11/17/2025
Submissions are open! LeChat Noir: Alternative Histories...with Cats
Carefully placed cats.
Any historical event, add a cat. How does it change the world?
Submissions are open Closes June 2026 or when full
Please review the full Writer's Challenge: here: https://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/roses-wildflowers-spring-2026-submissions-2/
Published Autumn Equinox, 2026
We are on Submissions Grinder and Duotrope
We are looking for short stories, poetry, and audio.
Submission Guidelines: https://societyforritualarts.com/rw/2024-spring/submission-guidelines/
Audio Guidelines: https://societyforritualarts.com/rw/2024-spring/audio-submissions/
We will open early and until November 30 for people living in climate related disaster areas and war zones . Please note this status on your cover letters
We open for everyone else on December 1. We close June 2026 or when full.
Please state: Autumn 2026 “Le Chat Noir” on your manuscript under the word count.
Le Chat Noir: Alternative Histories … With Cats.
In history, be it in the wild or content in our houses, Panthera or Felinae, felis domesticus or the ancestor of the tabby on your couch, Proailurus, cats have had a unique place. Loved, adored, worshiped, cherished and hated, feared and persecuted in equal measure we dedicate this issue to The Cat.
Premise: In an alternate world, Le Chat Noir at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart is presided over by Madame La Ch**te and Les Hydropathes, who eschew water for wine and advocate their sociopolitical and aesthetic agendas.
The patrons come through a secret door on the Seine from places and times where history has run very differently, all because of a Cat. What tales do the patrons of this establishment bring? What secrets are shared between the numbers by the chanteuse of the evening and, especially, when the night grows old and even Paris sleeps? What empires have risen and fallen because of the whispers shared in the darkened corners of the Cabaret between worlds and at the edge of time?
It is here that Rodolphe Salis plays the role of conférencier expounding upon the philosophy of le Salon des Arts Incohérents.
It is here that the Les Dames Folles des Chats sip absinthe and plot revolution.
Madame La Ch**te, herself, looks on all with wry amusement and a feline twitch of an ear and a gallic shrug as she grooms her luxurious coat of fur.
Published Autumn Equinox, 2026
We are on Submissions Grinder and Duotrope
We are looking for short stories, poetry, and audio.
Submission Guidelines: https://societyforritualarts.com/rw/2024-spring/submission-guidelines/
Audio Guidelines: https://societyforritualarts.com/rw/2024-spring/audio-submissions/
We will open early and until November 30 for people living in climate related disaster areas and war zones . Please note this status on your cover letters
We open for everyone else on December 1. We close June 2026 or when full.
Please state: Autumn 2026 “Le Chat Noir” on your manuscript under the word count.
Le Chat Noir: Alternative Histories … With Cats.
In history, be it in the wild or content in our houses, Panthera or Felinae, felis domesticus or the ancestor of the tabby on your couch, Proailurus, cats have had a unique place. Loved, adored, worshiped, cherished and hated, feared and persecuted in equal measure we dedicate this issue to The Cat.
Premise: In an alternate world, Le Chat Noir at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart is presided over by Madame La Ch**te and Les Hydropathes, who eschew water for wine and advocate their sociopolitical and aesthetic agendas.
The patrons come through a secret door on the Seine from places and times where history has run very differently, all because of a Cat. What tales do the patrons of this establishment bring? What secrets are shared between the numbers by the chanteuse of the evening and, especially, when the night grows old and even Paris sleeps? What empires have risen and fallen because of the whispers shared in the darkened corners of the Cabaret between worlds and at the edge of time?
It is here that Rodolphe Salis plays the role of conférencier expounding upon the philosophy of le Salon des Arts Incohérents.
It is here that the Les Dames Folles des Chats sip absinthe and plot revolution.
Madame La Ch**te, herself, looks on all with wry amusement and a feline twitch of an ear and a gallic shrug as she grooms her luxurious coat of fur.
Call for Autumn 2026 Open – Le Chat Noir Alternative Histories… With Cats Le Chat Noir Alternative Histories … With Cats Carefully placed cats. Submissions open NOW Closes June 2026, or when full Published Autumn Equinox, 2026 We are on Submissions Grinder ...
