Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Music, perhaps the most inscrutable, yet the most intimate of all aesthetic forms. Ancient yet immediate, an ally for celebrations, a therapy for sorrow, a vehicle to voice dissent, a lullaby to fall asleep to.
Though we live in a selfie culture, we seem to have become correspondingly less self-aware. What can we do to pause, and to reflect? What might help us in the process of regarding others as full human beings, even when we may disagree with them? Why do we hate hypocrites so much?
How has your community been affected by climate change? What might the future have in store for your region, according to the modeling or changes you’ve witnessed firsthand?
We publish quality poetry of any genre and length congruent with our themes, including traditional poems, form poems, prose poems, and narrative poems.
This quarterly literary journal inspires fresh ideas from writers around the world in all stages of their writing career.
We're putting together a love letter to pop, fun, and youth, and taking these things seriously. Camp and kitsch are invited.
In our fifth issue, Cascade, we invite you to share your stories, feelings, wishes, fears, and maybe even a hint of your soul with others.
We seek personal, lyrical, critical, and experimental work in under 650 words.
Have fun! Be playful and most importantly, submit well thought out multilayered work that speaks to your deepest libidinal human drive in Jungian terms, the desire to express oneself beyond the pale!
The idea of expertise, and at least one person who has it (or doesn't?) has to matter to the story.
Give us everything anti-Trump.
Issue V will focus on resilience in the face of war or its aftermath.
We are looking for true stories about how you realized a certain habit or attitude was detrimental to you, what you did to change that, and the difference it made in your life.
Which catastrophic failures will we see in the next 100 years? And how will it affect ordinary citizens of the world?
Karma Comes Before is a literary arts community and magazine showcasing queer, POC and differently abled voices, but open to all writers and artists!
This issue seeks to honor and affirm Lesbians outside of the sex/gender binary in all forms that it may take and to include nonconcrete gender identities found in all cultural specifics.
All THREE elements must be included for work to be considered
A friend recently recounted a challenging period when he felt like he was living under water. Then, he said, it was as if he grew gills. This month’s call welcomes poems about breathing under water.
For this contest, we hope writers will explore the hidden beauty, resilience, heartbreak, disappointment, and wisdom that stem from the greatest setbacks.
This issue’s theme is kitalo, an empathetic Luganda term of solidarity offered when someone experiences a spectrum of loss.