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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
This year’s LGBTQ writing contest theme, FIRSTS, is an opportunity to share your own queer travel adventurers with an LGBTQ audience. Your essay just might inspire someone to stretch their comfort zone and try a new activity!
Send in your experiences and desires, your vulnerability and hope, as well as your dreams and despair in relation to the theme. We want voice. We want artistry. We want heart.
100 words about 5 minutes of your life, on the theme of AWAY. Interpret any way you’d like.
DRESS CODE is ubiquitous camouflage, overt isms, the way it’s always been.
We're looking for works that explore the tenderness, sustenance, vicissitudes, and surprises of our friendships.
How has your experience with mental health challenges, mental illness, madness, and/or neurodivergence shaped your identity? Do you feel your identity is understood by others?
The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.
The prize is only open to short fiction, but it can be in any fiction genre and you may write about any subject you wish.
The only rule is that the piece(s) must be created by 2 or more people working together.
“Changing My Mind,” might refer to trying to change the minds of others, something you changed your mind about, or a subject you wish you could look at differently.
Submit a story that responds to or somehow reflects the theme “Endings.”
We are compelled by the strange and beautiful, drawn to the uncanny, fascinated by the fantastical, and relish risky realism that rattles our senses.
We carry no expectations for the content or tone of submissions.
We’ve all heard the phrase, “that’s one for the ages,” which suggests a strange, extraordinary, fantastical, or confounding event, situation, or tale that astounds and leaves us amazed.
Our goal is to approach everything we publish with an eye for intellect, wonder, and story and a conviction that our beliefs have consequences for ourselves, our communities, and the world.
The Fabulist Flash, a new flash-fiction project from The Fabulist Words & Art, welcomes submissions from November 6-12 for fantastical and speculative writings of up to 1,000 words.
Issue 5: Secret Santa. Theme: a gift you received or shared this year
We share work here representative of shared human values, however differently those values might be expressed in our various religions and cultures.
Ev0king the Question: What is your favorite artistic depiction (painting, mosaic, statue, et cetera) of a Deity or group of Deities? What is your favorite piece of music about a holy day or a Deity/Deities?
A quarterly mainstream e-zine whose mission is to bring a little more good poetry into the world