Events

Show us the gooiness and silence of the inside of a chrysalis and the relief and horror of emerging from it.

What is a "Giant Robot" theme? For this project, the term "Giant Robots" can include examples of technologies in timelines both real and imagined, and of any size or (even formless) form.

Send us your secrets or the aftermath of revealing them. Define and redefine what a secret is or can be. 

This instrument has inspired countless tales, including the legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul at the crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity.
We want your guitar-related poetry, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, and short stories.

Send work that responds thematically in compelling and surprising ways.

We are inspired by poet Marianne Moore: “I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.”

We encourage submissions of minimal sonnets and the related minison poetry forms but we also now accept closed-form poetry of any kind, including haikus, sestinas, pantoums, and, of course, traditional sonnets.

What is at stake in claiming “lesbian” as an identity, as a politics, and/or as an analytic? How does the figure of “the lesbian” circulate in debates about identity?

We seek work that represents and invigorates the diversity of contemporary poetry and demonstrates literary excellence whether it be lyric, free verse, prose, or experimental form.

What is prayer and how does it work? Do we pray TO or FOR something?

What is a City to you? A holiday destination? A treasure trove of art and culture? A hotbed of sin and vice?

Themes include, but are not limited to--family, self-realization, and legacy.

Companions take on many forms—human, animal, object, or ideas and memories.

We want your best laid plans gone awry. We want your glitches in the matrix. Our Journal Nine motto: watch your step.

We’re looking for writing about film, TV, and pop culture related to your hometown—however you may define it.

For Vol. IX, we’re seeking that surprise inherent in a “POP!” and the conflict that arises from it, characters and ideas that burst off the page, in language that crackles and snaps.

This issue will contain fiction and poems from the office worker's point of view - we're especially interested to see how the home office has taken on a new meaning because of Covid and what it's been like for those of us who have returned to the annoying commutes and communal bathrooms.

Happiness is a complex emotion. Send us your happy poems, whatever that means to you. Give yourself a brief respite from whatever is ailing you to write some happiness into your life.

All over the globe, well-established traditions have developed around the personal and social enjoyment of drinking these soothing, satisfying, and borderline addictive beverages.

Tell us about an experience shaving, or choosing not to: for a job interview, for an intimate affair, or for a time you tried to reinvent yourself.