Sexual Assault can traumatize a victim which can be carried for as long as they live. This is portrayed in the short modern poem, "To Be Alive" by Jamie Grookett.

Check this deep and stunning contemporary poetry, "The Night Called" by Debra Ayis. It narrates the death of a 10-year-old girl due to sexual violence.

Check out this melancholy modern poem, "Little Ronnie" by Andrew Scott. This poem is all about how drugs can destroy someone's life.

Read this outstanding literary piece titled "Social Dissonance" by Des Mannay. It explores the United Kingdom's response to the threat of COVID.

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Welcome to the latest edition of Entropy's Where to Submit list! The artwork featured at the top of this list is "dancing in one spot (number 12)" by Ashon Crawley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at University of Virginia and author of the books Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) and The Lonely Letters (Duke University Press, 2020).

Each week in this space, Practicing Writing shares no-fee, paying markets for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: competitions, contests, and calls for submissions. The posts complement monthly issues of The Practicing Writer newsletter, where you'll always find more listings, none of them limiting eligibility to residents of a single municipality, state, or province.