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Music has always been a source of inspiration, healing, and joy. It’s a force that transcends boundaries and speaks to our souls. Whether it’s the soothing melodies of a lullaby, the powerful harmonies of a gospel choir, or the beats that make us dance, music is intertwined with our personal narratives.

MEOW!  You must submit previously unpublished poetry for our upcoming whisker factory print issue. 

From ancestral connections to mystical transformations, dystopian futures to supernatural encounters immerse yourself in imaginative storytelling.

While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Flower’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.

We're hoping you set sail on your personal Pequod to hunt for the perfect poem, story, or essay that you would then share with us.

This month, we want stories about legends, real or imagined, the crimes that inspired them, and the way those legends affect those living in their shadows.

The Twin Bill is a literary baseball journal. The more surprising connection to baseball through writing, the better.

There are no specific themes for this collection beyond our general desire for work dealing with nature and the natural world, although we would be particularly interested in any poems that take the historical use of kennings into account.

Duality is the ability to be complex. There’s multiples ways of viewing and showing up in the world. Duality allows us freedom to explore beyond the surface.

We want to read your best, weird and wild! This month, the theme is "FALL". Interpret that however you wish!

✥ COCOON ✥ to retreat and find sanctuary, unveiling the essence of comfort and familial warmth before emerging refreshed.

We’re looking for an engagement with emotional extremes or environmental collapse or feelings of bodily entrapment; work that is desperate, unhinged, hallucinatory, hormonal.

Surprise and amaze us with your work about journeys and voyages through places, spaces and time.

Whatever your experience of love, it is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Submit your short fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry exploring love as it resonates with you in any of its many forms.

What needs to be composed? How do we compose? What happens when there is no composure? Are there moments we don't need to compose (work, music, ourselves, etc)?

. . . It waits in between the shadows. It watches from just out of sight. The monster. The Other. The creature haunting the peripheries, guarding the boundaries . . .

Book XI is a journal dedicated to publishing personal essays, memoir, fiction, science fiction, humor, and poetry with philosophical themes.