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
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.
For this contest, write a story in which someone or something has returned after a significant absence.
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?