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What is the joy of the hybrid gesture? Where does it live? And how does hybridizing create that secret third thing?

Dreams and realities, ambitions & imaginings. Submit your very best work to us (this goes double if you're female, as only about 1/3 of our submissions come from women): we really want to read your stories!

Agent on a SECRET mission? Inexperienced climber ASPIRES to conquer Mount Everest? An UNSTOPPABLE space alien? We have no idea, but you will. Hit us with your best and most brilliant original fiction.

Loss of common land, public access to nature, and environmental management are all specific interpretations of this theme we’d particularly like to see.

This theme is not limited to just flowers, but botany as a whole. What does it mean when we have a hollowed-out pumpkin stuffed with daylillies on our front porch? Whatever the answer, we’re looking forward to it!

We call contributors to conceive of the West beyond its conventional and colonialized framework. What happens when the dam breaks, when waters flow along their pre-colonial course and stewardship is returned to the original caretakers of the land? There are many ways to deconstruct a dam, an archetype, to unearth histories long-buried in sand or alpine forest. The West is multiple and many.

For this issue we're looking for stories about feisty felines, mercurial moggies and big wild cats.

How can poetry be located in place, object or function? This might be rooted in memory and nostalgia, or a constant present association that you have with the world. A poem can so often be masked in the material world, taking on the disguise of the accidental, functional, or instructive to do so. 

The Twin Bill is a quarterly online literary baseball journal founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. We celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

This time we want your WEIRD. Make us -- with the chances that you take in your narrative, in your structure, in your vision -- say "WTF?!" in the best literary way possible.

We are curious to see poets exploring how various methodologies of care manifest in ourselves, in others, and in both urban and natural spaces.

What does queer space mean to you? Where is it? We want you to take us there!

What does George Fox mean to you? What parts of his life or writings have inspired and buoyed your own spiritual path?

April Haiku Submissions Open Submit up to 3 haiku by March 25th THEME: Flowers (any kind) When the wild turnip burst into full blossom a skylark sang Koboyashi Issa (translated by Sam Hamill) Haiku Submission Guidelines Haiku poetry originated in Japan and was perfected by the great haiku masters: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, […]

Hear, play or make it. Be stilled, stunned, changed, warped, saved, ruined or reborn by it. Music is the prompt for Issue 6.

What pleasant ghosts have stopped to visit you recently? We’re open for Happy Phantom submissions, inspired by the artist and album that got us through some hard times; and the delight that comes with considering some songs visitors from the past.