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R-E-S-P-E-C-T What Does It Really Mean to Me?

A project of Wising Up Press (see other related projects).

Permanently Closed: This project is permanently closed to submissions. We provide the following information as an archive.

About

We invite well-written and thoughtful explorations through memoir, essay, fiction and poetry about the dynamics and impact of R-E-S-P-E-C-T in our lives. What is respect exactly? We can all feel when it is lacking—and we respond viscerally, often in ways that aren't pretty. Its absence makes us feel powerless, demeaned—and vengeful. No one is immune and we use that dysphoria as justification for all manner of cruelties, disparagements, and dismissals on our own part. Any election year demonstrates that dramatically, with consequences that don't disappear with the election results. Respect may be hard to describe, but it is crucial to positive human relationships at all ages, across all social divides. It isn't the same as fear or obsequiousness or dependency or honor or admiration or love or kindness or sympathy or friendship or basic trust. Are we as well attuned to its presence as we are to our own fear of its absence? Even more importantly, are we as adept at giving it to others as we are at demanding it for ourselves? Is it something you can decide to give or receive, or is it something far more instinctual, impervious to conscious intentions? If so, what body and emotional states, what forms of social relations and social structures, encourage it? We invite writers of all ages and cultures to help us explore this theme.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Medium & Frequency

Print Publication Print Publication
One-time publication

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: All ages, Young adults.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 5,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Multiple entries: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: All ages, Young adults.

Lengths:

Narrative Nonfiction: Up to 5,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Personal.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Multiple entries: Unknown.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Poetry Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: All ages, Young adults.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; Up to 5 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Multiple entries: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: All ages, Young adults.

Lengths:

Artwork: Unknown number of pieces.

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Multiple entries: Unknown.
Media: Image.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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