Events

Our goal is to share the work of amazing creators with the world.

Tell us your stories of home. You can write about nostalgic summer days, but also about wishing for a home you never had. Or the home you want to make. Home is a complicated subject, let’s dig in.

Through this special call, Tab Journal encourages poets to reconsider Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration and Thomas Paine’s preceding Common Sense that had popularized these concepts.

Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.

We want the rubber band taut. We want resistance. We want your focus on the gap between where you are and where you want to be, the longing for home, or the need to get away.

In this first-ever anthology, Capture This will take a look at a snapshot of someone’s life, whether it’s the daily routine of an accountant, the ignition of a love story between two paranormal beings, the first day as an intergalaxy spy named Phoebe, or the day a life changed for the better–or worse.

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!

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.