.\nCurrent SLO NightWriters Board Members are ineligible.\nEntry fee: $20 for SLO NightWriters members and $25 for nonmembers.\n\nCONTEST DIRECTOR: Harvey Ardman. Please direct any questions to: harveyardman.ha@gmail.com. \nAll entrants will be subscribed to our mailing list unless you choose to opt out. We respect your privacy–you may unsubscribe at any time.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-free-the-verse-poetry-competitions-the-theme-remembering/
LOCATION:SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - The Alchemy Spoon Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Food
DESCRIPTION:Submission Guidelines for Poems \n       \n​\n                                                                                                                                \n​\nWhen our submission window is open you can access our DUOSUMA submissions portal using our submissions page\, but please read the guidelines first!  By submitting your work you give permission for The Alchemy Spoon to publish that work and confirm that it has not been published previously in books\, magazines\, webpages or on social media. The copyright of all submissions remains with the author\, if the work is accepted for publication in The Alchemy Spoon  then the author agrees that any subsequent publication will acknowledge The Alchemy Spoon as first publisher. Once accepted then we are not able to accept any corrections or edits other than typographical  errors or  those requested by the editors. \nWe run The Alchemy Spoon on a break even basis so are not able to offer free copies to contributors – we do however send a discount code to those with poems in the issue which gives a 50% discount on the price of one copy. \n\n\nYou will be asked to create a free account with Duotrope if you are not already registered  with them\nAll your poems must be in ONE word-compatible document  \nYou can submit up to 3 poems\, you MUST enter the title of each poem (piece) on Duosuma when you submit\nPoems should be in 12 point Times New Roman with a maximum 40 lines not including the title \nOur pages have a page width of 16cm and print width of 11.5cm (4.5 inches) between margins so poems with very long lines can be difficult to format.\nEnter  a  brief bio\, maximum of 50 words\, in the third person  in the  Duotrope submission manager \nStart a new page for each poem with your name at the end of the poem  on each page \n\n  \n\nWe are only able to accept submissions from those over 18\nSimultaneous submissions are permitted but please tell us straightaway if a poem is accepted for publication elsewhere\nWe aim for a speedy turn-round and will respond to every submission but we don’t offer individual feedback\nNo changes can be made after submission\nAuthors retain all rights. However\, if a poem is subsequently published elsewhere\, please acknowledge that it first appeared in The Alchemy Spoon \nOur submission window for Issue 16 will open on  1st  –   30th   June 2025 and the theme will be ‘food’\nPlease note our policy on the use of AI in poems or images submitted\nIf you have a poem published in Issue 15 we ask that you wait for Issue 17 before submitting again 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-the-alchemy-spoon-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-of-food/
LOCATION:The Alchemy Spoon
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal. Theme: Body of Land
DESCRIPTION:Submissions are restricted to lesbians.\nBody of Land\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinister Wisdom: Body of Land\nCall for Submissions \nSinister Wisdom’s Body of Land issue will take readers to a different place—the continent of so-called ‘Australia.’ Body of Land seeks to showcase diasporic and First Nations lesbian\, bisexual\, queer\, trans and gender-nonconforming perspectives in so-called ‘Australia’. As individuals both situated at the intersection of marginalised identities\, we want this issue to provide an outlet for lesbian/queer voices that are too often overlooked in a context where whiteness dominates queer representation. Thus\, we hope this anthology will carve out a space for these voices to fill the pages of an established publication like Sinister Wisdom. \nThe theme\, Body of Land\, was chosen as a framework for exploring the significance of ‘place’ from diasporic and First Nations lesbian/queer standpoints in so-called ‘Australia’\, with ‘land’ acting as a throughline between disparate experiences and histories. We define diaspora as communities with cultural ties outside of the lands on which they reside; as individuals with experiences and feelings of cultural difference and/or unbelonging within the hegemonic culture of so-called ‘Australia.’ We also seek definitions of diaspora that are not solely conceptualised through a lens of loss and nostalgia for ‘home’\, but are considered through the lens of dynamic creativity\, heterogeneity\, fluidity and re-invention. \nAs a settler colony\, ‘Australia’ occupies the unceded Lands of First Nations People\, who\, as the original Custodians\, have cared for\, thrived and created on this deeply storied continent for millennia. We thus recognise that this diaspora exists on stolen lands and benefits from systems that actively oppress Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples\, and we hope to engage with art and writing that meditates on bonds of solidarity with First Nations Peoples. \nThis issue aims to highlight works that consider the interplay between cultural and lesbian/queer identities and how this informs notions of belonging. How are bodies treated differently in different geographies? What are the physical limitations that are imposed on racialised queer bodies? What are the emotional landscapes that accompany the restrictions and/or freedoms of movement? How do histories of lesbian/queer migration\, exile\, displacement shape dis/connection to land\, self\, community and place? How are queer communities created and navigated within diaspora/s? How are ideas of ‘kinship’ asserted\, expanded and/or complicated across geography and time? \nBody of Land also seeks work that explores queer erotic worlds\, how our desires are influenced and satiated. How do we\, as lesbians and queer people\, relate to each other and to our bodies? What are the societal and culturally imposed shames that we have overcome? What shapes do our lusts trace? How do we negotiate lesbian/queer desire across cultures and geographies? What does it mean to belong to a body? \nThrough these provocations\, we seek a deepening of understanding of lesbian/queer diaspora and First Nations perspectives. In doing so\, we seek to draw attention to the importance of cultural specificity and multiplicity in shaping lesbian/queer experiences. \nThis project hopes to establish Sinister Wisdom as a publication here in so-called ‘Australia’ and equally\, to showcase lesbian\, queer and feminist storytellers of the Pacific region to Sinister Wisdom’s current readership. In this way\, this issue aspires to be the beginning of a much broader project of transnational queer solidarity and community-building. \nWe seek submissions of prose (fiction\, nonfiction\, creative nonfiction\, hybrid) and poetry. We welcome written pieces in any language as well as multilingual works. Previous publication experience is not required. Submissions are accepted through Sinister Wisdom’s Submittable. Writers may submit a maximum of five poems\, two short stories or essays\, or one longer piece of up to 5\,000 words. Pitches of up to 200 words are also welcome\, with or without examples of previous writings/publications. Artists may submit a maximum of 3 pages of visual art or comics. Deadline for submissions: June 30\, 2025. \nIf this project sparks your interest and/or if you have any questions\, please get in touch! We look forward to reading your work.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-sinister-wisdom-a-multicultural-lesbian-literary-art-journal-theme-body-of-land/
LOCATION:Sinister Wisdom
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Yay! All Queer Anthology: Free and Queer Seeking Stories with LGBTQ+ characters
DESCRIPTION:Theme: Yay! all queer II – An LGBTQ+ anthology. We’re searching for LGBTQ+ characters who have a central position within the story. This will be a diverse and inclusive anthology. \n\n\nThere are no restrictions on gender or sexuality. Feel free to create an engaging story with your favorite genre or setting. Mystery\, romance\, fantasy\, or sci-fi are all welcome if the story and characters grab the reader’s interest. \nStories that contain infanticide\, gratuitous gore\, or rape\, including dubious consent\, will not be considered. Explicit romance will not be appropriate for this anthology\, bring it down a notch\, and we’ll certainly give it a look. \nSubmissions: No AI\, 1 per author; no reprints\, no simultaneous submissions; \nSubmission Cost: Free \nWord Limit: 2\,000 to 6\,000 words \nSubmission Guidelines: Anonymous submission with no author name in document; 12 pt Times or Arial; .Doc or .Docx; double-space; first line indent; no tabs used. \nGenres: LGBTQ+ \nAnticipated Pay: Royalty share of D2D sales \nEach contributor will receive a share\, as will the publisher\, from the sales on the D2D platform. This does not include Kickstarter funds unless detailed in the Stretch goals\, wholesale to authors\, or other retail outlets. \nTimeline Projections:\nSubmissions close: June 2025\nReview: July 2025\nAcceptance / Rejection: July/August 2025\nEdits: August/September 2025\nProduction: October 2025\nPublished: November 2025 \nUpon acceptance\, the author is expected to work with the editors on at least one round of revisions in MSWord. Our publication goal will be in 2025; however\, the extensive time needed to review and edit submissions may vary depending upon the submitted works and author’s response times. Inkd Publishing LLC will hold first publication rights for four months after publication and the continuing non-exclusive right to reproduce the work in Yay! all queer: Free and Queer. \nAuthors must provide assurance that their story submission is an original\, previously unpublished work\, is not currently under consideration elsewhere\, and that it will not be submitted for publication elsewhere prior to receiving notification that it has not been accepted for inclusion in Yay! all queer: Free and Queer \nAuthors can expect ongoing financial compensation from Draft 2 Digital for stories published in the anthology. An account with Draft 2 Digital will be required to provide royalty share payments. \nOne complimentary copy of the printed anthology will be shipped to the US only. \nSubmit Here
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-yay-all-queer-anthology-free-and-queer-seeking-stories-with-lgbtq-characters/
LOCATION:Yay! All Queer Anthology
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Seeking Trans and Genderqueer Voices for Trans and Genderqueer Voices Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Trans and Genderqueer Voices Anthology – Title TBD\n\nDEADLINE: June 30\, 2025\, at midnight Pacific Time. \nSubmit poems\, flash fiction\, short stories\, creative nonfiction\, essays\, and unclassified other writing of any style and theme. \nThe work must be written by a trans/genderqueer person. Collaborative work is okay\, as long as all authors are aware of the submission. If accepted\, all authors will need to sign a contract. At least one of the authors must be trans/genderqueer. \nPoems: Submit up to 3 poems in a single file submission. No more than 30 lines per poem\, not including the title or blank lines between stanzas. \nFlash Fiction: Submit up to 3 pieces in a single file submission. No longer than 500 words\, not including the title. Different word processors and websites count words differently. If your piece is slightly over in the counter we use\, it may still be accepted. \nShort Stories (Fiction): Submit 1 piece. 501-2500 words\, not including the title. \nCreative Nonfiction: Submit 1 piece. Maximum 2500 words\, not including the title. \nEssays: Submit 1 piece. Maximum 2500 words\, not including the title. \nOther Formats: Submit 1 piece. Please provide a short paragraph at the top of your file briefly explaining your vision for this piece. \nPayment: $20 CAD + an equal share of sales. You’ll need to create a Draft2Digital account for this\, if you don’t already have one. You can choose to waive your share and donate it. You will also receive a digital copy of the anthology. 50% of profits will go to supporting organizations that fight for trans and LGBTQIA+ rights. The other 50% will be divided equally among contributors and the publisher. \nSimultaneous Submissions: Yes. Please immediately inform us if your piece is accepted elsewhere. If we really like it\, we may still wish to publish it. If so\, we will discuss which rights you are giving the other publication and see if we can make it work. \nMultiple Submissions: Yes\, sort of. You can submit once per category (see above). That means you can submit a maximum of 6 separate times. Please follow the guidelines for each category. \nFormat: We aren’t too hung up on formatting. Just make it easy for us to read. \n\nNo PAGES files.\nDOC or DOCX preferred.\nPDF accepted for poetry or any text requiring special formatting.\nPlease title your file as follows: Title – Author Name (My Beautiful Story – Wry Ter).\n\nThis title must match the title in the document and in your submission form. No exceptions (minor typos are fine).\n\n\n\nAll submitters will be contacted. It might take a while\, since a single reader will be going through all the submissions. If you haven’t heard from us by the end of 2025\, feel free to (politely) query.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-seeking-trans-and-genderqueer-voices-for-trans-and-genderqueer-voices-anthology/
LOCATION:Trans and Genderqueer Voices Anthology
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Moss Puppy Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Cedar
DESCRIPTION:Call For Submissions: Cedar\nMoss Puppy Magazine is excited to collaborate with writer and dog mom Kelli Lage for our next pop-up issue\, themed “Cedar.” Inspired by Kelli’s own pup of the same name\, this theme invites us to explore how the familiar shifts meaning—how something as simple as a tree can become a companion\, a memory\, a symbol. Focus your poetry on the relationships between dogs\, trees\, and the familiar. What can a cedar become\, hold\, or represent? What stories do the cedars in your hometown tell? Your current town? Writers are not required to use the word “cedar” in their piece. \n\n\n\nPoetry\n\n\nPreferred Formatting:​ \n12 point font\, Times New Roman\, single-spaced \nSubmit up to three poems separately using the appropriate Google Form. \nPoems can appear within one document\, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes. \n\n\nProse\n\n\nPreferred Formatting:​ \n12 point font\, Times New Roman\, double-spaced\, indented \nSubmit up to 3\,000 words of prose using the appropriate Google Form. \nProse can appear within one document\, but should be submitted separately for organizational purposes. \n\n\n\n\n  \nWhile we cannot pay contributors or provide contributor copies at this time\, we hope that this will be an option for Moss Puppy in the future.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-moss-puppy-magazine-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-cedar/
LOCATION:Moss Puppy Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6849-1751356800-1751389200@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN - Still Point Arts Quarterly Seeking Submissions on the Theme: On the Road
DESCRIPTION:On the Road | Journal Submission | Fall 2025 \n“Nothing behind me\, everything ahead of me\, as is ever so on the road.” \n—Jack Kerouac\, On the Road \nStill Point Arts Quarterly is accepting writing submissions (fiction\, creative non-fiction\, essays\, poetry; 5000 words maximum) on the theme On the Road. \nDATES AND DEADLINES \nJuly 1\, 2025 – Submissions Close (Deadline) \nAugust 15\, 2025 (or earlier) – Notification of Writers \nSeptember 1\, 2025 – Still Point Arts Quarterly Fall Issue Released \nGENERAL GUIDELINES AND POLICIES \n\nPlease do not email or call us to ask about the review process or results. We will email you when we have made a decision regarding your submission.\nIf we decide to publish your work\, we will send a writing agreement for your review and signature. Typically we ask for one-time print and digital rights. You may republish your work at any time.\nPlease know that we typically receive well over 100 poetry submissions\, and we accept between 5 and 8. To keep things somewhat orderly\, we limit all writing submissions to one piece per person.\nWe do accept reprints.\nIf we have published your work previously\, we have no waiting period for submitting work again. We’ll gladly accept good writing whenever we receive it.\n\n\nCategories: Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry\nFile types: .doc\, .docx\nNumber of Pieces: 1 piece\nAnonymous submissions are not required.\nSimultaneous submissions are allowed.\nReprints are allowed.\nMultiple entries are not allowed.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-still-point-arts-quarterly-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-on-the-road/
LOCATION:Still Points Arts Quarterly
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6861-1751356800-1751389200@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN - THEMA Seeking Submissions on the Theme: I Wish I'd Said That
DESCRIPTION:Submissions \nNOTE: Previously published pieces are welcome\, provided that the submission fits the theme and that the author owns the copyright. \nThe premise (target theme) must be an integral part of the story\, not necessarily the central theme but not merely incidental. NOTE: Stories longer than 20 double-spaced typewritten pages will not be considered. Indicate premise (target theme) on title page. Be sure to Indicate target theme in cover letter or on first page of manuscript. Include self-addressed\, stamped envelope (SASE) with each submission. Rejected manuscripts unaccompanied by an SASE will not be returned. Response time: 3 months after premise deadline.  NO READER’S FEE. \nMail to: THEMA\, Box 8747\, Metairie\, LA 70011-8747. \nOutside the US: email thema@cox.net \nOn acceptance for publication\, we will pay the following amount: short story\, $25; nonfiction/essay\, $25\, short-short piece under 1000 words\, $10; poem. \nCopyright reverts to author after publication. \nTHEMA isn’t for everyone. To find out why\, click here. \nNew to submitting manuscripts to journals?\nClick here to download a PDF file of a few basic guidelines. \nUnlike many publishers\, we prefer works submitted by the authors themselves\, without the involvement of an agent. \nBe sure to indicate premise and include SASE for each submission.  BE SURE to include a separate SASE for each premise. \nNo handwritten manuscripts will be considered. \nNOTE: \nWe do not accept e-mailed submissions EXCEPT from authors who live outside the U.S. \nFor those living outside the U.S.\, submit manuscript as an email attachment (readable by MSWord ― either as a DOC file or an RTF file)\, and include the following information on the title page: target theme\, title of work\, name of author\, email address and physical address. \n  \nShort Stories: All types welcome―both traditional and experimental \nSend to: Virginia Howard\, editor\, Box 8747\, Metairie\, LA 70011-8747 \nOutside the US: email to Virginia Howard at thema@cox.net\n\n\n\nWhat we like: a carefully constructed plot; good character delineation; clever plot twists \nWhat we don’t like: bedroom/bathroom profanity.  Why? \n\nIt’s boring! Writers should be more creative than to depend on the same tired and dubious language crutches to express surprise\, disdain\, shock\, bemusement\, anger\, sadness\, and other emotions.\nSuch profanity\, used in excess\, often serves as a camouflage for a weak plot. If the plot is good\, the story can be told much more effectively in nonscatologic language even though a character in the story may be sleazy.\nStories of lasting quality rarely need it.\n\nPoetry: All types of poetic form welcome. Submit no more than three poems per theme\, please. If more than three poems are submitted\, we will read only the first three poems in the stack. \nSend to: Gail Howard\, poetry editor\, Box 8747\, Metairie\, LA 70011-8747 \nOutside the US: email to Gail Howard at thema@cox.net \nWhat we like: poems that are thoughtfully constructed and carefully distilled. \nWhat we don’t like: sexually explicit wording. Subtlety is more creative.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-thema-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-i-wish-id-said-that/
LOCATION:THEMA Literary Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6876-1751356800-1751389200@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN - CrayfishMag Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Futures
DESCRIPTION:CrayfishMag is excited for our themed issue: f u t u r e s. \nWe are dissatisfied with the future being offered to us. In response\, the theme for our second issue is: Futures. For this special issue\, CrayfishMag invites poets and storytellers to imagine something better. We encourage speculation\, imagination\, the crafting of utopian and dystopian visions. We are asking for alternatives. We hope you will move beyond the obvious to give us something unique and powerful.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur current submission window closes on July 1. We would like to reply to all submitters by the end of August. \nCrayfishMag values accessibility and welcomes submissions from writers and artists at every stage of their development. For the same reason\, there is no fee to submit to our magazine. We hope to keep it that way. \nSubmission Guidelines:\nPoetry: Send us up to five poems in one document. We’re interested in prose poetry\, formal poetry\, hybrid work\, and everything in between. \nProse: Submit one piece of prose per submission\, fiction or creative nonfiction\, no longer than 5\,000 words. \nSimultaneous submissions are welcome\, but please let us know if it’s accepted elsewhere. We cannot publish previously published work. Also\, this is a space for humans. While we know AI can be helpful\, we are not interested in AI-generated pieces.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-crayfishmag-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-futures/
LOCATION:CrayfishMag
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:N - HerStry Seeking Stories about Grief
DESCRIPTION:We’re steeped in grief. Especially now\, in this (post?) COVID world\, when so many of us have lost so much. But this isn’t a theme about COVID grief (though you can certainly write about that); this is a theme about the grief that is with us now\, the grief that was with us long ago\, and the grief that grows with us. Don’t be afraid to bring us broken\, heavy stories. We can handle it. \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  \nSubmission fee: $3
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/n-herstry-seeking-stories-about-grief-2/
LOCATION:HerStry
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6946-1751356800-1751389200@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:FN - Asymptote Journal Seeking Submissions about What A.I. Can't Do
DESCRIPTION:ANNOUNCING OUR NEW SPECIAL FEATURE ON AI \nDeadline: 1 July\, 2025 \n \n\nSUBMIT TO OUR NEW SPECIAL FEATURE: ”WHAT A.I. CAN’T DO”\nFor an upcoming Special Feature\, we invite submissions of essays or creative work—translated into English or written originally in English by humans—that show why human authors and translators of literature will never be displaced by A.I. (this is our position—and we invite those who feel similarly to engage with the topic). Submitters might ponder the question: Just as the advent of photography caused painting to evolve away from realism\, A.I. will surely change the face of literature. How? Submissions must be sent through Submittable. Regular guidelines (see below) apply. Deadline: 1 July\, 2025 \n  \nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES \nAsymptote welcomes submissions of hitherto unpublished translated fiction\, nonfiction and drama; certain types of original English-language nonfiction\, including literary and critical writing. Please note the following genre-specific and general guidelines. \nFiction \nThe submission might include one or more works of short fiction or excerpts of a longer work translated into English. Please send no more than 5\,000 words in total.\nDrama \nYou may send a one-act play or an excerpt from a full-length play\, in either case not exceeding 20 pages\, translated into English. For full-length plays\, send a brief synopsis first. Rolling deadline. \nLiterary Nonfiction \nThis includes genres such as memoir\, despatch (reportage)\, travelogue and the occasional essay. Nonfiction submissions must be work translated into English\, except for essays about translation\, which may be written in English. To get a stronger sense of what we are looking for\, go through the past articles that we have published. Send no more than 5\,000 words in total. Rolling deadline. \n  \nGENERAL GUIDELINES \n1. All submissions should be sent as one Microsoft Word attachment (as a .doc file\, please) via Submittable. \n  \n2. Your submission must include the following: \n\n\n\nThe original work and the translation (where applicable).\nA statement granting us permission to publish both the original work and the translation online\, as well as declaring that you are in a position to grant us such rights (i.e.\, that you have the author’s permission—or the translator’s\, if you are the author—and his/her publisher’s\, if required).\nBiographical notes\, written in the third person\, for both author and translator(s)\, beginning with the name\, no longer than 150 words per bio.\n\n\n\n  \nOptional\, but highly encouraged: \n\n\n\nA short write-up providing context and discussing the challenges of this particular translation; fewer than 300 words.\nAn MP3 recording of a reading of the original non-English-language text (for poems and shorter pieces) or an excerpt of the original text (for longer creative work)—we usually ask for this only after acceptance is confirmed.\n\n\n\n  \n4. Translations must not have been previously published\, although the source text may have been. \n  \n5. Submissions in English (where permitted: see above) must not have been previously published. \n  \n6. Simultaneous submissions are permitted\, but we ask in return that you notify us by email as soon as you learn of an acceptance elsewhere. \n  \n  \nLANGUAGE GUIDELINES \n  \nAsymptote is a journal that celebrates translation and world literatures. Therefore\, we mainly consider work translated into English\, particularly for fiction and drama. The exceptions are: \n  \n\nCriticism and essays about world literature and translation\nInterviews\nBrave New World Literature Feature\n\n  \nProviding the text in the original language and arranging all necessary permissions are solely the translator’s responsibility. Submissions with uncertain rights issues will not be considered at all. Submissions with no source text or introductory material (for poetry) will be at a significant disadvantage versus those that do have them. \n\nSubmission fee: $10
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-asymptote-journal-what-a-i-cant-do/
LOCATION:Asymptote Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Up the Staircase Quarterly. Theme: Platonic love
DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions: We are currently seeking poetry submissions with the theme of platonic love for our upcoming summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love will be released August 1st. \nAll poems about platonic love will be considered for this issue\, but we are especially seeking works highlighting friendship and community.\n  \nPlease note: UtSQ only accepts submissions via our Submittable.    \nGeneral Guidelines: \n–Simultaneous submissions are accepted\, but please withdraw accepted pieces promptly from consideration.\n–Submit 1-6 poems in a single document.\n–We typically respond to your submission in less than 30 days. After 60 days query to upthestaircase [at] gmail [dot] com.\n–Please wait one reading period (or 3 months) before submitting again.\n–We do not accept previously published poetry.\n–-Up the Staircase Quarterly obtains first serial publishing rights. After a piece runs\, all rights revert back to the author.\n–Unfortunately\, we cannot currently pay contributors for the work we accept. \nSubmissions from all genres will only be accepted via our SUBMISSION MANAGER. We do not accept emailed submissions.\n​\nQuestions should be sent to upthestaircase [at] gmail [dot] com.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-up-the-staircase-quarterly-theme-platonic-love/
LOCATION:Up the Staircase Quarterly
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:6868-1751702400-1751734800@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN -  All My Relations Seeking Submissions on Volume 9's Theme of: Revolution
DESCRIPTION:All My Relations is an art and literature magazine exploring themes of interconnectedness. Volume 9 explores the theme of “revolution\,” and is open to racially and ethnically marginalized\, gender variant\, and disabled creatives only. \nVolume 1 explored the theme of familial (blood\, adopted\, affirming\, community\, or other “family”) loss or ancestry. Volume 2 explored the themes of colonization and decolonization. Volume 3 explored the theme of belonging. Volume 4 explored the themes of disability and accessibility. Volume 5 explored the theme of overcoming. Volume 6 explored the theme of resistance. Volume 7 explored the theme of rest. Volume 8 explored the theme of honoring our lost. Read all the past volumes here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToo often we feel like revolutionary acts need to be larger than life\, involving charismatic leaders\, and so we get stuck doing nothing. But everything we do that runs counter to the colonial\, capitalist\, white supremacist world we live in is the revolution.\n– Chris Talbot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Information & Volume 9’s Theme\n\n\n\n\nWe are not looking for graphic or traumatic stories or dark fictional pieces written for shock value. We do not require that you center your or your relations’ traumas. And we are not interested in the single story of harm and suffering. \nWe are looking for memories and imaginations of revolutions and revolutionaries\, explanations of rituals and strategies to aid us in revolution\, and envisioning a future following a successful revolution. We are looking for pieces that honor your experience\, honor your journey\, honor your imaginations\, and/or aid in communal healing and hope. \nWe have a set of guidelines for what we will or will not read or publish for the emotional well-being of our readers (internally and externally). Please review those guidelines (below) and only send us authentic\, own voices (if applicable) pieces that follow them. (The principle of own voices means that pieces that refer to marginalized groups and their experiences are created by people who share that identity. Pieces that follow the principle of own voices reflect the contributors’ own lived experiences and perspectives. Proximity to people with a lived experience is not a proxy for having that lived experience and will not be considered adhering to the own voices guideline.) \nWe do not accept pieces that use AI content creation\, including ChatGPT. AI content is plagiarism\, even though the systems have been formulated to modify the end result from the stolen materials just enough to be indetectable and circumvent copyright laws. AI copies existing works by existing creatives without their knowledge or consent. It is an inappropriate and inequitable tool for content submitted to All My Relations\, especially as\, at this time\, the person using it can’t track down and fairly compensate the original creators for their work. \nWe are committed to editing with an equity lens\, ensuring any edits are for clarity and not stylistic in nature. We are committed to never alter a writing style\, the intention of a piece\, or change the voice in any way. If we ever fail or come up short in this attempt\, please do let us know. \nWe are free to submit to and free to read. We will accept one written piece per person. \nSubmissions are open and will close when we have reached 100 pages of content or July 5\, whichever comes first. To submit\, fill out our submission form (one piece per entry in the form). Be sure to read all of our guidelines below before submitting. \nBecause our issues often deal with mature topics\, our publication is open to creatives aged 16+ only. \n\n\nSubmission Requirements\n\n\n\n\nWe expect submissions to be on the theme of “revolution” and submitted by racially or ethnically marginalized\, gender variant\, and/or disabled creatives only. \nWe require written submissions to be under 5\,000 words for fiction and nonfiction and under 5 pages for poetry\, submitted in a Word Document or text file. PDFs will not be considered and will be rejected outright. Submissions must be in English as\, unfortunately\, that is the only language we can read. Do feel free to add words in a language other than English and we will consult Google or other resources\, but the submission must be primarily in English. \nWe require that you properly gender our editor. Any submission that misgenders will be responded to unread. If you wish to address the editor\, you can do so as editor\, The Bitchin’ Kitsch\, The B’K\, or Chris. If you wish to speak about our editor\, they use the pronouns they/them. \nWe will accept simultaneous submissions. Please let us know if it is a simultaneous submission (in the “Anything you want our editors to know about your piece” section of the form) and let us know as soon as you do if it has been accepted elsewhere and if you have permissions for it to appear as a reprint in this publication. \nOur form requires the following information: your name as you’d like it to appear\, the name of the piece as you’d like it to appear\, trigger warnings if necessary\, and answers to our identity questions. \nWe aim to have a diverse publication from a diverse set of voices. In order to make sure we do that\, we need to know who you are. We will not deny someone based on identity unless it is deemed that the submission becomes inappropriate or appropriation due to the submitter’s identity. Things that we would consider inappropriate or appropriation would include writing about what it’s like to be part of a historically marginalized community you do not belong to. We encourage people outside of the community to include people from historically marginalized communities\, but we won’t publish pieces that explain what it’s like to be part of those communities. We value inclusivity and believe the only way to do it right is with #OwnVoices. \nWe don’t want to read something that might be triggering without being in the right head space. We would hate to deny something because it caught us off guard at a bad time. If appropriate\, please include a trigger warning. Before you submit\, make sure that it will not violate our submission guidelines (see the full list below). \n\n\nList of Violations to Avoid\n\n\n\n\nThese are the things that will be rejected and could get you temporarily or permanently banned from The B’K and All My Relations. \nIf your submission violates any of the guidelines below\, you will be informed and temporarily banned from submitting for one month’s time. A rejection for violating a guideline is not the start of an argument. You don’t have to agree with our guidelines\, but if you choose to submit to our publication\, you have to follow our rules. \nThe temporary ban is as much for submitters as it is for us. We want to make sure that we are reviewing your submission with an open mind\, and can’t do that if you are rapid firing “proof” that you can write something else. \nIf it is a flagrant violation or you argue with us or respond aggressively to a rejection for any reason\, you will be permanently banned. \nLikewise\, even if your submissions to us are not problematic\, but we are informed of problematic behavior outside of our publication against people from marginalized communities and can verify it\, you will not be welcome to our publication and we reserve the right to remove your work from past issues. \n\nThe piece implicates you in a crime.\nThe piece is partially or fully plagiarized. This includes work that is AI-generated (AI is plagiarism — it copies existing works from existing creatives without their permission.) or the majority/focus of the piece makes use of images that were not created by you (examples: photographs of murals — yes\, you took the photograph\, but the focus is on someone else’s mural; collages where the collage pieces have not been radically altered and are therefore someone else’s work).\nThe piece uses fridging of marginalized people or children (the trope where a marginalized person is injured\, killed\, or demoralized in some way to move a privileged person’s story or character development forward).\nThe piece reduces people from marginalized genders or races to body parts\, objects\, or in another way dehumanizes them.\nThe piece’s main focus is sexual attraction or exploitation.\nThe piece is erotica or is sexually explicit.\nThe piece sexualizes a child. This means anyone under 18 years old\, no matter what.\nThe piece glorifies or sexualizes violence against marginalized genders.\nThe piece mentions or implies molestation\, sexual assault\, or r*pe\n\nThere is NO wiggle room on this. Our editor is a survivor and will not subject themself to the pain of reading this.\nAny violation of this guideline will result in an instant permanent ban from our publication. The trauma is too great and therapy is too expensive to deal with this.\n\n\nThe piece includes content or slurs that could be considered racist\, xenophobic\, queerphobic\, transphobic\, sexist\, misogynistic\, fetishist\, antisemitic\, Islamophobic\, ableist\, audistic\, or in any other way offensive to a protected class or minority. Your piece will be rejected unless it is made clear within the piece or in an artist statement at the end that the behavior/language is unacceptable\, proper content warnings are provided\, and the word is in some way censored in the piece (vowels replaced with * as an example we’ve accepted). While I understand that some people are reclaiming words that have been used to disparage people that share an identity\, not all our readers from that identity will be reclaiming that word and we need to think of their well-being as well.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-all-my-relations-seeking-submissions-on-volume-9s-theme-of-revolution/
LOCATION:All My Relations
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - Liars' League Seeking Submissions on: Women & Girls - Fiction Inspired by Jane Austen
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 12th August – WOMEN & GIRLS – Austen Anniversary Edition!\n\n2025 is Jane Austen’s 250th birthday\, & our 9th annual festival of female-led & female authored fiction is here to celebrate it! Send us your fiction inspired by any of Austen’s titles\, characters\, settings or novels\, or even by her own life & world. 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). \nDEADLINE: Sunday 6th July\n\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-seeking-submissions-on-women-girls/
LOCATION:Liars’ League
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to Consilience. Theme: Waves
DESCRIPTION:Submit your work\n\n\n\n\nFor each issue of Consilience we invite submissions of poetry. When the submission window is open\, you will be able to submit your work via Google Forms using links that will appear on this page. Please note that these will only appear during the submission window. \nAll submissions must have a link to science\, fit the theme of the upcoming issue\, and also be in line with our inclusivity statement. To give you an idea of the kind of work that we publish\, please read a couple of issues of the journal. \nPrior to submitting\, please read our Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence policy. \nWe cannot publish any poetry that has been published elsewhere\, including on a blog or social media site. This includes any known future publications in which the poem All submissions must have a link to science.might be appearing. \nPlease also note that we only accept one poem per poet per 4 issues of the journal (e.g. if you were published in issue 10\, you cannot submit another poem until Issue 14). Unfortunately we cannot accept any poetry that has already been published elsewhere. \nThe theme for Issue 22 is ‘Waves’ and submissions will open on Monday 30th June 2025 09:00 BST and close on Sunday 6th July 2025 12:00 BST. \nPoems in all languages are welcome. We will easily be able to facilitate a review process if it is in a language that is spoken by one of our team (Czech\, English\, French\, German\, Greek\, Italian\, or Spanish). If you have a piece that is not in one of these languages then please get in touch and we will try to work something out. \nWe look forward to seeing your work!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-consilience-theme-waves/
LOCATION:Consilience
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - The 2025 HG Wells Short Story Competition. Theme: The Middle Ground
DESCRIPTION:Winners to be announced on Sunday November 16.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease ensure you DO NOT have your name or address ANYWHERE in your uploaded document: we judge all entries “blind” and including your name or address will invalidate your entry. To be safe\, do not even use your own name as a character name.\nThe closing date is Tuesday 8th July 2025 and entries will be accepted up to 11pm (BST) on that date.\nThere are no entry fees for those aged 21 years and under on Tuesday 8th July 2025. Over 21s must pay an entry fee of £10 or £5 for those with student id. Details for payment are shown on the entry form. Each story must be submitted on a separate entry form and accompanied by a fee where appropriate.\nProof of age and / or student id may be required for any entry entered in the Under 22 or at the reduced student price. This proof may be requested by email after the close of entries and prior to the publication of a short list.\nAll submissions must be made online\, with all required fields completed.\nAll submissions should be the writer’s original work. You should not submit the work of others\, either in part or in translation.\nStories should be the sole work of the one submitted author. Co-authored stories are not accepted.\nCopyright remains with the author.\nThe story may not be published\, or accepted for publication\, elsewhere including for other publications by the shortlist announcement date (Saturday 21st September).\nThe judges’ decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into.\nJudges reserve the right not to award a prize.\nEntry implies permission for your story to be published in the annual HG Wells Short Story Competition Anthology\, and used for Competition publicity purposes.\n\n\n\nContacting You ↗\n\nBy entering the competition and providing your details\, you are consenting to us contacting you by email\, post or phone about the 2024 competition and related events. We may do so to give more information\, update you on shortlisted entries\, let you know about available training courses\, invite you to the November awards ceremony or even let you know if you have been shortlisted.\n\n  \n\nWe will ONLY contact you about the H G Wells Short Story Competition in future years if you specifically agree to us doing so by giving us your consent to do so when entering.\n\n  \n\nWe will not share the contact details of entrants with any other organisation without the consent of the entrant.\n\n\n\n\nEntry to the competition are online only\nEntrants must submit their story (as a PDF or text document) and any fee as appropriate via our entry form \n\n\nUseful Info ↗\n\nEntries must be in English.\nThe length is 1\,500 to 5\,000 words.\nDouble quotation marks should be used for speech and single quotation marks for other appropriate purposes.\n\n  \n\n\nHints & Tips!\n\n\nAs one of the aims of the competition is to promote literacy\, the judges will include in their criteria the following: \n\n\nAccurate use of spelling\, grammar and punctuation\nUse of imagination\nOriginality of thought and interpretation of theme\nEntertaining content that is thought provoking\, intriguing\, moving and\, above all\, enjoyable!\n\n\n\n\n\nEntry fee: £10
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-2025-hg-wells-short-story-competition-theme-the-middle-ground/
LOCATION:The HG Wells Short Story Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review. Theme: Retro Summer
DESCRIPTION:We are now seeking submissions of CNF\, poetry\, and fiction for our Retro Summer issue. Take us down memory lane with blazing sunshine\, pool parties\, arcades\, melting ice pops\, roller-skates\, and young loves found and lost. Send us your best (and not-so-good) summer memories! Any genre is welcome\, though we are especially interested in nostalgic\, magical summer vibes with a gripping voice. \nNo Fee! Fiction/CNF/hybrid submissions under 3\,000. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words). Boudin is only accepting new\, previously-unpublished work. Let us know if your writing borrows from or quotes another writer. \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.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-boudin-the-online-home-of-the-mcneese-review-445-theme-retro-summer/
LOCATION:Boudin: The Online Home of The McNeese Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Penstricken Funny Poetry Competition: "Laughter Lines"
DESCRIPTION:‘Laughter Lines’ Funny Poetry Competition\n\n\n\n\nWe love poetry here at Penstricken\, but it has a rather unfair reputation in some circles for being esoteric and grim. \nSo\, we’ve decided it’s time to redress that misconception by challenging you\, dear poet\, to write the funniest poem you can and send it in to us for a chance to win a cash prize + publication in our next issue. You can write about any subject you like\, and in any form you fancy\, as long as you can make us laugh. \nPrizes\n\nThere will be a single cash prize of £25 (or equivalent) for the winner only. This may increase if we receive enough entries. Payment will be made to the winner via PayPal.\nThe winning entry + two runners-up will be published in the Autumn 2025 issue of Penstricken magazine.\n\nCompetition rules\n\nWe are open to entries from poets from anywhere in the world\, and of any level of experience (or none!) provided you are 18 years of age or older.\nThe entry fee is £1.50 per entry. Multiple entries are allowed\, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry.\nYou may submit only one poem per entry\, max. 40 lines.\nThe judges’ decision is final. We will not enter into any correspondence regarding the outcome.\nEntries must be original and previously unpublished in print or online.\nAll submissions must be made in English.\nSimultaneous submissions are allowed\, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.\nEntries generated by AI will be disqualified.\nDeadline for entering is 09:30 AM on Sunday 13th July 2025 (UK time). Entries made after this time will not be counted.\n\nBy participating\, entrants agree to abide by these rules. Any entry that does not adhere to the rules will be disqualified. \nJudging Criteria\nThe winning poem will: \n\nMake us laugh! If it doesn’t at least raise a smirk from us\, it won’t win!\nTell a story.\nMake effective use of clear\, succinct language and tangible imagery.\n\nHow to Enter\nThere are two ways you can enter. The best and easiest way is by filling in our entry form (note this a different form from our regular submissions form). You will be asked to click a link to pay a submission fee in this form\, which opens in a separate window. \nPlease ensure that you finish submitting the entry form once this is done or your entry may not be counted. \nIf\, for whatever reason\, you cannot use our online form\, you can also e-mail your entry to us by clicking this link and filling in your details. If you are using this method\, you will need to attach the actual poem to the e-mail as a doc file\, and also remember pay the submission fee by clicking here. \nBy submitting\, you declare the work is your own intellectual property\, and you have the right to grant us first publication rights. All rights revert to the author after publication. \nIf you have any queries\, or wish to withdraw your submission\, you can contact us by e-mailing admin@penstricken.com. \nBy entering\, you agree to our privacy policy. \n  \nEntry fee: £1.50 per entry
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-penstricken-funny-poetry-competition-laughter-lines/
LOCATION:Penstricken Funny Poetry Competition
CATEGORIES:Contest
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