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We're looking for speculative takes on epiphany, from the realization that television is all real and true, to the discovery that the life you live in your dreams is your real life, and this one is the dream. We want to be just as surprised as your narrators by the things they discover and where those discoveries lead them. 

Give us your wildly true tales of memory or distorted tales of fiction that leave us questioning what is real and what is imagined.

Send us your Kafkaesque fantasies of being transformed into a giant cockroach or perhaps somewhat smaller disorienting episodes, changes, or transformations which have affected you or your characters’ lives.

Mirage describes an optical illusion or an unrealistic hope or wish that cannot be achieved. You are free to incorporate the given theme into your work as you see fit. The setting should depict the Spring season.

From the Knights Templar to Japan’s “herbivore men”, the bachelor is often a complex figure caught in the shifting tides of gender norms, cultural flux, and sociohistorical change. We invite writers to explore the multifaceted lives of unmarried men across the spectrum of identity—straight, queer, cis, trans, and beyond.

We are looking for work that is sensitive, thought-provoking, intelligent, and humorous. We encourage artistic expression that portrays depth in characterization & ideas and exhibits a nuanced perspective of the mundane.

Gypsophila complements any flower placed beside it in a bouquet or flowerbed. This magazine combines art and literature, visual and verbal art coming together to create something beautiful. Just like how baby’s breath (gypsophila) can grow in tandem with almost any other flower.

Icebreakers wants your almost, maybes. Your brushes with the other worldly. Your longings. Send us your work that explores your interpretation of "close encounters" (Aliens in no way required. Though of course we still love them).

June is Pride Month, and we want to share the beautiful (and often tought) moments of coming out. Don’t be afraid to share the rawness of it all, the hurt as well as the beauty. 

We're looking for essays that delineate both how feminists may experience, theorize, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may, alternatively, thwart the development of feminist futures.

Write about your experience navigating the world as a bi+ person and trying to find your own community, whether that be a friend group, chosen family, knitting circle, or so on.

This call is for writers born and/or residing in Canada and Canadians living abroad. 

Fallen from grace, or falling on your face, out for the count or out on the town, down in the dumps or deep below the earth (or the waves), on the road with no fixed abode ... be creative and show us what you can do with this theme!

Queer characters (and queer people, for that matter) put up with enough bullshit from homophobes and transphobes, and this month we want noir tales where they turn the tables on the haters in fabulous and brutal ways.

We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers.

We seek submissions for the "Jerky" issue. Our themes are not to be approached literally. Please just have fun with the theme, or ignore it altogether. The small submission fee is to help defray the cost of shipping physical contributor's copies.

Boudin is currently looking for creative work that speaks on the beautiful moments of queer life, the not so beautiful moments, and even the everyday uneventful moments. The goal of this issue if to remind everyone that queer people have always been here and will always be here. We cannot be erased. 

We want to read haibun and tanka prose that excites. It should leave THE DOOR AJAR to the world, and work with tension.

Whether doors conjure memories or set your mind on a fictional adventure, we welcome your creative work.