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
Submissions must include something about growing older / ageing. The Lifespan Series offers a unique opportunity to contribute works taking characters across the arc of their whole lives, whether prose or poetry, fiction or non-fiction.
What is Secret Menu? Secret Menu is a hack. Secret Menu is the ways we treat ourselves, celebrate small victories, sharing with one another when we don’t have to.
In honour of our 10th issue, we’re getting literal and asking for submissions on film, TV, music videos, and pop culture relating to the number 10!
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.
Vilas Avenue wishes impermanence to inspire a variety of interpretations of the theme, challenging the writer to attain a deeper understanding of the state of change— crafting work that lives, dies, lives again, & vanishes into momentariness.
A keepsake to put away for the future, a token of childhood, a triumphant memory… the time capsule will hold a kaleidoscope of human happenings, preserved in pages for future generations to read with fresh eyes.
We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything that relates to nocturnal happenings: dating, working the night shift, crime, clubbing, dinner, sex, partying, witchcraft, ghosts, childbirth, insomnia, even nocturnal wildlife.
The United States is a young and idealistic country that sits at a crossroads, especially as the geopolitical order shifts. What do we want the next 250 years to look like?
In Fit Notes, we aim to explore work beyond the scope of its traditional and constrictive conceptions and explore how work relates to the body, to illness, and to life.
First Prize: £200 plus publication in a future edition of the New Contexts anthology & invitation to read the winning poem at a future Contextual virtual poetry reading event.
Can you write a killer story about betrayal in under two hundred words?
Harken back to days gone by and show us the happy moments of the past.
This issue is gay prom and Brown Bag is inviting everyone to put on their gayest outfits and dance the night away.
Messy Misfits Club zine is looking for stories with out of bounds content– We want to be raw, rebellious and let our voices be heard. The Messy Misfits are meant to be downright dirty!
Your work should always be just as long (or as short) as it needs to be.
Well Projects third anthology, Resurrection Charms, engages with the language of ‘returning’ implicit within projects of ecological restoration and explores what a ‘future modelled on the past’ is meant to look like.
We have no definitive preference for what are looking for, we enjoy a variety of genres and styles and consider anything.
We welcome all styles of writing, particularly that which is well-crafted, uses language lovingly and surprisingly, and feels daring or quietly powerful.
Six contributors will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize, (poetry and fiction).