Launched in May 2023 with sponsorship from the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement at Arizona State University, ISSUED is a journal for veterans voices that upholds standards of craft, an intersection that readers have cherished for centuries. Military-inspired literature is American literature. It’s a space of reclamation and preservation, of both History as well as personal and familial history, and the poetry and prose in ISSUED is carrying on that tradition.
Because we pride ourselves on both our national readership and community ethos, ISSUED also features profiles of veterans who are doing extraordinary work in their communities, whether it be through the arts, education, mental health, or advocacy. In other words, we’re a journal with a broad military-affiliated audience, not just a strictly literary one.
Finally, at ISSUED, we believe in the healing power of narrative medicine, and according to studies, when veterans read or write about service, they have better health outcomes. Thus, we hope that ISSUED will serve as a resource for veterans’ writing circles, discussion groups, treks, etc., i.e. be used to facilitate a heathier veteran community.
SUBMISSIONS
ISSUED is looking for work by active-duty, veterans, and family members—specifically, poetry and flash prose that expresses the spectrum of experiences within military life, including gender and sexuality, BIPOC voices, physical and mental health, combat, enlisting and separating, family and relationships, and reintegration into society. We also accept visual art in any genre.
Submit up to 3 poems or 1 piece of flash prose (1500 words or fewer). Send your submission in a single word doc to:
The submission deadline for the 2025 issue is December 31, 2024.
Please include a bio (100 words or less) that includes your military affiliation.
FAQs
All rights revert back to the author upon publication.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Feel free to send up to 5 pieces of visual art, but please do not send more than 3 poems or 1 piece of flash-length prose (fiction or nonfiction, 1500 words or fewer).
No comments:
Post a Comment