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A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem.

Breath allows us the space to grieve, accept, be joyous, irate, or peaceful, and it facilitates the process by which we move forward in the world--and do not. Inhale/Exhale holds space for a moment, story, or image in all of us. What is yours?

Tell us your experiences with local legends/myths or create your own hometown horrors! It can be from Bigfoot to Indigenous myths to any eldritch horror, as long as its lore is tethered to the history of a town.

We seek poetry that stings, work that burns us long after reading.

Our mandate has been to encourage the voices of new, emerging, and established Canadian writers while providing a platform to be proud of for their quality work.

We look for work that challenges, re-imagines or undermines the status quo, work that pushes at the boundaries of form and function, work that is striking and beautiful.

A visitation might be a knock at the door, a funereal ritual, a brush with the otherworldly, a legal mandate, an act of wrath, a moment of union. This folio seeks to think about doors, borders, power, incarceration, and other institutions which divide or limit our time.

We are looking for high-quality writing that engages with the nuances and complexities of our times and isn’t afraid to tackle difficult subjects.  We are especially interested in writing from people directly engaged in resistance and liberation.

We like the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad at the same time. And we especially love to read the experimental, the surreal, and the genre-bending.

Tell us your stories of isolation, being left out, discriminated against. What about a time you did the excluding? Or flip it on its head and share the joy that comes from escaping the exclusion and finding your people. Surprise us (someone always does)!

This could be anything from first middle school dance to first female president.

We are looking for submissions that touch in some way on the place we find ourselves in the U.S., trying to right a teetering democracy.  As our situation is not unique in the world, writers and artists in other countries should feel free to submit work that speaks to the situations in their countries.

All stories must end with the last line provided, and you cannot change it in any way.

We are seeking prose and poetry that evoke feelings of abandonment, emptiness, loneliness, and the eerie ambiance of graveyards. Themes can also include the decaying remains of an old house or the bones of a relationship, depending on your unique execution.

Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.

Just as self implies other, the seen implicates the unseen. Like othering, not seeing is also a choice.

The focus of our winter 2024 journal will be: THE SELF-PORTRAIT In its grandest sense, a self-portrait may be presented as a painting, a collage, a poem, an essay, a […]