Headlight Anthology Headlight Anthology is an annual, student-run graduate journal published out of Concordia University, Canada. We publish writers from our community and beyond, including grad and undergrad students from Concordia—but anyone can submit! Headlight strongly encourages submissions from BIPOC+ and 2SLGBTQIA+ writers.Headlight accepts unsolicited submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction during our reading periods. Simultaneous submissions are totally fine, and we aim to respond within 4 months. You may submit to more than one genre (but only 1 sub per genre—thank you!). For more guidelines, please see: https://headlightanthology.ca/subs/ Issue 26 - FictionTemp ClosedLimit: 4,000 wordsFiction is like candy floss or steel. It's sweet and addictive in a sickening way or a satisfying one, depending on who you are. You want to wrap it around your fingers and then lick them clean, or chuck it in the waste bin and forget you ever saw it. It's hard and reflective and it makes you think in ways you do not like - if you throw a rock at it, the rock will bounce off. Words can't be dented, you can't crush ideas. All that to say, send us what you want us to see - send us the stories that are unformed in your head and can only live fully once written and then read. We'll publish what we can, reject some of what we wish we did not have to, candy floss, steel, waste bin, rock, take words and tell us stories with them. Make the similes dance with your syntax.Not OpenIssue 26 - PoetryTemp ClosedLimit: 4 poems; 8 pagesA poem is language that displays—through imagery, sound, syntax, form, or lack thereof—its mechanisms, wounds, contradictions, complicities, and ambiguities. A poem renders the unbelievable believable, the believable absurd. A poem has the capacity to astonish us and astonish us again.Not Open