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We invite pieces that capture the spirit of Aurora: radiant, reflective, and full of gentle transformation.

We're looking for fiction and poetry about the people who work in airports and for airlines, such as passenger service agents, ramp agents, TSA agents, airport engineers, baggage handlers, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, pilots, and so on.

What does butch-femme mean in lesbian and queer communities today?

Taken on its own, “gibbous” represents a concept still in the works, under construction, nearly-there. Perhaps this is what it means to live in a gibbous phase of the decade: something swollen, marked by tension and possibility.

Homemade and handmade—crafting a life.

What influences exist in your life? What or who has made you who you are? Who have you influenced?

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.

Send us work that navigates this dystopia, this manipulation; these reversals. Work that traverses the wastelands of distortion.

In an age of fractured focus, how do we attend—to each other, to the world, to the overlooked? 

Poems should engage with the craft, joy, or obsession of writing poetry. Work can be meta, self-reflective, or whimsical, highlighting the relationship between poet, poem, and (if applicable) reader.

Punk is many things to many people. What does Punk mean to you?

Can we provide succour for ourselves, for others, in whatever outfit, unfit, fitful ways we bring words to the page?