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smoke and mold is invested in the narrative possibilities trans lives bring to our changing nature-culture. We publish work that pushes at the edges of what it means to be trans and (un)natural, alive and uncategorizable, discrete and supra-organism, embodied and unsteady.
Call for Submissions for Issue 10, Spring/Summer 2024
**Deadline extended through Friday, March 22**
smoke and mold welcomes submissions of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, comics, work in translation, and work existing in interstitial spaces and across genres for Issue. Submissions will be accepted from March 3 through March 17, 2024 (now extended through March 22, 2024).
Issue 10 will mark smoke and mold’s first issue on our new Squaresquare website. To align with the tenets of the international Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement, we are currently in the process of divesting from Wix, Israel’s most valuable company, and moving our full issue archive to Squarespace. We are aiming for a May 2024 publication date for issue 10 and the new website.
Issue 10 is a general, unthemed issue. Before submitting, you can go here to learn more about our mission and read our latest issue, Issue 9, here.
Our issues are small, featuring 4-8 authors/artists at a time, so that we can give individualized editorial attention to each piece, and to encourage readers to engage with the whole issue. We read and respond to all submissions in a timely manner.
Please include a short bio in your cover letter. Prior publications are not a requirement, and we are proud of frequently being the first publication for many of our contributors.
We do accept simultaneous submissions; just please let us know if the work you’ve submitted has been accepted elsewhere.
All contributors are paid $100USD upon publication. Specific genre requirements for submissions are listed below:
Prose: Up to 4000 words, double-spaced. Please submit either a
Word doc or PDF.
Poetry: Submit up to 3 poems at a time. Please include all poems in a
single Word doc or PDF.
Hybrid work: Hybrid work is welcome! Follow the specifications above that most closely match your piece (s). Please submit either a Word doc
or PDF.
Comics and Visual Work: Submit a PDF either as an attachment or
Dropbox link.
Send your work following the specifications above to smokeandmoldjournal@gmail.com. Please include a brief bio/cover letter/introduction including any information you’d like us to know about yourself.
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Smoke and mold publishes two issues per year, roughly in spring and fall, but just like the edges of these seasons are changing, becoming less predictable, we also sometimes stretch the edges of these seasonal timelines. Usually at least one of these issues has a theme. We also occasionally publish special issues outside of this timeline.
Currently, we receive all submissions via email, and for the foreseeable future, we see no reason to change over to an automated submissions system. Every submission will be acknowledged with an email within a day or two. Please be patient with us, and please do not submit work outside of our submission windows. If you have not received a response acknowledging your submission within 48 hours, please feel free to follow up. Submissions sent outside of submission windows will not be read, nor acknowledged.
Our issues are small, featuring 4-8 authors/artists at a time, so that we can give individualized editorial attention to each piece, and to encourage readers to engage with the whole issue. We read and respond to all submissions in a timely manner.
Please include a short bio in your cover letter. Prior publications are not a requirement, and we are proud of frequently being the first publication for many of our contributors.
We do accept simultaneous submissions; just please let us know if the work you’ve submitted has been accepted elsewhere.
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