Call for Submissions on Theme of "Suspension" : Apus

There are moments in life when we find ourselves suspended: between places, identities, relationships, languages, futures, or versions of ourselves. We drift. We hesitate. We remain unfinished.

Suspension can feel like weightlessness, disorientation, or stillness. It may emerge in the silence before collapse, in the pause before transformation, in the strange calm of no longer belonging entirely to what once held us.To be suspended is not always to be lost. It can be a refusal to settle too quickly into certainty — an unsettling space where desire, memory, and selfhood take shape.

For our third issue, we invite works that dwell in states of suspension — emotional, bodily, political, spatial, linguistic, or otherwise. We welcome work that lingers in ambiguity, experiments with form, and resists easy resolution.

Submission Guidelines

Genres: Fiction, poetry, interviews, nonfiction, and visual art.

Word Limit: Up to 15,000 words (Chinese) or 10,000 words (English). Poetry should not exceed 200 lines.

Pay:
- Prose: Starting from $10 USD per 1,000 words
- Poetry and Visual art: Payment will be determined based on the format and quantity of the submitted work. 

Submission Limit: Each author may submit up to two works for this call.

Submit: Email to:

submit@apuslit.com or via Duotrope 

Deadline: Aug 31, 2026 

Terms and Conditions

Authors takes full responsibility for the content of the submission. It must not involve plagiarism.

We don’t accept previous published work unless it was published on a personal account.

Please refrain from simultaneous submissions.

Please include a brief bio and contact information with your submission.

If you do not receive a response within 30 business days after the deadline, you are free to submit elsewhere.

Apus reserves the right to make editorial revisions to submitted works.

Upon acceptance, Apus reserves first serial, reprint and electronic rights.

Authors should notify Apus immediately if work is no longer avaliable for publication.

Let us know if you have any questions，期待在文字中相会！