Call for Submissions: Summer Series — Pride, Heat, Flash 🔥

A Summer Series in three simmering, shimmering movements

This summer, we’re opening the doors to a seasonal series—three Summer Special Editions, each one shaped around a single word. This is an invitation to send us work that shimmers, lingers, glows. Art that refuses to explain itself too quickly.

Tell your friends! We’re calling on writers, artists, poets, and genre-defiers to submit work that speaks to:

🌈 JUNE — PRIDE
Queer joy. Chosen family. Hidden histories. The shimmer of becoming and quiet revolutions. We’re drawn to what pulses beneath the surface of celebration. The stories we tell and the ones we live.

🔥 JULY — HEAT
Swelter, sizzle, burn. We looking for fever-dreamed, sweat-soaked, summer-scorched work that simmers and ignites. Literal heat. Emotional heat. Climate heat. Erotic heat. Longing, pressure, combustion. Bring us the burn.

⚡ AUGUST — FLASH
Micro. Sudden. Sharp. Send us your shortest work—fiction, micro-essays, poetry, fragments, dispatches. We’re talking itty-bitty, under 500 words. We’re listening for the echo.

How it works:

• Submissions open today and close on August 1. To be considered for the PRIDE Issue, please send your work no later than June 10. In your note, please mention the name of the issue the work is intended for (Pride, Heat, Flash).

• Submit up to 3 pieces per theme.

• Previously unpublished work only, please. Simultaneous submissions are fine—just keep us in the loop.

• We welcome emerging and established voices—poetry, short prose (maximum 2K), hybrid forms, visual art, and unclassifiable experiments.

Surprise us. Seduce us. Leave something behind.

Can’t wait to see what you’ve got on the burner.

xoxo

Leigh Hopkins (Editor/Curator),
Lidia, and the Corporeal Squad