Events

The theme is heartbreaker, but if you feel like your work is troubling or would start a fire, you're in the right place.

The Periwinkle Pelican Lit is a small labour of love, an indie passion project, and an ode to writers, poets, and dreamers everywhere.

We Love All We Voices celebrates the languages of poetry, fiction, essays, in all their glory, with works by some of our most pioneering writers. 

We know this is a very broad topic. Neurodiversity is typically likened to a spectrum and for good reason, as everyone’s experience is unique.

For our Feb 2025 issue of inScribe, we are inviting new and creative explorations of the many and varied meeting points of science and imagination – so start theorising and get scribing!

Whether it’s the soothing melodies of a lullaby, the powerful harmonies of a gospel choir, or the beats that make us dance, music is intertwined with our personal narratives. This open call invites you to explore and celebrate this connection by sharing your unique stories and essays that use music as a prompt.

Our first anthology will focus on a theme of “blue,” and however you interpret it—as the sky, the ocean, the shade of a particular flower, or an emotion.

The theme for Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #19 is Fable, and it will feature the works of Swedish folk and fantasy artist John Bauer .

Whether companion or wild, predator or prey, animals’ experiences of health can shine a light on our own. BLR invites submissions that explore how health and healing both transcend and interconnect species, and what this can teach us about being human. 

We invite stories, poems, memoir, and non-fiction that explore how, in ways small and large, our awareness of aging and mortality intensify our appreciation of our present (and past) in ways we never anticipated.

Apricity describes the warmth of the winter sun. We are looking for everything related to Winter of Life and weather. Send us your best work depicting the wintery weather of life (harsh realities, cold tragedies, regrets, and hurt) alongside the winter that leaves our skin cold with the kisses of chilling air and snowflake kisses.

For our 12th issue we’re looking for experimental criticism on any films, TV, or music videos set in or that engage with the future. 

Submissions are restricted to BIPOC, gender variant, and/or disabled creatives only.

Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to women.

What is your “What if?” or “If only…” related to your health-related stories.

Science works to correct itself; technology has overrun us, and most people believe the same pernicious nonsense people believed two hundred years ago.

The poems may be any style or length, but must be written about food in some way.

We explore original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.

Reimagine classical myths or create new ones that reflect current issues.

Reflect on this topic of what we give (and what we receive), and how this makes a difference.