{"id":7052,"date":"2025-07-13T17:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=7052"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:48:27","slug":"pfn-the-spoon-knife-anthology-series-now-accepting-submissions-on-the-theme-polarities","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-the-spoon-knife-anthology-series-now-accepting-submissions-on-the-theme-polarities\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN – The Spoon Knife Anthology Series Now Accepting Submissions on the Theme: Polarities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call for Submissions: Spoon Knife 10<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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Autonomous Press is now accepting submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for the 10th volume of\u00a0Spoon Knife<\/em>, our annual genre-bending lit anthology.<\/p>\n

Please read this whole page carefully before submitting; some details have changed this time around!<\/p>\n

Theme<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The theme for\u00a0Spoon Knife 10<\/em>\u00a0will be\u00a0Polarities<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Polarities: pairs of opposite forces or qualities or tendencies. Good and evil. Love and hate. Life and death. Heroism and villainy. Feminine and masculine. Night and day. Vice and virtue. Old and new. Order and chaos. The public persona and the hidden shadow self. The mundane everyday world and that which lies beyond.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

What We\u2019re Looking For<\/strong><\/h1>\n

One of the things that\u2019s always set\u00a0Spoon Knife<\/em>\u00a0apart from other anthology series is the wild diversity of genres represented in each volume. Each volume has its own theme, and we aim to show how that theme can be woven into stories across multiple disparate genres.<\/p>\n

In a given volume of\u00a0Spoon Knife<\/em>, you might find the theme explored in tales of magical realism, science fiction, absurdist satire, swords-and-sorcery, historical romance, and horror, not to mention creative nonfiction and poetry. We especially love stories that defy established genre categories or creatively blend genres.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, our criteria for assessing a submission boil down to this: is it a good, engaging, and well-written story that plays with the volume\u2019s theme in an interesting way?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with\u00a0Spoon Knife<\/em>, please have a look at our most recent volume (that would be volume 8 at the moment, since 9 is still in press) to get a sense of what we\u2019re after.<\/p>\n

What We\u2019re Not Looking For<\/strong><\/h1>\n

We don\u2019t accept simultaneous submissions, or work that\u2019s already been published elsewhere.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t accept fanfic; any fictional characters or settings featured in your work must be your own original creations.<\/p>\n

Though we love well-written tales of social satire, we don\u2019t accept preachy or transparently didactic work that beats the reader over the head with some simplistic political lesson which could have been summed up in a social media post.<\/p>\n

Submission Format<\/strong><\/h1>\n

We only accept submissions in the form of Word documents (either .doc or .docx files).<\/p>\n

All submissions must meet the following formatting criteria in order to be considered for publication:<\/p>\n