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P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Bodies’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.
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!
Send us your long-sighted, large-hearted, reverent/irreverent calls to arms.
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.
There may be a sense of “be careful what you wish for”. Or is the good news a trace of hope in a bleak time? Perhaps those elements of our lives for which we should be grateful?
Worlds, experiences, thoughts, and events cast in a new and distinct light. A perspective that only the individual could conjure. We want a peek behind the curtain, to see how the poet sees.
What is the joy of the hybrid gesture? Where does it live? And how does hybridizing create that secret third thing?
For this contest, write a creative, compelling, well-crafted story between 1,000 and 5,000 words long in which some kind of vehicle plays an important role.
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.
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!
Loss of common land, public access to nature, and environmental management are all specific interpretations of this theme we’d particularly like to see.
This theme is not limited to just flowers, but botany as a whole. What does it mean when we have a hollowed-out pumpkin stuffed with daylillies on our front porch? Whatever the answer, we’re looking forward to it!
We call contributors to conceive of the West beyond its conventional and colonialized framework. What happens when the dam breaks, when waters flow along their pre-colonial course and stewardship is returned to the original caretakers of the land? There are many ways to deconstruct a dam, an archetype, to unearth histories long-buried in sand or alpine forest. The West is multiple and many.
For this issue we're looking for stories about feisty felines, mercurial moggies and big wild cats.
How can poetry be located in place, object or function? This might be rooted in memory and nostalgia, or a constant present association that you have with the world. A poem can so often be masked in the material world, taking on the disguise of the accidental, functional, or instructive to do so.
Submit 1-3 poems. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.
Submit 3 pieces of flash nonfiction of up to 1,500 words each OR an essay of up to 4,000 words. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.
Submit 3 pieces of flash fiction of up to 1,500 words each OR a story of up to 4,000 words. First place winners receive $1,000 and publication.
This time we want your WEIRD. Make us -- with the chances that you take in your narrative, in your structure, in your vision -- say "WTF?!" in the best literary way possible.
We are curious to see poets exploring how various methodologies of care manifest in ourselves, in others, and in both urban and natural spaces.
What does George Fox mean to you? What parts of his life or writings have inspired and buoyed your own spiritual path?
April Haiku Submissions Open Submit up to 3 haiku by March 25th THEME: Flowers (any kind) When the wild turnip burst into full blossom a skylark sang Koboyashi Issa (translated by Sam Hamill) Haiku Submission Guidelines Haiku poetry originated in Japan and was perfected by the great haiku masters: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, […]
Hear, play or make it. Be stilled, stunned, changed, warped, saved, ruined or reborn by it. Music is the prompt for Issue 6.
What pleasant ghosts have stopped to visit you recently? We’re open for Happy Phantom submissions, inspired by the artist and album that got us through some hard times; and the delight that comes with considering some songs visitors from the past.
Whether your focus is on tomorrow or 2099, we want to see you take on the unknown.
We seek works that explore the boundless landscapes of time, the immortal pulse of nature, the timeless essence of being, or however you understand and interpret the concept of infinitude.
The economy no longer serves human society. It’s a business. So it is time to give business the business.
Please send us your clever observations of the world, from the mundane to the mountainous. Tell the truth, but tell it slanted.
Whether your style leans towards the whimsical or the stark, infuse your work with the power to provoke contemplation. Show us possibilities that shape the human experience.