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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.

In what ways do we experience religion, or the loss of religion, in our bodies?

This special issue of Canadian Literature examines the way literary texts claim space and explore questions of belonging for Indigenous, diaspora, and settler populations.

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 are looking for honest pieces reflecting on resistance, either internal or external.

If all the world's a stage, then where is the backstage? What happens when there’s no one to perform for, when no one is watching, when everybody has gone home? Who are we then?