Hot Flash Friday=Deadlines for Themed Submissions
A feature of this blog is Places to Submit (flash). Themed issues are a good way to work on material, either new material or something in the drawer you can take out and dust off and breathe new life into. Some of my pieces might make a round of journals without ever finding a home when suddenly because of a particular theme there is new interest. Once I submitted a flash for a newish journal called The Blue Hour. The theme was somewhat nebulous, more like a feeling. I sent over an untitled flash and BAM accepted. I wrote back: That was quick! And the editor said, I know it when I see it. Sometimes all it takes is the right time and the right place for a piece that has been collecting dust to suddenly become relevant. Here is a list of places with calls for submissions, themed submissions. The Pedestal , flash: The Working Life, May 2 – May 29 <1000 words Fiction: Studs Terkel's 1974 classic Working is 42 years old this year. For the June 2016 issue of Pede...