Event Horizon
“I lift my dress to reveal an abyss into which the audience begins falling. // I: Holes at the center.”
Deadlines: December 2025 & January 2026
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.
Those Pigeons, Missiles, and Submission
“a cruel writer / a wrathful god watching you run / through a veiled aperture in heaven.”
Catalogues of a Space Telescope around Boy Crushes, in 5 stages of Grief
By Charlie Wei
“There’s something elliptic about the way love dies in this compound: in west / wing, a college girl stacks another freshly killed into her ex’s jewelry box.”
Featured Poetry
We are so grateful to every poet who shares their work with us—please enjoy perusing the stunning work in our poetry archive.
How Can Brown People Write About Birds At a Time Like This
“this / world cuts away my patience at knife point for one / reason—to resurrect my hurricane.”
Florida is a Place on Earth: No Repetition Will Save You
By Siew Hii
“my favorite auntie’s hair is now the color of Orlando’s sky at 15 PM + / what would we do without women’s memories?”
Answer
By Lea Marshall
“Highlighter yellow, dignity / of curled claw, still open eye. Hard lesson of weightlessness // on my palm.”