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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!

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?

Burst into creativity and delve into the inner depths of your being. Masquerade through dreams, nightmares, and everything in between. Do you dare to dream?

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.

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.

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. 

For this issue we're looking for stories about feisty felines, mercurial moggies and big wild cats.

The Twin Bill is a quarterly online literary baseball journal founded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. We celebrate the rich history of the game while also recognizing its vibrant present through fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

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.

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 does queer space mean to you? Where is it? We want you to take us there!

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.