The themes at Wild Violet are always derived from the submissions accepted. If you are interested, however, in submitting material that could fit with upcoming themes, here are some of them:
- Autumn
- Cats
- Parenting
- The Body
- Halloween
- Life’s Journey
- Writing/Creativity
- Winter
We’ve also got a number of individual pieces that haven’t been put in categories yet. They deal with the following themes:
- Theft/subterfuge/secrets
- Grandmothers/family/possessions/legacy
- Women/abuse/domestic violence
- Military/bureaucracy
- Race relations/Jim Crow/civil rights/prejudice
- Customer service/corporations
About Alyce Wilson
Alyce Wilson is the editor of Wild Violet and in her copious spare time writes humor, non-fiction, fiction and poetry and infrequently keeps an online journal. Her first chapbook, Picturebook of the Martyrs; her e-book/pamphlet, Stay Out of the Bin! An Editor's Tips on Getting Published in Lit Mags ; her book of essays and columns, The Art of Life; her humorous nonfiction ebook, Dedicated Idiocy: How Monty Python Fandom Changed My Life, and her newest poetry collection, Owning the Ghosts, can all be ordered from her Web site, AlyceWilson.com. In late 2019, she published a volume of poetry by her third great-grandfather, Reading's Physician Poet: Poems by Dr. James Meredith Mathews, which also contains genealogical information about the Mathews family. She lives with her husband and son in the Philadelphia area and takes far too many photos of her handsome, creative son, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda.