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NonBinary Review, our award-winning themed lit journal is published quarterly. Each issue revolves around a specific theme, but we're asking contributors to go beyond the old familiar media tropes. 

 We're looking for work we can read with our whole body - work that gives us goosebumps, makes us see the world differently, has the tang of authenticity, makes us sit up and listen, and smells like....something. This analogy got out of hand. What we're saying is that we're not looking for re-hashes of images or stories we've read before. We want contributors to explore every facet of our themes, really getting in between the cracks, in the corners, all the forgotten places that no one ever thinks to explore. We want to read work that makes us think "I never would have thought of this, and yet, it's so fitting!" 

What we're NOT looking for is work that centers violence, rape, misogyny, racism, ableism, or degrading stereotypes of any kind. We know you're not that kind of writer, but we thought it should be said.

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NonBinary Review

We want your stories, poems, and art about leaving it all behind; the messy, the sweet, the things you swore you would cling to forever. Pack up those dusty memories, fling open the windows, and let the ghosts have one last dance before they vanish into the morning light.
Take us through the nuances of nostalgia. Split open your longing and your closure. Drive us down cracked highways of nostalgia and through dark alleys of forgotten dreams. Show us the bittersweet joy of closing a chapter, the thrill of skydiving into the unknown, the relief of saying, “Thanks for everything, but I am out.”

Saying Goodbye to Yesterday

Send us the deep cuts, the stories that explore how film shapes us, how it rewrites our memories andhow it turns our lives into something a little more cinematic. We want the uncomfortable stuff. The speculative edge where cinema becomes something stranger— prophecy, haunting, technology, myth.
Take us to dark drive-ins, projection rooms at the end of the world and endless marathons on rainy afternoons. Let your work flicker between frames, blur reality and fiction, and leave us wondering if we are still in the theatre long after the credits roll.
We seriously do NOT want movie reviews, fan fiction, scripts, celebrity gossip, or personal essays. No Letterboxd take, "I love this movie because it made me happy" or "Did you know Titanic is fiction?"
Send us your most raw, light that projector. Let it run.

Categories: Fiction/Poetry/Art
Translations: Permitted.
File types: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, .tiff
Number of Pieces: 
1 piece per fiction submission.
Up to 3 pieces per poetry submission.
Up to 5 pieces per art submission.
Separate Files: Each piece must be submitted in a separate file.
Anonymous submissions are not required.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Reprints are allowed. (Provide previous publication information so we may credit the original publisher.)
Multiple entries are not allowed.
AI-assisted works are not allowed.

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Issue # 45. Films - Fiction

Issue # 45. Films - Poetry

Issue # 45. Films - Multimedia

Every single thing, from the universe to the quantum world, is in a state of flux. New to old, alive to dead, light to dark, rocks to sand, trees to paper...Each individual human experiences constant changes, both physical and mental, that affect how we view ourselves and the world around us. Sometimes, change is only apparent from outside, and from exactly the right perspective. The vase that becomes two faces. The laughing man that becomes a crying man when seen upside down. The collection of garbage that becomes two birds flying if you take three steps to the right.
We don't want caterpillar-to-butterfly kinds of metamorphoses. We want caterpillar to Lucille Ball's hairdresser; plasma cloud to extra large pizza with everything; shy, introverted genius to sleek black plastic cube that sits on the kitchen counter, running your life and making barely audible, sarcastic comments. We want the kinds of change that no one could have foreseen, that no one would even have thought possible. 
We aren't looking for "I was an ugly, unpopular loser as a child, but now I'm Miss America" stories, or "I took a thing someone threw away and made something cool out of it" stories. No "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect," or "I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms," since Kafka and Ovid got there before you.
Fiction is limited to 3000 words, and poetry to 50 lines per poem.

Categories: Fiction/Poetry/Art
Translations: Permitted.
File types: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, .tiff
Number of Pieces: 
1 piece per fiction submission.
Up to 3 pieces per poetry submission.
Up to 5 pieces per art submission.
Separate Files: Each piece must be submitted in a separate file.
Anonymous submissions are not required.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Reprints are allowed. (Provide previous publication information so we may credit the original publisher.)
Multiple entries are not allowed.
AI-assisted works are not allowed.

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