CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY'S SEPTEMBER 2025 ISSUE
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Submission Deadline: September 25, 2025
Literature Today – an International Literary Journal is inviting submissions for the SEPTEMBER 2025 issue of Literature Today . The theme of our SEPTEMBER 2025 issue is “The Stories We Carry” .
You can send us poems, short stories, memoirs, and one-minute plays that explore this central theme through personal, cultural, historical, or imaginative lenses.
Main Topic: “The Stories We Carry”
We are all vessels of narrative — carrying the weight, wonder, and whisper of stories passed down, lived, or inherited. These stories shape who we are, where we come from, and how we see the world. They can be a source of identity, struggle, healing, or transformation.
For the September 2025 issue, we invite writers to reflect on the stories they carry — whether personal, ancestral, communal, or imagined. What tales do we inherit, preserve, retell, or reject? How do these narratives influence memory, legacy, and belonging?
This theme welcomes work that explores oral traditions, intergenerational wisdom, mythmaking, migration, diaspora, archival silence, or the quiet truths hidden in everyday lives.
Submissions may include reflections on family lore, folklore, forgotten histories, or even the speculative futures built upon past echoes.
Subtopics
1. Inheritance of Words
Exploring family stories, myths, legends, and oral traditions passed down through generations.
Literary works might reflect on folklore, ancestral memory, or stories told around fires, tables, and bedsides.
Examples: Reimagining folktales, documenting oral history, or honoring ancestral voices.
2. Maps of Memory
Focusing on personal or collective memories imprinted through place, language, and experience.
Themes could include nostalgia, childhood recollections, or remembering what time has blurred.
Examples: A letter to your younger self, a journey back home, or rediscovering lost places.
3. Burdens and Blessings
Delving into the dual nature of stories — those that empower and those that haunt.
Literary works might examine inherited trauma, cultural shame, or the resilience found in reclaiming one’s truth.
Examples: Breaking cycles, rewriting narratives, or finding freedom in voice.
4. Journeys of Belonging
Examining migration, displacement, and the stories carried across borders and oceans.
Encouraging narratives about uprooting, adaptation, and the creation of new identities.
Examples: Letters never sent, stories of arrival, or songs remembered from a homeland.
5. The Archive Within
Reflecting on the inner library of stories — those learned, lived, and imagined.
Themes might include the role of literature, art, and media in shaping our internal worlds.
Examples: A poem inspired by a favorite book, a play about a character’s inner monologue, or a memoir about storytelling as survival.
6. Silenced Voices
Amplifying erased or marginalized narratives — from untold histories to suppressed identities.
Highlighting silenced communities, forgotten figures, or suppressed truths waiting to be reclaimed.
Examples: Reclaiming indigenous knowledge, giving voice to the unheard, or writing against censorship.
7. Sacred Narratives
Investigating spiritual, religious, or philosophical stories that shape belief systems and moral compasses.
This subtopic invites literary works rooted in faith, doubt, ritual, or existential inquiry.
Examples: Parables, prayers and traditions.
8. The Art of Retelling
Encouraging reinterpretations of classic myths, fairy tales, or cultural narratives through modern or alternative perspectives.
Examples: Feminist reimaginings, queer retellings, or postcolonial reframings.
9. Legacy in Letters
Celebrating epistolary forms — letters, journals, messages — that preserve stories across time.
Literary works might explore love letters, diary entries, or notes left behind.
Examples: Letters never delivered, messages to ancestors, or correspondences with the future.
10. Future Archives
Imagining what stories will remain — and which will fade — in the years to come.
Speculative works considering digital memory, climate loss, or the preservation of culture.
Examples: Time capsules, AI archives, or poems written for readers centuries ahead.
Submission Guidelines:
- Send not more than 4 poems (preferably short poems up to 1 page each).
- Send not more than 2 short stories (word limit: 500 words per story).
- Send not more than 2 one-minute plays (maximum 2 pages per play).
- Send not more than 2 memoirs (word limit: 600 words per memoir).
- All submitted work must be original.
- Simultaneous submissions are welcome — please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Include a cover letter and a short bio (maximum 50 words) written in the third person , along with a high-resolution photo of yourself.
- Send all submissions to: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
- Please mention "September 2025 Submission" in the subject line.
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