vienna poetry school call for entries 2025

vienna poetry school call for text submissions 2025

sfd& angst

magazine of the vienna poetry school #7

deadline for submissions: 12 june 2025

we welcome unpublished short texts in german and english from austria and abroad!
please send your manuscripts on the topic of "fear".
the length of each submission may have a maximum of 2,000 characters and all literary genres are accepted.
a jury will select the texts for publication (it will receive the text without the name of the author).
for details on the call for texts and participation (via online form only) see the info below. planned publication date: november 2025 (exact date tba)

"am working in the field of fear"

not stephen king's business plan, but a quote from friederike mayröcker*
is the motto of this year's call for entries.

the vienna poetry school is looking for texts that scare or are made of fear.
texts that not only make "schrecklinge"** ("the terrified") shiver, but even the hardened sfd jurors.

get active in the fear department!

the good news at the end:
only this time, horrific texts are exceptionally welcome.

"fear: who taught me, which idiots taught me to understand fear, the chair holders, the poets. fear is something completely different, fear is in the head, that's where it sits, that's where it sits at all the levers."
ingeborg bachmann

nicolas mahler for the vienna poetry school

sources: * "am active in the field of fear"
friederike mayröcker, brütt oder die seufzenden gärten. suhrkamp 2014;
** "have always been terrified"
friederike mayröcker, magische blätter II. suhrkamp 1987

note: there will also be a selection of texts from current sfd classes on the topic

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call for text submissions

sfd& fear 

magazine of the vienna poetry school #07

terms & conditions:

deadline for submissions: 12 june 2025

upload your texts via the online form only: https://sfd.at/en/text-submission
(one text per form – max. two submissions per person!)

please note: formatting such as paragraphs is recognised by the online form - please check the automatic email confirmation to see how your text has been submitted.
sfd applies in its publications radical use of small letters. if your text requires capital letters or any other special formatting, ie visual poetry, please contact us at sfd@sfd.at.)

german and english texts can be submitted.
max. length: 2,000 characters (incl. spaces, excl. title).
literary form: open
topic: fear (see above)

the text submitted has not been published before. (the texts must be free from third party rights and written by the participants themselves)
the copyright remains with the authors.
each author whose text will be published, will be contacted by sfd beforehand. he/she will receive a free copy of the magazine.
we cannot respond to requests/comments about the submitted texts.
the participants in this call automatically give permission that their texts can be published in the sfd magazine sfd& free of charge and that, if applicable, they can also be presented at a public event organised by sfd. they also give permission that their texts can be published either in part or fully on the sfd website and via social media.
by taking part in this call for text submissions the participants explicitly and automatically agree to these terms & conditions.

(c) simone f. baumann (für die sfd 2025)

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issues #01-06:

sfd& wut, sfd& gespenster, sfd& ohne netz, sfd& tiere, sfd& pataphysik, sfd& grotesk
>> https://sfd.at/publikationen