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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Inspired by the contemporary urgency of ensuring the right to restorative time away from labor, with this issue the editors hope to highlight the radical potential for the historical study of sleep and rest, and the opportunities this area of study provides for historians to connect with scholars in the natural sciences, architects and planners, and policymakers and activists.
Send us writing littered with the dregs of society, the lowest of the low, and the remains and rabble of your brain.
Our summer edition’s theme is girlhood, however you interpret that (but no odes to Lolita).
This is a call for your meditations, your forensics, your elegies, your wanderings on the possibilities of ongoing and intersecting geographies. How do we write an evolving ecology that supports mutability? What will be the future forms of our habitations?
Children have the power to see the world through the eyes of innocence and honesty, the power to dream and is our power to give wings to their dreams. But what are dreams made of? What did you dream of when you were a child and what are you dreaming of now?
We want to represent all that’s thrilling about the new wave of LGBTQ+ poets. If you’re a poet, even if you’ve never been published before, we want to read your work.
In Fit Notes, we aim to explore work beyond the scope of its traditional and constrictive conceptions and explore how work relates to the body, to illness, and to life.
Entries may be on any topic.
We want to see your best work, regardless of form, style, or subject matter.
First Prize: £200 plus publication in a future edition of the New Contexts anthology & invitation to read the winning poem at a future Contextual virtual poetry reading event.
Can you write a killer story about betrayal in under two hundred words?
Harken back to days gone by and show us the happy moments of the past.
This issue is gay prom and Brown Bag is inviting everyone to put on their gayest outfits and dance the night away.
Messy Misfits Club zine is looking for stories with out of bounds content– We want to be raw, rebellious and let our voices be heard. The Messy Misfits are meant to be downright dirty!
Your work should always be just as long (or as short) as it needs to be.
Well Projects third anthology, Resurrection Charms, engages with the language of ‘returning’ implicit within projects of ecological restoration and explores what a ‘future modelled on the past’ is meant to look like.
Consider the wholes that form us and the holes that cause relationships and structures to erode. Explore this theme literally or figuratively.
Silkworm 17 has an optional theme of Bird. Feel free to interpret the theme in any way and remember that the theme is optional.
For our August 2024 edition, the theme is CIRCUS
Abridged 0-101 ‘Rebecca’ invites poetry submissions on the conflicting themes of haunting, convention, repression and resistance.