The theme for the next edition of The Avenue will be Love. What’s not to love about love? Love stinks, love makes the world go round, love is everywhere, love is the drug. We want to see what you have done with the topic and how you have interpreted it in your work. 

• Double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced) pages in either Word or PDF.
• Numbered pages.
• Please use the following format for your submission: last name_title 
• Fiction and nonfiction: No more than 5,000 words. Excerpts of longer works are welcome if self-contained.
• Poetry: Submit up to three poems in separate documents.
• Carefully copy-edit and proof your work. We’re not against a typo or two, or even an occasion of their/they’re/there. However, do the courtesy of proofing your work. We’re a small staff and copy-editing should be done as much as possible prior to submission.
• Please be thematically sound. We have a theme and we want you to relate to it in some way. We want it to be inventive and creative, but it can’t be tenuous.
• Please strive to be inoffensive. We’re not against harsh language, sexuality, a depiction of the real world or offensive subject matter, but there has to be a context.
• Unsolicited criticism is not considered.

 There will be a reading and release party in February in Baltimore to celebrate the journal. All contributors are welcome to attend and participate.