Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with unfamiliar people, new places, strange experiences or foreign exploration. Work might revolve around culture clashes, romantic encounters, fears about the future, immigration, travel, or otherworldly realms altogether.
What does it mean to forgive? Are there any preconditions? Any limitations? What does forgiveness do to us and to the forgiven?
Our fall edition’s theme is spooky, however you interpret that.
Our Annual Literary Prize is back again for 2023, with bigger cash prizes, publication for all shortlisted entries in our annual anthologies, a televised award ceremony, and an inspiring new theme.
Our stories feature danger elements, struggle, emotion, and OVERCOMING. Go for the Gutsy!
Send us anything quirky and unique that relates to strangers in any way.
A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem.
On the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, Feminist Studies invites News & Views reports on how activists, state legislatures, organizations, and corporations are responding to it.
Our mandate has been to encourage the voices of new, emerging, and established Canadian writers while providing a platform to be proud of for their quality work.
Let’s talk about things we should be thankful for, but just aren’t. Or the things people expected us to be thankful for that we simply think, “Um, what?” Give us the rude, the harsh, the enduring, the funny. The things that made you say, “Thanks, I guess.”
All stories must end with the last line provided, and you cannot change it in any way.
In our homes and public spaces, on our streets, buildings, and bodies; sometimes carefully planned and presented, sometimes spontaneously expressed— we live with art.
Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.
What makes a desert? Definitions of ‘desert’ include arid land, lifeless water, desolate areas, wild lands, or home for most of us in the Southwest. In issue six, we want to explore what perceptions shape our climate.
A prize of $1,200 and publication in Mudfish is given annually for a single poem.
Winners receive publication, promotion, and a cash prize.
We want to give all people who make their way to Fathom a reason to engage their minds and their emotions.
The past, famously, is a foreign country – but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace.
In this issue, we encourage you to deconstruct and redefine the notion of coda. How can the conclusion be a new beginning? Explore innovative methods of crafting closure, and let your creative expression find its ultimate resolution.
The phrase “fresh hell” embodies the intersection of humor and despair in the face of life’s twists and turns. We invite you to respond to this theme by with the tumultuous and unpredictable facets of human experience—personal, social, cultural, global, or otherwise.