Events

It’s where we start each day, down on the earth, on the ground but getting up, comfortable in our skins, ground zero for ourselves.

For this we want submissions on all things dragons.

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.

We want to know about the road trip gone wrong, the family vacation from hell, and the time your mother-in-law almost burnt down the house on Thanksgiving.

Halfway Down the Stairs publishes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction and accepts work in most genres.

This month, we want stories about sports. About the dreams involved. About the gambling. About the competition. About the broken bones. If it involves sports and it’s noir, we’ll see you at the finish line.

Who were you in the 1970s? An adult, a teen, a child, or just a glimmer in someone's eye? 

We’re eager to see where your creativity takes you in this sunlit journey. Let your words bring the heat and magic of summer to life.

Music, perhaps the most inscrutable, yet the most intimate of all aesthetic forms. Ancient yet immediate, an ally for celebrations, a therapy for sorrow, a vehicle to voice dissent, a lullaby to fall asleep to.

How has your community been affected by climate change? What might the future have in store for your region, according to the modeling or changes you’ve witnessed firsthand?

Though we live in a selfie culture, we seem to have become correspondingly less self-aware. What can we do to pause, and to reflect? What might help us in the process of regarding others as full human beings, even when we may disagree with them? Why do we hate hypocrites so much?

We publish quality poetry of any genre and length congruent with our themes, including traditional poems, form poems, prose poems, and narrative poems. 

This quarterly literary journal inspires fresh ideas from writers around the world in all stages of their writing career.

We're putting together a love letter to pop, fun, and youth, and taking these things seriously. Camp and kitsch are invited.

In our fifth issue, Cascade, we invite you to share your stories, feelings, wishes, fears, and maybe even a hint of your soul with others.

We seek personal, lyrical, critical, and experimental work in under 650 words.

Issue V will focus on resilience in the face of war or its aftermath. 

Have fun! Be playful and most importantly, submit well thought out multilayered work that speaks to your deepest libidinal human drive in Jungian terms, the desire to express oneself beyond the pale!

Surprise us with the creativity borne of corporate mundanity; subvert ​the institutions and hierarchies we take for granted.

All THREE elements must be included for work to be considered

Time and time again we hear folks who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy say how alone they felt, or unmoored and untethered because our healthcare system is not set up to serve people who have lost a pregnancy. And our society doesn't want to talk about it. So those going through it have to do so in silence. We want to help bridge the silence just a little bit, to give voice to those who have experienced it and comfort to those who are going through it.

We seek to present poetry, essays, and short stories that are compelling and in someway represent an aspect of the super present.

If there’s something you’re passionate about, try it out on us. Write an essay. A critique. A poem. A fanciful vision of whatever far off world it is that you daydream about.