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☛ Seeking unpublished, amazing writing — creative nonfiction, short stories, poetry, and anything flash-length — and art: we'd love to see more photos, paintings, drawings, diagrams, graphic narratives, &c. Artists & photographers may email thumbs or portfolio links if the image submission category is closed.

☛ We are actively prioritizing work by under-represented people: Indigenous, Black, people of color, lgbtqia+, disabled, fat, poor, border-straddling, neurodiverse, and more. If you choose, you may put demographic info in the cover letter field. (We prefer not to read performances of suffering aimed at a middle-class, cis-het, white audience.)

☛ NEW No AI-generated works/LLM-assisted texts, unless both (1) an experimental-literature project, and (2) prominently described as such on the first page.

☛ NEW Those who ‘‘support’’ the nation-state of Israel as it continues to colonize Palestine should go elsewhere.

☛ Our taste is best gauged by reading an issue or at least our archive. This is a journal of safety and danger, in every sense. We want what we have not seen before. 

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