Call for Short Fiction – Soon Quarterly

The Brooklyn-based journal Soon Quarterly is accepting submissions of short fiction in any style and on any subject for its sixth issue through July 14, 2011.  Stories must be unpublished and must not exceed 3,000 words.  There is no minimum word count, and simultaneous submissions are permitted.  To submit, send up to three separate stories [...]

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The Spirit of Ghostly Fiction

The success of writers of today […] is chiefly explained by their skill in the treatment of the ghostly, and of subjects related to supernatural fear.  But without citing other living writers, let me observe that there is scarcely any really great author in European literature, old or new, who has not distinguished himself in [...]

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In Summer, Nothing Happens

What is the change in summer of which one expects nothing? Nature is not reborn, nor does she perish except in the streaks of a rare elm that has outlived itself. The weather conceals nothing: the months are temperate, even in the hardest rains one may walk without a coat. The gardens flourish, and bear [...]

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Solstice

Each year, on this same date, the summer solstice comes. Consummate light: we plan for it, the day we tell ourselves that time is very long indeed, nearly infinite. And in our reading and writing, preference is given to the celebratory, the ecstatic.    There is in these rituals something apart from wonder: there is [...]

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Time to Submit – Prick of the Spindle

The online quarterly journal Prick of the Spindle and its biannual print edition welcome innovative poetry, fiction (from flash to novella-length), drama, art, articles, short films, and creative and academic nonfiction year-round.  Prick of the Spindle is open to both traditional and experimental modes of writing and seeks to recognize new talent as well as [...]

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Queen of the Underworld

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.                                                    ~ Gail Godwin   Gail Kathleen Godwin is a New York Times bestselling novelist and short [...]

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The Moon

Time wears her not; she doth his chariot guide; Mortality below her orb is placed. – Raleigh   The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray Mounts up the eastern sky, Not doomed to these short nights for aye, But shining steadily.   She does not wane, but my fortune, Which her rays do not bless, My [...]

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Pear Tree

Silver dust, lifted from the earth, higher than my arms reach, you have mounted, O, silver, higher than my arms reach, you front us with great mass;   no flower ever opened so staunch a white leaf, no flower ever parted silver from such rare silver;   O, white pear, your flower-tufts thick on the [...]

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The Matchless Maguire

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective. ~ Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror               “I hate to be obvious,” added the Scarecrow, “but you’d have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren’t too [...]

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New Millennium Writings

New Millennium Writings is accepting submissions for its thirty-second consecutive Awards for Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction between now and midnight on June 17, 2011.  Fiction and nonfiction pieces should not exceed 6,000 words.  Short-short fiction entries should not exceed 1,000 words.  Poetry submissions may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total [...]

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