We want to know what the bassoonist is doing instead of showing up to perform.

This could be anything from first middle school dance to first female president.

We are looking for variety and originality. Tickle us, haunt us, gobsmack us. Choose your words carefully and leave our readers wanting more. And do it in a small space.

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

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.

The focus of our winter 2024 journal will be: THE SELF-PORTRAIT In its grandest sense, a self-portrait may be presented as a painting, a collage, a poem, an essay, a story . . . Who is the you that you know? How do you express it? Call for Writers Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024 Selected […]

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.

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.

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 our next edition we’re looking for creative explorations of the science of Synergy — interactions, collaborations, things that together become more than the sum of their parts.

Minimal departure, brevity, turns of phrase that hold us in pause, we always want Horror submissions for October!

Soil—the, epidermal layer of the body of fertile Mother Earth—is life itself; however, it is also death. We at Penumbra are anxious to gather a body of art and literature, locally sourced and from around the world, that focuses on earthy, dirt-related themes.

This edition heads out in search of home – what it means to us, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self. 

We explore original work which inspires awareness of the human condition.

Send us your genre-defying, liminal, non-human human. Send us your fringe and the shadows-in-the-corner-of-your-eye.

Jimmy Carter saw one. So did Ronald Reagan. Harry Truman never saw one but worried about them and Bill Clinton never saw one but always wanted to. How about you?

We invite you to explore what "In the Lost and Found" means to you, whether it's rediscovering a forgotten song, reclaiming a lost part of yourself, or finding meaning in the unexpected.

We’re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with the transition to adulthood: first love, hormonal angst, Saturday jobs, brushes with the law, experimentation, gaining independence, losing virginity.

We are particularly interested in work that relates to a sense of spiritual life, ecology, and community, but we welcome submissions of all kinds that reflect one's unique stories.

Reflection isn’t limited to one idea or image- it is where art begins. What have your reflections looked like?

If there’s one topic we can simultaneously talk about both too little and too much, it’s money. How do we decide on the best use of our financial resources?

In the spirit of promoting global peace and contemplative artistic expression, Zen Peacemaker’s showcases three haiku a month on this page.

Eye Contact is the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University, published by student staff members and advised by English faculty.

Send us your playful odes to community and interdependence, and essays (or manifestos!) written out of, or into, disabled joy.

We seek work of all genres by writers from the LGBTQIA community. We do not define or gatekeep what it means to be a queer writer: if you think your work belongs here, then it belongs here.

Do you have a character who doesn’t believe in nuance? Have all the colors been arrested and imprisoned? Make up a story, apply your interpretation, and send it in.

Dog Stories We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our dog topic that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic, we do a new dog book approximately every eighteen months so here is another chance for you to share a story or two about […]

In this issue, we delve into the lines that shape and limit the human experience, challenging and redefining them through the lens of prose and verse.