Thank you for visiting WORDPEACE. Here are the current calls and guidelines:
Submissions are now OPEN August 1st throught October 1st for the winter/spring 2025 issue. WORDPEACE is a semi-annual digital project of literary response to world events in the spirit of promoting peace, hope and justice for all people. We are looking for previously unpublished essays, interviews, fiction and poetry (or mixed media) to publish which reflect this aim. We welcome international, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled and neurodiverse voices. We want work that asks for positive change and is forward thinking. We publish writing that takes a stand against corruption and greed, brutality, genocide, and oligarchy. The theme for the next issue will be Climate Change/ecopoetry, prose and art, so get out your essays, artwork, stories and poems that speak to wildfires, drought, heatwaves, extreme rain, hurricanes, tornados and other weather or natural phenomena, as well as how climate change affects us and those we love, both people and animals. Submissions on other social justice issues are always welcome. Future special issues will be announced on our website at wordpeace.co
Submission periods for WORDPEACE, a semi-annual online journal of literary response to world events are February 1 - April 1 (for Aug/Sept publication) and Aug 1 - October 1 (for Feb/March publication). Poetry, short fiction (up to 3000 words), non-fiction essays (up to 3000 words) and visual art are welcome. The journal is published twice yearly at wordpeace.co, usually in July and February.
We are also open to hybrid forms. If you are submitting a piece of writing with art that goes with it, please submit the entire thing in one category, or you may get a rejection on one part and an acceptance on the other (if that's okay, go ahead and submit separately).
General Submission Guidelines:
We are looking for previously unpublished poems, stories (up to 3000 words), creative non-fiction essays (3000 word limit), personal essays (3000 word limit), visual art, hybrid work, reviews and interviews that reflect or are in conversation with social justice themes. We want work that asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, is forward thinking, and takes a stand in the face of corruption and greed, brutality, xenophobia, homophobia, prejudice, genocide and oligarchy.
Monica Barron, Nonfiction Editor
Lisa C. Taylor, Fiction Editor/ Associate Poetry Editor
Russell Taylor, Art Editor
Lee Desrosiers, Founding/Managing Editor / Associate Poetry Editor
Questions: wordpeace.editors@gmail.com
Poetry: Include no more than 5 poems in one (1) doc, docx or pdf file. Do not put your name or other identifying information on your poems. Submittable will keep track of that for you. We are looking for poems that reflect or are in conversation with social justice issues, including this month's theme. We want work which asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, is forward thinking, and takes a stand in the face of corruption and greed, brutality, genocide and oligarchy. All styles of poetry are welcome including prose poems and form poems.
Visual Art: We will accept pictures of photography, painting, drawing, sketching, comic art, illustrations, sculpture or any other type of visual art. Do not put your name or other identifying information on your work. Submittable will keep track of that for you. We are looking for art that reflects or is in conversation with social justice issues, including this issue's theme. We want work which asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, is forward thinking, and takes a stand in the face of corruption and greed, brutality, xenophobia, homophobia, prejudice, genocide and oligarchy. Please submit up to five photos in jpg format, no smaller than 5"x7". Keep the file sizes below 2 meg. If you can set the resolution, use 72 pixels per inch.
Fiction: Submit short fiction of up to 3000 words in one (1) doc, docx or pdf file. Do not put your name or other identifying information on the file with your story. Submittable will keep track of that for you. We want work which addresses social justice issues, including this issue's theme. We publish fiction that is a conduit for positive change and challenges the status quo through forward thinking and creative risk-taking. Flash fiction or hybrid forms of up to 1000 words are also welcome.
Non-fiction: Submit personal or lyrical essays, reviews or interviews up to 3000 words in one (1) doc, docx or pdf file. Do not put your name or other identifying information on your work. Submittable will keep track of that for you. We are looking for pieces that reflect or are in conversation with social justice issues, including this month's theme. We want work which asks for positive change, critiques the status quo, is forward thinking, and takes a stand in the face of corruption and greed, brutality, xenophobia, homophobia, genocide and oligarchy.