Call for Chapbook Submissions: Porkbelly Press

Seeking Micro Chapbooks // Porkbelly Press 

Porkbelly Press seeks chapbooks (8 - 10 pages) for release in our 2019 line of chaps & micros. Porkbelly is an independent micro press based in Cincinnati. We’re a queer-friendly, feminist press open to all, and encourage works from poets & writers all along the identity spectrum. Submissions are fee-free. 

We’d like to see poetry, prose poems, micro fictions, flash fiction, flash essay, micro essays, and combinations or hybrids.

We’ll consider visual narratives / mini comics as well (black and white)! Subject matter is open, though we do prefer related pieces with a tight arc or connection—works that stand as a group even if they're from a larger body of work. Several times a month, we'll tweet theme ideas: @porkbellypress.

Simultaneous submissions considered.

We're reading through the month of July, closing at midnight on the last day of the month. We've moved to a bigger queue at submittable, so we shouldn't have to close early this year due to overflow.

More information here on our press, submission guidelines, & titles we've published or that are forthcoming.

Some things we're interested in this year include: beekeeping, science, space, astronomy, pop culture, chemistry, turtles, Doctor Who, cylons, tarot, baking, witchery, kitchen magic, hauntings, tall tales, traditions, farms, slow food, cooking, cornfields, farms, river towns, small towns, 90s pop culture, BtVS, cemeteries, monsters, mourning, deserts, archaeology, alchemy, art history, social justice, immigration stories, adventure, travel, exploration, and transition.