Call for Autumn 2025

Mytho-Anarchism

The Magazine of Mythopoeic Fiction, Poetry & Art

 

Spring 2025 Call for Submissions: MYTHO-ANARCHISM

Submissions open July 1, 2024

Closes September 2024, or when full

Published February 29, 2025

 

We are on Submissions Grinder and Duotrope

Submission Guidelines: 

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.” 

-UK LeGuin, speaks given at National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

 

Short stories: 7.000 word limit. 

Poetry: under 40 lines. 

Use modern standard Shunn manuscript format only. Anything not in this format will be deleted unread. 

Please query for submissions in other media (video, music files, other audio). ritualartsfficial@gmail.com.

We have established reading periods for each issue: May (for Autumn) and September (for Spring). Authors are notified within a few days of when the reading period ends. Note on the publication date: We live in an alternate, mythic, reality, the Spring issue is always published February 29, even if it’s March 1 for everyone else using the Gregorian Calendar. 

The call: 

MYTHO-ANARCHISM

Ursula LeGuin once said of her highly influential 1974 anarchist science fiction novel The Dispossessed, An Ambiguous Utopia, “knowing only that I didn’t want to study war no more, I studied peace … This led me to the nonviolent anarchist writers such as Peter Kropotkin and Paul Goodman. With them I felt a great, immediate affinity.” (“Introduction” from Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One)

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. Subversive tales of a very different social order. Fantasy, from dark to cozy to wonder tales, science fiction hard, “soft”, and space opera, climate fiction, new myths, and reimagining folk and tales from that perilous realm of faery. 

Send us your prose and poetics that make us wonder, think, and leave us with a vision of what is possible. The editors of Roses & Wildflowers pose this challenge to you: send us your anarchist utopian futures, your fantasy worlds where mutual aid networks are what gets the job done, your true pantheons where no one god makes decisions for the rest, your round tables where the knights have never had a king and never will, your economies of reciprocity, your wildest speculative hierarchy-busting narratives, characters, plots, structures, worlds and themes.

How will we move forward from this time we are living in: environmentally, socially, politically, economically, and—as artists—, creatively. What is our place in this “uncharted country” we are heading into as a planet? Or, maybe we won’t survive. It’s clear that what is now accepted as “normal” & “how things are done” will not be sustainable for very much longer.

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We look forward to reading your stories and poetry!

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