How has your experience with mental health challenges, mental illness, madness, and/or neurodivergence shaped your identity? Do you feel your identity is understood by others?
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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This year’s LGBTQ writing contest theme, FIRSTS, is an opportunity to share your own queer travel adventurers with an LGBTQ audience. Your essay just might inspire someone to stretch their comfort zone and try a new activity! |
5 events,The First Line is an exercise in creativity for writers and a chance for readers to see how many different directions we can take when we start from the same place.
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The only rule is that the piece(s) must be created by 2 or more people working together.
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The prize is only open to short fiction, but it can be in any fiction genre and you may write about any subject you wish. |
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3 events,We are compelled by the strange and beautiful, drawn to the uncanny, fascinated by the fantastical, and relish risky realism that rattles our senses.
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We’ve all heard the phrase, “that’s one for the ages,” which suggests a strange, extraordinary, fantastical, or confounding event, situation, or tale that astounds and leaves us amazed.
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We carry no expectations for the content or tone of submissions. |
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Our goal is to approach everything we publish with an eye for intellect, wonder, and story and a conviction that our beliefs have consequences for ourselves, our communities, and the world. |
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The Fabulist Flash, a new flash-fiction project from The Fabulist Words & Art, welcomes submissions from November 6-12 for fantastical and speculative writings of up to 1,000 words. |
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6 events,Issue 5: Secret Santa. Theme: a gift you received or shared this year
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We share work here representative of shared human values, however differently those values might be expressed in our various religions and cultures.
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A quarterly mainstream e-zine whose mission is to bring a little more good poetry into the world |
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Editor's tip: as the weather cools, warm up with a good book, don your favorite sweater, get comfortable, and relax.
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Send us your list. Make the entries short, specific, to the point. |
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We explore intrepid culture: our stories feature danger elements, struggle, emotion, and OVERCOMING. |
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Our mission is to seek out, nurture, publish and promote the very best new writers and new writing.
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We seek personal, political, precise, raw, lyrical, critical, and experimental work; the stuff only you can write. |
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We believe poetry deserves a carved-out space in the online world. It's certainly powerful enough to stand on its own. |
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Desire can take many forms, and can be expressed through terms such as wanting, wishing, longing and craving. What does it mean to you?
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Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life” - and he was right. And change comes in many shapes and forms, some planned but some unplanned and totally unexpected.
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The Magpie Messenger by Curious Corvid Publishing is the ultimate literary magazine made for, made by, and made with the works of indie writers. |
7 events,Be part of our inaugural issue!
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Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.
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Maybe the sight of someone in official duds turns you on—or maybe it fills you with apprehension.
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Submit pieces that showcase the yearning for the familiar; be it the native languages echoing through childhood homes, the nostalgia for one's home country, or the recollections of cherished towns. |
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Sobbing over a simulation? Same. Whether you fancy Fortnite or farm simulators, GTA or girlsgogames.com, the game is on.
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Show us the gooiness and silence of the inside of a chrysalis and the relief and horror of emerging from it. |