{"id":1372,"global_id":"anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=1372","global_id_lineage":["anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar?id=1372"],"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2022-09-30 17:03:36","date_utc":"2022-09-30 21:03:36","modified":"2022-09-30 17:03:36","modified_utc":"2022-09-30 21:03:36","url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-thema-call-for-submissions-so-thats-why\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/1372","title":"PFN &#8211; THEMA Call for Submissions: &#8220;So THAT&#8217;s Why&#8221;","description":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"583\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i>Be sure to Indicate target theme in cover letter or on first page of manuscript.<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><b>Short Stories<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">All types welcome<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u2015<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">both traditional and experimental<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Send to:<\/b>\u00a0Virginia Howard, editor, Box 8747, Metairie, LA 70011-8747<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>Outside the US:<\/i>\u00a0email to Virginia Howard at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thema@cox.net\">thema@cox.net<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"30\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we like: a carefully constructed plot; good character delineation; clever plot twists<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we don&#8217;t like: bedroom\/bathroom profanity.\u00a0 Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s boring! Writers should be more creative than to depend on the same tired and dubious language crutches to express surprise, disdain, shock, bemusement, anger, sadness, and other emotions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Such profanity, used in excess, often serves as a camouflage for a weak plot. If the plot is good, the story can be told much more effectively in nonscatologic language even though a character in the story may be sleazy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Stories of lasting quality rarely need it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Poetry<\/span><\/b>:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small;\">All types of poetic form welcome. Submit\u00a0<i>no more than\u00a0<b>three<\/b>\u00a0poems per theme<\/i>, please.\u00a0<b>If more than three poems are submitted, we will read only the first three poems in the stack.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Send to:\u00a0<\/b>Gail Howard, poetry editor, Box 8747, Metairie, LA 70011-8747<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>Outside the US:<\/i>\u00a0email to Gail Howard at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thema@cox.net\">thema@cox.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we like: poems that are thoughtfully constructed and carefully distilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">What we don&#8217;t like: sexually explicit wording. Subtlety is more creative.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"center\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>THEMA<\/b>\u00a0isn&#8217;t for everyone. 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