Events

Mothers have a lot to say about mothering. Trust us, we know. We’re dedicating the month of May to telling those motherhood stories.

We like work that asks questions, explores mystery, and seeks to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and those whose voices have been silenced.

The leisure principle has rendered the world a pleasure garden – for those who can afford it – of interminable excess and consumption without end. We’re looking for work that addresses the question of how we came to cede so much, and at such a price, just to amuse ourselves to death.

We want work that asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, and is forward thinking.

Borders, streets, cities, monuments, memories. Tell me your dreams and I will tell you mine.

Waiting. Does it come easy, or does it infuriate. What’s your take?

Rivers are deep sources of connection and memory, holding very different meanings for different communities, and this issue seeks to honor the many types of relationships we have with rivers.

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Vallum is interested in original and previously unpublished work.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We are looking for new, unpublished, first-person, non-fiction material that is for or about women.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.