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Stripes Literary Magazine is always on the lookout for raw, different and divergent poetry.

For this issue, F(r)iction seeks to uncover the redacted with Censored! Let’s investigate the burning of books, witches, and bridges as we delve into all things sanitized.

We are looking for submissions that complicate and subvert conventional understandings of food and class. Submissions may inspect consumption, excess, cannibalism, accessibility, privilege.

What does Freedom mean to you?

This issue aims to make visible all possible conversations and encounters from philosophy with other inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.

Send us your form, your function, your container, your contained; body and constraints and sacred objects and holdings-of-things.

What do you consider a valued inheritance? It could be an object of sentimental value, a lesson from a loved one, a characteristic passed down through generations, a spiritual blessing or gift, or even something else you consider valuable.

All THREE elements (the specific words Cherry Tree, Surveillance, Menu) must be included in your story or poem for your work to be considered for publication. NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER.

We love the concept of narrative - we want to read storytellers telling stories in whatever form that takes for you. 

We are looking for stories of people or things that have been erased from history, the mechanism by which that erasure is effected, or the consequence of erasure.

Over its 50-year history, CV2 has had the privilege of providing dozens of writers with their first print publications, and this year, as we celebrate this milestone anniversary for the magazine, we hope to support a fresh wave of emerging poets in the same way.

Submit as many haiku as you please on the season word “Perseids.”

We invite poem submissions on the theme of “Recovering Greenness”.

Here, we know words are not inanimate. They live, they evolve, and they change. More so, words have the power to live in us, evolve us, and create change in our communities. Let us do this work together. Let’s tell the stories of our community, together, one word at a time.

Send no more than 3 previously unpublished poems on the theme of "Magic".

We view this theme  as a space for opening portals, to lift the underbelly of deep meaning which swims below the surface and haunts the layers of each word.

We are looking for work that embodies the act of whelving—the quiet burying, the gentle covering, the things hidden just beneath the surface. Autumn is a season of holding in, of golden beauty edged with retreat. Send us your best pieces that speak to fall’s glow and the hush that follows, stories and poems that explore what we protect, what we bury, and what refuses to stay hidden.

We aim to center writers and artists who have been marginalized and underrepresented, or historically misrepresented, and encourage submissions that engage with issues of racial, social, economic, gender, and environmental justice.

As usual, we are looking for writing on your own choice of theme that grabs our attention, pulls our heart strings, leaves us open-mouthed or holding our breath, makes us think, make us laugh or cry, and/or is strikingly original.

Theme (“Dragon Hoards”) is not a strict requirement. The theme is preferred but not strictly enforced.