History Repeating is closed. Thank you to everyone who wrote about the endless cycle and churn. Subscribe to our newsletter for the next challenge: www.glossyplanetmag.com/newsletter/

Last day last day last day 🔁 Send us your flash fiction, poetry, and nonfiction about time and cycles of destruction by midnight PST. www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/hi...

We are still looking for readers to join our team. Volunteer position. You get to read really good flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry before anyone else does. glossyplanetmag.com/call-for-readers

Our call for submissions is closing soon! Submit your poetry, flash fiction, and nonfiction about time, cycles, and destruction by May 15. www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/hi...

Presenting: our Silent Spring finalists, ranging from a speculative flash fiction story about love and loss to a poem that weaves together the nexus of nature, microplastics, and downstream effects. We'll publish these pieces online at the end of May! www.glossyplanetmag.com/silent-sprin...

In case you missed it: Hayley's dispatch on cross-pollinating your writing is packed with practical tips to get unstuck, spark new ideas, and get outside your head. Not that that ever happens to you. glossyplanetmag.com/cross-pollinate-how-to-get-unstuck-writing

Writing prompt: A false memory happens when someone recalls something that didn't actually happen or remembers it differently. Write a flash fiction piece about a someone dealing with false memory—and the ramifications of it. Send it to us until May 15: www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/hi...

Congrats to our shortlist for Silent Spring! Our shortlist celebrates the pieces that lingered with us long after reading. www.glossyplanetmag.com/silent-sprin...

What are you writing today?

Reminder that History Repeating closes May 15 and we genuinely want your weird fractured-timeline fiction about the part of history that keeps returning. glossyplanetmag.com/history-repeating

Writing prompt: George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Write about what happens when the cycle breaks. Submit flash fiction, nonfic, and poetry to us until May 15: www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/hi...

This month we want prose and poetry that plays with time. Microessays about false memory. Stories that fracture chronology. Poetry that makes repetition do something. Submit by may 15. glossyplanetmag.com/history-repeating

We're looking for readers! If you love flash fiction, poetry, and essays that respond to the world in real time, we want you on our team. Deadline to apply is May 31. www.glossyplanetmag.com/call-for-rea...

Glossy Planet @glossyplanetmag.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions on 2 calls (fee-based). #CallforSubmissions

We're running a FREEEE submission window this summer. Capped spots. Subscribe to find out when it opens and how to get in. glossyplanetmag.com/newsletter

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Okay, but what about those of us who remember it perfectly and are watching it happen anyway? Write about that. Open for submissions until May 15. glossyplanetmag.com/history-repeating

New month. New challenge. History Repeating is open and we want your cycles-of-destruction fiction, your fractured timelines, your poetry about the part of history that just keeps happening. $1,000 to first place. glossyplanetmag.com/history-repeating

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS until May 15! This month's theme: History Repeating. Write about cycles of destruction—and what happens when the cycle breaks. Poetry, flash fiction, and nonfiction. $1300 awarded. www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/hi...

"Each iteration of erasure represents repeated trauma, as the voice of the poem becomes increasingly disjointed and associative." Read our interview with 1st place winner @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social: www.glossyplanetmag.com/an-interview...

Our next challenge theme will be revealed TOMORROW! Here's a hint: 🔁 🔁 🔁

In "Slumber party" by @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social, we are pulled into a free-fall alongside the speaker after they've experienced COCSA. The text becomes the object of redaction, and it's one that will linger long after reading. Read our Redacted finalist: www.glossyplanetmag.com/slumber-party/

What is an essential part of your writing ritual, if anything?

"In nature, cross-pollination has a lot of advantages over self-pollination ... Cross-pollinating your writing has a similar effect—and by using it to enrich our creative lives, we can more easily find inspiration and generate ideas." How to get unstuck: www.glossyplanetmag.com/cross-pollin...

In "Body Count" by Hero Jason Uchebenu, the speaker's tone is both cognizant and defiantly blunt about violence as a means of erasure: “as if a blade trips, & suddenly / there’s a throat in the way.” Read our 2nd-place winner: www.glossyplanetmag.com/body-count/

Free submissions open this summer! Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to know the dates. We'll have a submission cap for this one. www.glossyplanetmag.com/newsletter/

This poem by @tachment.bsky.social is an erasure of the letter trans Kansas residents received in March, nullifying their licenses. Obscuring the boilerplate reveals just how devastating such a blatant attack on a marginalized community can be. www.glossyplanetmag.com/if-you-have-...

New erasure poem up today in @glossyplanetmag.bsky.social! Read it here:

We're looking for readers! If you love flash fiction, poetry, and essays that respond to the world in real time, we want you on our team. Deadline to apply is May 31. www.glossyplanetmag.com/call-for-rea...

Are you writing? It's okay if the answer is no, not right now. But also: write something.

Our winners for REDACTED begin publishing tomorrow! We've got some killer pieces going live on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, plus an interview with the winner. Read our winners:

We've locked in our theme for May—what do you think it is? You can add our next submission period to your calendar right now: www.glossyplanetmag.com/upcoming/

How do you write in response to the world in real time? Sign up for our summer flash fiction workshop: URGENT WRITING with @catemcgowan.com! Part craft talk, part generative writing session. Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 7 pm ET. Details and register: www.glossyplanetmag.com/urgent-writi...

Hayley wrote something lovely about getting unstuck, and we think you should read it if you're in a writing rut. Cross-pollinate your writing. Go outside. Bake bread. Make a playlist for a fictional character. It all counts. glossyplanetmag.com/cross-pollinate-how-to-get-unstuck-writing

When you submit to one of our writing challenges, you'll hear back within 2-4 weeks of contest close dates. That's partially because of our monthly contest schedule, and partially because our EIC once waited a year to get a decision on a piece, and that's just bananas.

PSSSSST…free submissions open this summer. Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to know the dates! www.glossyplanetmag.com/newsletter/

Submissions for Silent Spring are closed. Thank you to everyone who wrote about the slow burn. We can't wait to read your words. 🌎 🌡️ (If you missed this one, our next writing challenge opens May 1.)

Our call for submissions WITH editorial commentary is now at capacity. Thank you!! Our general call for submissions is still open until 11:59 PT TONIGHT (April 15). www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/si... Flash fiction, essays, poetry, clifi, ecopoetry, ecofiction, send it all.

Today is the last day to submit the thing!! www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/si...

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which two characters disagree about whether something is happening. Don't tell us what it is. Let the disagreement do the work.

Last few days to submit to Silent Spring. Rachel Carson named it before we were ready to hear it. We’re ready to read your words about it. www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/si...

Submission opportunity for #clifi writers and poets, and it closes soon so get those pieces polished #clifi #climatefiction #writesky #ecopoetry

We have a newsletter and it is free and it will not disappoint you, unlike…y’know. glossyplanetmag.com/newsletter

Writing tip: If your piece feels too big, make it smaller. One room. One object. One moment. The large things will find their way in.

Reminder that "Silent Spring" (writing challenge) closes April 15 (soon!!) and we want your weird apocalypse fiction, your exhausted ecopoetry, your love stories set at the end of the world. www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/si...

CLOSING SOON: Silent Spring writing challenge/contest/call for submissions/whatever you want to call it, we want to read it, and we're awarding $1,300 total. Submit by midnight on April 15. Flash prose & poetry. www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/si...

What do we publish? Take a gander at our past winners: glossyplanetmag.com/winning-work

Writing prompt: Write a love letter to something that is disappearing. Landscape, species, season, era, person.

HEY are you writing?

The goal is not to write a timeless piece about climate change. The goal is to write this feeling, right now, so specifically that someone reads it in fifty years and knows exactly what 2026 felt like. Send us your words: www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/si...

We now offer editorial commentary on submissions: get two separate paragraphs of feedback from two of our editors and readers. Real notes, not fluff. Learn more: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...