PFN – Rough Cut Press Seeking Submissions on Water
PFN – Rough Cut Press Seeking Submissions on Water
We seek personal, lyrical, critical, and experimental work in under 650 words.
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
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!
The idea of expertise, and at least one person who has it (or doesn't?) has to matter to the story.
Give us everything anti-Trump.
We are looking for true stories about how you realized a certain habit or attitude was detrimental to you, what you did to change that, and the difference it made in your life.
Which catastrophic failures will we see in the next 100 years? And how will it affect ordinary citizens of the world?
Karma Comes Before is a literary arts community and magazine showcasing queer, POC and differently abled voices, but open to all writers and artists!
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.
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.
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.
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.
We want to read your best, weird and wild! This month, the theme is "FALL". Interpret that however you wish!
✥ COCOON ✥ to retreat and find sanctuary, unveiling the essence of comfort and familial warmth before emerging refreshed.
We’re looking for an engagement with emotional extremes or environmental collapse or feelings of bodily entrapment; work that is desperate, unhinged, hallucinatory, hormonal.
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.
For this 2024 tribute contest, we will be accepting submissions during National Suicide Prevention Week (Sep. 8th-14th)
30th July is International Friendship Day, so send us stories in any style or genre where friendship of some kind is a key element.
What needs to be composed? How do we compose? What happens when there is no composure? Are there moments we don't need to compose (work, music, ourselves, etc)?
. . . It waits in between the shadows. It watches from just out of sight. The monster. The Other. The creature haunting the peripheries, guarding the boundaries . . .
How do we balance out spiritual optimism vs. spiritual pessimism? How do Friends in the 2020s look at the future?
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.
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.
First Prize in both Flash Fiction and Poetry is €300.
The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish.
Can we ever really go back home? Where do we belong?
Tell us your stories of isolation, being left out, discriminated against. What about a time you did the excluding? Or flip it on its head and share the joy that comes from escaping the exclusion and finding your people. Surprise us (someone always does)!