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Deadline: March 20th, 2025 Payment: Prose—$25/published piece, Poetry—$10/published piece Theme: Joy! For this period, we would like to see more works focusing on joy, particularly POC and/or queer joy. This is also an act of protest. If submitting a work on this theme, please be a part of the community you are representing. Theme for this submission period—Joy! For this period, we would like to see more works focusing on joy, particularly POC and/or queer joy. This is also an act of protest. If submitting a work on this theme, please be a part of the community you are representing. (Unfortunately, at this time, we are unable to hire guest sensitivity editors. We will still be accepting other works of resistance.) We are looking for works of protest that challenge our current status quo. This can be fictional prose of any genre, poetry, or nonfiction essays. To be clear, the ideology of the work should oppose right-wing ideology, Nazism, Authoritarianism, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, etc. or uplift voices of dissent or marginalized voices. Our current pay rates are as follows: Prose—$25/published piece Poetry—$10/published piece Prose Fiction No gratuitous sex/violence. Any genre (including horror). 1,500–15,000 words One manuscript is one submission. Please format manuscripts with 12–18pt font, preferably Times New Roman, New Courier, or Garamond. Otherwise, please use a standard manuscript format (Examples at shunn.net/format/story/.) Please submit in .doc or .docx formats (Word) or in .odt format (LibreOffice.) Essay Same as with fiction, but if you need to cite any sources, we prefer submissions to use author-date citations with a bibliography at the end. Please see https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html We pay $25/accepted prose piece. Poetry Please limit poetry to a maximum of five poems in a single submission. We pay $10/accepted poem. Please submit in .doc, .docx, .odt (LibreOffice), or .pdf formats. Other Guidelines: Please include a...