WISP

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WISP is a twice-yearly literary-arts publication featuring brief poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction in postcards and mini-chaps.

Response time info: 3 months, sometimes sooner

Read the full guidelines at thepoetryloft.org↗

Submission calls

flashLiteraryHumorCloses Nov 15Pays: Complimentary packet of 5 postcards or mini-chaps and online publication with a link to the writer’s website.

Accepts 3–5 flash-fiction pieces that are surprising, memorable, meaningful, funny, strange, poignant, gripping, and risk-taking; each piece must not exceed 500 words. Submissions run January 1–April 15 for the summer issue and August 1–November 15 for the winter issue.

nonfictionLiteraryHumorCloses Nov 15Pays: Complimentary packet of 5 postcards or mini-chaps and online publication with a link to the writer’s website.

Accepts 3–5 pieces of creative nonfiction that are surprising, memorable, meaningful, funny, strange, poignant, gripping, and risk-taking; each piece must not exceed 500 words. Submissions run January 1–April 15 for the summer issue and August 1–November 15 for the winter issue.

poetryLiteraryHumorCloses Nov 15Pays: Complimentary packet of 5 postcards or mini-chaps and online publication with a link to the writer’s website.

Accepts 3–5 poems in any form, including formal and surreal verse; poems must not exceed 25 lines, including stanza breaks and spaces. Submissions run January 1–April 15 for the summer issue and August 1–November 15 for the winter issue.

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