CALL FOR GUEST EDITORS

International Poetry & Flash Fiction Anthologies

Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine

• Website: Fresh Words Announcements

• Contact & Applications: freshwordsmagazine@gmail.com

Fresh Words is expanding its international horizons. To celebrate diverse literary traditions and amplify global voices, we are launching a series of language-specific seasonal anthologies in late 2026.

We are seeking experienced, detail-oriented, and dedicated Guest Editors to curate and manage these upcoming volumes. Editors are required for both our Poetry (Haiku and Tanka) and Flash Fiction anthologies in the following languages:

• 🇩🇪 German (Poetry & Flash Fiction)

• 🇵🇱 Polish (Poetry & Flash Fiction)

• 🇪🇸 Spanish (Poetry & Flash Fiction)

• 🇯🇵 Japanese (Poetry & Flash Fiction)

If you possess a keen editorial eye for contemporary literature, a deep appreciation for short-form storytelling and micropoetry, and strong connections within your target language's literary community, we invite you to collaborate with us. Applicants may choose to edit the poetry anthology, the flash fiction anthology, or both for their respective language.

Role & Responsibilities

As a Guest Editor, you will help shape the creative identity and vision of your language’s anthology. Your core responsibilities will include:

• Theme Development: Collaborating with the Fresh Words team to adapt our seasonal themes to suit specific linguistic and cultural nuances.

• Curation & Selection: Reviewing and selecting original poetry or flash fiction (up to 300 words) submitted in your target language.

• Editing & Proofreading: Providing light structural edits and proofreading to ensure high literary standards while preserving the author's unique voice.

• Community Outreach: Actively promoting the call for submissions within regional writing networks, literary organizations, and localized social media channels.

• Editorial Preface: Authoring a brief, engaging introduction to anchor the final published volume.

Requirements

• Language Proficiency: Native or bilingual fluency in the target language, coupled with a strong working command of English for administrative and structural communication with our core executive team.

• Editorial Experience: Prior experience in editing, publishing, translating, or working within a literary magazine or creative writing environment is highly preferred.

• Project Management: A proven ability to strictly adhere to formatting guidelines, editorial deadlines, and content policies.

• Literary Passion: A demonstrated commitment to mentoring emerging writers and expanding global literary landscapes.

Timeline

• Application Deadline for Guest Editors: July 25, 2026

• Guest Editor Selection Announcement: August 05, 2026

• Public Submission Window Opens: Late August 2026

• Anthology Publication: Late Autumn / Winter 2026

 Compensation & Benefits

• Prominent Billing: Your name and biography will be featured prominently on the cover, title page, and within the editorial preface of both the print and digital editions.

• Global Promotion: Extensive feature and promotion across all Fresh Words social media platforms, website channels, and newsletter distributions.

• Professional Networking: An exceptional opportunity to helm an international project and build meaningful, lasting connections with contemporary global writers.

• Please Note: Fresh Words is an independent, non-paying market. This is a volunteer, project-based collaborative role.

 How to Apply

Please submit your application to freshwordsmagazine@gmail.com with your subject line formatted exactly as follows:

Guest Editor Application – [Language] – [Poetry/Flash Fiction/Both] – [Your Name]

In the body of your email, please include:

1. Genre Preference: Clearly state whether you are applying for the Poetry anthology, the Flash Fiction anthology, or both.

2. Cover Letter: A brief statement (1–2 paragraphs) outlining your interest in the role and your editorial vision for the anthology.

3. Literary Biography: A short bio (approx. 200 words) written in the third person, highlighting relevant publication, translation, or editorial experience.

4. Portfolio/Links: Links to your personal website, past editorial projects, or professional social media profiles (if applicable).

Join us in building bridges across languages, where small poems and short stories continue to hold enormous truths.

Application Deadline: July 25, 2026

Fresh Words

Where small words hold big magic.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: RAIN AND ROOTS

A Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology

Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

Key Dates

• Submission Deadline: August 15, 2026

• Acceptance Notifications: August 25, 2026

Where to Send

• Email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Fresh Words invites poets, wanderers, gardeners, storm-watchers, and quiet listeners of the living world to submit original nature-themed haiku for our summer anthology: RAIN AND ROOTS

Whether your haiku holds the hush before a downpour, the patient unfurling of a fern, the weight of a fallen tree, or the shock of a single wildflower in concrete—if it breathes with the earth, we want to read it.

 Submission Guidelines

Format

• Structure: Traditional 3-line haiku.

• Flexibility: Slight creative flexibility is allowed if the natural essence and emotional resonance are strong.

• Style: Plain text only. No illustrations, graphics, or formatting beyond standard text in the document.

Theme

• Nature and the Earth, broadly interpreted: Rain, rivers, soil, roots, seeds, storms, seasons, forests, creatures, tides, decay, bloom, drought, mud, mist, sky—if it lives, grows, breathes, or returns to the ground, it belongs here.

• Urban nature counts too: The weed in a parking lot, the pigeon on a ledge, or the tree that bends a sidewalk. So does the inner landscape that mirrors the outer.

Submission Limit

• Maximum of seven (7) haiku per poet.

• All submissions must be included in one email as a single PDF or MS Word attachment.

Rights Note

• Authors retain full copyright.

• Fresh Words requests one-time non-exclusive publication rights for inclusion in the digital and/or print anthology. Rights revert to the author upon publication.

How to Submit

• Send to: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

• Attachment: One file (.docx or .pdf) containing all haiku plus your required information.

• Subject Line: [Your Full Name] – SUBMISSION FOR RAIN AND ROOTS ANTHOLOGY

Required Information (Include inside your submission file):

1. Cover Note (brief, 1–2 sentences welcome)

2. Legal Name

3. Pen Name (if applicable)

4. Postal (Snail Mail) Address

5. Short Literary Biography (approx. 60 words, written in third person)

6. High-Resolution Photograph of yourself (JPEG, attached as a separate file) (Note: We only accept genuine, real-life author photographs; no AI-generated portraits or avatars).

Example Bio:

Amara Osei writes from the outskirts of Accra, where the harmattan turns the sky the color of old paper. Her work has appeared in Earthline Journal and Root & Rain Quarterly. She believes that every puddle is a small mirror held up to the sky.

Content Policy

We do not accept submissions that promote or glorify:

• Violence, abuse, or hate speech

• Racism, sexism, or discrimination

• Political propaganda or extremist ideologies

All work must be respectful, original, and artistically focused.

Additional Notes

• Simultaneous submissions are permitted — please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• No fees — there are no submission or participation fees, ever.

• Global voices welcome — we celebrate diversity in culture, language (English only for this anthology), and interpretation of the natural world.

• Selected contributors will be notified by August 25, 2026.

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Let your deepest observations of the living world find their form in our pages.

Submit by August 15, 2026.

Let the roots grow deep.

Fresh Words

Where small poems hold big magic.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Things Left Unsaid: A Flash Fiction Anthology

Silence. Regret. The conversation that never happened.

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026

Acceptance Notifications: August 25, 2026

Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

There are things we meant to say. Words swallowed before they could land. Letters never sent, calls never returned, confessions rehearsed in the dark and abandoned by morning.

Fresh Words invites writers from around the world to submit original flash fiction for Things Left Unsaid, an anthology exploring the vast, aching territory of silence: what we withhold, what we lose to it, and what, sometimes, it protects.

We want stories where the unspoken is the heart of the matter. Stories that live in the pause, the turned back, the unsent message. Stories that make readers feel the full weight of what was never said, and why.

SUBTHEMES WE LOVE

Your story does not need to fit these exactly, but they are sparks to inspire:

1. The Apology That Never Came: Estrangement, pride, the moment that passed and never returned.

2. Last Words: Deathbeds, farewells, the final conversation that was not, or the one that was and should not have been.

3. Draft Saved, Never Sent: The email, the letter, the text, written, revised, and deleted. Digital silence in the modern age.

4. The Eloquence of Objects: A gift that said everything. A returned ring. The book left on the doorstep without a note.

5. What Children Know: The things adults whisper around them, and what the child understood perfectly.

6. The Translator's Silence: Language barriers, cultural codes, the word that has no equivalent, and the chasm it creates.

7. I Should Have Said: Retrospect, replay, the moment reimagined at 3 a.m.

8. The Witness Who Said Nothing: Injustice, complicity, bystanders, the silence that becomes its own act.

9. Love, Unannounced: Feelings carried for years without declaration. The risk never taken.

10. Silence as Survival: When not speaking was the only way to stay safe, or sane.

Note: These are invitations, not requirements. Surprise us.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. THEME AND CONTENT

- Must engage meaningfully with the theme of silence, the unspoken, regret, or the unsaid, interpreted as broadly or literally as you wish.

- Stories may be contemporary, historical, speculative, or surreal. Genre is no barrier, theme is.

- No explicit content, graphic violence, or hate speech.

2. LENGTH

- Strict maximum of 300 words (title not included).

- Must be a complete narrative with emotional weight, a revelation, or a twist, not merely a mood piece.

- Minimum 100 words.

3. ORIGINALITY AND RIGHTS

- Must be unpublished in any form (print or digital).

- Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please withdraw immediately if accepted elsewhere.

- Authors retain full copyright. Fresh Words requests one-time non-exclusive publication rights, reverting to the author upon publication.

4. FORMATTING

- Submit as .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

- Use 12 pt standard font (e.g., Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia).

- Include your legal or pen name, email address, story title, and word count in the document.

- Paste your full story in the body of your email as a backup.

5. HOW TO SUBMIT

Email: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Subject line: Things Left Unsaid Submission - [Your Story Title]

6. DEADLINE

August 20, 2026  

7. COMPENSATION

- A short author bio and social media promotion included with publication.

- Note: This is a non-paying market at this time.

8. ELIGIBILITY

- Open globally to writers of all backgrounds, experience levels, and literary traditions.

- Writing in English only for this anthology.

9. QUESTIONS

Contact specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com with Query in the subject line.

CONTENT POLICY

We do not accept submissions that promote or glorify:

- Violence, abuse, or hate speech

- Racism, sexism, or discrimination of any kind

- Political propaganda or extremist ideologies

All work must be original, and artistically focused.

CONNECT WITH US

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The things we never say outlive us.

Let your 300 words hold what someone, somewhere, spent a lifetime unable to say.

Submit by August 20, 2026.

Say the thing that needed saying.

Fresh Words

Where small stories hold enormous truths.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

FRESH WORDS — AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MAGAZINE 

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home 

Submissions: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

"THE FINAL SIXTY"

A One-Minute Play Anthology 

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2026  

Acceptance Notifications: August 25, 2026

Fresh Words — An International Literary Magazine — invites playwrights, theatre-makers, and dramatic writers from around the world to submit original works for the first volume of one-minute play anthology: "The Final Sixty."

We are seeking theatrical works that capture the electric intensity of a single minute — a countdown, an ultimatum, a last confession, a final irreversible choice. In sixty seconds of stage time, the most essential human truths are laid bare. The tone can range from high-stakes drama and nail-biting suspense to dark comedy, devastating tragedy, or unexpected tenderness. What we demand in every submission is the same: that the pressure of time be felt in every line — and that the final moment land with the force it deserves.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Theme and Tone

Plays must engage with themes of urgency, finality, countdowns, ultimatums, parting words, or the closing moments of a significant event, relationship, or era. Tone is open: high-stakes drama, dark comedy, romance, suspense, tragedy, and hybrid forms are all welcome. Every submission should carry the visceral weight of time running out — and the gravity of choices made at the absolute wire.

2. Format and Structure

Each play must be exactly one minute in length when performed. This typically translates to one to two pages of standard script format. Writing should be minimalist: concise, impactful dialogue and sharp, purposeful pacing. A maximum of two to three characters per play. Stage directions should be minimal but precise — every direction must earn its place on the page.

3. Originality

Submissions must be entirely original and unpublished in any form — print or digital. Works must not infringe upon any existing copyright or intellectual property. Transformative adaptations of myths, historical events, or classical texts are acceptable, provided they are distinctively original in voice, structure, and dramatic conception.

4. Submission Details

• File format: PDF or Word document (.doc / .docx)

• File name: FinalSixty_YourName_PlayTitle

• Include a cover page within the document containing: play title; playwright's full name; contact information (email and phone number); and a brief biography of 50 to 70 words, written in the third person

Email your submission to dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com with the subject line:

Submission: The Final Sixty — [Your Name]

5. Rights

Playwrights retain full copyright to their individual works. Fresh Words requests one-time, non-exclusive publication rights for inclusion in the anthology. All rights revert to the playwright upon publication.

6. Deadline

All submissions must be received by August 20, 2026.

7. Compensation

A short author biography and social media promotion are included with publication. Please note that this is a non-paying market at this time.

8. Eligibility

Open globally to playwrights of all backgrounds, experience levels, and theatrical traditions. English-language submissions only for this volume.

9. Selection Process

All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of editors and theatre professionals. Evaluation criteria include dramatic impact, originality of voice, structural economy, and the effective use of the one-minute form. Selected playwrights will be notified via email by August 25, 2026. The editors' decision is final; individual feedback will not be provided.

10. Questions and Queries

Contact dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com with the word Query in the subject line.

CONTENT POLICY

Fresh Words maintains a commitment to respectful, artistically focused work. We do not accept submissions that promote or glorify violence, abuse, or hate speech; racism, sexism, or discrimination of any kind; or political propaganda and extremist ideologies.

"In sixty seconds, a lifetime can turn."

We look forward to receiving your one-minute theatrical masterpieces. Show us the urgent, the profound, and the breathtaking — the final moments that define what it means to be human.

Submit by August 20, 2026. The curtain is rising. The clock is already running.

Fresh Words — Where every word commands the stage.

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