Call Me [Nostalgic]
Remember that one thing from that one time? That one diner on the corner that looks just like it did back in the 1950s? That one stuffed animal you can’t bear to abandon? Our theme is Call Me [Nostalgic] and we invite you to reminisce on these memories and feelings from your youth. We want yearning and regret and memories. We want hope and heart and memories from home. Tell us about your childhood touch points: your plastic princess shoes, your favorite drive-in stories, your craziest pay-phone call. Give us your glory days. Whether bittersweet or sentimental, firsts or lasts, from cardboard time capsules buried in your parents’ backyard to cedar chests at the foot of your grandparents’ bed, we want it all.
Simultaneous submissions: Perfectly fine—all we ask is that you notify us if it’s picked up elsewhere.
Payment: We would love to pay our fantastic, wonderful, fabulous, etc., [insert your adjectives of choice here] authors and artists, but we subsist entirely off of stolen mints from restaurants and our own creative endeavors to bring your work to the page.
Rights: We ask for first North American serial rights. Meaning, we would like to be the first to publish your accepted work and we would like to keep your work available in our website archives for as long as Call Me [Brackets] and/or the internet exists. If your work is reprinted at a later date: 1) congratulations! 2) please mention us as the outfit that published your work first.
Submit Prose: here
Submit Poetry: here
Submit Visual Art: here
*Submissions are accepted from January 15th-April 1st, and August 20th-November 1st