Popshot submissions4/5/2023 ![]() My father buys her a white flower from a street corner vendor and they dance together in the street. We walk past the baby house that held their baby me where they swung me on duet arms, smiling. My mother glares at him like he’s a chaperone or maybe has a flask of punch-filling vodka in his pocket. The conductor calls out our stop and we all breathe sighs of relief that we are stopping. The more data we have the more accurate our numbers will be so please be sure to log all of your submissions here and not just your rejections or acceptances. WRITE FOR POPSHOT: SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE WINTER ISSUE Submit work for the next issue between today and Tuesday 31 August. There are lilies on her wrist at prom and lilies in the wedding bouquet, on the not-white brocade dress, on their only daughter’s name. This statistical information is an aggregation of submission data provided by our members. They are forever taped down on yellowed yearbook paper, archived in a velvet dress and pearls and skinny legged, skinny tied suit in that year only. Look they say again and I obediently crane my neck to the window to see the place they kissed by lockers, locked each other down with golden rings and lettered jackets. At lunch, we eat train trip triangle cellophane sandwiches that don’t fit in heart-shaped holes and taste of dust and sawdust and sawed off lifelines. Their words are bare, worn down by years of sitting on sadness and madness and badness and all the ‘nesses messes. They say it in unison, uniformed in dull button up coats with buttoned up lips, trained to still carry a ticket to be ticked off, momentarily ticked off at each other. We look at the map together as they point out landmarks and marked land. To ensure that you never miss a future issue of the print magazine, subscribe from just £24 for 4 issues.I sit on the threadbare Amtrak velvet tracking the city of my parents with their guidance. ![]() Got a question? Drop us a line at us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We are open to original contributions from anyone, anywhere in the world.Īt Popshot towers we have just wrapped up the Water Issue, which will be on sale from 3rd February 2022. Include the issue and form of your work in the subject line (i.e. To see your writing published and illustrated, head to our submit page for the full guidelines. Four issues are published per year showcasing the best emerging fiction writers. You can subscribe to either hard copy or digital editions. To discover more about Popshot, pick up a copy from WHSmiths or another reputable newsagent ( here are a few other ways you can safely find it). We’re very sorry but due to volume we cannot reply to submissions unless they are successful, so if you haven’t heard from us by the end of April 2022 please take it as a pass. Entries over the word count will not be considered. The Joy Issue will be published in May 2022. Submissions for the Summer 2022 issue are open until 9am (UK time) on Tuesday, 1 March 2022. ![]() We welcome all genres and writing styles so long as they follow our guidelines for submission ( for more on which, click here). We are looking for a mixture of humour, social commentary, honesty and thrilling storytelling. Successful submissions must display excellent writing, creative flair and originality. Feel free to take us to the bright, light, heights of happiness or go dark, exploring what happens when joy is sought but unsatisfactory. What happens between the joy? How does the exhilaration of intense happiness frame our other experiences? And can the transient nature of bursts of joyfulness make it impossible to enjoy the lulls between them? We want to know what brings you proper joy, what your definition of joy is, and what you would sacrifice in order to obtain unbridled joy. ![]() Writers might want to consider the importance of the search for joy on the human condition, and what that means when you consider that moments of joy are often just that – moments. Our next theme is ‘Joy’ and we are interested in writing that looks broadly at what it means to experience feelings of great happiness and pleasure. We have just finished putting together the Water issue (thank you to all who submitted, the magazine will thump through letterboxes and appear on newsstands soon), allowing us to open the doors for new submissions. Illustration by Alejandra Peñaloza The next issue of Popshot will be on the theme of… “Joy.” Submit work for the next issue between today and 9am on GMT Tuesday 1 March 2022.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |