Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Send in your experiences and desires, your vulnerability and hope, as well as your dreams and despair in relation to the theme. We want voice. We want artistry. We want heart.
We are very into slice of life stories, ruralism in general, extending to so-called “cottagecore”, and stories in general that take place in wooded places.
SERAPHIM: an angelic being, regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardour, and purity.
Please send us your clever observations of the world, from the mundane to the mountainous. Tell the truth, but tell it slanted.
Whether your style leans towards the whimsical or the stark, infuse your work with the power to provoke contemplation. Show us possibilities that shape the human experience.
Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.
“I never left because a part of me will always be in that house . . . ” ? J.X. Burros
Mothers have a lot to say about mothering. Trust us, we know. We're dedicating the month of May to telling those motherhood stories.
A holistic retrospective on the women’s music cultural movement. This is an explicitly trans-inclusive issue that welcomes submissions from people of all genders and walks of life who have experiences with the women’s music movement.
Send us your work about treasures you’ve reclaimed, leftovers, pulpiness, messiness, griminess, and excessiveness. What you’re afraid to touch with a ten foot pole. In short, send us your trashiest and filthiest work.
Separation from one’s country or culture—whether voluntary or not—generates a range of feelings/experiences: disorientation, grief, nostalgia, curiosity, surprise, and a negotiation of a new sense of self, to name a few. Send us fiction—flash or full length—that uncovers some nuance of this experience.
We're passionate about unconventional creativity in literature. We seek work that challenges norms and embraces innovation
"Solidarity Forever" refers to the old union song of the same name, but your submission does not have to be specifically about unions,. It could be about all sorts of problems solved through collective resistance and people standing together.
Celestial bodies held in orbit around one another. What are our gravitational pulls? What does this mean for other moments that feel cosmic? What might be other natural or forced altered perspectives?
We welcome submissions about how being a part of this critical climate movement can help us live better, more meaningful, lives, and that help shift our cultural mindset from despair to creative possibility and from isolation to collective purpose.
For the April Issue of Parcham, we aim to look into the various manifestations associated with children and the entire process of growing up, as well as watching the days of childhood from an adult’s perspective
We aim to make publications more accessible to writers and artists by creating a landing platform for their unrestricted creativity and for works that go beyond conventional interpretations.
Do dirt, get dirt. Hit the dirt, then dig in - up - out - ew. Don’t cry foul - this is a dirty business. Got dirt? We want
Why does status so often go unnoticed? How does it influence everything from social inequality to personal relationships? And what changing forces have come to bear on the high or low status we’ve ascribed ourselves and others over the centuries?
Not platonic, familial, or devotional, this is the rascal love where your heart sweats and you lose your mind. The world well lost for lust. Dreaming days followed by sleepless nights.