Monday, June 29, 2026

Call for Submissions: Feed the Holy

SUBMISSION CALL

These are fraught times. Share positive energy and help people achieve peace of mind and heart. What brings you joy? How do you feed the holy or sacred in your life or community? How do you nurture love and kindness? What is it like to be human in this world? How and why do we suffer? How and why do we grieve? How do we heal? How do we honor nature? Others? Ourselves? The topic is broad and nuanced. However, please read these guidelines and the post with other details about submitting.

Submissions are free and open year round.

1. Submit up to 3 poems, 1 personal essay/memoir, or 1 flash fiction piece at a time. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but once we have scheduled the submissions, we will not pull them. Word lengths for prose and fiction are negotiable.

2. Poetry: Left or center-aligned, minimal indenting. Prose: left-aligned

3. I prefer to select the images. However, original art can be submitted to illustrate your post. NO AI-generated images will be accepted.

4. Include a photo of you and a short third-person bio (50 words or less).

5. Reprints are acceptable. Please state where the work was first published.

6. Please proofread and edit before submitting (This includes the bio).

7. Email submissions to:

meelosmom@gmail.com 

In the Subject line, state "FEED THE HOLY SUBMISSION. Attach the submission as a Word document. Use Times New Roman 12.

8. Please pace submissions. Do not resubmit until your piece is published.

9. After publication, all rights revert to the author. If your work is republished in the future, please credit FEED THE HOLY as the previous publisher.

What we DON’T want:

1. NO ranting, racism, antisemitism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, or sexually explicit subject matter. No blaming or shaming. No profanity. We aspire to be a diverse community built on mutual respect.

2. This is NOT a forum to promote a religion, a political party, or a product. No horror themes or battles with Satan, please.

3. NO AI-composed writing, only human writing.

Before you submit, please read this post: Why Do We Feed the Holy?

I look forward to your submissions!

Barbara Leonhard, Editor

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