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Our submissions are now closed and will stay closed until the 1st of January. We thank you all for your support and for all of your submissions. Our last issue for 2018 should be out in December. We hope you all enjoy it and join us next year for more mythology!
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Issue 7 submissions are now open! Our theme for this issue is Time's Up, and we will be focusing on the myths of Leda, Ahalya & Rindr. We are looking for submissions that focus on reclaiming power as well #metoo pieces. We can't wait to receive your work. Submissions close November 9th, with the issue coming out by the end of that month. 
Dear Readers,
Cauldron Anthology is so proud to offer to you all Issue 6 - LGBTQA+ “Sappho, Inari Okami, & Ardhanarishvara”. We started curating this issue in July during Pride Month because we wanted to do a special issue merging mythology with current day issues, and I’m so pleased with how this issue turned out. We have love poems, we have the roar of pride, we have tales of becoming who you knew you were always meant to be, and so much more. I sincerely hope that you all enjoy this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together. I would like to thank each and every one of our contributors; your work has been such a joy to read. I would like to thank all of our readers for the unwavering support you have given to Cauldron Anthology. And of course I would like to thank the entirety of my staff for their dedicated work. I hope this issue inspires you all! Abigail Pearson, Editor-in-Chief
Open publication - Free publishing
Submissions will be closing next week on the 15th, but we are still hoping that a few more people will submit to us!
So today we're sharing Issue 6's playlist. We've tried to find as many queer anthems as we could, but if you have any suggestions for us please leave a comment and we'll add more songs. You can find the playlist here. SapphoLike the very gods in my sight is he who
sits where he can look in your eyes, who listens close to you, to hear the soft voice, its sweetness murmur in love and laughter, all for him. But it breaks my spirit; underneath my breast all the heart is shaken. Let me only glance where you are, the voice dies, I can say nothing,
This issue’s themes are very special to me, because as a bisexual woman I am always looking for queer themed prose and poetry and art. So it’s very exciting for to be writing out my thoughts on this theme and to hopefully be inspiring someone to submit to us. Sappho was a woman who lived in Ancient Greece, she was a poet but she was also supposedly a lesbian. When I did some research into her life I found out that her sexuality is debated about by some scholars, which is frustrating but such is life. Apparently some of this debate is around the fact that not all of the lovers she refers to in her poems are females, but for some reason the fact that she could have been bisexual doesn’t seem to enter into the minds of ‘’scholars’’. Another thing I find to be frustrating is it seems to me that the only people debating her sexuality are cis straight males. Whether she was gay or bi, it doesn’t really matter to me much. What matters to me are her poems and the eloquence in them. What matters to me is that we can still read the musings and words of a woman who loved women. This matters. It matters because representation for the lesbian community matters. Because we all matter. Sappho was an amazing poet, her words are thrilling to read even today. I hope that you all are inspired by them and write your own poems dedicated to love of all genders. Inari Okami: The Fox Who Crosses Boundaries |
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