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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
We hope this zine serves as a glimmer of care reflective of reality as it currently exists, in all its contradictions and dynamics, as well as an imagining of what care can be. We reach for this future, over and over.
For this edition, send us a work that diverges from the norm or is somehow divergent. It may represent neurodivergence, fusion, exploration, or something important or representative to you.
“Mono no aware” is a Japanese term that captures the deep awareness of the transient nature of life and beauty, evoking a gentle sadness at their passing. Submissions should resonate with the theme of transience, evoking the delicate beauty found in moments that are destined to fade.
This collection seeks to explore the myriad dimensions of powerlessness, whether it be through personal narratives, societal observations, or abstract musings. We aim to gather voices that express what it means to feel without agency, silenced, or marginalised, and the subtle ways power dynamics shape our existence.
How much our lives are spent in harmony with ourselves? With those we love? How does illness–physical or mental–leave us in disharmony?
NO THEME (despite the title) – poems on any subject are invited
For this we want submissions on all things dragons.
EXTINCTION considers the social and economic inequalities produced by capitalism’s climate catastrophes, its effects on gender, social relations, and the dialectic of classes and nations. It demands we look at what is possible beyond what has already been.
In this issue we invite you to unleash the feral animal that lives within your poet heart.
We're looking for weird and wonderful stories of not just the memories themselves, but of their production, their repercussions, their wider meanings. We're looking for false memories that might have changed history, that led to remarkable discoveries, that impacted lives.
Our themes are intentionally vague to leave the concept up to the writer’s interpretation.
Send us your whisker factory submissions.
It’s where we start each day, down on the earth, on the ground but getting up, comfortable in our skins, ground zero for ourselves.
Whether you have observed the annual migrations of birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles, mammals, or the temporary or permanent geographical dislocations of people, send us work that has moved you to commemorate these journeys.
Numbers as friends or enemies, stories of dyscalculia or math savants; stories about rounding errors, countdowns, numerology; lucky or unlucky numbers; stories about lotteries or elections are all fair game.
It's summer and the hermit crabs are everywhere! In honor of their shelled and many-legged goodness, the Icebreakers are requesting all submissions be hermit crab pieces.
You are welcome to submit anything from eco / environmental poetry to pastoral poetry. As always, we encourage you to bend the rules with both content and form.
We print poetry by emerging authors. We love writing that is beautiful and bad (in the Foxy Brown sense).
This issue is about 'silence' and we welcome poems up to 40 lines on that theme
The contest is open to all styles of poetry from national and international participants writing in English.