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Submissions
For Issue 2 of The Labyrinthine, we’re heading to the cinema.
We want your homages to the films that raised you, haunted you, obsessed you. Your love letters to celluloid ghosts and VHS gods. Give us poems that read like lost screenplays, prose that flickers like dream sequences.
We’re looking for:
-Poetry and prose inspired by or in conversation with film
-Photography and visual art that feels cinematic
Stories told in frames, in freeze-frames, in jump cuts
-Glamour, gore, grain, nostalgia—your own personal Criterion collection of emotion
Genre is wide open. Horror, romance, camp, noir, arthouse, blockbuster—we want the full reel.
If it plays like a movie in your mind, we want to see it.
Submissions close: July 30th
Word limit for prose: 2,000 words
Come get lost in the credits.
The Labyrinthine invites prose submissions (up to 2,000 words) inspired by cinema in all its forms, from grainy black-and-white obsessions to cult classics, B-movie fever dreams, doomed romances, and surreal epics.
We want stories that feel like flickering screens. Narratives that unravel like a film reel. Love letters to directors, to genres, to movie theatres long gone. Stories of projectionists, extras, cursed scripts, and rewound lives. If it lives in the cinematic subconscious, we want to read it.
We’re especially interested in:
– Film-inspired fiction
-Non-fiction pondering on films
– Characters shaped by what they watch
The Labyrinthine are calling for poetry that pays homage to the strange, romantic, eerie, and electric world of cinema. We’re talking silver-screen sonnets, surreal monologues, anything that captures the texture of film, the mood of a late-night screening, or the emotional weight of a single, unforgettable frame.
We’re looking for poems that:
– Pay tribute to films, directors, characters, or genres
– Evoke the feeling of watching (or being watched)
– Explore memory, identity, and longing through a cinematic lens
– Feel atmospheric, dreamlike, visual, or performative
– Could have been whispered in the back row of an empty theatre
Submit up to 3 poems (no strict line limits, but be mindful of space)
We're looking for art and photography that feels cinematic — bold, moody, strange, and full of atmosphere. Think stills from a film that doesn’t exist yet. Think moments that hum with narrative.
Whether your work is a direct homage to a favourite film, a hazy memory captured like a film still, or an abstract visual that echoes the feeling of watching something unfold on screen — we want to see it.
Send us:
– Artwork inspired by specific films or genres
– Photos that feel like they belong in a movie
– Film still recreations, character studies, movie-theatre nostalgia
– Gritty street shots, neon-soaked portraits, surreal compositions
– Anything that could live in a dream sequence, an opening scene, or the final credits
You may submit up to 5 pieces (hi-res JPEG or PNG preferred)
We welcome digital or analogue work, collage, mixed media, illustration, painting, and photography of all kinds.
