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We provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you.
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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
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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. |
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We’re seeking work about the end. Send us your take on the end of a meal, the close of a journey, the end of life, or anything else.
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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. |
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Show us truth camouflaged by falsehoods, the blurred line between fact and fiction, or the entanglement of half-truths and illusions.
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Open to submissions on any theme, however, we are particularly interested in pieces that challenge us – that redefine the parameters of form, concept and technique
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Past winning pieces have reflected upon both social and political structures, human relationships and experiences. They have pushed the boundaries of imagination – providing new possibilities and ideas.
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Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life.
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The name Superpresent conveys multiple meanings. It could be something very much in the here and now, or something beyond the present state of being or thinking, or something surreal, or it could simply be a great and wonderful gift.
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Send us your red, reddening, and red-focused poems and short prose. |
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In decay, there is devotion. Through flesh, we express our desire. How does your ButchFemme devotion become realized in the flesh? |
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Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners!
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Memories can stop us dead in our tracks with their epiphanies. Memories can also be as fragile + fleeting as words that hang for a moment before our face in the cold of a winter’s breath.
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Ev0king the Question: What do you believe happens to you after death? Is it specific to your practice?
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RMR seeks to embody the ecosystem of a river’s mouth: a confluence in time and space where energies from different sources mingle and merge ~ transforming each element, each force, into something altogether new. |
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This anthology asks you to explore the beautifully weird, the slightly off, and the unusual. Break free from the norm to investigate the strange! |
5 events,The story must be true, and it must have happened to you directly. We want to hear your unique point of view.
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What is the right relationship between humans and the world? What are our responsibilities for caring for the earth and other creatures?
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Open to women who are not yet published as novelists, to novels of at least 50,000 words in any genre for adult, or young adult readers.
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This competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 3,000 words.
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Our theme for Journal 8 is a difficult ask in a violent and weary world. It is grace. |
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We are looking for work in opposition to a broad, insidious fascism that treats water, trees, and bodies as exploitable, expendable resources rather than sacred, essential components of our global, infinitely interconnected and interdependent web of life. |
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We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with unfamiliar people, new places, strange experiences or foreign exploration. Work might revolve around culture clashes, romantic encounters, fears about the future, immigration, travel, or otherworldly realms altogether. |
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1 event,What does it mean to forgive? Are there any preconditions? Any limitations? What does forgiveness do to us and to the forgiven? |
7 events,Our fall edition’s theme is spooky, however you interpret that.
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Send us anything quirky and unique that relates to strangers in any way.
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A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem.
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Our stories feature danger elements, struggle, emotion, and OVERCOMING. Go for the Gutsy! |
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Let’s talk about things we should be thankful for, but just aren’t. Or the things people expected us to be thankful for that we simply think, “Um, what?” Give us the rude, the harsh, the enduring, the funny. The things that made you say, “Thanks, I guess.”
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All stories must end with the last line provided, and you cannot change it in any way.
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In our homes and public spaces, on our streets, buildings, and bodies; sometimes carefully planned and presented, sometimes spontaneously expressed— we live with art. |