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
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.
Our themes are always open to far-fetched interpretations and are not limited to a narrow definition. Don't hold back, surprise us by submitting your finest work!
Where is home? Is it a place, a feeling, a kinship with a group of people, or your mother’s heart?
We’re looking for poems rich and robust in language, technique, and form that pay homage to the natural world and all of the small marvels that occur in nature. We’re also interested in poems that observe geography and the landscape of home.
Laughter is the best medicine. We are looking for stories about something that happened to you in your life that made you and the people around you laugh out loud. We can't wait to hear your true stories. We want them to be silly, outrageous and hilarious, and they absolutely must make us laugh!
Submissions must include something about growing older / ageing. The Lifespan Series offers a unique opportunity to contribute works taking characters across the arc of their whole lives, whether prose or poetry, fiction or non-fiction.
What is Secret Menu? Secret Menu is a hack. Secret Menu is the ways we treat ourselves, celebrate small victories, sharing with one another when we don’t have to.
In honour of our 10th issue, we’re getting literal and asking for submissions on film, TV, music videos, and pop culture relating to the number 10!
We are open to interpretations on the theme: love, friendship, companionship; losing relations, relationships to animals, plants, and objects; relationships between ecosystems or among the stars. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.