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Magazine of Mythopoeia and Fabulism
Accepting Fiction, Poetry & Art
Submission Guidelines and payment information:
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.
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Publication dates:
- Spring: Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 9:01 UTC (The Spring Equinox)
- Autumn: Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 18:20 UTC (The Autumn Equinox)
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:
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 2024
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 open March 5, 2025
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…
Future issues under development:
Spring 2026
After The Eclipse
Solar, lunar, annular, penumbral… anywhere in time and space or the Other Realms of Faery and Dreams.
Submissions open July 2025 for Spring 2026.
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.
- Strange love triangles (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.