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Magazine of Mythopoeia and Fabulism
Accepting Fiction, Poetry & Art
Submission Guidelines and payment information:
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Payment is Fiction: $20 per story 7,500 words hard limit. Poetry: $10 per poem, 40 line limit. We do not accept flash fiction or reprints at this time.
Publication dates:
- Autumn: Monday, Sep 22, 2025, 18:20 UTC
- Spring: Saturday, February 28, 2026, 9:01 UTC
The tilt of the Earth’s axis is the reason for the season!
The times listed are the hours the sun crosses the equator. While we are located in the Northern Hemisphere, we are both mindful of our friends in the Southern Hemisphere and welcome your submissions!
Audio Submissions:
AUDIO SUBMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED
Roses & Wildflowers accepts well-produced audio submissions. We will feature one audio submission in each issue. Primary criteria: mythopoetics and speculative fiction in all of its forms. Please read the individual calls before sending your query.
https://societyforritualarts.com/rw/2024-spring/audio-submissions
For nonfiction essays, editorials, and reviews, go to our sister publication, Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre. Guidelines are here:
… and tell us the story …
Submissions open June 2025
The band takes the stage at the No Name Bar at the Crossroads between Worlds and Time.
Autumn 2025: Mytho-Anarchism
Published September 2025 (On the Autumn Equinox)
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS ISSUE.
An issue dedicated to hope. Solar-punk, hope-punk, envisioning a better future. Fantasy that explores hope and grace.
In the fifty years since The Dispossessed was published, the role of anarchism in speculative fiction worldbuilding has remained minimal and challenging, with popular science fiction and fantasy franchises still dominated by social structures of empire, monarchy, capitalism and military/pseudo-military industrial complexes. Following in the footsteps of Le Guin, Roses and Wildflowers is continuing our exploration of environmental and the accompanying societal and cultural changes upon us as a species, is seeking short speculative fiction and poetry exploring economies of reciprocity and non-hierarchical alternatives. More…
Spring 2026 After the Eclipse
Solar, lunar, annular, penumbral… anywhere in time and space or the Other Realms of Faery and Dreams.
The moment has passed when the moon, covered by shadow, turns red or darkness enveloped the sun revealing the cosmos beyond. The planetary shadow is gone and the orb is revealed once again. The day resumes and the people look once again upon the world. They pack up their belongings and slowly, the chatter of conversations are taken up where they left off.
Tomorrow the ordinary day after the eclipse begins.
Or does it?
Read more about the call here.
Submissions open June 21, 2025 and close August 30, 2025 for Spring 2026 for all writers. For writers in warzones and climate disaster areas, submissions are open as of May 2025.
Autumn 2026 Le Chat Noir Alternative Histories… With Cats
Carefully placed cats. Any historical event, add a cat. How does it change the world?
Submissions open March 1, 2026. Closes June 2026, or when full. Published Autumn Equinox, 2026.
In history, be it in the wild or content in our houses, Panthera or Felinae, Felis catus or the ancestor of the tabby on your couch, Proailurus, cats have had a unique place. Loved, adored, worshiped, cherished and hated, feared and persecuted in equal measure we dedicate this issue to The Cat.
Premise: In an alternate world, Le Chat Noir at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart, is presided over by Madame La Chatte and Les Hydropathes, who eschew water for wine and advocate their sociopolitical and aesthetic agendas.
Under Development for Future Issues …
- Holidays. Any. All. Real and imagined. Any and all species.
- “The King in Yellow (Tarot)” Choose a card. Write the story. “Ah,” she said, “to come is easy and takes hours; to go is different—and may take centuries.”
— Robert W. Chambers (The King in Yellow)
- In the Forest.
—“No way was clear, no light unbroken, in the forest. Into wind, water, sunlight, starlight, there always entered leaf and branch, bole and root, the shadowy, the complex.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest
“The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“You’re so nice. You’re not good, you’re not bad, You’re just nice. I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right. I’m the witch. You’re the world.”
― Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods
- Strange love triangles or quadrangles. A question of romance. Any species:
Interstellar. Interdimensional. Beyond faery. Beyond the grave.
“Here is my heart, I give it to you
Take me with you across this land
These are my dreams, so simple, so few
Dreams we hold in the palm of our hands” (L. McKennitt, “Never-Ending Road. Amhrán Duit”)
- Winter Tales. By the fireside and in the shadows beyond: the welcoming cup, the hearth, the snow covered path, ice painting the windows, the shadows beyond the fireside, the long darkness of winter’s deep.
- Naming the Wind. What tales does the wind bring as it tosses waves and sends the leaves flying in the gale? What’s in a name? When the soft breezes of summer and the howl of the gale speak their tales.