{"id":6274,"date":"2024-12-09T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=6274"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:01:58","slug":"pfn-bellevue-literary-review-blr-animalia-seeking-submissions-on-what-animals-can-teach-us-about-being-human","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-bellevue-literary-review-blr-animalia-seeking-submissions-on-what-animals-can-teach-us-about-being-human\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN – Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) Seeking Submissions on: Animalia: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bellevue Literary Review<\/em>\u00a0seeks high-caliber, unpublished work, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. We encourage you to read\u00a0BLR<\/em>\u00a0before you submit.<\/h6>\n
Animalia: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human<\/b><\/h6>\n
BLR is seeking creative writing about the ways in which animals figure into our lives and the w Seeking Submissions onay they live theirs. Whether companion or wild, predator or prey, animals\u2019 experiences of health can shine a light on our own. <\/em>BLR\u00a0invites submissions that explore how health and healing both transcend and interconnect species, and what this can teach us about being human.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
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Fiction\/nonfiction word max is 5,000 words<\/b>\u00a0(though most of our published prose is in the range of 2,000-4,000 words).<\/h6>\n
Fiction<\/b>: We seek character-driven fiction with original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, horror). We have only occasionally published flash fiction. While we are always interested in creative explorations in style, we do lean toward classic short stories.<\/h6>\n
Nonfiction<\/b>: We are looking for essays that reach beyond the standard \u2018illness narrative\u2019 to develop a topic in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate engaging and creative analysis that allows anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. (Please, no academic discourses or works with footnotes. )<\/h6>\n
Poetry<\/b>: We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos.\u00a0Please submit no more than three poems.<\/b>\u00a0Each poem should be on a separate page within a single document.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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