Print & Litfest
Submissions
2025-2026 Edition: Animalism
Deadline: January 20th
If you are submitting unthemed work or work that cannot feasibly be printed (ie video, works longer than 3,000 words, audio), please see the “Online Submissions” tab.
Poetry Guidelines
- All types of poetry will be considered
- All written work should be in a single document, with each poem or prose piece starting on a new page
- Ensure your name does not appear anywhere in the submission document(s), and if your name must appear within the content of the piece, understand that your submission screening process may no longer be anonymous unless we are able to redact it
- A single submitter may submit work in multiple or all genres
- Include “(poetry)” following the title of each poem
- Up to 5 poems may be submitted in each submission window
Prose Guidelines
- Fiction and creative nonfiction will be considered
- All written work should be in a single document, with each poem or prose piece starting on a new page
- Ensure your name does not appear anywhere in the submission document(s), and if your name must appear within the content of the piece, understand that your submission screening process may no longer be anonymous unless we are able to redact it
- A single submitter may submit work in multiple or all genres
- Include “(fiction)” or “(nonfiction)” following the title of each piece
- Prose pieces may be up to 3,000 words each
- Up to 3 prose pieces may be submitted in each submission window
Visual Art Guidelines
- Printable visual art (photography, digital art, high quality scans or photos of physical artwork, etc) will be considered
- All visual art should be submitted as separate jpg or png files
- Ensure your name does not appear anywhere in the submission document(s), and if your name must appear within the content of the piece, understand that your submission screening process may no longer be anonymous unless we are able to redact it
- Include the title of each piece as the submitted file names
- Up to 5 art pieces may be submitted in each submission window
All submission types use the below form:
Things we think embody Animalism:
“Scratching” by Demree McGhee, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, skinwalkers, Sperm Whale v. Giant Squid Diorama, the othered, mutations and malformations, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, susitse.art, that moment when you hold eye contact with a wild animal, Hellions by Julia Elliot, appreciation for one’s pet, sleeptlk, inhuman gods, oracle bones, photography from Francesca Woodman, Curran Hatleberg, and Diane Arbus
We’d like to see:
- repressed emotions
- poetry in places you wouldn’t expect
- escapism
- vampirism & lycanthropy
- becoming inhuman (morally, physically, or otherwise)
- and more…