Wandering Spirit

The LGBTQ Fiction Project is calling adventurous writers!

James Finn
CROSSIN(G)ENRES

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Looking over the Gulf of Paradise in Camogli on the Italian Riviera. Credit: Fred Shirley

Ready to write stories?

If you’ve clicked on this announcement from the LGBTQ Fiction Project, then we’re looking for YOUR contribution to our new two-week challenge, which is:

Wandering Spirit

My idea is that the theme address travel — roaming around the world, going where you want to. My friend and fellow writer Fred Shirley is in Liguria right now on the Italian Riviera, indulging his own wander lust. That’s his photo headlining this announcement. Thus my inspiration!

But are wandering spirits always travelers?

That’s my thought, but what does the theme suggest to you? How else can a person wander besides by traveling? Any idea is fair game for this challenge.Travel, romance, love, spirituality, intellectual pursuit, lust for artistic excellence. You name it.

The challenge is for YOU, and now’s your chance to write!

Every two weeks, we issue a short-fiction challenge. Our writers craft works of art, tales of lived truths, celebrations of life, love, struggle, despair, joy, and hope. We’re inviting YOU to join us.

What can YOUR storytelling craft do with Wandering Spirit?

Round 25 starts right now —

I’ll be accepting submissions today for publication as early as tomorrow morning.

Gwen Saoirse, Esther Spurrill-Jones, BFoundAPen, Zayn Singh, Gloria Bates, Ainsley L, Kathy Lee Tolleth, Amanda Roman, Brian Pelletier, Fred Shirley, Alex David Bevan, Ikedi Oghenetega, neil chapman, David Wade Chambers, Artemis Shishir, alto, Jk Mansi, Sean Stephane Martin, Gabriela Penelope Carolus, Lois Shearing b.henriques … On your marks.

Time to do it again!

And if you don’t usually write with us? The LGBTQ Fiction Project wants you. Crank out a story and send it in.

Rules?

Make em up as you go. The only condition I’ll set is that the stories be short — between 750 words and 2,000 words, and even that’s flexible. Obviously, they should have some kind of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, or gay theme. Genderqueer. Gender fluid. You name it.

Queer it up, folks.

Hone your craft and tell us all some awesome stories. Love, death, sex, family, aliens, power, privilege, slavery, freedom, enlightenment, despair. It’s all good!

And if you don’t write for us yet? Follow the link below and sign up. Your stories matter, and we want to help you tell them!

And if you don’t write for us yet? Follow the link below and let’s get that fixed. Your stories matter, and we want to help you tell them!

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.