Submission Guidelines

Meow Meow Pow Pow is looking for prose and poetry that is exciting, incinerating, inclusive, accessible, and audacious. We love unpublished writers just as much as we love published writers (sometimes even more so). MMPP is more likely to publish work that is provocative and invigorating rather than overly complicated pieces of pomposity. Excite us with your garden-fresh flash and titillate us with your gutsy poems. Let us home your vigorous words and create art to accompany them. And after we marry your wise wordery, we’ll bring the lit to the great outdoors.
 
We publish based on a rotating theme that lasts for three months. See below for the latest premise and the cutoff dates. We love surprising interpretations of our themes; literal interpretations we’re less keen on. That being said, if we receive a piece that isn’t – in some way – reflective of the theme we’ll gnash our teeth and shake our fists at the heavens, and then send you a wimpy rejection letter. Don’t make us do that – we hate that.
 
Length of the work: our sweet spot is between 150 to 300 words. Anything over or under, we’ll be less psyched on. Poems? Let’s try to keep it under 25 lines, bbz.
 
Regular rules of the trade: we hate rules. FUCK THE MAN. But for real, wait till you hear whether we accept or reject your work before you send more. That’s it. Send it. Wait. Acceptance or rejection. And then after send more if you like. [Please no previously published pieces]

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Submission window is open: October 11th - December 11th
The theme is:

LOVE LETTERS

love letters

there’s a box marked with notches and splotched hearts in your head. a cracked leather purse bursting with wants. little trinkets of ridiculous propositions. yes, you say, let’s fly to Madagascar together. yes, there’s a dark forest in which we both belong. yes, yes, let’s bend our blessings into restlessness. you know the part that drips from your chest and stains the page? do that. show us the words that make your mouth water. show us your love letters.

THINK ID LIKE TO KNOW YA - KNOW YA!

Give the People What They Want. 

Meow Meow Pow Pow is a broadside graffiti press that publishes prose, poetry, pain, prettiness, and putridity based on a
revolving theme. Created by a posse of bored literature devotees, T-Rex enthusiasts, and cat fanatics, our crack team wants to see
your words made into bitty posters to share, and wheatpaste, and fashion into paper planes that will glide and decimate in the
​ether and become the fabric of the universe. 

We welcome all little pups and cantankerous kitties. Inclusivity is our favorite flavor.