TRUE.
True is a bi-weekly conversation around telling true stories. It brings interviews, reviews, craft essays, and personal essays together to explore nonfiction storytelling across form. Read more here.
PROXIMITY.
Proximity is a publication of true stories exploring place, space, and connections in the modern age. At Proximity, we’re curious about the shape-shifting nature of our proximity to one another. We’re fascinated by the things that connect us, across real and imagined boundaries, across time and place. Read more about our founding ideashere.
The theme for Issue 9 is “Wilderness.” The wilderness lives both in and beyond us. Yes, it’s in tangled roots, in breathless hikes, and in sudden storms. But the wilderness also resides within us—who hasn’t been lost in the wilds of their own thoughts? Either way, the wilderness is what humbles us, renews us, and reminds us we are not entirely in control. For Issue 9, we want to read work that brushes against bark, steps into streams, or gets lost among the trees.
Remember that at 3cents Magazine we are looking for works that can enter into a conversation with two other pieces—works that have something to say.
We will publish a minimum of one "mini collection" of three pieces from different writers (one poetry, one fiction, and one nonfiction) but are open to several, depending on the quality and quantity of submissions. We encourage you to submit work that pushes the boundaries of this issue's theme.
Issue Theme: Wilderness
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Guidelines: Multiple submissions are welcome and encouraged. Submissions must be previously unpublished and submitted to 3cents Magazine for publication in one of the following categories:
- poetry
- fiction/flash fiction
- creative nonfiction/essay/memoir
Take a look at our previous issues to better understand how and what we publish.
Thank you for your interest.
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