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Annual Fiction Contest

We’re kicking off our first annual Fiction Contest with the theme: Poetics of Nature.
Submissions will close November 1, 2026 at 11:59pm PST.

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Helia Lit’s first-ever poetry contest is officially open.

The Season of the Witch runs from October 2 through December 1, 2026, and we’re intentionally leaving the theme broad because we don’t want one version of the witch.

Accord

Writers are rule breakers by nature.

We question assumptions. We mess with structure. We challenge language. We make characters share the thing polite society told us not to talk about.

So no, we don’t think poets need to spend their lives o

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