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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
This issue opens up space for feelings and thoughts around grief and food. In our grief we celebrate what was, cooking our ancestors’ favourite meals, finding connection at your local restaurant, and finding an old recipe book.
Raw, unvarnished truth gleaned from living an unpasteurized life makes for more interesting reading than the average schlock. Write it how you feel it.
Solastalgia. Tightening at the smell of smoke. Recoiling at the sight of receding glaciers. Close the news app. Shudder in a foreign home. I’m sorry for the heat. I’m sorry for the mercury. This is a new kind of grief, with a nascent voice. Speak to it.
We are looking for works exploring trespass within nature; access to natural spaces, the right to roam, rural trespass and land ownership are all specific interpretations of this theme we’d particularly like to see
We share work here representative of shared human values, however differently those values might be expressed in our various religions and cultures.
We want personal stories that are raw, honest, and vulnerable in their explorations of mental health or mental well-being and their intersection with inequality, access to healthcare, the need for accessible, quality mental health care, and/or the need for open conversations about mental health and practices that contribute to mental well-being.
Our mission: to bring a little more good poetry and art into the world
Send us your birdsong-inspired poetry, the symbolic, the prophetic, the transcendental. Channel Walt Whitman. Interpret the theme in a unique or unexpected way.
The winning selection will be awarded $500 and publication in the December issue of South 85 Journal.
The winning selection will receive $500 and publication in the Fall / Winter issue of South 85 Journal.
Entries must be original fiction of up to 1500 words, inspired by the theme. Writers may enter a maximum of three stories.
With this issue, we want to take the best and most potent markers of our time and put them in a metaphoric time capsule. We want to know what you value and how those values will look after the test of time.
It’s our belief that, much like the definition of “wayward,” literature does not follow one set rule or path. It doesn’t always travel in one direction. Wayward Literature magazine means to symbolize the journey that inevitably comes with the writing process.
Nightmares are just as unique as the person who fears them: they're all about perspective.
Short Takes is open for bragging. Of all the fabulous things you have done in your life, until now cloaked in demure silence, which makes you proudest?
In November 2023 we will publish our third annual issue of Quaker Fiction. It’s open to all genres—crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction and horror, young adult, and more. Surprise us with your work!
We don’t have any preferences topically or in terms of style. We’re simply looking for the best. Dazzle us, take chances, and be bold.
Our favourite poems are the unexpected kind. We love free verse poems that take familiar situations and turn them on their head, using unusual metaphors and drawing parallels no one else would see.
We provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you.
We have no genre expectations, just send us something that is utterly you – from beauty to beast, creative non-fiction to allegorical fairy tales – we just want to revel in the potency of your voice.