Events

Exploring the emotional, literal, or metaphysical aspects of loss and discovery. It’s not just about objects, but about memories, identities, places, people, time, innocence, hope, even entire worlds.

You may submit more than one entry in one or more categories.

Have a “work phone” and a “personal”, maybe a “secret phone” for only certain people? We are interested in how all of this has changed us and our behaviors. Past, present, future––pretend, or all too real.

For this issue, we are exploring work that addresses the role of mother, and how mothers embroider with and untangle the familial threads that can heal or hinder. Send us your poems, your family recipes, your generational myths, your memories that you’ve borne, your visions for the future.

Whether a longing for the sentiments of the past, or a marketing trend that capitalizes on childhood favorites, we often find comfort in yesterday when today presents challenges. But that comfort is often rooted in the pain of longing, the disdain for change, and the fear of moving forward.  How does this powerful force influence your life? 

Most people value peace, so why is the world so full of conflict? Let's use the occasion of writing and enjoying great haibun to present on the topic.

For our very first print issue, we are featuring specifically mini, tiny, micro, and otherwise compressed work. What does art become without the luxuries of extensive prose, flowery language, elaborate constructions of plot? When we strip our work down to its core, what will we find?

For this edition, send us something that makes you reflect and represents your growth.

This issue provides an opportunity to reflect on how health -- mind, body, and spirit -- limit, challenge, define or inspire our ability to feel free.

For some, sexual congruency might come naturally; for others, it might require a long process of unlearning shame, navigating societal pressures, or coming to terms with identity.

For our summer issue, we invite you to consider the particularities of the people and places you know and love. What might it mean for you/us to emulate the “settling down” of Christ?

For this edition, we’re embracing the allure of illusion and taking chances on castles in the sky. We’re interpreting Fata Morgana as something that makes your soul feel like it’s going 200 kph while your body stays still.

For this theme, we want a humanized yet nonhuman narrative: give us your work that blinds us and binds us, turns rivers into veins and thunder into circuitry. Build us a blueprint that cartographs the way to your True North.

Send us work for this issue about conflicts that transported you through the emotional spectrum between hope and despair and that left you without a feeling of which way to turn and/or to whom.

We're looking for fiction and poetry that takes its inspiration from the world around us, especially that which somehow engages with the current Phylum.

Allegro Poetry Magazine seeks to publish the best contemporary poetry.

Masque & Spectacle is a bi-annual arts and literary journal.

Show us the space around obsession: what leads to it? What happens when it fades? Take us to the brink of obsession.

What polarity lies at the heart of your story? In what ways does it manifest? What happens when the two sides of the polarity come into contact or conflict, or when one transforms into the other?

Bring us your new perspective, bring us the tide. Your submission doesn’t need to have ocean imagery.