BWD is an aesthetically soothing zone for literature. We are an eclectic mix. 

BWD is an aesthetically soothing zone for literature. We are an eclectic mix. 

Wacky joyrides into cultish Coen-brother stories, memoirs from the kitchen, mindscapes of a twisted relationship, dreamy poetry, feminine flash-shots, and discussions about social justice. 

So long as the writing stands out and has something to say.



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Big Whoopie Deal

General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Double space all submissions. If you don't we call the police.
Flash: up to 1000 words.
Short Stories: 1000-7000 words.
Prize Terms and Conditions on our website.

Fiction

Poets, knock yourselves out. The floor is yours. How ever many words. How ever you may wish to structure the thing. Just make it good.
General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Prize Terms and Conditions on our website.

Poetry

We're looking for a Manuscript, our first, and second and hopefully on to the Penguin standards: Bog-Stanley reading books for washed pants and emerald cookies. 
But what are we looking for, exactly?
Exactly is hard to say except to say read everything on our website. If you do read everything on our website and you still think that your writing is similar in some way or another and that the net might be wide enough for through-fare of cattle, then send it to us. It sounds boring and it is and it isn't.
Poetry Collections, Chapbooks and The Like, are especially sought after. We have these grand ambitions of making Poetry read by more people.
Nonetheless, some Fiction and Nonfiction ends up reading like poetry- you get these poets that write novels to appeal to a larger audience on the side plate- these are the ones we're talking about and we're interested in these too.
Novels, Novels, Novels, and Novellas by the same token.
Then there's The Surprise Package. The one that we didn't know we'd like but we did for some reason.
You catch the drifting willows.
General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Prize Terms and Conditions on our website.

Manuscripts

General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Prize Terms and Conditions on our website.
1-5000 words.

Nonfiction

100 words.
It's the absolute classic. The nail me to the cheeseboard and rinse out my underpants. We're all throwing tangerines at the shower curtain. How to tell everything in 100 words? It's the number 1 contest, played by all adorned in chicken hide. 
Big Whoopie Deal is awarding 1000 BUCKAZOIDS (what are they, like the OG Bitcoin, created in some Japanese Pixelated Video Game from 1989 as a sort of digital currency, a precursor, a prophecy of sorts?) to the winner of this contest ($1000).
Remember, not 99, not 176. 100 only and maximum allowance.
General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Double space all submissions. If you don't we call the police.

✍️ $1000 Creative Writing Contest: 100 words

People give it The Big I Am. They Talk The Talk. Bark Woof Woof. Diversity and Inclusion is not Just A Trend.
We are open for LGBTQIA+ submissions. This means inclusion. This means writers. All writers. To write about inclusion. Poetry. Nonfiction. Fiction. We want your words, your visual artwork, all the things in relation to LGBTQIA+. No mean feat. We shouldn't have to mention it, right? If it's equality, why do we need to say anything? Why is there a word for this? Let's tackle it head on for now. Some catch-up needs to be played. Some noise. A crushing perhaps. A wake-up, revolution, not evolution?
We want this platform to elevate the problems that humans have produced for themselves. A kick in the teeth no? In which direction this time? Some anger, but how to channel it? We're stuck. We've been stuck for some time.
Words got us into this. They'll get us out of it.
LGBTQIA+. Let's do this now.
General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Don't do a squiggly font.
Double space all submissions. If you're a poet, you can do what you want. We reserve the right to laugh at you though so make sure you know what you're doing.

LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈

General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Don't do a squiggly font.
Double space all submissions. If you're a poet, you can do what you want. We reserve the right to laugh at you though so make sure you know what you're doing.

COVID submissions

It's still an issue. Black Lives Matter and we have to talk about it.
If it doesn't go away, we don't go away. Noise will be made.
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, manuscripts are sought for the theme of Black Lives Matter for Big Whoopie Deal.
General  Submission Guidelines
Multiple submissions: obviously allowed.
Simultaneous: don't care. Don't even notify us. 
Don't do a squiggly font.
Double space all submissions. If you're a poet, you can do what you want. We reserve the right to laugh at you though so make sure you know what you're doing.

Big Whoopie Deal

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