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The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, are a classification of vices in Christian teachings. What are the Seven Deadly Sins to you?

The body-neutral approach leans toward the belief that it doesn’t matter if you think your body is beautiful or not. Your value is not tied to your body nor does your happiness depend on what you look like.

Money. Is it the root of all evil or a reward for solving problems? Send us your best unpublished stories of approximately 50 words, about Money. 

We seek work that reimagines place. In addition to a wide range of place-engaged work, we continue to seek work in all genres that engages with the climate crisis.

Tell us tales of campers missing in the woods, sailors adrift at sea, lovers lost in each other's arms. We want stories that we will need a breadcrumb trail to find our way out of.

We want the truth. Tell us about yourself. Let us peer into your lives in a way only your closest friends do. Let's get to know each other.

Our theme for this issue is an exploration of the multifaceted bonds we form, focusing on both platonic romance and the significance of chosen bonds.

Perhaps yours is a massive thermos of coffee first thing in the morning, or a bottle of those barely regulated pills they sell at truck stops.

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 fiction with memorable characters and realistic plots, poetry that is fresh and original, and nonfiction that is both thoughtful and entertaining.

We’re looking for work that expresses the aspects of healing that are life changing, profound, painful, cathartic, joyous or liberating. The moment you looked up and saw the sunrise and thought ‘I’m going to be ok’.

Tell us about reconnecting with a lost love, making amends with your dead mother, walking down the path you didn’t choose the first time.

For this issue we will be accepting work that explores relationships - one-to-one, groups, families, romances, friendships; challenges, highs, lows, patterns, and parallels.

Send us stories that announce themselves like a new year rolling in, literary essays about the latest ‘in thing’ you’re avoiding, or poems that straddle the intimate and public.

Our perfect submission defies categorization—pieces that could be “too speculative” for CanLit or literary magazines or “not speculative enough” for speculative magazines. However, we also love a good genre romp, and will publish across many genres.