Send us your work about treasures you’ve reclaimed, leftovers, pulpiness, messiness, griminess, and excessiveness. What you’re afraid to touch with a ten foot pole. In short, send us your trashiest and filthiest work. 

We're passionate about unconventional creativity in literature. We seek work that challenges norms and embraces innovation

Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.

"Solidarity Forever" refers to the old union song of the same name, but your submission does not have to be specifically about unions,. It could be about all sorts of problems solved through collective resistance and people standing together.

We welcome submissions about how being a part of this critical climate movement can help us live better, more meaningful, lives, and that help shift our cultural mindset from despair to creative possibility and from isolation to collective purpose.

Celestial bodies held in orbit around one another. What are our gravitational pulls? What does this mean for other moments that feel cosmic? What might be other natural or forced altered perspectives?

We aim to make publications more accessible to writers and artists by creating a landing platform for their unrestricted creativity and for works that go beyond conventional interpretations.

For the April Issue of Parcham, we aim to look into the various manifestations associated with children and the entire process of growing up, as well as watching the days of childhood from an adult’s perspective

Do dirt, get dirt. Hit the dirt, then dig in - up - out - ew. Don’t cry foul - this is a dirty business.  Got dirt? We want

Why does status so often go unnoticed? How does it influence everything from social inequality to personal relationships? And what changing forces have come to bear on the high or low status we’ve ascribed ourselves and others over the centuries?

Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung that refers to “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.” This makes our focus eclectic, but we do have subjects that we favor.

Where do we see and feel syncopation, within and beyond music? How do we experience syncopation in everyday life, society, socially?

Primordial appetites – mother’s milk, a father’s warm touch, the flashy colours of a toy train, the appetite to love, the insatiable curiosity to delve into the mysteries of life. Gulp down this theme of appetite, allow it to reveal the hungers within you.

Paris never fails to capture the imagination of artists, writers, musicians, and other dreamers. We want your music-themed poetry, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, and short stories that pertain to Paris.

We want stories set in and around the nation’s more often overlooked locales—isolated small towns, remote reservations, bedroom communities, and other underrepresented areas of Canada.

We might like to perhaps see instances of indecisions, or things that might or could or should have been. We might also like to see things that maybe happened, or maybe didn’t happen, or maybe will or perhaps could never happen. Send us whatever you maybe come up with!

Share your thoughts with the world. Be a Beauty-Knowledge-Truth champion: submit your Manifesto!

This issue seeks to hold space for the “ugly feelings” we are often told to tame, to clean up, and to quiet: our rage, our annoyance, our frustration. We aim to honor the wisdom of unruly emotions.

Take risks - Push the envelope. Step out of the box and conquer the unknown.

Our themes are always open to far-fetched interpretations and are not limited to a narrow definition. Don't hold back, surprise us by submitting your finest work!

Where is home? Is it a place, a feeling, a kinship with a group of people, or your mother’s heart?

Send us pieces about music, background noise, or other aspects of your sensory or extrasensory perception. What do you see, feel, and/or remember when you hear certain pieces of music or environmental sounds? How have you been able to minimise the noise and increase the good vibrations in your life?

We are looking for short stories and poems that are spooky or fantastical or both. Don’t be afraid to blend genres and experiment.

We see “woman” as a broad category with space for an array of gender identities and expressions. We welcome contributions from bi+ women who identify as trans, non-binary, cis, and beyond.

Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.

We often can only see our coming-of-age stories in retrospect, not as they are happening to us. Those moments that flung us over the line from childhood to adulthood. In June, we want those coming of age moments.

Submissions for Issue Eight are open.