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During our Spring Issue, we publish pieces that concentrate on perspectives of women’s celebrations, struggles, rage, disdain and anything in between.

We’re opening this month’s theme up wide to encapsulate the experiences of all LGBTQIA+ folks. Maybe it’s a coming out story, but maybe it’s a story about everyday existence, a story about living life on your own terms.

We want fiction with memorable characters and realistic plots, poetry that is fresh and original, and nonfiction that is both thoughtful and entertaining.

he First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.

We're not talking about everyday failures, rather the cascades of calamity that end in death, destruction, disaster.

This special issue invites contributions that critically trace the utopias/dystopias of economic miracles, the historical dialectic between ruins and reconstruction, decline and emergence at the heart of this phenomenon.

Vallum is interested in original and previously unpublished work. Ideal submissions are well-crafted, fresh and edgy. We are committed to enriching and continuing the tradition of poetry in the present day.

We are looking for new, unpublished, first-person, non-fiction material that is for or about women. Essays, humor, satire, personal experience, and features on topics relating to women are our primary editorial focus.

Just like the totem animal for many of us, the cat, LBTQIA+ babes often have more than one life, maybe more than nine. We are not only accustomed to rebuilding and resurrecting ourselves, our style, our family unit, our way of considering home, we often welcome the opportunity to.

We publish quality poetry of any genre and length congruent with our themes, including traditional poems, form poems, prose poems, and narrative poems. 

We are looking for poetic and hybrid ekphrastic responses to one or more of the visual pieces on our homepage, “FLOURISH,” “Horizon,” and “Making Time for the Ocean.” 

We explore intrepid culture: our stories feature danger elements, struggle, emotion, and OVERCOMING.

We love weird and experimental stuff (not specifically in the content or subject matter, but more so in the playfulness of form).

What might a sacred story immortalizing an LGBTQIA+ icon look like today?

Think about – write about – how words affect the receivers of the lightning – but also how they affect the givers.

Short Takes is open for bragging. Of all the fabulous things you have done in your life, until now cloaked in demure silence, which makes you proudest?

Send in your experiences and desires, your vulnerability and hope, as well as your dreams and despair in relation to the theme. Contributors are also allowed to explore the theme in a manner that defies convention.