Where to Submit Roundup: August 8, 2025

🌡️ It’s Friday!

Sadly, the rain seems to be avoiding my area like the plague, and my vegetable garden could really use some TLC to help its struggling plants along. If your area is also bracing for yet another awful heat wave, NewPages has plenty to keep you cool and help you meet your submission goals. Take a break, watch a movie, go to the beach, get recharged to write, edit, submit, and repeat!

🎤 This Week’s Inspiration: K-pop Demon Hunters

I’m late to the trend, but thanks to its explosive popularity, I finally caved and watched K-pop Demon Hunters on Netflix—even my non-K-pop-loving family members loved it! Now its characters, plot, and of course music are living rent-free in my head. And while it’s an animated movie, it’s packed with deep themes—perfect for nudging your creative juices.

Instead of one singular prompt, here are three creative prompts inspired by this trending film. Whether you write fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, or songs—or work in visual mediums like graphic narratives, collage, or mixed media—these themes are ripe for exploration:

1. Idols and Exorcists
What happens when fame meets the supernatural?
Explore the tension between public personas and private battles. Whether it’s a pop star haunted by literal demons or a poet wrestling with the ghosts of their past, this prompt invites stories and artworks where performance and identity collide.

2. The Stage Is a Battlefield
Behind the curtain, everything is at stake.
In the movie, the girls struggle to write a new song powerful enough to defeat the growing power of the Demon King—a perfect metaphor for creative block. Explore the emotional intensity of creative spaces, the pressure to produce, and the quiet (or maybe sometimes loud) wars we wage in pursuit of art.

3. The Demon You Know
Sometimes the scariest monsters live inside us.
Think addiction, grief, ambition, shame—how do our inner demons shape our creative lives? What is hidden behind a public persona that you are afraid to show to the world? A great fit for essays, poetry, scripts, and visual works that don’t shy away from emotional depth.

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