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The work must be written by a trans/genderqueer person, or at least one of the authors must be trans/genderqueer.

We are dissatisfied with the future being offered to us. For this special issue, CrayfishMag invites poets and storytellers to imagine something better.

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

Don't be afraid to bring us broken, heavy stories. We can handle it.

Volume 9 explores the theme of “revolution,” and is open to racially and ethnically marginalized, gender variant, and disabled creatives only.

All submissions must have a link to science.

2025 is Jane Austen's 250th birthday, & our 9th annual festival of female-led & female authored fiction is here to celebrate it! Send us your fiction inspired by any of Austen's titles, characters, settings or novels, or even by her own life & world.

Take us down memory lane with blazing sunshine, pool parties, arcades, melting ice pops, roller-skates, and young loves found and lost.

While we welcome poems about your own work experiences, we hope you’ll also consider submitting poems about the work of others, including family members, historical figures, or people you’ve observed, interviewed, or researched.

Exploring the emotional, literal, or metaphysical aspects of loss and discovery. It’s not just about objects, but about memories, identities, places, people, time, innocence, hope, even entire worlds.

You may submit more than one entry in one or more categories.

Whether a longing for the sentiments of the past, or a marketing trend that capitalizes on childhood favorites, we often find comfort in yesterday when today presents challenges. But that comfort is often rooted in the pain of longing, the disdain for change, and the fear of moving forward.  How does this powerful force influence your life? 

Most people value peace, so why is the world so full of conflict? Let's use the occasion of writing and enjoying great haibun to present on the topic.

For our very first print issue, we are featuring specifically mini, tiny, micro, and otherwise compressed work. What does art become without the luxuries of extensive prose, flowery language, elaborate constructions of plot? When we strip our work down to its core, what will we find?

For this edition, send us something that makes you reflect and represents your growth.

This issue provides an opportunity to reflect on how health -- mind, body, and spirit -- limit, challenge, define or inspire our ability to feel free.

For some, sexual congruency might come naturally; for others, it might require a long process of unlearning shame, navigating societal pressures, or coming to terms with identity.

For our summer issue, we invite you to consider the particularities of the people and places you know and love. What might it mean for you/us to emulate the “settling down” of Christ?

For this edition, we’re embracing the allure of illusion and taking chances on castles in the sky. We’re interpreting Fata Morgana as something that makes your soul feel like it’s going 200 kph while your body stays still.

For this theme, we want a humanized yet nonhuman narrative: give us your work that blinds us and binds us, turns rivers into veins and thunder into circuitry. Build us a blueprint that cartographs the way to your True North.

Show us the space around obsession: what leads to it? What happens when it fades? Take us to the brink of obsession.

Bring us your new perspective, bring us the tide. Your submission doesn’t need to have ocean imagery.

What polarity lies at the heart of your story? In what ways does it manifest? What happens when the two sides of the polarity come into contact or conflict, or when one transforms into the other?

Something we all have in common: getting older. How are you experiencing the phases of your life?

We want to hear about your school stories. Maybe these are childhood memories or maybe as a parent you have a new perspective on what it means to be a student these days. Or, maybe you are a teacher with some serious stories to share.

We’re interested in the thin line between indulgence and survival. Between love and addiction.
What do you hunger for?

We want writing that speaks to the weight and wonder of living as First Nations people — where past, present and future aren’t separate but walk together.