Deadlines: December & January 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
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Science
“the child, saying goodbye to his dying / grandfather, asks, but couldn’t there be a miracle?”
Bug-out Bag
“We left behind the hatchet / and maps and brought instead bread, wine, cheese, and the strange joy / of no hope.”
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Driving
“When night falls / only the mute eyes of roadside deer / keep you alert.”
Teleology
By Selena Spier
“So alive in the / gathering dusk, I thought I could walk over the bones of the dead / and resurrect them.”
Untitled (Monkey Mask)
“The floor is night vision green / and the walls are green / and the greeness spans all we can see.”
Perfect Perfect Saturday
By Alli Tervo
“Their whiskers intersect / like neighborly clotheslines / One lifetime / greeting the next”
I tell Mary Magdalene an emotionally unavailable 33 year old man can’t save her but I can
“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”