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Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to women.

GeneralStories Through The Ages - Baby Boomers Plus 2024 is open to people born 1966 or earlier. There is no prompt for the contest. Authors may write about any topic.

We are interested in your narrative and poetic experiments, odd stories, humorous pieces, weird fiction, and the quirky. We ultimately leave “Play” up for your interpretation. Have fun!

What is the most frightening or most glorious sound you've ever heard? How is nature the ultimate musician? Do you remember the first song that ever struck a chord in your soul? Where do you go, or what do you do, to escape the noise of your own consciousness?

The Lifespan Series offers a unique opportunity to contribute works taking characters across the arc of their whole lives, whether prose or poetry, fiction or non-fiction. This final in the series must include something about death and dying.

Carcanet Press provides the most comprehensive and diverse lists of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation.

Myths, Gods & Immortals brings together the new and the ancient, familiar stories with a fresh and imaginative twist. We're looking for stories that reveal hidden themes and cast fresh perspectives on the well-known stories.

Lean into ambiguity & leave us guessing. Toe the line between two worlds. Send us your favorite works that defy genre & conventional exceptions.

Food, glorious food! The kind for your body and the kind for your soul – that’s what we’re craving for our August 2024 issue.

Published poems will be considered for a Pushcart Prize nomination.

What does Belonging mean to you?

Cats have always been considered companions and playmates that brighten our days and enrich our lives. What would we do without them?

We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and hysterical stories you have about your dogs.

This issue of Sinister Wisdom seeks contributions by lesbian, queer, and/or trans people self-identified as Mad, mentally disabled, and/or psychiatric survivors.

Send us your monsters—your cryptids, your undead, your aliens, your un-human creatures, your bodies of difference, your destroyer of straightforward categories and binaries.

We're looking for submissions that explore what we do in the moments after epiphany; the ways in which motion and stillness are inseparable.

Bad Betty is an award-winning independent publisher of new poetry, and curator of live literature events.

We encourage your imagination to run wild with our theme.