Events

Spooky season is almost here, so it's time for tales of ghosts, hunters & ghost-hunters, stalkers & predators, sinister treasure-hunts & haunted houses - take the theme & RUN with it!

Where do you see signals? Is a signal the same as a sign? Which do you heed and which do you ignore? Do they recur? What are the images, instances, energies, and messages that guide our decision-making?

That’s the sound of your time running out to submit to our annual Halloween issue of Boo-din! All submissions should include concepts of time as a significant plot point or symbol.

Dreams and Visions features dreams, visions, nightmares or communications with nonhuman beings that respond in some way to this era of escalating danger and darkness—and ideally provide clarity and/or guidance.

We celebrate the rich history of baseball while also recognizing its vibrant present through essays, fiction, and poetry

For Volume 13, we’re rummaging through the discarded, the dirty, the overlooked. Show us the clutter, the chaos, the compost heap of human experience.

This issue will focus on the Met’s extensive Arms & Armor collection. Send us your poems about battle, armor, shields, masks, war (or fear of war), and anything else inspired by these extraordinary pieces. The poems should be based on works on display only, that a visitor could go and encounter in person.

Reaching up out of the dirt, what is born from beneath? Send us your take on dirt. 

Dogs have been a source of inspiration and companionship since the beginning of mankind. We would love to see how you have woven this topic into your writing and are open to your interpretation.

The word "freedom" connotes different definitions and bears different weights for each of us. We want to read literature and take in media that explore, challenge, reconsider, or explode that concept for you.

We exist in a world that often feels unfairly broken, but is yet so full of unexplainable and surprising beauty.
For this edition, play with the element of surprise, and have fun with this theme! Let’s see the weird, the strange, the remarkable, the impossible. Let us feel the weight of God’s glory in surprising places.

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.

At Novellum, our mission is to inspire readers and writers alike by showcasing thought-provoking fiction, poetry, and insightful features that spark creativity and conversation.

In this issue, we invite poets to explore the history residing within the walls of buildings—from temple gopurams and grand cathedrals to glorious minarets and forgotten fortresses. This can include explorations into monoliths, statues and other sculptures as well.

All work submitted in this category will be considered for general publication even if not selected for the Presenting feature.

Enter fiction and narrative non-fiction themed around the natural world/the relationship between humans and nature