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PFN - Limit Experience Journal Seeking submissions on the Theme: Ageless Sexuality: Libidinal Innocence & Wisdom
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Limit Experience Journal
“We cannot Change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it Oppresses.” – Carl Jung
LEJ Magazine explores culturally impacting libidinal beliefs and practices across borders, ages, and unmentionable social mores. We are excited to publish exploratory, highly imaginative, views, opinions, and journalism.
Be bold and run free with your creative expression. Our mission for the magazine is to inspire our audience to expand their notion of creativity by emboldening both the logical and ephemeral definitions of cultural innovation, ingenuity, and inventiveness.
Have fun! Be playful and most importantly, submit well thought out multilayered work that speaks to your deepest libidinal human drive in Jungian terms, the desire to express oneself beyond the pale!
” – the only kind of curiosity, in any case, that is worth acting upon with a degree of obstinacy: not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself. – Michel Foucault
And, as always, Limit Experience Magazine is all about the hair-pin curves that change requires we navigate as experimenters in the libidinal realm. Therefore, your submission should include a subconscious alteration of the protagonist’s narrative state; when the reader metabolizes your submission should shift them from one state to the next.
In other words, a level of CHANGE is required for the Limit Experience to be validated. To provide the reader with a catalyst for growth whether they decide to embrace it or not is key to the LE project.
Submissions fee: USD $11.11

P - Stripes Literary Magazine Seeking Poetry on the Theme of Blank Spaces
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Stripes Literary Magazine
Submissions Guidelines
– Please submit three – five poems per issue. We look out for poetry that makes us feel. Poems that are human and can breathe. We are moved by poetry that breaks conventions and employs new technique or style.
– Poems should be uploaded as doc/docx files (we do not accept PDF). All Poems submitted must be previously unpublished on any platform.
– Begin every new poem on a new page. Pages must not exceed 5.
– Send along a cover letter and a short bio of 100 words, with your social media handles.

Send your submissions to thestripesmag@yahoo.com with Subject: Submission/Genre
​Eg: Submission/Poetry

Response
We respond to submissions between 2-3 weeks. Send a notice if your submissions does not receive a response after that period.
We try to offer feedback whenever possible but it is not as often as we like. When this is not possible, we recommend a sister magazine that will be more suited for your work.
We accept simultaneous submissions but request that we be informed if another magazine picks up your work before us.

PFN - Open Call to F(r)iction. The Theme: Censored!
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | F(r)iction
For this issue, F(r)iction seeks to uncover the redacted with Censored! Let’s investigate the burning of books, witches, and bridges as we delve into all things sanitized. What are the secrets a family withholds about their past? What histories do we bury, whitewash, or blackout? What voices are lost to time, imprisoned, and expunged? Bring us stories, poetry and creative nonfiction that wants to hide truths, or protect others from them. Join us as we contemplate blacklists, consider authoritarianism, and debate the trade off between freedom and safety. Imagine an microchip in a person’s brain that keeps them from talking about certain things… and how it might go wrong. Ponder a dress code that erases identity completely. Or maybe the part of yourself you obscure to fit in. Question a person scouring their socials to delete their younger self for a job. Send us your writing that interrogates obfuscation, from without, and within.
Form:

Short stories: 1,001 – 7,500 words
Creative nonfiction: up to 6,500 words
Flash fiction: (up to three pieces in the same document) up to 1,000 words per piece
Poetry: (up to five poems in the same document) up the three pages per poem

Submission fee: $2.50

PFN - The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food Seeking Submissions for the Fall Issue on the Theme: Eat the Rich
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | The Inquisitive Eater
Submissions

The theme of the Fall 2025 issue of The Inquisitive Eater, is EAT THE RICH. Dismantle the recipes of social dynamics.
This issue is centered on the relationship between food and capital. We are looking for submissions that complicate and subvert conventional understandings of food and class. Submissions may inspect consumption, excess, cannibalism, accessibility, privilege. We encourage all artists to interpret and play with the theme as they see fit.

Poetry: Up to four poems may be submitted for consideration. Please send as a .doc,.docx, or .pdf file.
Fiction: Please submit one fiction piece at a time. Ideally each fiction submission will fall under 4,000 words. Please send as a .doc,.docx, or .pdf file.
Nonfiction/Essay: Please submit one nonfiction piece at a time. Ideally each nonfiction submission will fall under 4,000 words. Please send as a .doc,.docx, or .pdf file.

Deadline for Submissions: August 30th.
Only previously unpublished work will be considered for publication. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but let us know if your work gets picked up elsewhere. Please wait for a response on your current submission’s status before submitting again. Submissions are accepted and managed through our Submittable page: inquisitiveeater.submittable.com

PFN - Call for Submissions to époque press é-zine. Theme: Freedom
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | époque press é-zine
our é-thos: époque press was founded in October 2017 with the aim of publishing great literary titles by authors from diverse backgrounds who may have been overlooked by the large global publishing houses. As part of this we also set up an online arts magazine, our é-zine, with the aim of connecting artists working in different mediums, in the hope it would stir the wider pot of creativity.
Submissions are now open for the upcoming é-zine on the theme of Freedom – what does Freedom mean to you? Submissions will close on 30th August 2025.
written wordWe are open for submissions of poetry, short stories and short essays. Please submit your work in an attachment to the email as a MS Word Document. Please accompany your submission with a short bio of no more than 100 words telling us a little bit about yourself, the motivation behind your work and how it aligns to the theme. This can be attached as a separate MS Word Document or within the text of the email. Please email submissions@epoquepress.com and in the subject header state ‘ezine submission’, name of theme and your name.

N - Estudios de Filosofía Seeking Submissions on: The open borders of pragmatism
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Estudios de Filosofía
CFP: The open borders of pragmatism
Three figures of classical pragmatism are usually recognized: Charles S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey; however, pragmatism is not restricted to them or to that period and place (late nineteenth century in the United States of North America). Thanks to the impulse given by these three classic pragmatists, among whom it would also be necessary to include thinkers such as Jane Addams, this philosophical tradition has spread to other parts of the world thanks to its great plurality and valuation of experience. This is why pragmatism has not been limited to the discussion of the issues raised by its founders, but has managed to articulate itself with different philosophical aspects and branches of knowledge, such as education, art, semiotics, biology, ethics, politics, logic, ecology or mathematics, among others, and promises to offer us more possibilities of conversation to illuminate our present and future. This issue aims to make visible all these possible conversations and encounters from philosophy with other inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. Proposals may be related, but not limited, to the following topics:
● Under-recognized pragmatist authors
● Applications of pragmatism in different fields such as logic, mathematics, epistemology, ethics, politics, gender studies, feminism, education, ecology, theories of cognition, sports, etc.
● Contemporary critiques and debates on pragmatism
● New interpretations, challenges and perspectives of pragmatism.
● Conversations of pragmatism with other philosophical trends or traditions.
Deadline: August 30th, 2025. Publication date: June 30th, 2026

Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published or sent to another journal. Otherwise an explanation has been provided in the “Comments to the Editor”.
The file is sent in Microsoft Word 2003-2010 format or docx.
The author/s has/have provided web addresses (URLs) for references consulted from the internet.
The text has spacing 1.5 points, the font size is between 11 and 12 points, italics are used instead underlined (except internet sites URL), and all figures and tables are within the text and not at the end of the manuscript.
The text accords with stylistic and bibliographic requirements specified in the Author Guidelines. In particular, the references follow the APA style.
The author’s name and affiliation, and any other information that could reveal her/his identity, should be removed from the manuscript.
The author has a PhD or a Master degree.
In the OJS system: the author must submit a file with a brief intellectual biography, with the following information: name and surname; completed institutional affiliation (university, faculty, research group); studies (degrees obtained, institution); recently published books and articles; areas of expertise; e-mail and ORCID.
The text was not generated exclusively by an artificial intelligence. The journal accepts the use of AIs for editing and improving submitted texts, but they must not be exclusively generated by an AI.

Author Guidelines
Authors are required to register on the Estudios de Filosofía website before beginning the submission process. If you are already registered as an author, just log in to submit your paper through five steps. Be sure to comply with the manuscript preparation guide as shown below, and also read the copyright notice.

Estudios de Filosofía has adopted the APA Style (Seventh Edition) as the standard citation system for our papers. Helpful information may be found in APA Reference Style.

There is no publishing or article processing charge (APC).

The journal cannot consider more than one paper at a time from any one author, whether as the author or as co-author. So, until a final decision to publish or reject has been made on one paper, its author(s) will not be eligible to submit another paper for consideration.

The journal only accepts manuscripts from authors who have a Ph.D. or master degree.

Introduction
All manuscripts will undergo an initial review with an anti-plagiarism tool. Once confirmed with the anti-plagiarism report that the text meets the originality requirements, it will be submitted for initial review by the Journal Editor and the Editorial Committee to determine that it is appropriate to the journal’s theme, scope, objective, and editorial guidelines. If the anti-plagiarism percentage reaches 30% self-reference, the text will be rejected.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in order to improve the readability of the texts, but in no case to produce manuscripts. AI can produce content that is incorrect, false, biased, or even appropriate original work from another author without proper citation. Without pretending to ignore technological advances, this journal reiterates its commitment to the production of new knowledge, the authenticity of documents submitted to editorial processes, academic curatorship, integrity, and ethics in research and publication. Thus, Estudios de Filosofía will reject articles in which the indiscriminate use of AI is detected.
Once the manuscript is accepted for editorial consideration by the journal, it will undergo double-blind peer review to determine its potential publication. The author might be required to review the manuscript before publication, yet the right to refuse publication of articles is restricted to the editor or the director. All manuscripts must be submitted in MS Word 2003-2010 or .docx. The following information is suggested as a guide for organizing your submission.

All authors must attach, in addition to the paper, a message for the editor with a brief biography, including their studies, their institutional affiliation, and their lines of work and research.

PFN - Call or Submissions to DOG TEETH lit mag Issue #5. Theme: Vessel
2025-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | DOG TEETH lit mag
SUBMIT YOUR STRANGE HERE! Our theme for this issue is VESSEL, so send us your form, your function, your container, your contained; body and constraints and sacred objects and holdings-of-things. EIC likes overspilling, the meeting of human and animal, objects that are precious to you, and general creaturely vibes. We are currently accepting poetry, creative non-fiction, short essays, and micro fiction. We are unfortunately unable to pay contributors, but know we are as excited as you are to publish your art! Expect to hear back within two weeks after the deadline closing; if you haven’t heard back within this time frame, give us a nudge via email at dogteethlitmag@gmail.com. DEADLINE: AUGUST 30TH.

GUIDELINES
We do accept simultaneous submissions, but be sure to let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere and that publication does not allow simultaneous publication, so we can send you congratulations and withdraw it from DOG TEETH! We accept previously published works ONLY if the place of previous publication was on a personal blog/site/social media. Please submit as a Word Document, PDF, or Google Doc. Please only submit once per issue (as in, if your submission(s) is rejected, please wait until the following issue to submit). Submissions will only be accepted if they adhere to the theme and guidelines provided here. DO NOT SEND US A.I.-GENERATED WORKS: any piece(s) created using generative A.I. will be automatically rejected and will result in the sender being definitively blacklisted from this publication. This policy is not negotiable.
POETRY Submit no more than three poems, each poem not to exceed 60 lines in length. Submit all poems in the same document, with each poem on a separate page, and each poem titled.CREATIVE NON-FICTION Submit no more than two original pieces, each piece not to exceed 1500 words in length. Submit all pieces in the same document, with each piece on a separate page, and each piece titled.

SHORT ESSAYS Submit no more than one original work, each piece not to exceed 1500 words in length. Submit all pieces in the same document, with each piece on a separate page, and each piece titled.
MICRO FICTION Submit no more than two original works, each piece not to exceed 800 words in length. Submit all pieces in the same document, with each piece on a separate page, and each piece titled.

INCLUSIVITY
DOG TEETH loves the visceral and fucked-up parts of this life, but as a queer-led and inclusive mag dedicated to uplifting marginalised voices we have a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, ableism or other violence against marginalised communities. We welcome sensitive topics and adult material, but please be mindful and include content warnings. No graphic depictions of sexual assault will be accepted.

RIGHTS
If accepted by DOG TEETH, you grant us first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. All submissions remain the intellectual property of the artist. Rights revert back to the author upon publication. Authors retain copyright and will always be credited.

GOOD LUCK!

F - Timeless Reflections Magazine Seeking Short Stories on the Theme: A Valued Inheritance
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Timeless Reflections Magazine
What do you consider a valued inheritance? It could be an object of sentimental value, a lesson from a loved one, a characteristic passed down through generations, a spiritual blessing or gift, or even something else you consider valuable.
We are looking for short stories about anything that has had a meaningful impact on you, which a valued person or relationship has passed down. Be creative and thoughtful. Please send us your best work!

Timeless Reflections is published semiannually, in spring and fall, online and in print. We accept most genres except erotica and horror. Simultaneous submissions are considered if we are notified of the work being accepted by another publication. Reprints are considered with disclosure of previous publications.
By submitting, the author who has his or her written work selected for the magazine agrees that he/she is the original creator of the work and that he/she holds the copyright to the work. The author agrees that Timeless Reflections/Diamante Lavendar is granted usage of the work for display, promotion, marketing, email newsletters, press releases, and for use in Timeless Reflections Magazine and on the Timeless Reflections/Diamante Lavendar website and social media accounts. The author’s name will be displayed with the written work. The work and author’s name will also be archived on this site and will be available for public view. The author maintains all copyrights of the work. The work will not be resold, copied, exchanged or downloaded from this site.

PFN - Submit to 3Elements Literary Review using the Elements: Cherry Tree, Surveillance, Menu
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | 3Elements Literary Review
The three elements for the current submission period are: Cherry Tree, Surveillance, Menu.
Due August 31, 2025, for our fall issue, no. 48.

What does 3Elements enjoy reading?
We appreciate good writing in any genre. We especially like edgy writing that offers insight into darkness. We prefer character-driven stories as opposed to plot-driven ones. We relish a piece with a great deal of heart and more than a little bit of Truth (note the capital “T”). We want to read a story that makes us feel edified or philosophical or amused or creeped out or angry or melancholy or inspired or, best yet, all of these things together.

We find stories that include gratuitous violence distasteful. Sexism, racism, or other forms of intolerance are intolerable to us. That said, you can certainly reveal a character through his/her prejudices; just don’t use a story to perpetuate negative stereotypes or ignorance. The world is already bursting with both.

Using the elements
3Elements Literary Review is a themed literary journal, and all THREE elements (the specific words, Cherry Tree, Surveillance, Menu) given for the submission period must be included in your story or poem for your work to be considered for publication. NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER.

Your story or poem doesn’t have to be about the three elements or even revolve around them; simply use your imagination to create whatever you want. You can use any form of the words/elements for the given submission period. For example, if the elements are: Flash, Whimsy, and Seizure; we would accept the usage of Flashed, Whimsical, and Seizures.

How to submit your work
We will only accept previously unpublished (including digital/online content) work submitted to us through Submittable. You can easily submit material to us from our Submit page. Any work that is sent to us as an attachment, or in the body of an email, through our ‘Contact’ page, or any other way outside of Submittable will automatically be declined.

Length
There is no minimum word count, but please keep your fiction and nonfiction submissions under 3,500 words. Poetry must be under two typed pages.

Bio
If you’re accepted for publication in 3Elements Literary Review, we, as well as the readers of our publication will naturally want to know a little more about you, as well as your writing background, so providing us with a bio is very helpful!

PFN - Ivo Review Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Connections
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Ivo Review
How to Submit
For poetry and flash or micro-fiction, please submit up to five (5) pieces of up to 100 lines for poetry. We consider micro-fiction to be up to 350 words, and flash to be 351 – 1000 words.
For longer works of fiction, non-fiction, or dramatic works please send up to two (2) pieces of up to 3000 words.
For dramatic works, we consider works that would be able to produced as a 10 minute play or shorter. We love long dramatic monologues, but will also consider ensemble pieces.
Send submissions to editorivoreview@gmail.com. The subject line should be the THEME of the issue for which you are submitting work and the CATEGORY of the submission. (Example: LOST – POETRY) Please include a short cover letter with a short author’s bio in the body of the e-mail and attach submissions in a single .docx attachment.
Submissions that do not follow these simple guidelines will not be read.
Currently we are reading for Issue One: CONNECTIONS until August 31st, 2025.

What We Look For
We are looking for prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, hybrid works, and dramatic works from emerging and established writers from around the world, particularly writers from historically underrepresented communities. We love the concept of narrative – we want to read storytellers telling stories in whatever form that takes for you.
Works should be primarily in English.
We consider simultaneous submissions but if a work is accepted elsewhere please let us know. We will be thrilled for you! We consider reprints but please indicate the original publication so that it can be credited – with a link to the work if possible so that we can also link to that publication.
We will not consider AI generated work. At this time we are also not considering translations.

Rights and Expectations
You retain all rights to your work. By submitting work to Ivo Review you are granting us the non-exclusive rights to publish your work in our online issues and to continue the display of that work on the online site. You are confirming that you are the author of the submitted work and that you retain the rights to submit it for publication. Works published online in Ivo Review will be considered for future anthologies, and authors will be contacted for permission and with information about payment if we are interested in using your work again in that way. We will promote your work, but we will never attempt to sell your work or to include it in any publication other than the issue in which it was originally published without your permission.
If a piece has not been previously published before Ivo Review, please credit us in any future publications.
At this time, we are not a paying market – though we do hope to be able to correct that soon. We do have every intention of nominating for Pushcart and other prizes including Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net.
Our anticipated response time is currently four weeks or less, but we are a very small operation and so cannot promise that it will not take us a bit longer. If you have not heard from us after six weeks, please feel free to contact us for an update. We will not take it personally!

PFN - Call for Submissions to NonBinary Review Issue #42: Erased from history
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | NonBinary Review
History, as the old saying goes, is written by the winners. This means that in most histories, the stories are about discovery and conquest rather than plunder and genocide. It also means that some of those losers of history have been forgotten – erased by the cultures that overran them. Historical erasure isn’t limited to countries or cultures. Underrepresented societal groups – those denigrated by the dominant culture – are often left out of histories, their contributions to society, including their arts, inventions, and scientific discoveries, are either attributed to others, or left out entirely.
We are looking for stories of people or things that have been erased from history, the mechanism by which that erasure is effected, or the consequence of erasure. We want the story of the lizard people that originally colonized earth, leading to the widespread theory that many world leaders are lizard people. The reason why Atlantis was erased from history and relegated to myth. The fact that gravity was invented by an illiterate Burmese restaurant owner in 1146CE.
We are NOT looking for dry factual histories (no term papers, please), personal screeds or jeremiads, or the life and personal stories of individuals from an erased group (for instance, the story of your grandfather who was killed in the Holocaust). These stories are important, but not the focus of this issue.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Zoetic Press does not accept AI generated content. If our editors judge that your content is AI-generated, it will be declined.
All submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme and be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman, or they will be rejected. Submitters may include up to THREE poems per submission, but each must be a separate file. NonBinary Review pays a $10 flat fee for poetry.
If your work was accepted for Issue #38: Rituals or Issue #39: Mistaken Identity, we’re sorry, but we cannot accept your work at this time (see our general guidelines.)
We have different teams evaluating poetry, prose, and art. If you submit to the wrong genre, your submission will be declined.
Poetry
All submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme and be submitted in 12pt Times New Roman, or they will be rejected. Submitters may include up to THREE poems per submission, but each must be a separate file. NonBinary Review pays a $10 flat fee for poetry.
Prose
All submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme, and be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or they will be rejected. NonBinary Review pays 1¢ per word for prose with a limit of 3000 words.

P - Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2) Seeking Works for their 50th Anniversary from Previously Unpublished Poets Only
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2)
*Update: Aug 1st, 2025*
Due to the overwhelming response to this special submissions form, we’ve now filled all the available space we had in our 2025 issues for poems submitted to this form. Any poems submitted after August 1st, or submitted before August 1st but still awaiting a response, will now be considered for our winter 2026 issue, which will come out in January 2026.
Thank you for your understanding, and for your submissions!
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As part of CV2’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, we’re pleased to offer this special submissions form, open exclusively to those whose poetry has never before been published in print, and whose poetry (at the time of submission) has not been accepted for publication in any other print formats.
Over its 50-year history, CV2 has had the privilege of providing dozens of writers with their first print publications, and this year, as we celebrate this milestone anniversary for the magazine, we hope to support a fresh wave of emerging poets in the same way.
Submissions to this exclusive portal are free of charge (for both Canadians and non-Canadians), and the poems submitted will be treated like any other submission to the magazine, in that each one will be read and carefully considered by our editorial team. Submitters to this exclusive portal will receive a response to their submissions within three months of submission, and, if accepted, their work will appear in a 2025 issue of CV2 Magazine, so as to be part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations this year.
If your poetry has previously been published online, but never in print, you are welcome to submit (bearing in mind that the specific poem(s) you submit must not previously have been published in any format). While those who have previously published in print writing in genres other than poetry are welcome to submit, priority will be given to those who are entirely unpublished, depending on the number of submissions received and the space available in our 2025 issues.
Submitters must confirm in their cover letter that they A) Have never had their poetry published in print, and B) That, at the time of submission, their work has not been accepted for publication by any other print outlets. See below for full submission guidelines.
NB: This submission portal is for writers whose poetry has never before been published in print, and whose poetry (at the time of submission) has not been accepted for publication in any other print formats, only. All submitters who do not qualify under these terms are invited to submit to our General Submissions forms, also open now.
Submissions to this exclusive portal are free of charge (for both Canadians and non-Canadians), and the poems submitted will be treated like any other submission to the magazine, in that each one will be read and carefully considered by our editorial team.
Submitters to this exclusive portal will receive a response to their submissions within three months of submission, and, if accepted, their work will appear in a 2025 issue of CV2 Magazine, so as to be part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations this year.
While those who have previously published writing in genres other than poetry are welcome to submit, priority will be given to those who are entirely unpublished, depending on the number of submissions received and the space available in our 2025 issues.
See below for full submission guidelines. We look forward to reading your work!

Full Submission Guidelines:
Contemporary Verse 2 only accepts one submission per submitter at a time (submissions to our two annual contests, the 2-Day Poem Contest and the Foster Poetry Prize, do not count).
Any submissions that do not follow correct guidelines or do not include full contact information will not be considered for publication and will not receive a reply.
CV2 welcomes submissions of original, previously-unpublished work. By submitting to this portal you are confirming that the work submitted is entirely your own (not including translations) and has not previously been published in any format.
You may submit no more than 5 poems, to a maximum of 6 pages.
CV2 welcomes poetry submissions in French, as well as translation projects, including both French to English and English to French.
CV2 accepts translations of works in any language.
If submitting a translation, please include in your cover letter permissions and a bio from the original artist, and a citation of the original source of the work.
eg: “Title of Poem.” Title of Collection. Publisher, Year of Publication.
Please upload your submission as a single attachment of a Microsoft Word, TXT or RTF (rich text format) document.

P - The Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge: Perseids
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | The Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge
Illustrations by Jing Li
At seventeen syllables, haiku is the shortest poem in world literature. It is now also the most popular form of poetry in the world, written in nearly every language. And yet, as haiku has spread internationally, one of the most important aspects of the tradition has largely been lost—the community of poets.
In Europe and the United States, haiku is often regarded as the domain of literary elites, but this is not the case in Japan, where haiku is deeply rooted in communal activity. Millions of amateur Japanese poets belong to haiku groups (clubs, really), which are sponsored by different “schools” of haiku, each with its own magazine. Most daily and weekly newspapers carry a haiku column featuring poems submitted by their subscribers, sometimes on the front page.
To help bring back this social dimension, we are inviting our readers to participate in the monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge. Each month, moderator Clark Strand will select three poems to be published online, one of which will appear with a brief commentary. Each quarter, one of these poems also will appear in the print magazine alongside an extended commentary. In this way, we can begin to follow the seasons together—spring, summer, fall, and winter—and share the joy of haiku together as a community.
Requirements:
Anyone can submit haiku to the monthly challenge using the form below. To be considered for publication, your haiku must:

Be written in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables:
Getting the syllables of a haiku to sit naturally inside of its seventeen-syllable form is the primary challenge. Each haiku is a word problem in search of a satisfying seventeen-syllable solution.
Contain the “season word” assigned for that month:
A haiku isn’t only a word problem. To the seventeen syllables the poet must add a turn of thought that results in more than seventeen syllables of meaning—along with a word that refers to one of the four seasons. How the poet uses “season words” like autumn sun or dew will typically determine the effectiveness of the poem.

Part of the reason haiku appeals to so many people is that its rules are simple and easy to follow, yet it can take a lifetime to master them. Ten million people currently write haiku in Japanese. There is no reason why millions can’t write haiku in English, too, provided they agree on the basics. The turn of thought you add to that simple formula of 5-7-5 syllables with a season word is entirely up to you.
Submissions close on the last day of the month at 11:59 pm ET, and the results will be posted the week after. Monthly submissions are anonymized and the winning poems are selected in a blind process.
To learn more about the history and principles of haiku, check out Clark Strand’s online course with Tricycle, “Learn to Write Haiku: Mastering the Ancient Art of Serious Play.”

This Month’s Season Word:
Submit as many haiku as you please using the submission form at the bottom of our home page. Just be sure to include this month’s season word.
Summer season word: “Perseids”
perseid shower
maybe the dark does require
an extra dipper
Submit as many haiku as you please on the season word “Perseids.” Your poems must be written in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively, and should focus on a single moment of time happening now.
Be straightforward in your description and try to limit your subject matter. Haiku are nearly always better when they don’t have too many ideas or images. So make your focus the season word* and try to stay close to that.
*REMEMBER: To qualify for the challenge, your haiku must be written in 5-7-5 syllables and include the word “Perseids.”
Haiku Tip: Learn What to Say When Someone Tells You, “That’s Not a Haiku!”
Those who submit Formal Haiku to the English language specialty magazines (i.e., those devoted to haiku and related forms) are often told by the editors of those magazines, “That’s not a haiku!” Sometimes an editor will suggest a revision, removing up to half of the poem’s 17 syllables to get something shorter. In the process, they will often also remove the season word.
How did it come to this? The answer could fill a book. But the long and short of it (pun intended) is this: If you regard haiku as a poetic form, you can agree with others about what a haiku is and turn your attention to writing good poetry in that form. If you regard haiku as a free verse poem, the spirit or techniques of which are its defining feature, you will be stuck arguing endlessly about what a haiku “is” or “is not.” English language haiku poets have wasted over a century doing exactly that. Like the sonnet, the haiku form is a vessel to be filled with whatever the poet has to say. That is how it functions in Japanese literature and how Japanese poets have always understood it. If we render our thoughts in 5-7-5 syllables and manage to include a season word, we have written a haiku. What remains to decide is whether what we have said is worth saying and how well we have said it—not whether our poem is a haiku or not.
And so, the next time a haiku specialist tells you that your poem is “not a haiku,” ask them to tell you what a haiku is. But don’t let them go on and on. If they can’t explain it simply, in a way that a six-year-old could understand, they will never get there. You’d be better off starting a magazine of your own.
A note on the Perseids: About this spectacular annual event, season word editor Becka Chester writes: “Considered the best meteor show of the year by NASA, the Perseids begin in mid-July and peak in mid-August. Prime time for their viewing is just before dawn, with scattered sightings occurring from 10 pm onward. It is best to view them far from bright city lights.
“The showers occur yearly as the Earth passes through a cloud of dust particles from a comet called 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The comet’s particles become heated as they hit our atmosphere and appear as bright streaks across the heavens.
“The Perseid shower was named because the meteors seemed to originate from the constellation Perseus.”
Note that this year the Perseids will peak just before dawn on Wednesday, August 13th , when you can view up to 100 meteors per hour under optimal conditions.

June’s Winning Poem:
Summer season word: “Summer Lake”
the heads of swimmers
the only things not swallowed
by the summer lake
— Marcia Burton
Illustration by Jing Li
You can find the honorable mentions, additional commentary, and June’s haiku tips here.

P - Red Wolf Journal Seeking Submissions for the "Recovering Greenness" Anthology
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Recovering Greenness Anthology
submission guidelines

Recovering Greenness: An Anthology of Poems

We invite poem submissions on the theme of “Recovering Greenness”. Submit your new previously unpublished poems to: redwolfeditions@gmail.com. A selection of your poems will appear on this site first before the PDF release in October 2025.
Submit to redwolfeditions@gmail.com.
Publication date: first week October 2025
Editorial here

PFN - Call for Submissions to Etymology Press. Theme: Sonder
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Etymology Press
Etymology is the study of the origin and history of words.
Here, we know words are not inanimate. They live, they evolve, and they change. More so, words have the power to live in us, evolve us, and create change in our communities. Let us do this work together. Let’s tell the stories of our community, together, one word at a time.

Each issue, we publish five pieces in print. Up to three honorable mentions (or multimedia work) may be published on our website along with each issue. If we publish you this month or even if we don’t, please, keep submitting. We want to see your work over and over and over again.
We look for work that is creative, grounded in concrete images, and playful. (Note: playful doesn’t equal light. We want your horror, your heartbreak, and your fury. We just want it delivered in interesting, surprising ways that remind us why we fell in love with language to begin with.)

September
Submission Deadline: August 31
Submission Guidelines

The Online IssueHow to submit:

Email submissions as an attachment to etymologypress@gmail.com
Attachments should be in document format, not PDF.
Subject your email “Submission for *word* / *Genre*” For example: “Submission for Genus / Poetry”
Please include a short author bio in the body of the email. 50-150 words.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please contact ASAP if work is to be published elsewhere.
We are happy to publish reprints, so long as the author notifies us of previous publications so that we can give proper credit.

Poetry
We look for poetry that has a strong sense of voice and is rooted in imagery. We love playful poetry, fresh language, and metaphors that haunt our dreams.
Poetry submissions should include 3-5 poems.

Narratives
We look for narratives (true or fictional) that have a strong sense of voice and are rooted in concrete images. All genres welcome. Graphic Narrative and other experimental forms are encouraged.
Stories should be between 500-5,000 words.
Stories should be double spaced, 12pt, Times New Roman font.

P - Drawn to the Light Press Seeking Submissions on the Theme of Magic.
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Drawn to the Light Press
Submissions Issue 16 October 2025

The submission period for issue 16, October 2025, opens on Sunday, 27th July and closes on Sunday, 31st August, at midnight.
The theme for this issue is ‘Magic’.
Send no more than 3 previously unpublished poems using Times New Roman 12 and single spacing. Include a short bio of 50 words or less, and written in the third person.
Entrants must be 18 and over.
Send all entries to orla.a.fay@gmail.com

PN - Call for Submissions to Tiny Spoon: a bite-size experimental literary magazine. Theme: Translation/Transference
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Tiny Spoon
Submissions

Submissions are now open through the end of August!

We view the theme // Translation // Transference // as a space for opening portals, to lift the underbelly of deep meaning which swims below the surface and haunts the layers of each word. To translate is to: transition: expose: excavate: interpret: converse: mediate through an artistic rendering: to build a fresh, new dewy consciousness. Let your language levitate. Let linguistics lavish the tongue through time and space.
This is a conversation among all of us–
What is the act of transfer? What is the act of translation?
What is being transferred, between or among what entities?
Does translation exist beyond a linguistic veil?
What is gained or lost within this act? What is the transformation?
How is meaning shaped, deconstructed, reconstructed, hidden, or obliterated through acts of translation?
We think of ways in which translation opens meaning that would be otherwise unavailable – yet what nuances can be lost – or what meaning can be lost or repressed? What truths can it reveal or bury? What deception can run wild? How do we claim or reclaim this space?
We welcome your translation of translation – what does this mean to you? Does the translation arrive word by word? Word to action? Entity to image? As always, we welcome a broad, experimental interpretation of this theme.
We want your hybrid concoctions, works opposed to normative, your open interpretation, diving into an echo creation which uproots expectation, cracks wide open the transmuting space that is communication. Expand upon our vast consciousness that which is expression, comprehension, and understanding, then fold it upon itself and send it down stream.

What We Look For:
Here at Tiny Spoon, we are especially interested in experimental work, although not exclusively. If you’ve had trouble finding a home for your work because it doesn’t fit into generally recognized categories, chances are your home is right here with us.
We seek work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring, experimental, innovative, quirky, thoughtful, vulnerable, electric, eccentric. In other words, your inner workings expanded and exposed, raw and immediate; your fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Your voice is beautiful, edgy, infinite, and unique, and we want to raise it.
We look forward to reading your work!

SUBMIT

Submissions are now open for Issue 14.
Please use this form to submit your work.
Pieces submitted via email or not following guidelines will not be accepted.

Guidelines:

Format text: sent as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf
Art: .jpeg or .tif
Please label the file “Last Name_Title of Work”
Length per piece: 1,000 words max
Font: 12 pt Garamond or a similar font
Up to three pieces per submission. Any additional work after the first three will not be reviewed. Please refrain from inserting text submissions directly into the body of the email.
Please limit to one submission per issue.
Simultaneous submissions allowed. Please let us know if it is published elsewhere.

Submissions are free!
Please provide a one sentence bio about yourself.
Cover letters are not required, but you may send one if you’d like. We won’t show preference based on this.
You will maintain the rights to your work; if it is published elsewhere or in a collection, we simply ask that you give us credit for first publication.
Submitted work will be considered for our print and/or online blog, which allows us to accept more submissions since print space is limited.

Please note, that due to ensure the consistency and respect the time of our small and dedicated team, we ask that all submissions submitted to this call are in their final form upon submission. We’re aware small edits may arise in the proofing of the issue if your piece is accepted.
If the submission call is still open, you may however, please submit the revised piece using the official form and note that it is a revision.
We are a small staff of three. Tiny Spoon has lots of love that goes into production. That said, it can take around 6 months for an issue to come to fruition. Please do not email us to inquire about the status of the piece (unless you are letting us know it has been accepted elsewhere). We we email you with results of the issue. Please do keep in contact over social media and newsletters to see where we might be in the process or what else we having going on! We appreciate your patience and understanding!

Upon submitting to Tiny Spoon, we will add you to our monthly newsletter to be sure you are updated on all the latest information regarding submission calls and reading processes so you are always aware of the status of your work. Generally, it takes us 3-6 months to read through our submissions. Please use the newsletter and social media to gauge where we might be in the process in lieu of individual emails–we will always let you know as soon as we have made our final decisions!

Contributor Compensation
For our contributors in the United States, we send a complimentary copy of the issue in which they appear.
If outside of the US, due to budgeting costs, instead of a physical copy, we provide a digital/printable version of the magazine.

PFN - Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Whelve
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Prosetrics: The Literary Magazine
“Theme for September 2025: Whelve”
The given theme is about:

To whelve is to bury, to cover, to hide—a quiet act of protection or forgetting.
Autumn whelves the world: leaves fall, roots retreat, and silence settles in.
This fall, we seek work that explores what lies beneath; stories hidden, memories preserved, emotions wrapped in metaphor. Whelve what needs shelter. Unearth what won’t stay buried.
We are looking for work that embodies the act of whelving—the quiet burying, the gentle covering, the things hidden just beneath the surface. Autumn is a season of holding in, of golden beauty edged with retreat. Send us your best pieces that speak to fall’s glow and the hush that follows, stories and poems that explore what we protect, what we bury, and what refuses to stay hidden.

NOTE: All the work, whether depicting the realities, secrets and mysteries of life or the beauty of nature in fall, should be written, drawn, or painted in a way that the setting of it gives the vibe of fall whether tragic or happy, gloomy or colorful.

Your work should be based around the given theme and its elements.

Compile everything for written submissions into one MS Word Document with the.doc or .docx extension
Any and every submission that does not comply with these guidelines will be automatically rejected.
We do not accept work previously published on social media or in another publication print or online.
We do not accept submissions that are formatted in an overly stylized manner
NOTE: Our query response time via email is 3 business days. Our submission response time is anywhere between 7-12 working days.

Submission Guide for Prose/Poetry:

If Submitting
Minimum
Maximum
Instructions

Longer Poems
1
3
No more than 35 lines

Haiku/Senryu
3
5
Titles are optional

Short Story
(Fic/Non Fic)
1
2
No more than 3000 words per story

Essay
1
1
No more than 2000 words

Prose
1
2
No more than 500 words per prose

E-Mail Format for Prose, Story, Essay or Poetry:

Subject: Submission for September ’25
Description: Your short introduction and your attachments to your email
Attachments: MS Word Submission Document; pictures, if any, accompanying your written work
Kindly send everything in ONE email. If you forget to attach something in the main email, mention it in the next email that you send. If you are sending all the elements of the submission in different/multiple emails deliberately, your submission will be rejected.
DO NOT embed any pictures within the Word document. Attach them to the email as separate attachments.

NOTE:
If your subject is not as mentioned above, your email will land in the wrong folder and we may not find it in time. Make sure it is labeled as mentioned.
No other form of submission except MS Word Document, such as PDFs or other file formats, will be considered
We are not accepting or including writer’s or poet’s self-portraits or logos for identity this time.
Please Note:

Kindly follow all of the given guidelines for your submissions to be considered.
There will not be second chances, so make sure your work is spell-checked and grammar-checked properly the first time.
Your submissions will not be considered if they are not according to the theme, whether it be poetry, prose, photography, or art.
If you’ve sent the same submissions to other journals or magazines and they get accepted before our acceptance/rejection/publication, notify us immediately.
No AI-generated submissions will be accepted or considered for publication.
Avoid fanciful, difficult-to-understand language. Make sure your written pieces are easily understandable by the reader.
Nothing sexual, political, religious, or racially offensive will be entertained.
No simultaneous or multiple submissions will be accepted to replace or change the first submission after the first submission has been rejected or accepted.
Submissions with grammatical or spelling errors or that do not fall within the parameters of the given guidelines will be automatically rejected. Please make sure you check your bio and submissions for any errors before emailing them to us.

Compilation Format for an MS-Word Document:

A clear, concise, third-person bio in 50 words or less.
Clear titles for poems and prose. The magazine theme as a title is not acceptable.
Your poems, prose, or stories that you want to send for publication.
Social media information for your primary Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter accounts, as well as your primary poetry, photography, or art website No Discord, TikTok, Wattpad, Pinterest, YouTube, Inkitt, Emails or any other profiles will be accepted.
Compile everything except for photos, if any, into one Microsoft Word with the.doc or .docx extension

NOTE: No other form of submission, such as PDFs or other file formats, will be considered

PFN - Lunch Ticket Seeking Submission for Issue 28
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Lunch Ticket
Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting to Lunch Ticket. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will not be considered.
Poetry Submission Guidelines:

Please submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).
If your work has been published in Lunch Ticket, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.
All submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title, submission title, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter, and not in any attached files or the submission title.
We allow simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a simultaneous submission, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere, you must notify us immediately.
We do not accept previously published work (this includes work published in personal blogs or social media).
We do not accept AI-generated work.
Submitters must be 18 years of age or older.
All submitters are added to our bi-monthly newsletter email subscriber list.

We look forward to sampling your work!
Poetry:

Submit up to 3 poems per cycle. Submit all poems in the same document.
We recognize that poetry often calls for its own particular formatting. When in doubt, use 12-pt Times New Roman font.

Fiction:

All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
Submissions should not exceed 3,500 words (source text not included in the word count).
If your piece is 750 words and under, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.

Flash Prose:

All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
Submit one flash piece per cycle. We only accept prose that is 750 words or less. (If your piece is 751 to 3,500 words, please submit it to Creative Nonfiction or Fiction.)

Creative Nonfiction:

All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
Submissions should not exceed 3,500 words (source text not included in the word count).
If your piece is 750 words and under, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.

P - Submission Window #8 Open for Wildfire Words
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Wildfire Words
As usual, we are looking for writing on your own choice of theme that grabs our attention, pulls our heart strings, leaves us open-mouthed or holding our breath, makes us think, make us laugh or cry, and/or is strikingly original. In short, poems or flash-fiction that excite us enough to share them with wildfire words readers. During this submission window, each writer may make one submission as a single file containing a maximum of 3 items — poems and/or prose. Each item can be in any form, but no longer than 50 lines or 300 words, including title, stanza breaks, dedication or footnotes. For all submissions to Wildfire Words, we choose only content that follows our inclusivity policy of respect for all writers, regardless of their background, beliefs, ethnicity, identity.
We encourage you to make an audio recording of each item on your phone or computer and submit it with your text or on its own without your text. Publishing audio is our speciality, because it amplifies the strength and meaning of your writing. If you prefer to join one of our online recording sessions to submit, click on this link.
You are also invited to supply a biography of yourself in no more than 60 words, If any of your work is published, your writing “bio” will be, too.
To submit your text and bio (with or without audio) please click on this link.
To submit audio after submitting text and bio, click on this link.
Submitted writing must be your own original work, in English, and unpublished in print or online, including your own website. Where an original writer teams up with a translator into English, we will consider publishing the work, provided biographies of both writer and translator are provided.
If your work is published in wildfire words ezine, it will be on a non-exclusive basis for at least one year. The copyright remains yours for all poems, flash, bios, and audio recordings you submit for publication.
How we decide which poems to publish
Our decisions on whether to publish an item are not anonymous. We see the writer’s bio with the text. Published authors have generally set a quality benchmark which we can use to gauge their new work. The work of writers with little or no published work is assessed on quality and potential. In such cases, we may contact the writer to suggest some tweaks that would make us keen to share the work on Wildfire Words.
We do not charge for submissions — or for feedback, if we choose to offer it on work not accepted on first review. Our publishing service is non-profit-making, created with a love of sharing creative writing and social and personal growth it produces. Donations to support Wildfire Words’ sustainability are welcome, but voluntary. A donation does not affect whether we publish a submission.
We aim to include writers worldwide. We respect all people and their well-being, beliefs, individuality, and free speech, and expect the same from writers. We’ll publish any work that adds fresh creative spice to this feature. We’ll evaluate your jewel, whether it’s a cut and polished dazzler or a rough stone with interesting lustre.

PFN - Call for Submissions to Solstitia: A Fiction Fans Magazine. TheTheme: Dragon Hoards
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Solstitia
Theme (“Dragon Hoards”) is not a strict requirement. The theme is preferred but not strictly enforced.
All genres welcome, genre blending encouraged. We do not accept AI-generated content.
Please send only one work per submission.
We accept all genres (yes, even literary fiction) and all submission types (fiction, non fiction, poetry). Word count 10,000 or less preferred.
Simultaneous submissions welcome, but please withdraw your piece from Solstitia if you accept publication elsewhere. If the submission has been previously published, please include the date and publication it appeared in.
There is no submission fee.
Any previously published works should not have been published in the 24 months leading up to this issue’s publication date (since December 2023). If the submission has been previously published, please include the date and publication it appeared in.
Poetry may include multiple works per submission. Please send no more than three poems per submission. Each piece should be titled individually and start on a new page of the document.
Maximum 3 submissions to Solstitia per author per issue. One file of 3 poems is considered one submission for this limit.
We reserve the right to make minor edits prior to publication.
If accepted:
1. You will receive a $50 token acceptance award.
2. You retain all rights to the piece, but you are giving Solstitia permission to publish it in this issue of Solstitia, for as long as the issue is available to purchase (which may be in perpetuity).
3. Solstitia does not require a period of exclusivity after publication, but you confirm that your piece has not/will not be published in the 24 months leading up to the release of this issue
4. You will receive one PDF or EPUB copy of the magazine when it is released.
5. Solstitia/Fiction Fans may make small edits to the piece for grammar or typos.
6. Solstitia/Fiction Fans may use quotes from the piece on social media to promote the magazine

PFN - Open Call to IHRAM Publishes. Theme: Enduring Voices: Life with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | IHRAM Publishes
Shining a light on life with disabilities and invisible illnesses, this edition raises awareness of the societal attitudes and injustices faced by the disabled community. It explores the impact on identity, memory, and sexuality while advocating for understanding and inclusivity.
We are eager to publish firsthand experiences by those living with a disability, reflections of the author’s personal experiences with societal justices towards illnesses, and the after-effects of discrimination on an author’s identity and sexuality. We encourage submissions from all over the world, regardless of gender or identity.
Magazine Themes: Disability awareness, invisible illnesses, societal attitudes, identity, memory, and sexuality, and the intersection of societal attitudes with an author’s lived experiences.
Submission Guidelines:
Before submitting, please review the following guidelines, including (1) IHRAM’s accepted media, required supplemental information, and quarterly magazine themes. We are only accepting pieces which align with our annual themes at this time. Thank you!
We are interested in reviewing and publishing the following for the 2025 quarterly magazine:

Poetry

Short stories (2500 words or less)

Essay (2500 words or less)

Please submit your poetry, short story, essay, or artwork to submit@humanrightsartmovement.org along with the following required information:

Your full name and/or pen name.

Your country of residence.

A brief third-person bio (roughly 100 words). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!

A brief foreword to your piece (between 300-500 words), explaining your inspiration for creating it, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.
*If your piece is accepted, we will request a high-resolution author photograph. However, authors are not required to provide photographs of themselves and are always welcome to decline, should they wish to remain anonymous.

IHRAM Press pays $50 per accepted written piece.

PN - Paddler Press Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Faith
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Paddler Press
1 to 5 poems in either .docx or PDF or in the body of the email. 1 to 3 pieces of art (high res jpeg with specs: size, media). Include a short 3rd-person bio. Name your attachment last name – submission type (e.g. Robertson – Poetry).
Send it to: paddler@canoeideas.ca.

Poetry and CNF
We’d love to read your work. Please keep CNF to under 1000 words or so, but we’re easy.

Submission Guidelines Full Version
(Pour yourself a coffee and find a comfortable chair.)
Submission guidelines are pretty straightforward. Please read, Especially #2.

Please submit up to five original poems in one .docx or PDF file attached to your email. NEW: If your work requires no specific formatting (e.g. tabs or spacing), feel free to include it in the body of your email. We are looking for poems that are not overly long, and would also enjoy and encourage micro-poetry. If you’re not sure, send it along anyway. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your work is picked up elsewhere (and huge congratulations!). Poems should be previously unpublished. Poems appearing on your personal blog or social media are fine, though we’d love to be able to share brand new works with the world. Include a third-person bio of 100 words or so. Limit your recent publications to two or three. Include social media handles if you’d like. Overly long lists of publications will be edited. Send your work to paddler@canoeideas.ca.
Please use last name – submission type as the subject and the name of your document. This makes finding your work in our downloads folder much easier. It’s not a deal-breaker, but having your last name on the doc helps.

I will do my very best to get back to you as soon as I can. If you don’t hear from me within a month after submitting, give me a shout. Life gets busy and this isn’t my regular gig.
Unfortunately, due to prohibitive costs, we are unable to provide complimentary copies to contributors. Printed copies will be offered at cost, should contributors choose. Shipping costs with Canada Post have increased recently. Obviously not good news, but nothing we can do. Sections of poems may also be published online.
All rights to poems will return to you after publication. All future use will be credited to the author. If your poem is published (say, in an anthology or your own collection) please credit us as the original publisher.
Don’t bother sending any work of a sexual nature or that promotes any kind of hate. It will be deleted. Any work that requires a content warning or trigger warning will not fit in with this publication. We encourage writers at any stage of their journey to submit. Never been published before? Hit us up. Got a publication resume that is pages long? Well done, and let’s add to it.
Work by any writer who is known to be abusive towards editors (and, well, anyone) will have their submissions deleted. We’re not interested in AI generated work.

N - Call for Submissions to HerStry. Theme: Homesick
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | HerStry
Whether you are away at camp, starting college for the first time, or a grown adult simply missing the way things used to be, we’ve all felt homesick at one time or another. Tell us your stories of home. You can write about nostalgic summer days, but also about wishing for a home you never had. Or the home you want to make. Home is a complicated subject, let’s dig in.
** HerStry is always happy to share stories anonymously—if your story is selected for publication, simply let your editor know you would not like your name shared **
THE RULES:

All stories must be true and about you.
Stories must follow the theme in some way, interpretations can be wide.
Stories must stay around 3,000 words.
Documents should be double spaced, 12Pt font with 1 inch margins and in an easy to read font. Submissions not following these guidelines are subject to disqualification. Our editors read a lot of work, please have mercy on our eyes.
Submissions must be in .doc or .docx form—we do not accept PDFs.
Stories are read blind. Please DO NOT put any identifying material on your manuscript. Manuscripts that don’t follow this rule will be automatically disqualified without being read. We realize personal essays may contain your name; a first name is fine.
Please include a third person bio. Cover letters are fine, but not necessary (we don’t read them, we’re more interested in what you’ve written).
Please submit only once per theme.
We do not accept previously published stories.

HerStry centers the experiences of women identifying persons. We’re looking for work from bigender/polygender persons, cisgender women, intergender persons/intersex persons, nonbinary persons/gender non-conforming persons, transgender women/transfeminine persons, two spirit. In other words, if you are a cis man, please refrain from submitting.

Submissions fee: $3

PN - Special Call for TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics. The Theme: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics
What We’re Looking For (please read carefully)
The 14th volume of Tab Journal coincides with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States based on equal and universal inalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Through this special call, Tab Journal encourages poets to reconsider Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration and Thomas Paine’s preceding Common Sense that had popularized these concepts. Tab Journal is interested in work that recasts these documents’ words and principles in light of our mutual pledge to each other, past and current threats to our inalienable rights, and the anniversary of this nation’s founding.
Tab Journal invites submission of text selected directly from these founding source documents that can be rendered as a poem. This special call builds on Tracy K. Smith’s poem “Declaration.” As such, the composition process should not reduce the document to merely an abstract of itself. Rather, as Smith said of her own process, the new poem should use “fragments of this founding document to say this other thing that [the words] seem very intent upon saying to me now.” Surprise us!
Source Texts
To compose a submission, the poet must use either Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, or both. Each is available online (or as a printed booklet through a bookseller or the National Archives). No other text should be used.
Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/M-654.pdf
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20220929/115171/HHRG-117-GO00-20220929-SD010.pdf
Common Sense
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/gdcscd/00/53/89/51/17/1/00538951171/00538951171.pdf
https://www.sjsu.edu/people/ruma.chopra/courses/H174_MW_F12/s1/Wk7_A.pdf
https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1776ThomasPaine.pdf
How to Respond to This Special Call
Composing the Poem
Selection of the poem’s text can be done by redaction, erasure, covering, lifting, or other methods. For this project, we are interested in submissions that draw from the source text itself, not with the method of text selection or the visual format the submission takes. One can work digitally to redact, leaving the evidence of the pre-existing text. Or words and phrases can be physically covered with correction tape or marker or can be cut out with scissors and taped onto a page—then scanned or photographed. Or one can type selected text into a new file, without regard to the spacing and sequence of the source.
While the poet selects and sequences the poem’s text, Tab Journal will (re)design the accepted contributions as a reading experience. Building on Tab Journal’s long-standing exploration of relationships between language, reading, and design, this project depends on collaboration, trust, and innovation across founding father, poet, editor, and designer. The poem may look very different in its published form than in the submission. To see past issues of our issues, visit the Archives.
Submitting the Poem
To reduce barriers for potential contributors and with the support of Chapman University, Tab Journal never charges a submission fee.
Because this special issue is intended to thoughtfully put poems into conversation with each other and will be individually designed by the Creative Director, we request that you refrain from simultaneous submissions. All editorial decisions will be made by the end of 2025.
Submit 1-3 poems. A variety of file types are acceptable for this call.
Tab Journal uses Submittable. The portal starts with a short eligibility form to ensure that Tab Journal does not consider previously published work, individuals with a current or recent affiliation with Chapman University, or work by individuals under the age of 18. In addition, the main submission form includes three demographic questions to help us understand how our policies shape the submissions pool; “I prefer not to answer” is an option for each question. The form also invites submitters to share their social media handles.
A short cover letter with a biographical note of no more than 75 words is required. A brief explanation of the composition method can be included in the cover letter.
Tab Journal allows for a variety of file types, including .docx, .pdf, and .jpeg. Don’t forget to upload the file! In addition, in the file itself, please 1) include attribution of the specific version of the source text(s), and, unless it’s straightforward redaction, 2) indicate which words were where in the source text(s), particularly if the word order has been altered. We want to encourage various selection methods but also want to understand the poem text’s relationship to the source text. That will allow the Creative Director to check source phrasing or clustering as she considers design options.
If you are experiencing challenges with the submission form or require assistance, please contact the staff using the Contact form on the website; if you don’t get response within two weeks, you are welcome to contact the Editor at her Chapman University email.
Important Dates
Editorial Decisions: December 20, 2025 or sooner
Publication/Exhibition: National Poetry Month, April 2026
Acceptance of Work
From the submitted work, approximately ten pieces will be chosen for publication. Smith said of her process, “it seemed less like I was making these really deliberate choices and more like I was hearing a logic that was gathering force.” And that’s what we’ll look for: 1) a new logic emerging out of the old language, 2) “another line of reasoning beneath the surface,” and 3) the poetry of the language. We’re looking for innovation in individual pieces, variety of meaning across pieces, and poetic effect of the words in the individual pieces and across the issue.
Poems will not be selected based on their visual representation, as Tab Journal will design how the words are ultimately rendered. Each poem will be rendered with a distinct design determined by the Creative Director.
The author of accepted work will grant permission to Tab Journal design and publish the work. Tab Journal will hold First North American Serial Rights, after which copyright for the text (but not the design) reverts to the author. In any subsequent publications of the poem’s text, the author will acknowledge first publication by Tab Journal. Tab Journal will retain the right to republish and exhibit the works we design using various formats and to submit to additional outlets, such as Best of the Net. Any subsequent publication will include attribution of the poet.
As part of removing barriers for readers, contributors whose poem is selected will submit an audio file of the poem read aloud by the poet, or Tab Journal will create an audio version. Do not include audio in the submission.
Pending budget approval, each contributor will be paid $75 after completing the forms required by Chapman University. We are confident that we will be able to pay contributors, and we understand that a contributor may decline publication if we don’t offer payment.
Issue Publication
All poems accepted for publication will appear online in Tab Journal in early 2026. The Creative Director and Editor will redesign each accepted poem specifically for this issue.
We also plan to design and exhibit the poems in an art installation at Chapman University and host a public reading from the “Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness” issue.
Note that we have not applied for NEA funding under the current federal administration.

N - Dorothy Parker's Ashes Seeking Submissions on the Theme of: Noise
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.
Submit.
Please submit first-person essays* anytime before the deadline prior to publication date. Please be advised that we reserve the right to edit, though all edits will be sent to writer before publication for approval. Please feel free to include a suggested title and art but we reserve the right to change the title and choose the art. We do consider previously published essays, taking into consideration venue, date, etc.
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.
All rights are non-exclusive. We do not currently offer payment. We accept no responsibility for anything from libel to hurt feelings. As Anne Lamott says, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
Preferred length. 500 to 2000 words.
Please send submissions along with a short bio pasted directly into your email to: info@dorothyparkersashes.com We ask for this to avoid potentially malware-laden attachments. Unless your formatting is a specific design element of your piece, format should be single space with no paragraph indentation and one extra space between paragraphs.

PFN - Submissions for The Muleskinner Journal Issue 15 are Open. The Theme is Tension
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | The Muleskinner Journal
Submission Guidelines
We don’t mean to stress you out, but our theme for Journal 15 is Tension.
It’s the elephant in the room. It’s the lion tamer’s head in the lion’s mouth.
BUT, on the bright side,
it’s also the engine that drives the drama, the abracadabra that makes the magic, and the need that creates the invention.
For Journal 15, we want tension.
We knock on your door and request that emotion come out and play. We pound on your door and demand the truth.
We want the rubber band taut. We want resistance. We want your focus on the gap between where you are and where you want to be, the longing for home, or the need to get away.
Send us the revelations, conversations, and adaptations that spring up. We want to explore tension channeled forward, from the drainage ditch to the river, to the waves and the ocean, to good things hard earned.
We want the bad tension too. Ease our tension with yours. Ease your tension by screaming at us. Turn up the heat. Don’t give us a break.
We’ll keep this fury fast.
We’ll close submissions on Labor Day, September 1, a fitting day to refocus your attention.

What we are looking for…
Muleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following word counts to select a category to submit. Submit in only one category. Send no more than one submission per issue.

Poetry: Any length or form. (1-3 pieces)

Flash or Micro Fiction: max. 1000 words each (1-3 pieces)

Short Story/excerpts from longer (previously unpublished) work: (max. 3000 words) Please include word count on first page

Creative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words) Please include word count on first page

We look for writing of all kinds that uses skill, wit, and determination to deliver the goods. We accept and publish poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction, short scripts, excerpts from longer works, memoir, criticism, craft essays, artwork, journalism, and shopping lists.
We don’t care who you are, as long as you are the author of what you submit.

PFN - Capture This Anthology Seeking Submissions on the Theme: "Snapshot of a Life"
2025-09-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Capture This Anthology
Capture This
An anthology about capturing a slice of people’s lives.
In this first-ever anthology, Capture This will take a look at a snapshot of someone’s life, whether it’s the daily routine of an accountant, the ignition of a love story between two paranormal beings, the first day as an intergalaxy spy named Phoebe, or the day a life changed for the better–or worse.
Compensation
All contributors will receive a complimentary digital PDF of the completed anthology. Additionally, you will receive a list of interview questions regarding your accepted piece(s) and writing career, which will be published on the Linton Press website.
Rights
By submitting to Capture This, you agree to the following terms:

We are requesting First Publication Rights for Capture This, which means we will be the first to publish your piece. That said, copyright will remain with the author, and you retain full rights after publication.
Additionally, there is no exclusivity period following the publication of Capture This, meaning that the author can republish or reprint the accepted piece any time after the initial appearance in this anthology.
If your work is accepted, you grant us the non-exclusive right to include it in the anthology, Capture This, which will be commercially distributed and sold in paperback and eBook formats through various vendors, such as Amazon and Indigo. That said, any further use in other formats or media, such as promotional materials, requires separate permission.
Subsequent publications in collections, magazines, anthologies, etc., must acknowledge their first appearance in the Capture This anthology.

General Guidelines

Please send your submissions to publisher@lintonpress.ca with the email subject heading being [Artist’s Name], [Category]’s Submission. For example, “Linton Press, Poetry Submission.” For multiple submissions, please have them in individual Word documents in the same email.
In the email, the submitter must include a bio of no more than 100 words, and it must be how they would like to see it in the anthology. Additionally, the submitter must include their name or pseudonym with their work.
We are not seeking simultaneous submissions. If someplace else is considering your piece(s), we will not consider them.
All submissions must be in 12-point font.
Submissions must also be formatted as you would like to see them in the anthology.

Submissions that do not follow the guidelines will not be considered.
Poetry
Capture This accepts unpublished works in English, including translations into English. We also consider prose poetry in this category.

Submissions must not exceed a total of five (5) poems or a total of 1,500 words.
Each poetry piece must be in an individual Word document, and the document itself must be titled “Author’s name, Title of Work.” For example, “Linton Press, Hope Is Not Lost.”
We are not accepting concrete/visual poems.

Short Story
Capture This accepts unpublished works in English, including translations into English.

The submission must not exceed one (1) short story not exceeding 5,000 words.
The short story must be in a Word document, and the document itself must be titled “Author’s name, Title of Work.” For example, “Linton Press, Hope Is Not Lost.”

Creative NonFiction
Capture This accepts unpublished works in English, including translations into English.

The submission must not exceed one (1) prose piece not exceeding 5,000 words.
The creative nonfiction piece must be in a Word document, and the document itself must be titled “Author’s name, Title of Work.” For example, “Linton Press, Hope Is Not Lost.”

Submitting to Capture This is your agreement to the guidelines, compensation, and rights.

P - Open Call for Red Door Magazine Issue #41. Theme: Rebel Lexicon
2025-09-04 08:00 - 17:00 | Red Door Magazine
Our theme for this upcoming edition is ‘Rebel Lexicon’.
Our themes are always open to far-fetched interpretations and are not limited to a narrow definition. Don’t hold back, surprise us by submitting your finest work!
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
Please submit only once during each submission period.
Poetry entries can include up to 3 poems (up to 50 lines each) and up to 6 pages.
Please use 12-point, single-spaced, Times New Roman font.
Upload doc or docx documents only.
Include a cover letter with a short third-person bio (maximum 75 words).

Submissions fee: $3

P - Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition 2025 – Theme: Dreams
2025-09-07 08:00 - 17:00 | Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition
Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition 2025

Langston Hughes wrote,
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Entries are now invited to the ‘Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition 2025’. 10 shortlisted poems will appear in Drawn to the Light Press Issue 16 and the overall winner will receive a cash prize. Please send a single poem of no more than 40 lines (excluding the title) as an attachment to dreamspoetrycomp@gmail.com
Please ensure that your name is not included on the attached poem.
Name and contact details, along with the title of your entry and the PayPal reference number for your entry should be included in the body of the email.
Poems must be previously unpublished.
The competition closes on Sunday, 7th September at midnight.
Poems must be on the theme of ‘dreams’ and we look forward to your interpretations. The judge of the competition is editor Orla Fay. There is a €10 entry fee.
10 shortlisted poems will be announced on Sunday 21st September.
The winning poems from 2024 can be read in the archived issue 13. Archive 8 – 15

Single poem entry

€10.00
