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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Send us your poems and stories about refuge: where it was, where you expect to find it, what it’s like to get there, to live there, how it turns if you stay too long, and what it’s like to leave.
We are looking for pieces that honor your experience, honor your journey, imagine the absence of otherization, and/or aid in communal healing.
We’re steeped in grief -- the grief that is with us now, the grief that was with us long ago, and the grief that grows with us. Don’t be afraid to bring us broken, heavy stories. We can handle it.
Entries should be in the form of a short story, on any theme, and written in English.
Ev0king the Question: What is your favorite myth, folktale, or fairy tale featuring the moon, and why?
State secrets, family secrets, trade secrets, secret sins and secret loves, entrusted secrets, cosmic secrets, childhood secrets, dark secrets taken to the grave––any sort of secret at all.
How you to interpret this theme is entirely up to you. We simply invite you to venture into the realms of imagination and unravel the illusions that shroud (or illuminate?) reality.
For consideration in the 2023 Waco Cultural Arts Fest WordFest Anthology, poets may submit one poem using the theme of ‘moon’.
Redivider’s Summer ’23 Blurred Genre special edition explores the fluid boundaries between genres. We welcome all hybrid, genre-blurring and experimental work.
Essays, humor, satire, personal experience, and features on topics relating to women are our primary editorial focus.
We’re delighted to announce the brand new annual WestWord Prize in which all winning and shortlisted stories will be published in the online anthology edition of WestWord.
What do Friends raised in other traditions bring to us?
Nature as a whole; deer grazing on grass in a forest, the stars on a clear night, children playing in an ocean inlet, birds chirping in tree canopies, a babbling brook by a cottage in the mountains. What is nature to you?
Our themes are always open to far-fetched interpretations and are not limited to a narrow definition. Don't hold back, surprise us!
Our favourite poems are the unexpected kind. We love free verse poems that take familiar situations and turn them on their head, using unusual metaphors and drawing parallels no one else would see.
We're looking for stories about epic journeys over vast distances with many destinations, and travels that have broadened the outlook, not just of the traveler, but of civilization.
Come one, come all, please join us under the falling leaves for a feast like none other. This October, the seventh issue of Last Leaves will make your mouth water.
Send us your traditional ghost stories, the ones that haunt and scare. Send us your unconventional ghost stories, the ones that make us rethink what a ghost story can be. We are open to your interpretation, so surprise us!
Submit work about whether you view your life and the world through a microscope or a telescope or perhaps from both perspectives. Mention the major and the minor issues, concerns, goals, living conditions, etc. that are just as important to you.
Five finalists published in 2023 Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.