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 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.
Are your celebrations very traditional or are they very spontaneous and never the same? We want to hear how you celebrate your holidays.
The theme for this issue is “Wondrous & Miraculous.” You may interpret this theme however you like.
Send us pieces about music, background noise, or other aspects of your sensory or extrasensory perception. What do you see, feel, and/or remember when you hear certain pieces of music or environmental sounds? How have you been able to minimise the noise and increase the good vibrations in your life?
Gypsophila complements any flower placed beside it in a bouquet or flowerbed. This magazine combines art and literature, visual and verbal art coming together to create something beautiful. Just like how baby’s breath (gypsophila) can grow in tandem with almost any other flower.
We define holiday stories as those that involve any holiday from US Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, or stories that reference those holidays. (There are many such holidays, so let your imagination fly.)
We are looking for short stories and poems that are spooky or fantastical or both. Don’t be afraid to blend genres and experiment.
We see “woman” as a broad category with space for an array of gender identities and expressions. We welcome contributions from bi+ women who identify as trans, non-binary, cis, and beyond.