NOV 22, 2024 — JAN 10, 2025
Subtle sparks, enduring heat.
We seek work that smolders and burns from within — subversive ideas, lingering doubts, and passions that refuse to fade. Send us the quiet fires beneath the surface, the heat rising in moments of transformation, and the sparks that linger long after the story ends. Slow burns and lasting heat.
Share Your Spark.
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Prose
We’re looking for stories and essays that burn slowly but intensely – glowing with quiet heat and leaving a lasting mark. Fiction, nonfiction, and essays up to 5,000 words. Excerpts from longer work are welcome as long as they can stand on their own.
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Poetry
Send us poems that flicker with hidden heat and simmer with meaning. We seek verse that explores the fires we carry: smoldering passions, unspoken truths, and the glow of transformation. Poetry submissions are limited to one (1) poem of no more than 100 lines.
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Artwork
From abstract to representational, your art should resonate with the enduring power of slow burns and the beauty of lingering flames. All visual media is welcome, provided it can be printed at high resolution. Please, no AI-generated images, pornographic content, or copyrighted material.
Guest Editor — Cecily Stone
Cecily Stone is a mother, writer, computer nerd, and author of These Chasms in the Earth. Her works have appeared in Welcoming The Muse (Twenty Bellows), Poems in Praise of Libraries (World Stage Press), Gypsophila Magazine, Canvas Creative Arts Magazine (Indiana University), and on a set of compost liners distributed by Compost Colorado. Stone shares her stories of motherhood, sacrifice, and rebirth at open mics and on instagram: @cecilystonespeaks. On the weekends, you can usually find her behind the mic, outdoors climbing rocks, or camping with her husband Michael and their large zoo of children and pets.
