Enchanted Conversation: Love
Deadline: January 20, 2019
For: February 2019 Issue
Theme: Love
Love can be magical or tragic; star-crossed or end happily ever after; an unrequited longing or two souls that always find one another.
Enchanted Conversation is looking for stories and sequential art (aka comics) that explore the different aspects of love set within the fairy tale, folktale, or mythic templates. Work can either be re-tellings of established stories or use original characters. Be bold, traditional, lyrical, or experimental in your storytelling and enchant us with stories set in a variety of locations around the world and time periods from ancient to modern.
What if a witch’s curse backfires and turns into true love? Did Medusa love Perseus before her tragic end? Why does the Land long for the touch of the Sea? Can the cold heart of a trickster be warmed by one who out-tricks him? Be bold, traditional, lyrical, or experimental in your storytelling. Think beyond palaces, princes, and princesses in their usual context. Take readers on a journey to long ago Japan, an enchanted forest in Russia, or magical root bridges in India - where the stage is set for characters to tell their unique tales of love.
Stories between 700-2,000 words. Payment $10.00 US dollars only. Poems any length.