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Closes on Friday, January 15, 2027 11:59 PM EST (in 64 days).

Empowerment isn't always loud. Sometimes, it's choosing yourself when the world asks you to shrink. It's finding your voice after years of silence, setting boundaries without apology, or discovering the strength to become someone you were once afraid to be.

For this issue, we invite you to explore the many dimensions of EMPOWER. Consider the power found in vulnerability, resistance, self-discovery, transformation, and letting go. Explore what it means to reclaim your identity, challenge expectations, take up space, or find strength in unexpected places.

We welcome work that challenges, celebrates, questions, and reimagines what it means to be powerful.

Tell us what it means to claim your power.

** Important Information **

Please submit only PDF documents. We do not accept Word documents.

There are word counts for flash fiction/nonfiction: 300-600 per piece, up to 2 pieces. Short story pieces are 1000 words.

Email withdrawals might get missed - please withdraw via Duosuma.

Thank you!

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LIGHTS OUT

Cosmic Daffodil Journal's fourth publication will be centered around the horror genre. There are three different categories to submit to. Please mention the category name with your submission.

AN ODE TO POE: Psychological horror. Gothic, gruesome, gritty, gore. Losing control of one’s mind. Madness. Violence. What is scarier: a monster or the mind?

APOCALYPTIC: Eco-horror. A world on fire. Polluted air and water. Human survival hanging on by a thread. Can it be saved, or is it too late?

GHOULS & GALORE: Fantasy horror. Witches brewing potions, malevolent specters lurking in the shadows, what once was dead is now alive.

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Nature as a whole; deer grazing on grass in a forest, the stars on a clear night, children playing in an ocean inlet, birds chirping in tree canopies, a babbling brook by a cottage in the mountains. What is nature to you?

Natura defined as:

1. the whole system of the existence, arrangement, forces, and events of all physical life that are not controlled by humankind

2. all natural phenomena and plant and animal life, as distinct from human beings and their creations

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