{"id":6561,"date":"2025-03-06T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=6561"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:22:16","slug":"pfn-call-for-submissions-to-gulf-stream-magazine-theme-last-words","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-call-for-submissions-to-gulf-stream-magazine-theme-last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN – Call for Submissions to Gulf Stream Magazine. Theme: Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, we wanted to bookend our Fall issue with the Spring issue. And so, after\u00a0Issue 35: First Words<\/em>, comes\u00a0Issue 36: Last Words<\/em><\/strong>. We want you to send us your writing that has all the charge and desperation and absolute importance of the last words you\u2019ll ever write. We want the last words between lovers, the utterances that eek out of the cracks of a broken heart or perhaps the lines that break the heart of another. We want the last words before everything went sideways, before everything ended and perhaps began anew in that ending. What are the words you would share with us if they were the only things we\u2019d remember you by? How do your characters want to be remembered? What is the secret you need us to know before you go or the truth that comes out, that slips, that last thing you wish we\u2019d ever hear but can\u2019t take back anymore now that it\u2019s out? If you had one last thing to give us, one last thing to say, one last thing part of yourself that needed a voice before the silence, what would it be? We want that.<\/p>\n

More important than any theme, we welcome all submissions as long as they\u2019re honest and authentic \u2013 what we want most of all is your best work. Work must be original, created without the use of AI, and previously unpublished (with the exception of translations \u2013 see genre guidelines).<\/p>\n

We acknowledge that literary spaces traditionally have centered the white, heterosexual, cisgender male experience at the expense of other voices. We want to break from that tradition and\u00a0are therefore especially interested in reading work from those who are often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); all women, including but not limited to, trans and cis women; LGBTQIA+ people;\u00a0agender, gender non-conforming, and nonbinary people; people with disabilities; and people who live at the intersections of identities.<\/p>\n

Limits<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fiction: 5,000 words (or 3 pieces of up to 1,000 words)<\/p>\n

Creative Nonfiction: 5,000 words<\/p>\n

Poetry: 3 poems per submission<\/p>\n

Hybrid: 5,000 words (may include up to 5 images, B&W only)<\/p>\n

Translations: 3 poems or 5,000 words of prose (must include original piece)<\/p>\n

Book Reviews: 500-750 words (books must have been published within the past year)<\/p>\n

How to submit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please submit your work through submittable.<\/p>\n

No submissions through email or mail unless you have an invite to do so from the editors. (For example, prisoners may request to do this.)<\/p>\n

Include a bio of up to fifty words along with your cover letter.<\/p>\n

We do our very best to respond within 6 months, but due to the volume of submissions, it can sometimes take longer.<\/p>\n

Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n

-Reading fee of $3. (For a fee waiver, reach out to the editors).<\/p>\n

-International submissions are welcomed, but English only this year.<\/p>\n

-Multiple submissions are welcome at $3 per submission, but please, no more than one submission\u00a0per<\/em>\u00a0genre at a time.<\/p>\n

-Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you notify us if it\u2019s accepted elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you had one last thing to give us, one last thing to say, one last thing part of yourself that needed a voice before the silence, what would it be? We want that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2],"class_list":["post-6561","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-call-for-submission","cat_call-for-submission"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6561\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}