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SUMMARY:P - Mslexia's Women's Poetry Competition 2022
DESCRIPTION:Our annual comp is open to unpublished poems of any length on any subject\, and will be judged by Costa Award-winning poet Helen Mort \nYou do not have to subscribe to Mslexia to be eligible\, but you do have to self-identify as a woman. We will accept entries from women of any age of any nationality from any country. This includes under-18s. \nPlease include the title of the work on your entry. \nYour entry will be judged anonymously\, so do not put your name or contact details anywhere on the text pages of your entry. (This information should be restricted to your online Entry Form or to a cover sheet for postal entries.) \nIf you can include a word count\, please do; however\, if you don’t\, or forget to\, please don’t worry! You won’t be disqualified if you don’t include it and we will be in touch with you if there’s a problem. \nThis competition is open to unpublished poems of any length\, on any subject. Your £10 entry fee allows you to submit up to three poems. \nPrizes\n1st: £2\,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250 \nUnpublished Poetry Prize for the best poem by a previously unpublished poet: £250. \nThe four winners\, plus sixteen additional finalists will have their poems published in the March issue of Mslexia.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-mslexias-womens-poetry-competition-2022/
LOCATION:Mslexia Magazine
CATEGORIES:Contest
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SUMMARY:P - Under the Radar Magazine Seek Submissions.  Theme: "Journeys"
DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION GUIDELINES\nWe especially welcome submissions of new work by writers from diverse backgrounds who have been traditionally under-represented in literature and publishing\, and actively encourage women\, writers of colour\, LGBTQ+\, Disabled\, D/deaf\, and low-income writers to consider sending us their work. \n• Please only submit previously unpublished work. \n• Send up to six poems. \n• We accept submissions from anywhere in the world. \n• All submissions must be made online through our Submittable portal during our open submission dates (see opposite). Please contact us if you are not able to access Submittable online to arrange alternative method of submission. Please do not otherwise send your work to the Nine Arches Press email or postal addresses. \n• Please send work that responds thematically in compelling and surprising ways. The connection to the theme can be interpreted freely and does not need to be obvious\, so we encourage you to keep it curious! \n• Please do not make multiple submissions by sending work you have also simultaneously submitted to other magazines\, competitions or publications\, or by sending us further work to consider before we have responded to your first submission. \n• In addition\, please do not submit and then withdraw work once submitted. \n• Please only upload your submission attachment as a Word document. We no longer accept PDFs.  \n• Please include a cover letter with your full postal address\, as well as a short biographical note (in the third person of no more than 50 words). \n• Unfortunately\, we are not able to offer payment for poems or short stories selected for publication in the magazine but we do send a complimentary copy of the magazine and offer discounts on subscription for featured writers. 10 free magazine subscriptions for low income writers who do not currently have a subscription to the magazine are made available annually every September. \n• To ensure plenty of variety\, we do not feature the same poets in consecutive issues. Please allow at least six months before submitting to the magazine again if we have published some of your poems in the most recent issue. \n• We receive a high volume of submissions. Please allow at least 12 weeks from the close of the submissions window for our reply. We always respond to every submission.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-under-the-radar-magazine-seek-submissions-theme-journeys/
LOCATION:Under the Radar Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to Fahmidan Journal.  Theme: "Winter in Modernity"
DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSIONS OPEN\n\n\nIssue 14 Winter in Modernity November 5th-December 10th 2022 \nun-themed pieces will still be considered for all issues! \nGeneral Submission information \nSubmissions are always free \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoetry\n\n\nPlease submit two to four poems together in one document. Poems should be no more than 2 pages in length. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlash Fiction\n\n\nPlease submit up to 2 pieces together in one document. Flash Fiction pieces should be no more than 750 words in length. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPolitics\, Sociology\, Economics\, History & Personal Essays\n\n\nPlease submit up to 2 pieces together in one document. Pieces should be no more than 1500 words in length
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-fahmidan-journal-theme-winter-in-modernity/
LOCATION:Fahmidan Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - The Medley Seeking Submissions on the Theme: "Mosaic"
DESCRIPTION:The Medley is now accepting entries for its eighth issue! The submission window will remain open till 11th December 2022. \n​\nFor this issue\, we are on the lookout for works that articulate the theme\, MOSAIC. \nMosaic is a form of art that originally blossomed on the walls of ancient Greek aristocrats. This centuries-old art form uses fragments of multicolored rocks\, glasses\, or other seemingly scrapable materials to weave itself into an exquisite artwork. Despite its fragmentary nature\, the art form comes together as a whole to depict the beauty present in the mundane.\n\nHumanity\, as an inspiration for art\, also forms a mosaic of sorts. The complex and layered emotions\, the multifarious expressions of identities that integrate into an individual or the cultural and social fusion formed by the diversity of people in our daily life\, are transposed forms of mosaic art. From a myriad of shades\, contrasting ideas\, and challenging stories\, an elegant whole can be formed. So\, create your own literary mosaic with personalized experiences and convoluted emotions.\nNon-themed submissions will also be accepted for the issue.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-medley-seeking-submissions-on-the-theme-mosaic/
LOCATION:The Medley
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221212T170000
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SUMMARY:P - DMQ Review Seeking Submissions for their Third All-Prose Poems Issue
DESCRIPTION:As an independent\, volunteer-run literary journal\, it has been our privilege to publish the work of both established and emerging poets and to do so without submission or subscription fees. We welcome American and international voices from all cultural identities in the English language. \nWe seek work that represents and invigorates the diversity of contemporary poetry and demonstrates literary excellence whether it be lyric\, free verse\, prose\, or experimental form. \nPoetry Guidelines: Submissions are open August 15\, 2022-December 12 for our 3rd all-Prose Poem Issue! Consider subscribing (free!) on the About page to receive submission updates or follow us on Facebook. In the meantime\, please familiarize yourself with what we publish by enjoying our Spring 2022 Prose Poem Issue and our extensive\, searchable Archives.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-dmw-review-seeking-submissions-for-their-third-all-prose-poems-issue/
LOCATION:DMQ Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - 86 Logic: A Celebration of Artists from the Hospitality Industry Seeks Submissions for Issue #10
DESCRIPTION:86 Logic is a quarterly magazine representing artists with roots in the hospitality industry. It is made up of a team of veteran bartenders\, servers\, and hosts who love discovering how art and hospitality intersect. Submissions are open to anyone who has worked in the industry—restaurants\, bars\, and hotels\, to name a few. \nWe pride ourselves in having an easy submission process. Unlike most publications\, printed or otherwise\, we have no restrictions on file type\, size of submission (though our ‘zine is only so big)\, or on the type of work submitted. We feel this keeps us open to all printable genres. \nCurrently we are accepting any and all forms of work including but not limited to stories\, poems and non-fiction for our print magazine that explores\, promotes\, and celebrates artists with roots in the hospitality industry.\nYou must have worked in the hospitality industry — restaurants\, bars\, hotels\, etc. — at some point in your life.  \nSubmission Guidelines are simple. There are none. Show us what you have\, however you have it.  If we like it\, we’ll work with you to get it suitable for publication. We very likely won’t publish your 85 page novella\, but we might use some of it. \nEach selected submitter will receive a copy* of the issue featuring their work. Unfortunately\, we are unable to monetarily compensate artists at this time. \n*International contributors will receive digital versions
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-86-logic-a-celebration-of-artists-from-the-hospitality-industry-seeks-submissions-for-issue-10/
LOCATION:86 Logic
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - Young Ravens Literary Review Seeks Submissions on "Exploring and Celebrating Womanhood"
DESCRIPTION:Issue 17 Call for Submissions!\nExploring & Celebrating Womanhood\n\n\n \nThe Priestess Tagerem\n\n\n\nWomanhood is a complex experience that involves more than motherhood or traditional expressions of femininity. From Virginia Woolf’s “a room of her own” to Maya Angelou’s “I’m a woman/ Phenomenally./ Phenomenal woman\,/ That’s me\,” women have claimed their voices unapologetically as writers and creators. \nBut there is still not enough of women’s voices and perspectives in the world. In Issue 17 of Young Ravens\, we are exploring womanhood in all forms as woven into our lives\, histories\, fairy tales\, and myths. We are looking to explore the full range of women’s experiences\, as creators\, historical figures\, the Divine Feminine\, and beyond. \nWe are inspired by a statue of the Egyptian priestess Tagerem\, who was seen as the wife of the god Re. In a version of Tagerem that exists at the Met\, she is bisected at her center. She was thought to display the ideal female form\, but we do not see her face; we only know half of her story. During the Late Period of Egyptian history\, women gained more opportunities “to record elements of their own biographies on stelae and statues” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). \nWhat are the stories of women that are missing? Whose voices and perspectives need to be expressed today\, carved on monuments and chalked across busy streets? Ideas we would love to see you explore include: \n—Woman as a free and variable being: human.\n—Woman as seared into ink and tale\, from Eve to Cinderella. Can you trace their faces in your own\, or the other women in your lives?\n—Do you remember the day when you realized that your mother had another name before “mom\,” and wondered at the mystery of her?\n—Woman as God. What is the feminine divine\, and how can it be recovered or honored?\n—Woman as World. How does the natural world reflect the many facets of femininity?\n—Woman within. Share those moments that have broken and remade you again and again.\n—Women among us. Their stories shine and fall into shadow alongside your own—who are they? \nWe accept fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry of all flavors\, from free verse to found.  We welcome voices across the gender spectrum\, including LGBTQIA+ creators. \nSubmissions will be accepted until December 13th\, 2022. Please check out our submission guidelines for further information.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-young-raven-literary-review-seeks-submissions-on-exploring-and-celebrating-womanhood/
LOCATION:Young Ravens Literary Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Blue Heron Review Call for Submissions.  THEME: Sanctuaries and Places of Peace
DESCRIPTION:The next reading period for Blue Heron Review will be:\nDecember 1st through December 15th\, 2022\nTHEME: Sanctuaries and Places of Peace \nOur theme for the BHR 16 Spring 2023 issue is “Sanctuaries and Places of Peace.”  Our whole issue will be devoted to creating a safe haven of peace for our writers and readers.  You can describe a fictional place\, your ideal haven\, or a memory of a special place you’ve visited that has given you a feeling of serenity and peace.  The goal is to create a collection devoted to finding a peaceful place to dwell within the self\, when the outer world becomes busy or challenging.  Having a place to refresh and renew the spirit allows us to move forward and give back in positive ways.  I look forward to reading about your sanctuaries!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-blue-heron-review-call-for-submissions-theme-sanctuaries-and-places-of-peace/
LOCATION:Blue Heron Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221215T170000
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SUMMARY:P - BlueHouse Journal Seeks Submissions With the Theme: "Questions"
DESCRIPTION:Send us all your queries\, wanderings\, wonderings\, coming to’s\, coming back from’s\, who knows\, who says\, who feels\, who cares. Send us your thought out and thought around and thought through questions and quandaries. Piles of question\, batches of questions\, single questions resonating like bells\, questions and answers and questions left hanging. \nBlueHouse Journal is an experimental poetry and hybrid journal focusing in the formation of the written self. BlueHouse accepts poetry\, essay\, experimental writing\, hybrid forms\, scenes from plays\, visual poems\, audio poems and more. We DO NOT accept traditional fiction in any form. Please take these guidelines into consideration when submitting your work to us
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-bluehouse-journal-seeks-submissions-with-the-theme-questions/
LOCATION:BlueHouse Journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - The Timberline Review Call for Submission.  Theme: "Dream"
DESCRIPTION:Timberline Review: General Guidelines\nWillamette Writers invites you to submit to our two programs\, the Timberline Review and Kay Snow Awards. The theme this year is DREAM. \nNew this year\, if you submit to the Timberline Review\, your piece is automatically entered into the Kay Snow Awards! As always\, Willamette Writers members may submit to Timberline Review free of charge. \nThe theme for the Timberline Review this submission year is “Dream.”  Dreams can be aspirations\, they can be ethereal\, they can be unreal or surreal. Dreams are open for interpretation\, aren’t they? Use your imagination! \nWe are seeking work in the following categories: \n\nPoetry\nFiction (flash\, short story\, novella\, and novel excerpt)\nCreative nonfiction (including essay and memoir) and Critical commentary (Writing about writing including literary analysis\, and craft instruction)\n\nThis year\, the Kay Snow Award will be chosen by our editorial staff and given to (1) the top piece and (2) the runner-up in each of the above categories. We are seeking submissions from writers 18 and up. Details about Kay Snow Student Submissions will be announced in 2023. \nAs always\, Willamette Writers members may submit to the Timberline Review free of charge. Members of the BIPOC\, LQBTQIA+ and disabilities communities are also encouraged to submit free of charge. The submission fee is not a reading fee – it helps cover the cost of the Timberline Review educational programming. \nIf you are not a member of Willamette Writers\, please use the guest submission form. Even better\, sign up as a member today!
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-the-timberline-review-call-for-submission-theme-dream/
LOCATION:Timberline Review
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions for Fresh Words Magazine's Special Poetry Anthology: "Contemporary Poems"
DESCRIPTION:We are open for submissions for our SPECIAL POETRY ANTHOLOGY ‘CONTEMPORARY POEMS-2022’. Please send all submissions to specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com as per the following \nGuidelines \n1. 3 to 4 poems (all themes and forms). We are looking for short poems (each upto 1 page in length). \n\n2. We shall not accept poems promoting or glorifying- violence\, sexual abuse\, racism \, hatred or any political ideology. \n3. Submission deadline: DECEMBER 15\, 2022.  (The selected poets will be informed on or before December 25th\, 2022 through email.). \n4.  Mention YOUR NAME followed by ‘SUBMISSIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY POEMS ANTHOLOGY-2022‘ in the subject line of your email \nGeneral Guidelines: \n1. All submissions must contain a cover letter and a short literary profile (Maximum 70 words) of the poet in the third person narrative. \n2. All submissions must be sent typed in MS Word or PDF doc as attachment with the email.  \n3. The author should mention: \nLegal Name: \nPen name (if any): \nSnail mail address: \n\n4.  The poet must send a high resolution photo(JPEG format) of self as a separate attachment with the submission. \n\n5. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but please immediately inform us in case they are accepted elsewhere.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-for-fresh-words-magazines-special-poetry-anthology-contemporary-poems/
LOCATION:Fresh Words Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - MSU Libraries Short Édition Seeks Submissions with the Theme "Water"
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the theme of Water\nMichigan State University Libraries Short Édition\, an innovative publishing platform affiliated with the international publisher Short Édition\, seeks short work (8\,000 character max\, about 1\,000 words) exploring the theme of Water. Submissions accepted through December 16\, 2022. Selected work will appear online and in MSU Short Édition machines\, and will be considered for publication internationally. This call is in conjunction with the Broad Art Museum’s 2022 fall exhibit\, Flint is Family in Three Acts\, featuring the photography of Latoya Ruby Frazier. Water\, for our purposes\, will be broadly interpreted and might include meditations on physical\, social\, racial\, environmental\, or other themes. We seek work that avoids platitudes and sentimentality\, demonstrates a deep understanding of craft\, and engages with fresh thinking. \nAccepted submissions will be included in a print issue distributed to all authors and added to MSU Libraries collections. Work will also be compiled in a themed issue available on the MSUL Short Édition site. \nPlease limit submissions to one story\, one short essay\, or up to five poems. Poems must be submitted separately. For example\, if you are submitting five poems\, each poem must be uploaded individually. Each submission should include a short biography directly beneath the work. If you do not receive an automatic confirmation email for each submission\, we have not received your work. \nPlease do not submit previously published work for themed issues.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-msu-libraries-short-edition-seeks-submissions-with-the-theme-water/
LOCATION:MSU Libraries Short Édition
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:F - The Molotov Cocktail Flash Contest Series Call for Submissions.  Theme: "Flash Monster"
DESCRIPTION:It’s after midnight\nsomewhere…\n \nSubmit to Flash Monster\nWell\, here’s something different. We’ve been running Halloween contests since 2014\, but this year\, in true nightmare before Christmas fashion\, we’re kicking off our Flash Monster contest mid-October and running it up until the holidays are upon us. \nThat may change the calculations on your lab-grown abominations a little bit; might be time to make your sins against Nature a touch more festive. \nThere’s plenty of room for holiday-themed horror here\, but we also don’t want to see 50 killer Santa Clauses or dozens of Krampuses (Krampi?). Mix things up. Winter themes work (we do love a good snow beast). So do monsters totally unrelated to winter and the holidays. \nIf you participated in or read our Folked-Up Flash contest earlier this year\, you know we’ve got a wicked hankering for folk horror\, and that’s not a bad angle to go here either. Tap into ancient pagan rituals. Subvert traditional holiday tropes. Gifts with sinister implications? Granted wishes with ironic outcomes? The holidays are a good time to mess with classical elements. A little sentimentality with your depravity? Sure\, why the hell not. We’re not monsters. Or just write about something gnarly and weird; that’s the whole point\, after all. \nWe like literary approaches\, but we also dig genre and pulpy takes as well.  Art house or grindhouse. Take a new approach to well-established monster archetypes or create something nobody’s ever seen before. \nYou can check out some past Flash Monster issues here\, here\, here\, here\, here\, here. \nThe top three entries will win cash money. \n$300 for Flash Monster 2022 winner \n$200 for 2nd place \n$100 for 3rd place \nWe also give mad respect to 4th-10th place\,\npublishing them in our Flash Monster mega-issue\nand in a future print anthology\, with contributor copy included. \n \nSubmit to Flash Monster\nFollow these guidelines\, and your best nightmare before Christmas could come true. \n– All submissions must absolutely be under 1\,000 words\, and we tend to look more kindly on 750 or fewer because… THREE-HEADED SQUIRREL! \n– All contest submissions will be read blind\, so we won’t be playing favorites. \n– Please paste your entry into the corresponding field. Do not list your name anywhere or we’ll assume you won’t be able to accurately recite the words that break the curse. \n– Submissions must be previously unpublished work\, and you will retain copyright (duh). By entering this contest\, you give us permission to publish your work (if selected for our Top 10) both online and in a future print anthology. \n– No limit on how many entries you can submit\, but you must submit them one at a time. Don’t just mash them all in there. \n– Contest soft deadline is end of day (PST) Monday\, December 5th\, 2022. Winners announced on December 19th and we’ll unwrap the Flash Monster 2022 mega-issue before the eggnog turns. \n– And\, most importantly\, this is a FLASH MONSTER contest\, so you must include some sort of literal or figurative monster. But again\, this can be in any form imaginable.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/f-the-molotov-cocktail-flash-contest-series-call-for-submissions-theme-flash-monster/
LOCATION:The Molotov Cocktail Flash Contest Series
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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SUMMARY:PFN - inScribe: Journal of Creative Writing Seeks Submissions on "Birds"
DESCRIPTION:WRITE FOR US\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ninScribe\n\n\nJOURNAL OF CREATIVE WRITING\n\n\n\nWe accept original submissions of short fiction in any genre (up to 3500 words)\, both formal and free verse poetry (up to 50 lines) as well as works of creative nonfiction (up to 3500 words). \nSubmissions for \nISSUE 05 // THEME: BIRDS \n are now OPEN \nuntil December 16\, 2022 \n\n\n\nThe place of birds in literature and human experience is as rich and varied as the 10\,000 plus species that grace our wonderful planet. Their presence helps define our sense of place\, the movement of the seasons\, and even the time of day. Birds figure prominently in mythology\, in folklore\, in story and song\, while their place in Christian scripture and symbolism is just as varied. So let your imagination soar\, and send us your best avian-inspired poetry\, stories and essays! \nPlease follow the Journal Submission Guidelines below.\nFor any enquiries\, please contact us at  inscribe@tabor.edu.au \n​\nFor an example of the type of work we’re looking for\, please read our sample selection from our first issue:\n\nSAMPLE\n\n\n\n\nJOURNAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:​\n\n\nIn preparing your work for submission\, take note of any advertised themes for our up-coming editions \n\n\nBe sure to edit and proofread your work thoroughly prior to sending it to inScribe \n\n\nEmail your submission as an attached Microsoft Word document to inscribe@tabor.edu.au \n\n\nPlease ensure the attached file bears the same name as the title of your work \n\n\nInclude the title and genre of your work in the email subject heading – e.g.:\nAwakenings_Poetry\nRunaway Train_Fiction\nNever Again_Nonfiction \n\n\nYou may submit as many works as you like\, but please send a separate email for each title \n\n\nIn the body of your email\, provide your full name and contact details (i.e. postal address\, email address and phone number) together with a short (30-50 word) author bio \n\n\nPlease remove your name and any identifying information from the attached document – each title will be subject to a blind reading by multiple members of our editorial team \n\n\nBe sure to observe the maximum length of 3\,500 words per story (fiction and non-fiction) and 50 lines per individual poem \n\n\nWe ask that you format your submission using a plain\, size 12pt font (e.g. Arial\, Calibri or Times New Roman) with 1.5 line spacing
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-inscribe-journal-of-creative-writing-seeks-submissions-on-birds/
LOCATION:inScribe: Journal of Creative Writing 2
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1475-1671264000-1671296400@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PFN - Call for Submissions to just femme & dandy.  Theme: "Survive"
DESCRIPTION:Vol. 4: SURVIVE \nTwo years into a global pandemic\, the existing stressors of domestic terrorism\, gender- and race-based hate\, and financial insecurity have reached a fever pitch. With basic human rights being stripped by governments at every turn\, it can feel like a struggle just to survive day-to-day. Yet survive we do\, and that’s an achievement deserving of recognition. \nFor this issue\, we want to hear what survival means for you and your queer identity as it relates to all areas of fashion\, including but not limited to clothing\, cosmetics\, skincare\, hair (styles and products)\, shoes\, perfumery/cologne\, accessories\, hosiery\, etc. Want to tell us about your favorite chainmail or faux-brass knuckles? What about that shade of red lipstick that feels like armor? How about your favorite bedazzled binder or mobility aid? We’d also love to hear about the roles clothing has played for in surviving (and/or recovering from) harm or protecting oneself against danger\, illness\, and other threats. Of course\, these are just a few examples. We are open to pieces across subjects and genres\, but in the spirit of queer and BIPOC celebration\, we’re especially interested in pieces that demonstrate triumph and endurance. \nNOTE: Submissions are not required to align with the theme\, but we will be highlighting the pieces that demonstrate survival. Priority\, as always\, goes to BIPOC writers and artists\, and we particularly want to hear from those in the trans\, non-binary\, intersex\, and other underrepresented and under-published communities.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-just-femme-dandy-theme-survive/
LOCATION:just femme & dandy
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1461-1671350400-1671382800@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:PF - Written Tales Chapbooks Seeks Submissions on "The Holiday Season"
DESCRIPTION:Theme to Use: The Holiday Season\nForm to use: short story or poem \nNov. 10\, 2022 ~ Dec. 18\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirections\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we set our sights on the holiday seasons\, it’s time to reflect on what it means to us. How it makes us feel\, the emotions it places upon our hearts\, good or bad. Chapbook Volume VI centers on the theme “The Holiday Season” and what it means to you. \nIs it: \n\nA Christmas story\,\nholiday memories from your childhood\,\nreflection on your connection with God\,\nthe winter and its glory\,\na fictional tale of fun\,\na poem about the seasons\,\nthoughts of a new year coming\,\nor times with family and friends?\n\nNo matter what it may be\, submit your piece and let us see what the holiday season means to you.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/1461/
LOCATION:Written Tales Chapbooks
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1467-1671350400-1671382800@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:P - Holocaust Memorial Day Anthology Series Seeks Submissions: "Ordinary People"
DESCRIPTION:Submission Call: Holocaust Memorial Day 2023\n18/8/2022 \n\n\n\n\nHolocaust Memorial Day on January 27th 2023 encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide. The international day remembers the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust\, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia\, Rwanda\, Bosnia and Darfur. The theme for 2023 is Ordinary People.\n\n \n\n\n\nWe are looking for poems in memorial\, in protest\, reflecting or looking forward\, poems that lament but also inspire that tie in with the theme of Ordinary People: perpetrators as ordinary people\, persecuted people as ordinary people\, rescuers as ordinary people\, and ordinary people as bystanders \nAll accepted poems will be published in a free downloadable e-pamphlet\, to be released on HMD 2023. \n​To help inspire you\, read more about this year’s theme on the HMD website\, and have a look at our HMD anthology from 2016. \nSubmission Guidelines:\nSend a maximum of three poems in one Word document.\nPlease include a brief third-person biog with your submission (max. 50 words).\nEmail your poems to thepenpointsnorth@outlook.com.\nDeadline: 18th December 2022.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-holocaust-memorial-day-anthology-series-seeks-submissions-ordinary-people/
LOCATION:Poetry NI+
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1457-1671523200-1671555600@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:P - Burrow e-journal Call for Submissions.  Theme: "What Does Mental Health (Good or Otherwise) Look Like Through the Prism of Non-Human Companions
DESCRIPTION:The provocation for the February 2023 issue of Burrow is: What does mental health (good or otherwise) look like through the prism of non-human companions? \nHow do your non-human companions help you with mental well-being? Maybe you treasure those brief encounters with wild animals or share your life with much-loved pets or family heirlooms. Burrow has run with this provocation previously. And it was a huge success. We just had to return to the well. \nWe interpret the provocation very loosely. It is really up to you to define or reimagine the theme in a way that is helpful. Be brave and bold\, have a go\, and send us your best. We are inclusive and value our readers and contributors. We can’t wait to read what you come up with.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-burrow-e-journal-call-for-submissions-theme-what-does-mental-health-good-or-otherwise-look-like-through-the-prism-of-non-human-companions/
LOCATION:Burrow e-journal
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1453-1672041600-1672074000@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:P - SPIRIT: A White Stag Element Series Anthology Seeks Submissions on "Spirit"
DESCRIPTION:NOW OPEN FOR PROFFERING \n#SPIRIT: A White Stag Anthology\nWhite Stag Publishing is closing out the #ELEMENTSERIES with the fifth element & highest point of the pentacle: Spirit. #Spirit embodies the aether / the quintessence. It is the ethereal space & what dwells within it; divine beings\, spirits & the Fae\, even the supra natural. Humans attempt to access the Spirit through various mediums & divinatory practices: through clairvoyance & psychic awareness\, lucid dreaming & astral projection\, tarot & scrying (to name a few). Some also believe it can be accessed through prayer or only after death\, when our souls leave our body to join the great expanse. It is engrained in all cultures\, in various ways throughout the world; through magic & science\, myth & fable. Spirit moves the pious\, inspires artists & dreamers\, brings magic to our terrestrial realm. \nFor this anthology\, we are looking for poetry that explores the ethereal realm through various mediums whether religious / spiritual\, through clairvoyance / meditation\, science\, & the imagination. We want theology\, mysticism & magick\, alchemy\, explore the ancient mysteries. We want work that goes beyond our sphere & into the void\, translating the unknown. Send us your séances\, your rituals\, your communions with the gods\, show us the creatures that lurk in the night (the ones we don’t already know about)\, tell us of your travels through space & time. We want poetry that is evocative of the otherworldly. Be bold & dare to go beyond.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-spirit-a-white-stag-element-series-anthology-seeks-submissions-on-spirit/
LOCATION:White Stag Publishing
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1521-1672473600-1672506000@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:P - Call for Submissions to 32 Poems Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Guidelines \n32 Poems publishes inventive language complicated by music\, form\, and feeling. As a rule we publish shorter poems that fit on a single page (about 32 lines)\, though we have been known to make occasional exceptions to accommodate remarkable work that runs a little longer. Send no more than five poems in a submission and no more than one active submission at a time. We do not accept translations or work that have been previously published in print or online. \nFor online submissions we charge a small reading fee\, waived for current subscribers. (Click here to subscribe now.) This money goes to support the publication of 32 Poems\, which\, as an independent journal with an all-volunteer staff\, continues to publish only through the generosity of our dedicated readers. \nWe believe poets should be paid for their work. Contributors receive $25 per poem and two copies of the issue in which their writing appears. \nFor online submissions\, we charge a $3 reading and processing fee\, but that fee is waived for current subscribers.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/p-call-for-submissions-to-32-poems-magazine/
LOCATION:32 Poems Magazine
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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UID:1532-1672473600-1672506000@anovelapproach.ca
SUMMARY:FN - Call for Submissions to 100 Word Story Magazine
DESCRIPTION:One hundred seems perfect. It’s the basis of percentages\, the perfect test score\, the boiling point of water (Celsius)\, purity. Pythagoreans considered 100 as divine because it is the square (10 x 10) of the divine decad (10). Even a Scrabble set has 100 tiles. \nAnd yet 100 is a fragment. It’s an arbitrary marker\, like the “First 100 Days” of a president’s term—merely a promise of what’s to come\, or a whiff of what has passed. \nThe whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word\, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the writer “to keep a story free from explanation\,” as Walter Benjamin wrote. For life doesn’t lend itself so easily to our elucidations. “Incoherence is preferable to a distorting order\,” said Roland Barthes. None of us will ever know the whole story in other words. We can only collect a bag full of shards that each seem perfect. \n100 words for your story … no more or no less. Tell a story\, write a prose poem\, pen a slice of your memoir\, or try your hand at an essay. \nYou get 100 words—exactly 100 words—which is both the pain and the pleasure here. It’s short\, you tell yourself. You could write 100 words at a bus stop\, on your lunch break\, in your sleep. But with 100 words you must tell the whole story in its entirety\, so it holds together like a perfect little doll house. (Your title is not part of the 100 words.) \nPlease include a short bio (25 words\, max!) with your submission. Also\, did we say exactly 100 words? We weren’t kidding! Also\, make friends with your spell-check\, or have a friend proofread your story.
URL:https://anovelapproach.ca/submission_calendar/event/fn-100-word-story-magazine-seeks-submissions/
LOCATION:100 Word Story
CATEGORIES:Call for Submission
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