Events

We want stories that draw blood, not for shock, but for honesty.

The pendulums of a grandfather clock; the alarm on your iPhone; the light and shadows on a sundial; the seeping sand in an hourglass. We all keep the same time, though it passes at different speeds. Smooth sailing. Stutter step. Slow as molasses.

Life is messy; how you respond is what makes you human.

Make us laugh. Make us fume. Make us grateful. Make us cry. Make us feel.

While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Signal’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.

Whether manic, abstract, or mundane—this isn't the place you need to mask what makes your work strange; unusual; wonderful.

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!

Stripes Literary Magazine is always on the lookout for raw, different and divergent poetry.

For this issue, F(r)iction seeks to uncover the redacted with Censored! Let’s investigate the burning of books, witches, and bridges as we delve into all things sanitized.

We are looking for submissions that complicate and subvert conventional understandings of food and class. Submissions may inspect consumption, excess, cannibalism, accessibility, privilege.

What does Freedom mean to you?

This issue aims to make visible all possible conversations and encounters from philosophy with other inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.

Send us your form, your function, your container, your contained; body and constraints and sacred objects and holdings-of-things.

What do you consider a valued inheritance? It could be an object of sentimental value, a lesson from a loved one, a characteristic passed down through generations, a spiritual blessing or gift, or even something else you consider valuable.

All THREE elements (the specific words Cherry Tree, Surveillance, Menu) must be included in your story or poem for your work to be considered for publication. NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER.

We love the concept of narrative - we want to read storytellers telling stories in whatever form that takes for you. 

We are looking for stories of people or things that have been erased from history, the mechanism by which that erasure is effected, or the consequence of erasure.

Over its 50-year history, CV2 has had the privilege of providing dozens of writers with their first print publications, and this year, as we celebrate this milestone anniversary for the magazine, we hope to support a fresh wave of emerging poets in the same way.

Submit as many haiku as you please on the season word “Perseids.”