Our mission is to seek out, nurture, publish and promote the very best new writers and new writing.
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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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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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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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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Parabola gathers the wisdom of the world’s spiritual traditions to illuminate the central questions of life.
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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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Show us the gooiness and silence of the inside of a chrysalis and the relief and horror of emerging from it.
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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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What is a "Giant Robot" theme? For this project, the term "Giant Robots" can include examples of technologies in timelines both real and imagined, and of any size or (even formless) form. |
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This instrument has inspired countless tales, including the legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul at the crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity.
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Send us your secrets or the aftermath of revealing them. Define and redefine what a secret is or can be. |
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Send work that responds thematically in compelling and surprising ways. |
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We are inspired by poet Marianne Moore: “I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.”
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We encourage submissions of minimal sonnets and the related minison poetry forms but we also now accept closed-form poetry of any kind, including haikus, sestinas, pantoums, and, of course, traditional sonnets.
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What is at stake in claiming “lesbian” as an identity, as a politics, and/or as an analytic? How does the figure of “the lesbian” circulate in debates about identity? |
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1 event,What is prayer and how does it work? Do we pray TO or FOR something? |
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What is a City to you? A holiday destination? A treasure trove of art and culture? A hotbed of sin and vice? |
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Themes include, but are not limited to--family, self-realization, and legacy. |
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Companions take on many forms—human, animal, object, or ideas and memories.
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We want your best laid plans gone awry. We want your glitches in the matrix. Our Journal Nine motto: watch your step.
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We’re looking for writing about film, TV, and pop culture related to your hometown—however you may define it. |