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Magazine of Mythopoeia and Fabulism
Accepting Fiction, Poetry & Art
Payment is Fiction: $20 per story 7,500 words hard limit. Poetry: $10 per poem, 40 line limit. We do not accept flash fiction at this time.
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Publication dates:
- Spring: February 29 (Even if everyone else is on the Gregorian Calendar and it’s March 1)
- Autumn: September 21 (The Autumn Equinox)
Spring 2025: Anarchy and Harmony
Writers & Poets Challenge
Published February 2025
Submissions open June 2024
The band takes the stage at the No Name Bar at the Crossroads between Worlds and Time.
Choose a song from this playlist and tell us the story
Start your cover letter by telling us what song you chose. Don’t explain or tell us why, but let your story or poem stand on its own once you’ve named your song. More…
Autumn 2025: Mytho-Anarchism
Published September 2025 (On the Autumn Equinox)
Submissions open February 5, 2025
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:
- After The Eclipse Solar, lunar, annular, penumbral… anywhere in time and space or the Other Realms of Faery and Dreams.
- 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.