Events

This issue is gay prom and Brown Bag is inviting everyone to put on their gayest outfits and dance the night away.

Messy Misfits Club zine is looking for stories with out of bounds content– We want to be raw, rebellious and let our voices be heard. The Messy Misfits are meant to be downright dirty!

Your work should always be just as long (or as short) as it needs to be.

Well Projects third anthology, Resurrection Charms, engages with the language of ‘returning’ implicit within projects of ecological restoration and explores what a ‘future modelled on the past’ is meant to look like.

Consider the wholes that form us and the holes that cause relationships and structures to erode. Explore this theme literally or figuratively.

Silkworm 17 has an optional theme of Bird. Feel free to interpret the theme in any way and remember that the theme is optional.

For our August 2024 edition, the theme is CIRCUS

Abridged 0-101 ‘Rebecca’ invites poetry submissions on the conflicting themes of haunting, convention, repression and resistance.

Poets, get your collections ready!

We welcome work from both new and established writers, and especially encourage submissions from writers yet to publish a first collection.

We want your poems and your mistakes. Fiction that falls between genres. Weird, wild poems. Anything speculative, daring, or just plain odd.

We have no definitive preference for what are looking for, we enjoy a variety of genres and styles and consider anything.

Six contributors will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize, (poetry and fiction).

We welcome all styles of writing, particularly that which is well-crafted, uses language lovingly and surprisingly, and feels daring or quietly powerful.

We celebrate the rich history of baseball while also recognizing its vibrant present through fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

We want to hear about crafts, construction, repairs, destruction, recipes, art and inventions (time machines included, working or not).

Come to the table. July is all about food. The meals we’ve made, the tables we’ve shared, the way food has impacted your life. Eating is universal, sharing a meal is universal, how does it factor into your story?

Parabola gathers the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions to illuminate the central questions of life.

Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.

The name Superpresent conveys multiple meanings. It could be something very much in the here and now, or something beyond the present state of being or thinking, or something surreal, or it could simply be a great and wonderful gift.