P – Cordite Poetry Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Precarious
Cordite Poetry Review is an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research.
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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Cordite Poetry Review is an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research.
Show us poetry that drips off the page. Think of rain, oil, blood, wet cement.
Disunion is absence and aftermath, breakage and becoming. We welcome interrogations of dismantling and what emerges in its wake.
In the spirit of Leonard Cohen, we ask that your poems deal in some way with the intersections of Love, Faith, & Sex.
We encourage submitters to simply have fun with the theme, or ignore it entirely.
Can Justice then be relied on to be Fair? What really does Justice mean? To you? To me? To us?
We've all got something to say about cellphones, so share your thoughts.
We want your cozy holiday memories. The power of a winter storm. The sparkling beauty of a frozen landscape.
Curiosity, everyday magic, and exciting newness can fill the soul with wonder.
What’s on your wish list–for yourself, for those you love? Being a good friend is a gift, as is knowing how to be.
The Periwinkle Pelican Lit is a small labour of love, an indie passion project, and an ode to writers, poets, and dreamers everywhere.
Between work, family, passions, and everything else, finding time for it all can prove difficult. What needs more balance in your life?
Your story or poem doesn’t have to be about the three elements or even revolve around them; simply use your imagination to create whatever you want.
We are looking for variety and originality. Tickle us, haunt us, gobsmack us. Choose your words carefully and leave our readers wanting more. And do it in a small space.
What does revolution look like from a disability standpoint?
For our final contest of 2025, we’re asking writers to dissect deception in all forms: quiet lies, shams, secrets kept, masks worn, counterfeit stories, and half-truths. We want them all.
For this contest, Four Tulips is looking for short prose and poetry with themes of warmth and comfort. Wining pieces will have rich imagery and be best served with some hot cocoa on a cold winter’s night
"Islands: Real, Imagined & Metaphoric" is meant to be a broad prompt — poems about independence, isolation, resilience, nature, and singularity, for example, all might fit!
As always, we are open to literal interpretations as well as unusual or unexpected interpretations of the theme.
We invite you to contribute pieces that embody the Palestinian experience—its struggles and its enduring capacity for hope, creation, and collective flourishing. Let this issue be both an act of remembrance and a celebration of life; a space to honour the voices and visions that persist, even under siege.