Thank you for sharing this! 💚 It's even more of a point towards making the cover letters optional As for the themes, speaking for Last Leaves specifically: we try to make them a bit more open-ended. We do provide questions as a helpful springboard, but we love when people send us work that interprets the theme in a way we haven't thought of. And sometimes, we'll get pieces that don't fit the theme at all but that are too amazing to pass up, so we take them anyway 😂 we're not very strict when it comes to interpretation