Submissions are Open for The Heart of Us Anthology
To love is to experience the most human connection. It’s vulnerable. It’s messy. It’s perfectly imperfect. Love sustains us and teaches us lessons. And while the act of loving shouldn’t break our hearts, the absence of it does. It’s the easiest and the hardest thing we will ever do.
In The Heart of Us, we want to tell stories centering around relationships where love is at the root—all kinds of love. Romantic. Platonic. Parental. Spiritual. Tell us about a time when love conquered all… or when love wasn’t enough.
Submissions Open: August 31, 2024
Submission Close: November 30, 2024
What we want:
- Creative non-fiction stories (not to exceed 5,000 words)
- Poetry
- Essays
- Original artwork (black and white is best for printing)
- A wide range of emotions. This is not just an anthology of sweet and uplifting. We want the hard parts, too.
- Representation of all types of love, relationships, and gender identities
- We do accept reprints.
What we don’t want:
- Fiction
- Erotica. We recognize that sex can be an expression of love, but we wish to keep this anthology free of explicit sex, particularly since the people depicted are real. If it’s absolutely essential to the narrative, please keep it poetic.
Copyrights and Payment
You, as the author, retain all rights to your work. All artists retain the rights to any published artwork.
As with our other Of Us Anthologies, chosen submissions will be unpaid. All proceeds from book sales will go to the American Heart Association. You can read about their mission at https://www.heart.org
How to Submit
Please fill out a Google form submission HERE. We do take multiple submissions, but we kindly ask you to create a separate document for each piece and submit a form for each one. You may submit up to three (3) separate submissions.
Make sure the share settings on your Google Doc are not restricted. Due to the expected volume of submissions, we can only request access to view your document once. How to change share settings in Google Docs: In the top right corner of your document, click the blue “Share” button. In the pop-up window, click the drop-down menu under “General Access.” (It automatically defaults to “Restricted.”) Change from “Restricted” to “Anyone with the Link,” then hit “Done” so our readers can view your piece. Thanks!
We understand that Google isn’t everyone’s preferred submission method, but we cannot take submissions in any other form at this time. Please reach out if you need assistance.
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