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 We are looking for previously unpublished essays, interviews, fiction and poetry (or mixed media) to publish which reflect this aim.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 Survival and Community. We take poetry, prose and art, so get out your essays, artwork, stories and poems that speak to the concept of community, of support, of being in community, celebration of community, as well as survival, how we can survive as a community, experiences of survival or community and how they support and influence us.

We publish semi-annually, with submissions open in February/March (for August/September publication) and August/September (for February / March publication). Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as you let us know right away if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

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We are looking for previously unpublished poems, stories (up to 3000 words), creative non-fiction essays (3000 word limit), personal essays (3000 word limit), visual art, hybrid work, reviews and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