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We seek to present poetry, essays, and short stories that are compelling and in someway represent an aspect of the super present.
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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
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Send us your flesh, your shearing, your camouflage and your chase, your drive and your defeat and your hunger.
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Send us your best poems, short stories, and essays about the fae as seen from a Pagan/polytheistic, witchy, and mythological point of view. |
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What is home to you? Each of us encompasses a unique definition. Whether it’s the refuge of a childhood room, an emotional attachment to a physical item, or a memory; home is anything we cherish in our hearts. |
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Taken on its own, “gibbous” represents a concept still in the works, under construction, nearly-there. Perhaps this is what it means to live in a gibbous phase of the decade: something swollen, marked by tension and possibility.
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We’re asking about the risks you’ve taken, the risks you’ve avoided, and the risks you can’t avoid. |
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For this issue, we'd like you to send us work that reflects on the idea of mending as a slow process of repair. To us, mending feels physical, intentional, and patient; what does mending feel like to you? |
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Send us your strangest, sexiest, thirstiest, poems that, broadly speaking, fit with or interrogate the theme of queer pastoral.
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Submit a poem/flash prose of 30 lines/200 words (or less) responding to one of our four prompts.
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Send us your beautiful wreckage, your quiet detonations, your elaborate ruses, and your betrayals of self. We’ll be listening for the sound of gears grinding, the machinery silenced. |
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Taken on its own, “gibbous” represents a concept still in the works, under construction, nearly-there. Perhaps this is what it means to live in a gibbous phase of the decade: something swollen, marked by tension and possibility.
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How can slowness, reciprocity, and rest operate as radical acts of survival?
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We invite pieces that capture the spirit of Aurora: radiant, reflective, and full of gentle transformation. |
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Although the essay holds the central role at DPA, we are open to other genres, including experimental, poetry and flash non-fiction, as long as there is a first-person point of view.
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What influences exist in your life? What or who has made you who you are? Who have you influenced? |
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In an age of fractured focus, how do we attend—to each other, to the world, to the overlooked?
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Send us work that navigates this dystopia, this manipulation; these reversals. Work that traverses the wastelands of distortion.
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Poems should engage with the craft, joy, or obsession of writing poetry. Work can be meta, self-reflective, or whimsical, highlighting the relationship between poet, poem, and (if applicable) reader. |
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