Sequestrum (N): 1. A necrotic bone fragment, separate from standard skeletal structures. 2. A literary journal of short prose and poetry.
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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In Hall’s poems, ancient creatures, distant worlds, sleeping bodies, and childhood museums become sites of wonder. Deep time brushes against memory, discovery, and the strange persistence of life. Read here: sequestrum.org/new-poetry-fr…
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A Hollywood power broker is caught in the act by an ambitious protégé. Freeman’s “Compromising Positions” is a sharp tale of ego, leverage, and power. Read here: sequestrum.org/fiction-compr…
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Theme: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Deadline: 10/15
Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry.
Send us other times, other people, other worlds. Magical realism, slipstream, sci-fi, fairy tales, or plain fantasy. sequestrum.org/theme-fantasy
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Theme: Desire
Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry.
Deadline: 10.15
Desire complicates, evolves, and confounds. It produces triumphs and tragedies. It moves forward—and so should the writing it inspires. Send us your most complex, ambitious work. sequestrum.org/themed-submis…
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A lion stalks the family home—until a dream reveals the beast at the center of it all. Bhattacharya’s story turns inheritance, anger, and love into a fierce portrait of family survival. Read here: sequestrum.org/fiction-lion
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In Poulson’s poems, heaven has burgers and harps, grief wears a cow’s ear tag, and wonder rises from fields, wounds, and the lives we can’t quite save. Read here: sequestrum.org/three-poems-b…
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Leary’s poems trace the strange weather of sibling love: dream, grief, mercy, distance, and the words we use when understanding fails. Read here: sequestrum.org/new-poetry-fr…
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A boyfriend keeps her journal “for safety.” Then he wants to burn it. Hall’s story turns secrecy, shame, and first love into something sharp, funny, and furious. Read it here: sequestrum.org/fiction-confl…
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A mother aging at the sink. Border children wrapped in mylar. A city intersection where ordinary life turns catastrophic in an instant. Adair’s poems ache with memory, grief, and the fragile ways we try to hold one another close. sequestrum.org/poetry-from-a…
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Two miscarriages. A dying relationship. Then an old lover calls from the college town she’s fleeing to. Upchurch’s story is sharp, intimate, and full of the pull of lives once imagined, and maybe still possible. sequestrum.org/fiction-broke…
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A teenage groundskeeper. A glamorous older couple. A summer of wine, secrets, infidelity, and the dangerous feeling that another life might be possible. Farrington’s story pulls you in from the first page. sequestrum.org/fiction-the-l…
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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!
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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!
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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-courtn…
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What do writers owe editors—and what do editors owe writers? Knox turns the tables on rejection in a fantastic essay: sequestrum.org/nonfiction-tu…
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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…
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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-…
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Intimate, unflinching poetry from Pretti trace grief, sisterhood, faith undone, and the before-and-after of trauma. Read more: sequestrum.org/poetry-from-s…
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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…
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New work from frequent-contributor Evan Morgan Williams, "The Divide," is now available:
evanmorganwilliams.com/purch…
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