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rainy weather days: a defiant literary magazine: Volume 4 | Volume 5 (Gold Star Program) Gold Star Free Tip Jar Option

Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2025 11:59 PM CDT (in 42 days).

Rainy Weather Days is looking for works of protest that challenge our current status quo. This can be fictional prose of any genre, poetry, or nonfiction essays. To be clear, the ideology of the work should oppose right-wing ideology, Nazism, Authoritarianism, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, etc. or uplift voices of dissent or marginalized voices.

Theme for this submission period—Joy! For this period, we would like to see more works focusing on joy, particularly POC and/or queer joy. This is also an act of protest. If submitting a work on this theme, please be a part of the community you are representing in your work. (Unfortunately, at this time, we are unable to hire guest sensitivity editors. We will still be accepting other works of resistance that are not on this theme!)

Our current pay rates are as follows:

  • Prose—$25/published piece
  • Poetry—$10/published piece

We will start accepting submissions for Volumes 4 and 5 on February 1, 2025.

Please include a cover letter! Please describe the overall meaning of the piece in your cover letter. Please also include a bio!

Prose:

Poetry:

  • limit to 5 poems in a single submission, each on a separate page
  • .doc, .docx preferred, .odt or .pdf otherwise

Categories: Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry
File types: .doc, .docx, .odt, .pdf, .rtf
Number of Pieces: 1 piece
Single File: Not required; may include a separate file/link for each piece.
Anonymous submissions are not required.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Reprints are not allowed.
Multiple entries are allowed.
AI-assisted works are not allowed.

Quota: A quota has been set for this project. Submissions will close when it has been reached.

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