YRLR Issue 21
Call for Submissions
Call for Submissions
In Issue 21, we are exploring what haunts us. We are inspired by the poet Emily Dickinson:
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.”
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.”
Ideas we would love to see explored include:
We accept fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry of all flavors, from free verse to found. We are also interested in submissions that include raven artwork.
Submissions will be accepted until December 15th, 2024. Please see our submission guidelines for further details.
- If you were a ghost, where would you linger or wander? Who would you haunt? Why?
- How do the five senses—taste, sight, touch, hearing and smell—haunt you with both wondrous and eerie memories?
- If you dare, share the hopes that haunt your innermost dreams—and how they are bound to your fears and regrets.
- Nature is a mixture of paradoxical fragility and fierce might—how has it haunted your heart?
- If you could choose a ghost to haunt you, who would it be and why? What would you ask them if you could?
- How do humans haunt the Earth in living flesh?
We accept fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry of all flavors, from free verse to found. We are also interested in submissions that include raven artwork.
Submissions will be accepted until December 15th, 2024. Please see our submission guidelines for further details.