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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
A swan song is a farewell, a declaration, a last sounding breath after a long silence. We invite you to share these final acts of resistance, joy, affirmation, confession, celebration, or consumption. How will you make yourself known to your shadow? What needs to be said?
Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to women.
We are interested in submissions that define community and care, and that consider how/why collaboration necessitates careful or care-full approaches to creating, re-vision relationships with art, artists, community, nature, and/or the divine.
By grief we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, climate change. Ambiguous grief, anticipatory grief, collective grief, reflective grief, rituals of grief.
Silkworm is the annual publication of the Florence (MA) Poets Society.
Here we go, 2025
How's your glass?
These times of Ethics Cleansing enable some to think they are better than others, but if someone must be better, then let it be ourselves.
Two things become immediately better as one. We want your prose poems, your cross-genre work, and your all around experimental and unclassifiable writing.
If you had one last thing to give us, one last thing to say, one last thing part of yourself that needed a voice before the silence, what would it be? We want that.
We are open to interpretations on the theme: harmony, partnership, belonging; losing relations, discord, chaos; the complexity among ecosystems or among the human-made governing bodies. Send us your interpretation however literal or liberal.
What ideas does the word current evoke for you? Are you thinking about being hip, cool and up on “current” events or are you traveling on an air “current.” Where does the word take you?
Desiderium: an intense longing for something, especially something lost; from the Latin verb, desiderare, “to long for;” the great-grandfather of the word, desire.
For this contest, someone or something important to the story is not where it/they always have been, or where it/they would be expected to be located, or is in the process of changing their location from where it/they have always been. Whether this new location is an improvement or a problem is up to you.
We want to see work so raw and full of life that it practically bleeds – work so fresh and unique that it changes the way we read.
We invite writers to investigate a reputation's power, potential, and frailty. Give us themes of redemption, scandal, honor, or betrayal—where truth or lies can shift the direction of a life or shatter a legacy in a single moment.
The SWANA region is often referred to as “The Middle East.” This terminology is Eurocentric and homogenizes a vast region that consists of people of diverse histories, ethnicities, cultures, religions, and languages. We’re seeking work that deconstructs social categorization - racial, gender, nationalist, religious, and sexual categorizations placed upon those deemed other by imperialism, colonialism, and militarization.
Games can be board games, cards, puzzles, sports, quizzes, lawn games, role-playing games, etc.
In a world grappling with environmental and social crises, Indigenous knowledge systems, rooted in harmony with nature and community, offer invaluable perspectives.
We’re looking for your most ambitious, imaginative writing on any touchpoint within this theme, whether it’s the childhood games you played, the songs you can’t leave behind, the seeds you plant in the daylight, or the secrets you whisper in the dark.
We encourage you to imagine as widely as possible, and to write with honesty and abandon. What does ‘liberation’ mean to you? What does it look like? How do we know when we have it? Are we ever truly free?