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Money. Is it the root of all evil or a reward for solving problems? Send us your best unpublished stories of approximately 50 words, about Money. 

We want the truth. Tell us about yourself. Let us peer into your lives in a way only your closest friends do. Let's get to know each other.

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.

We want fiction with memorable characters and realistic plots, poetry that is fresh and original, and nonfiction that is both thoughtful and entertaining.

We’re looking for work that expresses the aspects of healing that are life changing, profound, painful, cathartic, joyous or liberating. The moment you looked up and saw the sunrise and thought ‘I’m going to be ok’.

For this issue we will be accepting work that explores relationships - one-to-one, groups, families, romances, friendships; challenges, highs, lows, patterns, and parallels.

Send us stories that announce themselves like a new year rolling in, literary essays about the latest ‘in thing’ you’re avoiding, or poems that straddle the intimate and public.

Our perfect submission defies categorization—pieces that could be “too speculative” for CanLit or literary magazines or “not speculative enough” for speculative magazines. However, we also love a good genre romp, and will publish across many genres.

For this issue, we seek stories that respond to ecology in all its forms, from its earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms, systems, and worlds.

We are seeking poems that celebrate the beauty of nature or speak to any personal or collective experience regarding the natural environment.

We share work here representative of shared human values, however differently those values might be expressed in our various religions and cultures.

Tupelo Quarterly seeks to cultivate dialogue between the arts.  With that in mind, we would love to consider works that exist at the boundaries of genres and disciplines.

This issue is open to retellings and new ideas in the old mythology style; when superpowered beings are involved, anything can happen.

A woman is never too old to enjoy it. Or to enjoy reading, writing, or making art about it. Send us your erotica – your musings on erotica – your memories of erotic moments – actual or imagined.

Whether it’s the pride of democratic success or a whimsical caution about electoral choices, we encourage you to submit stories that explore the ironies of democracy.

We are looking for powerful, astounding, stories that will make people say "wow" or give them chills. This book is for everyone, whether religious or non-religious.

What do you do to think positive and how did it change your life? Tell us your success story about using the power of thinking positive!

While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Bodies’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.

We are looking for work that is sensitive, thought-provoking, intelligent, and humorous. We encourage artistic expression that portrays depth in characterization & ideas and exhibits a nuanced perspective of the mundane.

Submissions must include something about retirement / semi-retirement / stopping employment.

Displacement can be anything from physical displacement (moving, emigrating, exile) to estrangement or emotional or spiritual shifts.

A twice-yearly zine that celebrates all things genre.

What is the joy of the hybrid gesture? Where does it live? And how does hybridizing create that secret third thing?

Dreams and realities, ambitions & imaginings. Submit your very best work to us (this goes double if you're female, as only about 1/3 of our submissions come from women): we really want to read your stories!

Agent on a SECRET mission? Inexperienced climber ASPIRES to conquer Mount Everest? An UNSTOPPABLE space alien? We have no idea, but you will. Hit us with your best and most brilliant original fiction.