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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Theme: Family Deadline: 7/15 Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. Send us buried secrets, generational stories, hauntings, or redemptions. We want your most ambitious writing in its most imaginative form. Send your best work for publication today! sequestrum.org/themed-submiss…

Theme: Place Deadline: 7/15 Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. Send your best work for publication today! sequestrum.org/theme-place

From Key West’s burning horizon to Seattle’s shifting fragments—these poems move through place, memory, and unease. Poetry from Hitson. sequestrum.org/poetry-courtne…

What do writers owe editors—and what do editors owe writers? Knox turns the tables on rejection in a fantastic essay: sequestrum.org/nonfiction-tur…

What happens in an hour? A life, a loss, a shifting name, a world held briefly in view. Two new poems by Hoefle. sequestrum.org/two-new-poems-…

New fiction is live at Sequestrum! Rose's story is sharp, electric. Set in a neon-soaked Times Square, a stripping “Cinderella” drifts between gritty, witty, and unexpectedly tender. Read more: sequestrum.org/fiction-once-u…

Intimate, unflinching poetry from Pretti trace grief, sisterhood, faith undone, and the before-and-after of trauma. Read more: sequestrum.org/poetry-from-sh…

New poems by Rea move between memory and myth, cityscape and fairy tale, exploring wonder, unease, nostalgia, and the strange shimmer of ordinary life. Read more: sequestrum.org/poetry-steven-…

New work from frequent-contributor Evan Morgan Williams, "The Divide," is now available: evanmorganwilliams.com/purchases

Theme: Romance Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. We want tenderness, risk, and reinvention. We want sudden sparks. Mostly, we want kindness in a cruel world. Take a risk. Send us a little love. Deadline: 4/15. sequestrum.org/theme-romance

Theme: Fables Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. We want writing that combines magic with purpose. Imagination with intention. Talking animals and tricksters and tyrants. We want your best. Wow us. Thrill us. Deadline: 4/15. sequestrum.org/fable-theme

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St. Ulphia's Dead, a new novel from former Sequestrum Contributor Scott Lambridis, is now available for preorder! Find the details here: …al-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/st-ulphia-s-de…

Issue 45 Cover Artist, R. Kikuo Johnson sequestrum.org/featured-artis…

Love that multiplies beyond measure. A parent and child drifting through a night drive. Letters, memory, and grief that refuse to resolve. Tender, lucid poems on intimacy and distance by St. Clair. sequestrum.org/poetry-from-mi…

Everyone remembers her. No one agrees on her name. And when someone tries to find the truth, she disappears. A quietly devastating, uncanny story by Baaske. sequestrum.org/fiction-amy-dav

Insomnia as time travel. Family as unfinished business. These poems move through grief, memory, and estrangement with unsparing clarity. New work by Vecchione. sequestrum.org/poetry-from-gl…

Every Friday: fresh flowers from a dead husband. The flower company no longer exists. The courier won’t stop. A surreal, unsettling meditation on grief, control, and persistence by Synnestvedt. sequestrum.org/fiction-glory

Theme: Mystery Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. We want mysteries that twist, unsettle, and thrill—whodunits, literary, absurd, supernatural, or that neighbor digging at 4AM. Make us question, make us gasp. Deadline: 2/15. sequestrum.org/theme-mystery