Events

We are dissatisfied with the future being offered to us. For this special issue, CrayfishMag invites poets and storytellers to imagine something better.

Don't be afraid to bring us broken, heavy stories. We can handle it.

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?

Send us poetry with the theme of platonic love for our upcoming summer issue. Kindred: Poems on Platonic Love to be released August 1st.

Volume 9 explores the theme of “revolution,” and is open to racially and ethnically marginalized, gender variant, and disabled creatives only.

2025 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.

All submissions must have a link to science.

Take us down memory lane with blazing sunshine, pool parties, arcades, melting ice pops, roller-skates, and young loves found and lost.

While we welcome poems about your own work experiences, we hope you’ll also consider submitting poems about the work of others, including family members, historical figures, or people you’ve observed, interviewed, or researched.

Exploring the emotional, literal, or metaphysical aspects of loss and discovery. It’s not just about objects, but about memories, identities, places, people, time, innocence, hope, even entire worlds.

You may submit more than one entry in one or more categories.

Have a “work phone” and a “personal”, maybe a “secret phone” for only certain people? We are interested in how all of this has changed us and our behaviors. Past, present, future––pretend, or all too real.

For this issue, we are exploring work that addresses the role of mother, and how mothers embroider with and untangle the familial threads that can heal or hinder. Send us your poems, your family recipes, your generational myths, your memories that you’ve borne, your visions for the future.

Whether a longing for the sentiments of the past, or a marketing trend that capitalizes on childhood favorites, we often find comfort in yesterday when today presents challenges. But that comfort is often rooted in the pain of longing, the disdain for change, and the fear of moving forward.  How does this powerful force influence your life? 

Most people value peace, so why is the world so full of conflict? Let's use the occasion of writing and enjoying great haibun to present on the topic.

For our very first print issue, we are featuring specifically mini, tiny, micro, and otherwise compressed work. What does art become without the luxuries of extensive prose, flowery language, elaborate constructions of plot? When we strip our work down to its core, what will we find?

For this edition, send us something that makes you reflect and represents your growth.

This issue provides an opportunity to reflect on how health -- mind, body, and spirit -- limit, challenge, define or inspire our ability to feel free.