Call for Submissions on Theme of "Playground Boyfriend": Black Warrior Review's Boyfriend Village

 

Boyfriend Village is Black Warrior Review’s online edition, released once and sometimes twice a year.

In March 2018, BWR chose to rename and reconfigure its online issue in honor of Zach Doss, who had passed away unexpectedly. Zach was a dedicated BWR Editor and a brilliant writer of queer, fabulist, surprising works; Boyfriend Village has become a special haven for such writing and much, much more.

In honor of Zach’s bold vision and legacy, Boyfriend Village seeks to be a fully accessible space for unusual, boundary-pushing literary content, especially work from the margins, work that makes exciting use of digital platforms, and work that other well-established journals might overlook. We hope that with the increased online presence Boyfriend Village allows, we might provide a larger platform for underrepresented aesthetics and writing communities. Work found in Boyfriend Village resists and challenges notions of “the page” alongside other extraordinary pieces you might expect to find in the print issues of BWR.

Every issue of Boyfriend Village has a new Online Editor, who selects a new theme and keeps the village refreshed and moving forward, even as it honors a vital part of BWR history.

All Boyfriend Village contributors are paid for their work.

2026 Boyfriend Village: Playground Boyfriend

Black Warrior Review is seeking submissions of all genres for our tenth edition of Boyfriend Village: Playground Boyfriend.

For many of us, the playground is where we first act out dominant societal institutions: performing weddings, playing house, or building business empires from woodchips. However, the playground is also where the boundaries of those institutions can dissolve entirely. Yes, the wedding is still on, but today, the brides are both mermaid horses with ice powers. The playground is space for experimenting with possibility. How high can you swing? How dizzy can you make yourself? If the jump skins your knee today, will it do the same tomorrow? This ground is where discovery happens, where exploration runs reckless, where rules can be more than broken; they can be thrown out entirely. We all love work which surprises the audience, but when does the artist surprise themself? Playground Boyfriend seeks art which embraces play, whether that be through wordplay and constraint, a spiritual release of control, a refusal to settle in one genre, a commitment to silliness, radical acts of imagination, or digging wormful holes in the dirt.

In most spaces, it isn’t proper to play. Play is treated as a luxury, a distraction, an unnecessary accessory to adult existence. Playground Boyfriend begs to disagree and argues that play is a vital mode of accessing what could be, and that work which plays can explore all stages of life. On the playground, there is room to move wildly without the bounds of itineraries, rules, or conventions of the restrictive here and now. Play towards a realized queer futurity, imagine the potential for new worlds, unshackle your art from all traces of colonialism, heteronormativity, or hyperindividualism—build a playground divorced from so-called reality. Bring Playground Boyfriend your disobedient grammars, your funky mix, your improper, your bold and wise. Leap from monkey bar to cumulus cloud, tongue out to gravity.

Playground Boyfriend invites you to disrespect authority, smash borders, make up the rules, turn office buildings to jungle gyms. There is no one form of playground—though we love tire swings and seesaws as much as anyone—because anywhere can become a playground, even trees and oceans and superstores and kitchen tables and grass blades and sewer systems and housefires. Claim new grounds for creativity. Let your play sprawl. Playground Boyfriend is here, one knee pressed in the mud, offering a blue raspberry Ring-Pop in exchange for your love, your rage, your melancholy, your bittersweet. We want your anything, so long as it plays.

This year’s editor is Tillie Lefforge, and you can learn more about her vision for this year’s Boyfriend Village on Instagram.

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions are open between May 15th, 2026, and June 15th, 2026. While themed, this is open to interpretation. If you think your boyfriend(s) might belong in our village, don’t hesitate—send them along!

There is one submission category for all genres. We accept fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid, visual and multimedia art, as well as sound collage, video, games, and more. For graphic, audio, and visual work, if Submittable accepts the file type, so will we! Color images are welcome. If submittable doesn’t accept the file type, feel free to email us at:

onlineeditors.bwr@gmail.com 

You may use your cover letter to tell us as much or as little about yourself & your work as you like. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. 

Though we welcome submissions of all forms of art, the following are general guidelines on length: 

• For prose, under 6000 words is preferable.
• For flash (pieces under 1000 words), you may include up to three pieces.
• For poetry, five poems or less is ideal.

Again, these are just guidelines; they’re here to give you an idea of the typical length we’re willing to accept. For submissions that can’t be measured by word count, just keep in mind how much time is needed to fully engage with the work. We suggest that you look through past issues of Boyfriend Village as a guide on what would be an appropriate length to submit.

AI Statement: Work that has been created in any part with the assistance of AI tools is not eligible for submission or publication.

There is a $5 submission fee. Submission fees are used to compensate contributors. If you need a fee waiver for any reason, please email us at:

feewaiver.bwr@gmail.com

to request one.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Oasis": Thin Air Magazine

 

Thin Air Magazine

Submissions for Thin Air 33 (Print) are OPEN 

Deadline: Oct. 18, 2026

Thin Air Online is open year-around!

Theme: Oasis–

Oasis is defined in Merriam Webster as the following: a fertile or green area in an arid region (such as a desert)
something that provides refuge, relief, or pleasant contrast

For Thin Air Magazine’s upcoming issue, we seek to expand upon this notion.

In a turbulent, and at times seemingly desolate world, what is your oasis? Where do you seek shelter, or find comfort? What spaces fill, sustain, and save you? Is your oasis the physical body, spiritual self, home, community, or another source? How does one create sanctuary in the desert of the world?

Alternatively, we consider the conditions that are required to produce the oasis, and subsequently, what surrounds it.

For there to be an oasis, there must first exist a desert. An oasis can only exist when it is surrounded by, or contrasted by, a severe lack of something crucial to survival. What does it mean to be surrounded by a landscape of hostility, scarcity, or exclusion? In other words, what is your desert, and what drives you to find your oasis? Hunger? Thirst? Reprieve? Or is it something else entirely?

With this in mind, we wonder what else the oasis can represent.

What if the oasis can be a form of resistance? We think of the various forms of sanctuaries that are created in the midst of violence, fear, and the ever escalating political tensions: what oases have you noticed forming in the face of danger, desolation, and inaccessibility?

As creatives, we know that writing may even serve as an oasis and constant. In your creative, safe, and bold spaces, we encourage you to write all that you feel, see, and know of these oasis possibilities.

Submitting comes with a $3.00 reading fee. In an effort to minimize barriers and encourage work from marginalized writers, we will wave this fee upon request at our discretion.

Please review our general and genre-specific guidelines below:

• We accept fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words.

• We accept up to three poems in one document totaling five or fewer pages.

• We only consider unpublished work. Please do not submit material previously published in anthologies, chapbooks, online, or on personal websites (including FB, Twitter/X, Insta, Flickr, blogs, etc.)

• We accept simultaneous submissions. If any part of your submission is selected for publication elsewhere, please notify us immediately using Submittable.

• In an effort to encourage submissions from both established and emerging writers with diverse voices, we read all submissions blind. Do not include any identifying information within your submission.

• Thin Air Magazine does not accept work from anyone affiliated with Northern Arizona University within the last 7 years.

• Thin Air Magazine aims to respond to your submission within 3-5 months. If you submit April-August, know that we likely won’t be able to respond until September when school is back in session. We appreciate your patience! Our staff is a volunteer-graduate-student-run magazine and we strive to read every submission carefully before making a decision.

Formatting Specifications:

• Please use Times New Roman, 12pt., double-spaced, 1 inch margins for all submissions except poetry, which should remain single-spaced.

• INCLUDE page numbers and a word count at the top of your manuscript.

• DO NOT INCLUDE your name/identifiers in your manuscript.

• If the unique format of your submission is critical to the piece, please feel free to keep your unique formatting.

• Note that we may have to alter format for printing due to physical restraints and requirements.

Copyright: We ask for first North American serial rights for work published in Thin Air Magazine. Copyright is retained by the author at all times.

Submission Expectations

Thin Air has a responsibility to build a safe, diverse community for contributors and readers alike. We have no tolerance for writing that is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, body shaming, Islamophobic, anti-semitic, or in any other way cruel. Your writing may, and in fact is encouraged to, grapple productively with these subjects. Do not send us unchecked bigotry or hate speech.

Acknowledgement

Thin Air is run by NAU graduate students on the Kinłání (occupied Flagstaff, Arizona) campus. We sit at the base of the Dook'o'oosłííd, on homelands sacred to Native Americans throughout the region. We strive to acknowledge and commemorate the indigenous past, present, and future of Kinłání.

Accountability

Thin Air is not and will never be perfect, but that doesn’t mean we won’t try. We strive to be an active voice for universal equity, and we commit to using our position in the literary world to uplift historically underrepresented voices and fight for the decolonization of literary magazines. If you notice we have missed the mark on anything, no matter how small, please reach out to us at:

thinairlitmag@gmail.com 

We thank you for your help on our path to becoming our best selves.

Thin Air Online

Thin Air Online is looking for your poems, art, fiction, hybrid works, tiny films, nonfiction, humor, songs, paintings, collages, interpretative dances, jokes, audio projects, and other precious creations. We especially appreciate submissions that don’t exactly fit into printed mediums.

NAU’s Thin Air literary website is invites its university community to submit their work. Submissions are open to all. Thin Air Online looks particularly for work that is playful but serious, in form, in content, however that might apply to you. Please do not submit seasonal work.

There is no reading fee for TAO, but we carefully select our publications. So submit away! If you want to support our work, please donate.

Please review our general and genre-specific guidelines for TAO below:

• Include a title in the title line.

• Clearly label your submission’s genre (Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art, Genre-Defying/Hybrid).

• Clearly write your submission's title.

• Written submissions must be 5,000 words or less.

• Submit poems in batches up to 3.

• Video and audio pieces must be shorter than 10 minutes.

• We only consider unpublished work. Please do not submit material previously published in anthologies, chapbooks, online, or on personal websites (including FB, Twitter/X, Insta, Flickr, blogs, etc.)

• We accept simultaneous submissions. If any part of your submission is selected for publication elsewhere, please notify us immediately using Submittable.

• In an effort to encourage submissions from both established and emerging writers with diverse voices, Thin Air Online reads all submissions blind. Do not include any identifying information within your submission.

• Thin Air Online aims to respond to your submission within 3-5 months. If you submit April-August, know that we likely won’t be able to respond until September when school is back in session. We appreciate your patience! Our staff is a volunteer-graduate-student-run magazine and we strive to read every submission carefully before making a decision.

Copyright: We ask for first North American online serial rights. If your work is selected for Thin Air Online, we ask for exclusive online rights for 60 days from the date of publication. Copyright is retained by the author at all times.

Thank you for submitting!

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: Peatsmoke Journal

 

We accept previously unpublished poetry, fiction, flash, and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know right away if your work is accepted elsewhere. You can include a cover letter full of amusing tidbits about you or of fascinating trivia you learned from a podcast recently, but we are not interested in reading a list of the journals your work has appeared in. What is important to us is that you are sending us writing that feels urgent and necessary, work that is ready to go out for a stroll in the world. As a journal, we are committed to publishing diverse voices of all kinds.

We know how nerve-wracking it can be to check your inbox every morning, hoping to hear back from a journal, so we do our best to make our turnaround time as quick as possible. We will try to respond to every submission within two months, if not sooner. Please do not send more than one submission in any genre until you have heard back from us.

Unfortunately, we will sometimes need to charge for submissions. We are a small volunteer staff with a limited budget, and this charge will cover only our costs for running Submittable. However, we want to ensure that submitting to Peatsmoke remains accessible to all. We will provide as many free submission periods as we can throughout the year. If you are submitting during a paid submission period and are unable to pay the $3 submission fee, please send us an email at:

editors@peatsmokejournal.com 

letting us know, and we will waive your submission fee. Also, we offer free submissions for marginalized writers, as it is so important to us to support the words of those who have been traditionally underrepresented in the writing community.

Big News: We are now paying contributors!

We pay $10/per piece. We wish it were more, and hopefully it will be in the future. We would love to pay a million dollars/piece, since that is how much we feel you’re worth. We will also give your work a forever home on our website, sing your praises, and always love you! We nominate for prizes and anthologies, including Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. If published with us, we ask that you give Peatsmoke First North American Serial Rights and electronic media rights to your work. The copyright reverts back to the author upon publication, but we ask that Peatsmoke be acknowledged if the work is subsequently published in book form or reprinted in another venue.

We aren't looking for particular styles or types of writing, but here are some things we consider when reading:

Fiction

We’re into fiction that explores the human condition with empathy and curiosity. We love reading fully realized characters who are pushed and challenged, and clear, carefully-crafted sentences that bring them to life. Speculative and experimental work is absolutely welcome here.

Important: One story per submission between 1,001-7,000 words.

Flash

We love flash with strong sentence-level writing and compelling images that hold a moment and explode it, taking us to unexpected depths in a small space. We're excited to receive both flash fiction and flash CNF. If it's important to you that we know the genre you're submitting, please drop us a note in your cover letter to tell us. Realism, speculative, and experimental work, or a mix of all of these, is very welcome. Feel free to get weird — we’re here for it.

Important: An individual flash should be no longer than 1000 words. You may include up to 3 pieces in your submission.

Poetry

Nothing excites us more than a stellar combination of image and sound. We’re interested in how the two collide and inform each other and the work they’re doing. Images that have energy are the best images. Sounds and forms that follow content are the best sounds and forms. We want to be able to understand what’s going on in your poem by the weight and lilt of it in our mouths. We read everything aloud. We pay attention to line breaks. If we’ve seen it before, we don’t want to publish it. Please send up to three poems of any length.

Nonfiction

We love nonfiction pieces we can’t classify. If it’s a brief flash prose poem using academic language that’s also a sonnet, we want to read it. We most admire essays that (like poetry) emphasize image, that show the process of discovery. Please send only one piece at a time.

Artwork

Peatsmoke features artists in each issue, with art paired with each story and poem and displayed prominently on our main page. We are into any kind of 2-D art that appears well on a website, with the exception of comics. Send us your collage, your photography, your paintings, your drawings, your woodcuts, your etchings, your linotypes, your sand art — whatever it is, we'd love to check it out. For our consideration, please give us a submission of 5-10 images. Please send only one submission at a time, and wait until you have received a response before submitting again.

Sometimes it can take months, even up to a year, before we accept or decline, a submission, especially if we like your work. We pair art and writing, so finding a match can take time, but we realize the long wait can be frustrating. If you want an update, feel free to send our art editor, Shagufta, a message after it has been three months since you submitted. If you would like to have your submission opened for editing to replace art that was accepted elsewhere, let us know at any time.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Metaworker

Submission windows for 2026:
April 1 to May 31
September 1 to October 31

Here at The Metaworker, we are looking for writing and art that offers a wide range of new perspectives, upends stereotypes and tropes, plays with form or style, or that otherwise surprises, challenges, or enchants. The pieces we publish may sometimes be a little rough around the edges but we enjoy them because they are one of a kind works. We accept any genre or style from people of all backgrounds.

We publish a new piece every Monday at 12pm Pacific. We also post on Fridays and sometimes Wednesdays, depending on how many submissions we accept or what fun projects we have going on (like our podcast episodes and newsletter).

Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know:

• Include a bio written in 3rd person.

• Cover letter optional but appreciated.

• Simultaneous submissions are okay.

• Reprints published at least 2 years prior are okay.

• You cannot submit to more than one call simultaneously. Submit to EITHER general call OR micro call OR Art/Misc.

• Pieces will be published as-is. We do not accept revisions (unless requested) nor do we edit pieces (except for light proofreading).

• Response time: 3-6 months.

• If you’ve been accepted, please wait 3 months before submitting again.

Read below for details about our three calls.

Submission Requirements for General Call:

WANT: 

• 2 pieces max (aka 2 individual poems or prose pieces).

• 3,000 words total (with page numbers). If you send two pieces, the total word count of both pieces should not be more than approx. 3k words combined.

• Submit .doc .docx .txt or .rtf formats for prose.

• Send each piece in a separate file.

• Accompanying translations are okay to send alongside the English version.

• Any genres and styles.

• Works created by humans.

DO NOT WANT:

• Text written, co-written, or assisted by generative AI or LLMs. (Spell check and basic grammar check are okay.)

• Huge novel excerpts or 3+ pieces – these will be automatically declined.

• The only contact info we need from you is your email. Including other info (like address and phone number) in your submission documents is unnecessary for us.

• Submissions by email are not accepted (unless for accessibility reasons).

• Research papers or news articles.

• Racist, ableist, sexist, or other discriminatory works.

• Gore or sex for the sake of shock value.

• Fonts that are unreadable.

HARD SELLS:

• Political rants
• Cancer stories
• Wake-up stories / it’s all just a dream
• Death at the end (See former EIC Matthew’s article about this)

Submission Requirements for Micro Call:

WANT:

• You may submit EITHER micro prose OR micro poetry, but not both. 

• Micro Prose: up to 5 pieces, 10 to 300 words each

• Send all pieces in a single file.

• Pieces that make every word count!

• Strong sense of place or character.

• Pieces that leave an emotional impact and/or that are more than the sum of their parts.

OR:

• Micro Poetry up to 5 pieces, each 60 words or less

• Send all pieces in a single file.

• Surprise us! (With wordsmithery :P)

DO NOT WANT:

• Text written, co-written, or assisted by generative AI or LLMs. (Spell check and basic grammar check are okay.)

• Prose pieces that read like the setup of a joke, with the last sentence being the punchline.

Submission Requirements for Art & Miscellaneous Call:

• You may submit no more than 2 pieces of: Visual art, collage, or photography, but we do NOT accept AI art

• Web comics / illustrations / comic strip style pieces / graphic novel or picture book excerpts / plays and screenplays / hybrid works / etc.

• Experimental pieces (3,000 words max) that work well in an online format, such as: Audio pieces / monologues / spoken word

• Ergodic stories

• Multimodal stories that include gifs or hyperlinks

• Anything else up to 3,000 words that doesn’t fit neatly into one category–surprise us! (Check out our Wish List for more ideas.)

If you send two writing pieces, the total word count of both pieces should not be more than approx. 3k words combined.

For art, please include details about camera, lens, drawing/painting medium, collage materials, etc. and a short description of your piece, such as the location, what inspired you, how long it took to complete, etc.

Stick to .jpeg, .png or .tiff files. Audio/video should be in .mp3 or .mp4

Place EACH of your submissions in its own individual file. (separate docs for writing, separate jpegs for images).

More information and submission portal here. 

Call for Submissions: Sundog Lit

 

Schedule

We publish two issues a year, September 1 and March 1. We accept general submissions for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction between two reading periods, and the first 300 submissions to each are free. We also accept visual art all year.

General Submissions: March 1 – May 1
General Submissions: October 1 – December 1

Payment

We are thrilled to finally be able to say that, starting with issue 17, we will be able to offer our contributors a small payment of $50 upon publication.

A Note on Our Aesthetic

We believe there is beauty in scars on smooth skin, in the small fissures where things begin to break apart. Sundogs are not the sun itself but phantom stars appearing on the horizon, illusions produced by the play of the sun’s heat with crystals of ice. They shed their light all the same. Many are tinged with color.

We look for this same quality in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We want writing that attempts to salvage something pure from the collision of warmth and cold, that says what it can about the world it finds itself in. We seek a diversity of voices speaking from visceral, lived experience. We like truth we can stare at until our eyes water, words so carefully chosen we want to reread them as soon as we have finished.

Practical Matters

We are grateful to be a part of a literary community that is taking action against systemic racism. We will also be donating submission fees from our current reading period towards Black-led organizations and anti-racist collectives. In the next year, 25% of our submission fees will be donated, as well. Thank you in advance for helping us work together for change.

The best way to know the preferences of our individual editors is to read the journal. Our genre editors also take over our Twitter from time to time to discuss work we’ve published and why. Check it out at #editortalk.

Sundog Lit is serious about representing the literary scene and supporting diverse and underrepresented voices. We want to hear from women, people of color, queer and trans writers, and every community who pushes our world away from the oppressive status quo. This is our commitment to literature; hold us to that standard.

One submission at a time, please. We happily accept simultaneous submissions, though please withdraw immediately if accepted elsewhere. If part of a packet submission, note the withdrawal in a note on Submittable. We do not consider previously published material nor do we accept email submissions. Please address your submission to the appropriate genre editor, and be mindful of correct pronoun usage in your cover letter.

Submit your work here. 

Call for Submissions: The Capra Review

The Capra Review is an annual online magazine of fiction, nonfiction, photography, and art. We review submissions on a rolling basis. Authors should expect notification of acceptance status within three months of submission.

We welcome simultaneous submissions that have not been previously published in print or online. Please inform us promptly if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Contributors retain all rights to their work. We humbly ask that the original publication in The Capra Review be acknowledged for future reprints.\

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer payment at this time.

General Guidelines

We suggest a 5,000-word limit, but we will consider longer pieces.

Fiction: Short stories and stand-alone novel excerpts.

Non-fiction: Memoirs, personal essays, narratives, letters, travel journals, and confessions. We do not accept peer-review or academic articles.

Photography: Photo series/stories with a narrative or theme. Upon acceptance, we follow up with an artist interview to publish alongside the work.

Cover art: photographic series of paintings, collages, and sculptures.

Send submissions to:

thecaprareview@gmail.com 

in one of the following file forms: .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .docx, .txt, mp4, .mov., jpeg.

Call for Submissions: The Rebis

 

Submissions are open January 18-February 17, 2026.

The fifth anthology of The Rebis will focus on The Moon (XVIII), and we are open for submissions from January 18-February 17 at 12pm PT.

As with previous issues, the work should be deeply intimate. We are looking for original writing, artwork, and any other form of creative expression that you dream up inspired by the 18th card of the Major Arcana. Send us work that is subversive, provocative, erotic, and deliciously alive.

We are interested in exploring: 

• nonlinear time, ancestral time, dream time

• ancestry, inherited memory & collective grief

• disorientation & bewilderment

• resistance to Western logics of coherence

• diverse cultural understandings of the Moon

• tidal intelligence & water stories (Tidalectics, flood states, brackish zones, amniotic memory)

• lunar states beyond Full/New Moon (progressed lunations, eclipses)

• subcultural spaces & underground worlds

• nonhuman consciousness, shapeshifting, anti-anthropomorphism, biodiversity

• themes inspired by Borderlands/La Frontera (Gloria Anzaldúa)

• protection magic

• decolonial, Black, feminist, and mythic frameworks

• work inspired by thinkers such as David Abram, Bayo Akomolafe, Octavia Butler, Gloria Anzaldúa, Edouard Glissant, Hélène Cixous, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Toni Morrison, Rebecca Solnit, Christina Sharpe, Simone Weil, Francis Weller

The ideas shared here are simply thought-starters. We encourage you to take an imaginative, deconstructionist lens. We are looking for diversity and originality in both creative techniques, artistic formats, and concepts explored.

To submit, please fill out this form.

Writing: We are especially interested in publishing experimental and genre-bending work (creative non-fiction, short stories, flash fiction). Personal memoirs, researched articles, interviews, and poetry are all welcome, too. For full guidelines, please refer to the submissions form.

Artwork: Photography, illustrations, paintings, comics/graphic stories, digital art, and collage art are all welcome. Multimedia work that weaves print + digital into an immersive and/or interactive experience is always fun. Artwork needs to fit into our vertical magazine orientation. For full guidelines, please refer to the submissions form.

Collaborative work: We enjoy seeing work incorporating multiple collaborators—art and writing that pair together, dual bylines, an epistolary project, etc. If you are submitting as a collaborative project, please submit one time only, but include the names, bios, and links to examples of work for all people involved.

Only submit unpublished work: Please submit previously unpublished work. By "unpublished" we mean that it hasn’t appeared in any print or digital publications beyond your own social channels or website.

To submit: Please fill out this form by 12pm PT February 17, 2026. Contributor decisions will be made in February, and complete/final work will be due in mid-April.

Questions: If you have any questions about the submissions process, please email:

submissions@therebis.com

We love workshopping ideas and helping you bring your concepts to life.

AI policy: We do not accept AI-generated content or artwork.

Payment: The Rebis believes in compensating writers and artists for their work. Right now, we can afford to pay each contributor $200 for longer-form essays or short stories, and two pages of poetry or artwork. We pay $100 for pieces of flash fiction, single page poems, and one page of artwork.

Disclaimer: By submitting your work to The Rebis, you agree to grant our publication first serial rights as well as electronic archival rights. If your submission is accepted, you’ll grant The Rebis a license to use the submission on all its assets; however, you’ll retain ownership. By submitting your work, you confirm that your work is original and does not violate copyright laws. Full terms will be sent out in a Contributor Agreement.

Call for Submissions: Fieldnotes

 

FIELDNOTES is inviting submissions for its eighth issue!

DEADLINE: 9 March 2026

We are searching for fresh departures. We are seeking submissions of text and visual material across all forms, including but not limited to: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, interview pitches, conversations, collaborations, work-in-translation, photography, drawing and collage. We welcome non-conforming submissions, works between text and image, experimental forms and poetic innovations. Writers and artists anywhere in the world are encouraged to submit.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES AND MATERIALS:

FN008 OPEN CALL GUIDELINES (PDF)
FN008 OPEN CALL FAQs (PDF)
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FORM (LINK)

Contributors selected from the Open Call will be paid a fee (between £150-£250) for original content not published elsewhere. We will work collaboratively with contributors to develop and edit all works before publication.

The best way to get a sense of the kind of work we publish is to buy a previous issue! Copies and concessions are available in our online shop.

SUBMISSION FEE:

£4 / FREE for those on low incomes or unwaged / FREE for subscribers
You can claim the cost of submission as a discount against any purchase from our online shop using the discount code FN008SD at checkout.

SUBMISSION FORMATS: 

Text submissions: maximum 6000 words or 15 pages in total, in Word or PDF format.
Image submissions: maximum 15 images in total, maximum size 2 MB, images can be sent in JPEG or PDF format.
Mixed submissions of text and image are welcome.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES AND MATERIALS:

FN008 OPEN CALL GUIDELINES (PDF)
FN008 OPEN CALL FAQs (PDF)
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FORM (LINK)

Contributors selected from the Open Call will be paid a fee (between £150-£250) for original content not published elsewhere. We will work collaboratively with contributors to develop and edit all works before publication.

The best way to get a sense of the kind of work we publish is to buy a previous issue! Copies and concessions are available in our online shop.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Please pay the submission fee here or request a concessionary code by emailing

info@fieldnotes.site

• Include the completed order number in the subject line of your submission email.

• Title each submission file with your name and a file number (example: Jane_Smith1.jpeg). This is important! Otherwise we can’t track your submission once it enters our database.

• Send your submission via email as attachments to:

submissions@fieldnotes.site

• Please send submissions as attachments not as images embedded in the body of the email or as links for Wetransfer, Google Drive or similar.

Complete and submit an Equal Opportunities Form online.