Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
We welcome submissions about how being a part of this critical climate movement can help us live better, more meaningful, lives, and that help shift our cultural mindset from despair to creative possibility and from isolation to collective purpose.
For the April Issue of Parcham, we aim to look into the various manifestations associated with children and the entire process of growing up, as well as watching the days of childhood from an adult’s perspective
We aim to make publications more accessible to writers and artists by creating a landing platform for their unrestricted creativity and for works that go beyond conventional interpretations.
Do dirt, get dirt. Hit the dirt, then dig in - up - out - ew. Don’t cry foul - this is a dirty business. Got dirt? We want
Why does status so often go unnoticed? How does it influence everything from social inequality to personal relationships? And what changing forces have come to bear on the high or low status we’ve ascribed ourselves and others over the centuries?
Not platonic, familial, or devotional, this is the rascal love where your heart sweats and you lose your mind. The world well lost for lust. Dreaming days followed by sleepless nights.
The Pine Cone Review was born out of a dream to showcase the complexities of the brown existence.
For the 10th issue of illiterature. we’re seeking work that is without the smallest unit of meaning. We especially encourage submissions that are hard to place elsewhere.
Left Unsaid. We like the phrase's suggestion of mystery, innuendo, high stakes, and emotional conflict. Sometimes what's left unsaid is the cause of pain, sometimes it's the source of power.
How is the environment changing and why? What can inspire change or conversation? What's your/our relationship to the climate?
Primordial appetites – mother’s milk, a father’s warm touch, the flashy colours of a toy train, the appetite to love, the insatiable curiosity to delve into the mysteries of life. Gulp down this theme of appetite, allow it to reveal the hungers within you.
Where do we see and feel syncopation, within and beyond music? How do we experience syncopation in everyday life, society, socially?
The relationship between music and poetry is self-evident, and we want to explore how music in the air in forms poems on the page.
Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung that refers to “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.” This makes our focus eclectic, but we do have subjects that we favor.
Paris never fails to capture the imagination of artists, writers, musicians, and other dreamers. We want your music-themed poetry, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, and short stories that pertain to Paris.
We want stories set in and around the nation’s more often overlooked locales—isolated small towns, remote reservations, bedroom communities, and other underrepresented areas of Canada.
We might like to perhaps see instances of indecisions, or things that might or could or should have been. We might also like to see things that maybe happened, or maybe didn’t happen, or maybe will or perhaps could never happen. Send us whatever you maybe come up with!
Share your thoughts with the world. Be a Beauty-Knowledge-Truth champion: submit your Manifesto!
This issue seeks to hold space for the “ugly feelings” we are often told to tame, to clean up, and to quiet: our rage, our annoyance, our frustration. We aim to honor the wisdom of unruly emotions.
Take risks - Push the envelope. Step out of the box and conquer the unknown.