2023-05-30 15:30
"My daughter’s line will be struck out, as that on so many others’ cards have been. Hasty burials at sea."
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2023-05-23 15:30
She was like a hummingbird, always flighty and in movement, but my mother’s eyes were glued to the screen this time...
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2023-05-17 15:30
"Each fall the sharp-eyed gannets arrived in long lines, plunging from the sky and learning how to swallow underwater."
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2023-05-09 15:50
"He kept digging. The sound of the shovel reverberating off the rocks as if inside a sepulcher."
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2023-05-05 17:22
Get insights into how ChatGPT and AI technology are reshaping the creative writing landscape, and the potential implications for the future.
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2023-05-03 15:20
Aching claws and depression and addiction so deep, she sometimes just wants to sleep in her bed forever.
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2023-05-01 23:00
Discover the power of therapeutic journaling and how healing writing can help you process emotions, trauma and other challenges.
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2023-04-30 17:16
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Dreamers Micro Nonfiction Story Writing Contest, for nonfiction stories between 100-300 words.
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2023-04-30 15:46
Explore the beauty & complexity of poetry writing with Dreamers. Discover tips, techniques, & inspiring poems to ignite your creativity.
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2023-04-25 22:04
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Creative Writing Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home Contest. Congratulations to the winners of the Dreamers 2023 Place and Home… Read More
2023-04-25 15:58
We're pleased to announce the release of Issue 14 of the Dreamers Magazine, featuring our micro nonfiction contest winners. Get your copy now!
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2023-04-25 15:40
One evening, slumped over his supper of boiled carrots and potatoes, Walter told her that there had been a meeting.
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2023-04-24 02:45
Looking for grants to support your writing? Check out our guide to grants for Canadian writers and discover new funding opportunities!
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2023-04-18 23:00
Learn how AI content detectors help writers distinguish between human and AI writing. Discover popular tools like Grammarly and ChatGPT.
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2023-04-17 23:00
Discover how learning to craft a compelling backstory can elevate your storytelling and take your writing to new heights.
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2023-04-17 00:00
Learn how to craft memorable characters in storytelling with these expert tips. Engage your readers with relatable characters.
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2023-04-15 23:00
Discover the best time to submit your poetry to contests and increase your chances of success. Is there a season for poetry contests? Yes!
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2023-04-14 23:00
Discover new publishing opportunities with Submittable's Discover feature. Streamline your submissions and simplify the process. Learn more!
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2023-04-13 22:01
Learn how to use homophones correctly in your writing to improve communication and SEO. Follow these tips to avoid common mistakes.
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2023-04-08 03:49
When we read a story or watch a movie, we often get transported to a different world. This world is the setting, and it plays a crucial role in the story.
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2023-03-14 15:10
As spring morphed into summer an idea sprung forth - a sanctuary on the veranda. It would be a soothing space.
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2023-03-08 23:02
The hurricane hit like an old boxer—sapped of its former power, but still dangerous.
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2023-03-08 16:50
My sister is slowly killing me with every failed suicide. The one thing we have in common: We float.
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2023-03-05 23:31
In this healing writing workshop, you will be guided through a series of lessons and prompts designed to explore themes from your lived experience.
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2023-02-28 16:50
I’ve been receiving gender-affirming therapies and waiting for the right time to come out to my son...
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2023-02-22 16:50
Having come to write a tribute to my son, but unable to wrap my heart around final words...
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2023-02-14 16:50
When I feel insignificant, I reconnect with past times by sifting through my extensive collection of business cards.
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2023-02-08 16:50
I want to understand humanity, but I can make no sense of this. This timeless tragedy plays out again and again...
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2023-01-31 16:50
You awake into the world where she’s gone, her life taken by a drunk driver while biking home in the cool night air...
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2023-01-25 16:30
Today I tap my tail against a dandelion while admiring my ageless shadow
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2023-01-17 16:30
Sanjay and I continued our daily chess games under the watchful eye of our parents, with long pauses and smiles...
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2023-01-11 16:30
When you slipped away and their last murmuring prayers failed, when your glorious voice was forgotten in sorrow...
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2023-01-03 16:30
What is my voice when it has nothing to imitate? Whose beauty is this but not the beautiful ones it mimics?
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2022-12-18 20:52
We're pleased to announce the release of Issue 13 of the Dreamers Magazine, including the winners of our Flash Contest. Get your copy now!
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2022-12-18 20:24
There is a day I often think of in its surreality, annulment and modifications of posture. You have found the beautification of shame...
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2022-12-18 19:42
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest. There were so many incredible stories this year!
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2022-11-29 16:30
Why ‘play’ Tai-Chi? It is simply joyous to be able to move around and control the body and cycle the energies.
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2022-11-23 16:30
Running along the new brick road. The grout is still young and lovely. My shoes grinding dirt into the grout.
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2022-11-16 16:30
Old and young came together, embracing in their triumph, entangled in the throng’s euphoria.
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2022-11-08 16:00
Guilt-ridden Joshua wanted his father to understand. “I want to be a physicist. Politics are of no interest to me".
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2022-11-02 15:00
I look back over these “poem a day” entries, I see my life reflected in four to sixteen-line purges.
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2022-10-25 15:50
I briefly had a crush on the doctor who administered my vaccine. It was the elixir of biceps and hope.
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2022-10-19 17:13
I was every fig on every fig tree. Those reckless writers warned the man and the woman not to eat me
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2022-09-27 15:50
Never forget the terrible speed of birds skirting on top of green water. The earth’s rotation unseen through sunglasses.
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2022-09-12 23:46
The world shut down, and theatres went dark. We left everything ready for the next rehearsal, the set meticulously dressed.
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2022-09-06 15:50
Pink sweaters sometimes bring strange weather here. Normativity is a macho badge, I am a growing symbol of myself.
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2022-08-31 15:15
Behind me like a waterfall, parting: for one moment, I glimpsed you beneath the lies and the masks and the violence.
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2022-08-23 15:50
The repetitiveness was mind-crushing. The cruise-lines he followed all day seemed like a prison.
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2022-08-16 15:50
In harmony, in love
Though all things end
Even if it’s lightning in a bottle
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2022-08-09 15:40
Explore the words and worlds of those voices deemed too unruly. The term 'Crazy' undermines radical thought.
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2022-08-08 01:55
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Haiku Contest! Thanks to our guest judge, Reinekke Lengelle. Read the winning haiku...
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2022-08-06 03:45
We're pleased to announce the release of Issue 12 of the Dreamers Magazine, including the winner of our Haiku Contest. Get your copy now!
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2022-08-03 15:50
it’s all garbage anyways that will just end up twirling around inside the Texas sized trash ball.
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2022-07-29 15:10
The aliens are bacteria, viruses and fungi. They like to live in the most trendy spot in the right now: the bowels.
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2022-07-20 15:50
It glares down at me with a smug crustacean grin, and at once I have no question this is a lobster demon.
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2022-07-12 15:50
So many questions. Who was she, that she would bury a book? Would it be wrong to dig it up and read it?
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2022-07-06 15:50
I watch the door, I watch the window. And flinch at every noise. Dream every nightmare.
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2022-06-14 15:50
The biting rainwater dripping down my back melds with something deeper, some knowing. The crow is still here.
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2022-06-08 15:50
His scissors are soaking in soapy water. She turns and almost stabs him in the belly. He jumps back.
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2022-05-31 15:50
Pandemic poverty more floods and fires and here and there a Machiavelli who can smile and smile and be a villain.
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2022-05-25 15:50
In the attic stands a cardboard mansion. I can relate to this wallpaper, slowly coming unglued inside this house.
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2022-05-22 18:12
A haiku is a very brief Japanese poem of 17 total syllables in three lines. Line one is 5 syllables, line two is 7 syllables, and line three is 5 syllables.
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2022-05-17 15:50
She gave her life to art while her lover was tortured in the wing. My father would stare at the long avenues ahead.
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2022-05-06 03:50
She held on, the nurses marveling at her tenacious strength. They declared that she was not letting go quite yet.
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2022-05-04 15:50
Anticipation is vulnerability. The looking-forward to small pleasures was getting him through these dark days of lockdown.
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2022-04-26 15:50
where the humanity around me dissolves into bodies and the humanity within me dissolves into mind.
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2022-04-17 15:50
Anne-Marie includes personal and professional efficacy, thoughtful research and personal goal development.
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2022-04-13 15:50
Will my life be analyzed through a feminist lens? It sure as hell would be boring if you approached it biographically.
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2022-04-05 15:50
Marrying the kindest man you'd ever met still felt like a caging, only this time it was you who turned the key.
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2022-04-01 20:47
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Dreamers Creative Writing Stories of Migration, Sense of Place and Home Contest.
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2022-04-01 20:41
These days in every direction I look, the world is falling apart. Fires and floods and extreme temperatures. A global pandemic. Almost 100 million refugees in the world seeking safe haven… Read More
2022-04-01 20:25
Marja would write the curse, seal it in a film canister, and then, in the guise of being a welcoming neighbour, bury it in the roots of whatever Marja planted in the garden as a gift.
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2022-04-01 19:54
As the video conference ended, quiet tears poured down her cheeks. She felt very small as if someone had taken her voice away.
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2022-04-01 19:42
I mourn for the words of nobodies who had vital lessons or exceptional stories to tell, but they died, and their words were never found.
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2022-04-01 17:40
We're pleased to announce the release of Issue 11 of the Dreamers Magazine, including the winner of our Place and Home Contest. Get your copy now!
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2022-03-30 15:50
The basement flooded and I watched the water fill the house to the rim. My books were ruined and I began to write my own.
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2022-03-22 15:50
I am hugging a tree, grounded with roots descending deep into the earth, blood as sap circulates and nourishes my body.
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2022-03-16 15:50
My first time alone on New Year's Eve, future uncertain, past unresolved. The desire for time travel escapes me.
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2022-03-08 16:50
We heal and grow big hearts from the shatters of explosive heartaches.
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2022-03-02 16:50
There once was a boy named Max. Not just an ordinary boy, but a boy who could fly.
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2022-02-22 16:50
I buy admission to the tattered big top amidst a hundred or more whose skin is the color of my own.
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2022-02-16 16:50
As your elder’s trunk snapped, you turned and ran, like a terrified child unsure which way the sky was falling.
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2022-02-08 16:50
I mulled over what I could have done differently. A crack in one of the hazy panes caught my eye. A fissure.
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2022-02-02 16:50
I remembered you on stage in Montreal with your guitar. How could you have picked up that gun?
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2022-01-31 19:50
With Dreamers Advertising, you never have to choose between online or print ads! Every ad purchased is published on our website AND in our magazine, giving you twice the coverage every time… Read More
2022-01-25 16:40
"The sensual wetness of the sand beneath my feet is balm to my seared soul. The siren song of waves beckons."
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2022-01-19 16:50
My blue ocean sadness. Kept from you, hidden from view. So I keep docking at the same port of hurt.
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2022-01-11 16:40
The warmth of your small body seeps through cracked exterior penetrates deep into this caked clay.
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2022-01-05 16:50
My bullet has been eroding into my spinal cord for the last ten years, the sandbar under my feet slipping away..
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2022-01-01 22:29
This isn’t about you. It isn’t about the Barbie you once belonged to, or the kid that Barbie might still belong to. It isn’t about my own kid’s Barbies...
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2021-12-20 16:50
Your love wasn’t conditional – It was trapped inside a heart afraid to beat out loud. It was off in the distance.
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2021-12-15 16:50
When I unfold the paper there’s what appears to be a bunch of feathers. As I reach for them I discover it’s a bird’s wing.
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2021-12-07 16:50
The sand is raked perfectly into lines of dried ravines. Water in the tetsubin, ready for gyokuro.
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2021-12-01 16:50
I sigh with the tree. The tears sprout from my eyes, dripping onto the tangled roots beneath.
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2021-11-26 04:28
We're pleased to announce the release of Issue 10 of the Dreamers Magazine, including the winners of our FLASH Contest. Get your copy now!
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2021-11-23 16:50
Lying in bed. I kiss his lips. Trying to taste the ocean I was born into but he is not home. Not even close.
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2021-11-18 16:33
Submit your stories of migration and/or your sense of place, of home or lack of, and your empathy to the plight of migrants around the world.
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2021-11-15 17:09
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Dreamers Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Contest. There were so many incredible stories this year!
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2021-11-15 16:50
The hypnotic tingling draws her inward. Her mind starts humming a tune she never dreamed of singing.
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2021-11-15 15:49
My uncle once brought me fishing at his gun club, another family conspiracy to masculinize me. We were deep in what some locals call Swamp Yankee territory...
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