Events

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

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!

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

Stuck in the past? We want to hear about it. For our 11th issue we are looking for submissions on period pieces. From ancient times (Last Temptation of Christ) to recent past (Uncut Gems) we want to hear your take on how films have represented, invented, or misunderstood a previous era.

When women occupy positions of (especially political) power, does the world become more peaceful?

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

From ancestral connections to mystical transformations, dystopian futures to supernatural encounters immerse yourself in imaginative storytelling.

MEOW!  You must submit previously unpublished poetry for our upcoming whisker factory print issue. 

Music has always been a source of inspiration, healing, and joy. It’s a force that transcends boundaries and speaks to our souls. Whether it’s the soothing melodies of a lullaby, the powerful harmonies of a gospel choir, or the beats that make us dance, music is intertwined with our personal narratives.

While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Flower’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.

We're hoping you set sail on your personal Pequod to hunt for the perfect poem, story, or essay that you would then share with us.

This month, we want stories about legends, real or imagined, the crimes that inspired them, and the way those legends affect those living in their shadows.

The Twin Bill is a literary baseball journal. The more surprising connection to baseball through writing, the better.

Duality is the ability to be complex. There’s multiples ways of viewing and showing up in the world. Duality allows us freedom to explore beyond the surface.

There are no specific themes for this collection beyond our general desire for work dealing with nature and the natural world, although we would be particularly interested in any poems that take the historical use of kennings into account.

We want to read your best, weird and wild! This month, the theme is "FALL". Interpret that however you wish!

We’re looking for an engagement with emotional extremes or environmental collapse or feelings of bodily entrapment; work that is desperate, unhinged, hallucinatory, hormonal.

✥ COCOON ✥ to retreat and find sanctuary, unveiling the essence of comfort and familial warmth before emerging refreshed.

Surprise and amaze us with your work about journeys and voyages through places, spaces and time.

Whatever your experience of love, it is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Submit your short fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry exploring love as it resonates with you in any of its many forms.

Our tastes are eclectic and magpie-like and we aim to publish something new every day.

For much of recorded history, the kitchen has been the center—the heart—of the home. Food can bring people together or tear them apart. Important conversations happen around the kitchen table, kids learn self-sufficiency, and traditions begin in this space.

How do we balance out spiritual optimism vs. spiritual pessimism? How do Friends in the 2020s look at the future?

Faʻafafine (translated: “in the manner of a woman”) are natal males who align with a third gender or gender role in Samoa. Gender serves as the naturalized pathway to normalcy, a position of dominance, or a source of existential angst and never-ending struggles for recognition – depending on where in the myriad, multi-layered hierarchies we find ourselves.       

We are looking for gothic poems ranging from the horrifying to the hilarious, from the uncanny to the atmospheric. We are also interested in other poems appropriate to the season and its holidays: autumn, Hallowtide, Dia De Los Meurtos.

Submissions must explore new or expanded angles to the character of Achilles: have him follow alternative paths, present different viewpoints, give deeper background, or perhaps pursue story lines that are hinted at in the original tales and poetry.

The perfect cuppa joe. The nectar of the gods. The safety liquid you hand your partner in the morning. We love the stuff, and can’t get enough.

Love, fight, fear, hunt, tame or release it into the wild – Animal is the prompt for Issue 7. Please, no cruelty to animals…and, come to think of it, no wolves.

We're open to reading the slyly speculative, the strange, the uncanny, and the weird.

Can we ever really go back home? Where do we belong?

Just as self implies other, the seen implicates the unseen. Like othering, not seeing is also a choice.

Sing us a song. Cry if you want to. Make it happy or sad, funny or bittersweet. Blow out your candles and, just this once, tell us what you wished for.

Pack up your suitcases, we’re going on vacation! Tell us your travel stories, whether across the ocean or in your own city. A woman out in the world is still something revolutionary.

Take a moment. Think about your most precious memories, those nostalgic mental Polaroids you carry in your heart for when you need them. I’d wager that a lot of those memories feature laughter.

We're hoping you find a pattern for the perfect poem, story, or essay that you will then share with us.

Spirit: soul, essence. Breath, life. Liveliness, with a shadow of afterlife, of death, of the close unknown.

It’s election season, so this month we want to see stories about the government, its power, and how it can put its thumb on the scale.

In this issue, we want to highlight fiction and poetry inspired by Halloween. Send us your work about monsters, talking pumpkins, becoming best friends with a sleep paralysis demon, your childhood nightmares, or whatever your tell-tale heart desires.