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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
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.
Southern Poetry Review is looking for the perfect poem, and it could be yours!
Short stories do not need to follow any particular theme or genre, but must be written in English.
Plum Tree Tavern invites original and previously unpublished poetry of green witness and red protest.
Creation gets at both ultimate and particular questions—Why is there something rather than nothing at all? And what do our own creative pursuits have to do with our answer to that question?
We've long admired the mighty power of the compressed form, which is why we are expanding our search for the very best in small fiction.
We are devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions
Faith is a tricky business. It’s personal and it’s political and it’s sometimes the source of heartache and trauma. How it has shaped you, formed your world view or broken you down?
Our theme for our inaugural issue is genesis; origin and creation. We imagine stories which explore what it means to begin or to begin anew.
Water is life-sustaining—a symbol of rebirth, cleansing, healing, and renewal. It reflects its environment, and it offers us a glimpse of our surroundings. When we gaze upon our reflection, we see our rippled selves in a seemingly altered way.
Our Issue 99 theme is toxic substances, and the deliberate or accidental damage they can cause.
The cosmos. It instils wonder, curiosity, reverence and terror. What does it mean to you?