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.
Before you submit, please read this post:
Submission Call: Why Do We Feed the Holy?
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. Include a photo of you and a short third-person bio (50 words or fewer).
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!
meelosmom@gmail.com
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Thanks so much for taking the reins on something we all need to be aware of. That holy place. Relishing there and then bringing the presence into our everyday living is the best way to change things in our current lives. I've always felt the holy connection of knowing you through your poetry books and MUSA, so happy you thought of this holy cove we can all submit to.
ReplyDeleteThis will be a trial to see if my comment makes it through. I'm on desktop now. But when on my phone I'll probably appear as Anon, and I do not know how to change that. Anyway, thanks, Barbara. Blessings. Happy Merry Everything.
Thank you, dearest Selma! I hope you submit sometime! Your poetry is so hopeful!
DeleteI enjoyed working with "Feed the Holy" on my short story "The Last Road Race." Definitely submit here!
ReplyDeleteThank you, John! Please submit again. :-)
DeleteI've just learned of your beautiful publication and would love to offer something. Do you have a word count guideline on essays? 🙏
ReplyDeleteHello, Vishwam. We accept poems, flash fiction, and short memoir. We do not accept expository essays. the flash fiction and memoir pieces should not exceed 1200 words.
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