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Tragic-romantic is a dichotomy that often exists in baby queer relationships. I want to see people's spin on tragedy or romance.

We invite narratives that illuminate what we choose (or are forced to) to carry forward, from the weight of inherited kitchen tools to the muscle memory of craft, from arrangements of space to patterns of gathering. We’re interested in stories that reveal how these carried things remain vital through our lives.

Say it loud, say it raw. Celebrate, condemn, twist it inside out. Go wild, go sexy, go off the rails.

Libretto Magazine invites writers to explore stories of secrecy, silence, and the unspoken. It can encompass whispered confessions, hidden histories, suppressed voices, or the quiet power of untold truths.

For our May issue, Boudin is looking for poetry, CNF, and fiction about displacement with a focus on immigration. We're particularly interested in the visceral emotions that come with the rediscovery, recollection, or loss of home.

Imagining, dreaming, and remembering by their very nature resist censor. Are they acts of resistance then? Then writing in their language must be too. 
When we mine your dreams tomorrow what would we find? 

Sevdah is a genre of Turkish and Bosnian folk music evoking sorrowful love and ecstatic, amorous yearning—from the Arabic “sawda,” meaning “black bile,” or a melancholy state of longing. In Issue II of our second opus, desire is holy and heavy as the still before the train comes. Moor us in the unquenchable. We want a begging to believe in.

Voices Unbound is a space for poems that explore the myriad facets of life, love, loss, identity, resilience, and the world around us. We welcome poems that challenge, inspire, and resonate.

Poets are invited to uncover the nuances of what lies beneath the surface of consciousness, examining how unspoken truths and subconscious impulses can manifest in our lives. 

Colour is everywhere, and we want to see how you interpret and express it in your work.

We're looking for speculative takes on epiphany, from the realization that television is all real and true, to the discovery that the life you live in your dreams is your real life, and this one is the dream. We want to be just as surprised as your narrators by the things they discover and where those discoveries lead them. 

Give us your wildly true tales of memory or distorted tales of fiction that leave us questioning what is real and what is imagined.

Send us your Kafkaesque fantasies of being transformed into a giant cockroach or perhaps somewhat smaller disorienting episodes, changes, or transformations which have affected you or your characters’ lives.

Mirage describes an optical illusion or an unrealistic hope or wish that cannot be achieved. You are free to incorporate the given theme into your work as you see fit. The setting should depict the Spring season.

From the Knights Templar to Japan’s “herbivore men”, the bachelor is often a complex figure caught in the shifting tides of gender norms, cultural flux, and sociohistorical change. We invite writers to explore the multifaceted lives of unmarried men across the spectrum of identity—straight, queer, cis, trans, and beyond.

We are looking for work that is sensitive, thought-provoking, intelligent, and humorous. We encourage artistic expression that portrays depth in characterization & ideas and exhibits a nuanced perspective of the mundane.

Gypsophila complements any flower placed beside it in a bouquet or flowerbed. This magazine combines art and literature, visual and verbal art coming together to create something beautiful. Just like how baby’s breath (gypsophila) can grow in tandem with almost any other flower.

Icebreakers wants your almost, maybes. Your brushes with the other worldly. Your longings. Send us your work that explores your interpretation of "close encounters" (Aliens in no way required. Though of course we still love them).

June is Pride Month, and we want to share the beautiful (and often tought) moments of coming out. Don’t be afraid to share the rawness of it all, the hurt as well as the beauty. 

We're looking for essays that delineate both how feminists may experience, theorize, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may, alternatively, thwart the development of feminist futures.