Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
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.
Write about your experience navigating the world as a bi+ person and trying to find your own community, whether that be a friend group, chosen family, knitting circle, or so on.
This call is for writers born and/or residing in Canada and Canadians living abroad.
Fallen from grace, or falling on your face, out for the count or out on the town, down in the dumps or deep below the earth (or the waves), on the road with no fixed abode ... be creative and show us what you can do with this theme!
Queer characters (and queer people, for that matter) put up with enough bullshit from homophobes and transphobes, and this month we want noir tales where they turn the tables on the haters in fabulous and brutal ways.
We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers.
We seek submissions for the "Jerky" issue. Our themes are not to be approached literally. Please just have fun with the theme, or ignore it altogether. The small submission fee is to help defray the cost of shipping physical contributor's copies.
Boudin is currently looking for creative work that speaks on the beautiful moments of queer life, the not so beautiful moments, and even the everyday uneventful moments. The goal of this issue if to remind everyone that queer people have always been here and will always be here. We cannot be erased.
We want to read haibun and tanka prose that excites. It should leave THE DOOR AJAR to the world, and work with tension.
The theme is ‘Competition’. Remember, it needs to make us laugh! (In a good way)
Whether doors conjure memories or set your mind on a fictional adventure, we welcome your creative work.
Time of Singing welcomes poetry that talks about God and our relationship with Him and each other--as well as general inspirational and nature poems.
A poem could have 12 syllables, 12 words, or 12 lines; it could be an erasure of page 12 or Chapter 12 of a particular book; it could be created from a word-pool you generated by gathering every twelfth word of a source; it could be a cento combining 12 different sources.
"In the Kitchen" poetry could involve foods, customs, kitchen talk, preparation, or teaching.
Summer is close and we like to spend much time outside. You are challenged to observe the sky, to explore the objects in the sky: airplanes, kites, skyscrapers, balloons, clouds, rainbow, moon, stars, anything you want.
As we all contend with the global ":crisis" in politics, climate and return to bias and prejudice, we're asking our readers to consider ways of engaging in tapping into our own collective and inner resilience.
What does it mean to be a poet engaged with the physical material of the world around us? How does poetic form change in the encounter with other beings? How do we write collaboratively with—rather than about—nonhuman beings and ecologies?
Yaffle’s Nest invite you to submit poems about what you consider to be the best songs of all time.