Events

We’re asking you to send us 750 words about something. Anything. Literally anything at all. 

We’re searching for the light and fun stories for those longer warmer days.

We are a digital literary magazine committed to showcasing talent and uplifting creative voices.

We are looking for your funny short stories with the theme ‘fresh starts’ This can be any genre, as long as you have a humour/comedy element and adhere to the theme.

Syncopation wants your poetry and prose that relates to the music of this colourful decade.

THEMA Literary Journal examines how different writers respond to a single quirky theme.

From breaking down the stereotypes of toxic masculinity to embracing emotional vulnerability, this issue highlights the intersection of language, culture, and societal expectations surrounding what is deemed “masculine” and “feminine.” 

How does one qualify the robust wholesomeness of roads? Where does one locate its connections with life itself? How has it historically been depicted in literature and culture? The editorial team is interested in considering submissions that depict various aspects of road/roads.

The theme for Vernal Equinox Vol.1 is Renaissance. We hope our readers and artists delve into the timeless spirit of rebirth, revival, and reinvention; questioning, challenging, and celebrating what it means to them.

A swan song is a farewell, a declaration, a last sounding breath after a long silence. We invite you to share these final acts of resistance, joy, affirmation, confession, celebration, or consumption. How will you make yourself known to your shadow? What needs to be said?

Limited Demographic: Submissions are restricted to women.

By grief we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, climate change. Ambiguous grief, anticipatory grief, collective grief, reflective grief, rituals of grief.

If you had one last thing to give us, one last thing to say, one last thing part of yourself that needed a voice before the silence, what would it be? We want that.

Two things become immediately better as one. We want your prose poems, your cross-genre work, and your all around experimental and unclassifiable writing.

What ideas does the word current evoke for you? Are you thinking about being hip, cool and up on “current” events or are you traveling on an air “current.” Where does the word take you?

Desiderium: an intense longing for something, especially something lost; from the Latin verb, desiderare, “to long for;” the great-grandfather of the word, desire.

We want to see work so raw and full of life that it practically bleeds – work so fresh and unique that it changes the way we read.

The SWANA region is often referred to as “The Middle East.” This terminology is Eurocentric and homogenizes a vast region that consists of people of diverse histories, ethnicities, cultures, religions, and languages. We’re seeking work that deconstructs social categorization - racial, gender, nationalist, religious, and sexual categorizations placed upon those deemed other by imperialism, colonialism, and militarization.

We’re looking for your most ambitious, imaginative writing on any touchpoint within this theme, whether it’s the childhood games you played, the songs you can’t leave behind, the seeds you plant in the daylight, or the secrets you whisper in the dark. 

How do we engage in the present while thinking about the future? What is possible, probable, and/or preferable when we think about our world tomorrow?

We Could Almost Touch It, aims to amplify the voices of women and delve into the state of women since the 2016 presidential election. Work must cover at least one of the themes: women's rights, losses since the 2016 election, and what will turn things around.

Instead of inhaling the refreshing air of Spring, let us take a moment to rebelliously hold our breath, then inhale the sinking feeling in the air. After all, things grow in the dark, too.  

Just as self implies other, the seen implicates the unseen. Much can be seen and understood, but there is an ever-vanishing horizon, and the other, and the unseen, call into this future.

Pieces are selected by a blind jury process, led by an editorial student staff.

The saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and this month, in honor of Mother’s Day, we want your stories focused on Mama Bears backed into a corner. What will they do to protect their cubs? How do they invent a justification for crossing the uncrossable line? And was it all worth it?

We're looking for pieces exploring conversations we have with ourselves but never fully resolve.

All submissions must have a link to science.

This issue will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, "education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy", to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.