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We encourage you to imagine as widely as possible, and to write with honesty and abandon. What does ‘liberation’ mean to you? What does it look like? How do we know when we have it? Are we ever truly free?

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?

Games can be board games, cards, puzzles, sports, quizzes, lawn games, role-playing games, etc.

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.

Up to three previously unpublished poems may be submitted, but they must be LGBTQ+ themed.

We are seeking prose and poetry that captures the warmth and nostalgia of fields bathed in amber light, as well as the longing, transience, and beauty that lie beneath their glow.

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.

We want looong poetry. We want to feel the weight and weave of your words. Spin a yarn for us!

Say it loud, say it raw. Celebrate, condemn, twist it inside out. Go wild, go sexy, go off the rails.

We invite narratives that illuminate what we choose (or are forced to) to carry forward, from the weight of inherited kitchen tools to the muscle memory of craft, from arrangements of space to patterns of gathering. We’re interested in stories that reveal how these carried things remain vital through our lives.

Tragic-romantic is a dichotomy that often exists in baby queer relationships. I want to see people's spin on tragedy or romance.

Libretto Magazine invites writers to explore stories of secrecy, silence, and the unspoken. It can encompass whispered confessions, hidden histories, suppressed voices, or the quiet power of untold truths.

For our May issue, Boudin is looking for poetry, CNF, and fiction about displacement with a focus on immigration. We're particularly interested in the visceral emotions that come with the rediscovery, recollection, or loss of home.

Imagining, dreaming, and remembering by their very nature resist censor. Are they acts of resistance then? Then writing in their language must be too. 
When we mine your dreams tomorrow what would we find? 

Sevdah is a genre of Turkish and Bosnian folk music evoking sorrowful love and ecstatic, amorous yearning—from the Arabic “sawda,” meaning “black bile,” or a melancholy state of longing. In Issue II of our second opus, desire is holy and heavy as the still before the train comes. Moor us in the unquenchable. We want a begging to believe in.

Voices Unbound is a space for poems that explore the myriad facets of life, love, loss, identity, resilience, and the world around us. We welcome poems that challenge, inspire, and resonate.

From the Knights Templar to Japan’s “herbivore men”, the bachelor is often a complex figure caught in the shifting tides of gender norms, cultural flux, and sociohistorical change. We invite writers to explore the multifaceted lives of unmarried men across the spectrum of identity—straight, queer, cis, trans, and beyond.

Icebreakers wants your almost, maybes. Your brushes with the other worldly. Your longings. Send us your work that explores your interpretation of "close encounters" (Aliens in no way required. Though of course we still love them).

Gypsophila complements any flower placed beside it in a bouquet or flowerbed. This magazine combines art and literature, visual and verbal art coming together to create something beautiful. Just like how baby’s breath (gypsophila) can grow in tandem with almost any other flower.

June is Pride Month, and we want to share the beautiful (and often tought) moments of coming out. Don’t be afraid to share the rawness of it all, the hurt as well as the beauty. 

We're looking for essays that delineate both how feminists may experience, theorize, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may, alternatively, thwart the development of feminist futures.

Write about your experience navigating the world as a bi+ person and trying to find your own community, whether that be a friend group, chosen family, knitting circle, or so on.

This call is for writers born and/or residing in Canada and Canadians living abroad. 

Queer characters (and queer people, for that matter) put up with enough bullshit from homophobes and transphobes, and this month we want noir tales where they turn the tables on the haters in fabulous and brutal ways.

We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers.