THE LIGHT IS OFF

we welcome submissions of poetry & prose between June 1 and October 31 every year.

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Manuscripts that investigate how we interact with political economy

Manuscripts that imagine and gesture towards collective futures

Manuscripts in hybrid forms, shapes, aesthetic functions

eg. IMAGES, SHORT TEXTS, LONG TEXTS, MISCELLANY, “THE POLITICAL”

POETRY

40 - 100 pages in PDF format

We do not accept revisions to manuscripts once submitted

Please allow up to six months for a reply, if interest.

PROSE

Please include the first 20 pages of your manuscript along with a brief description of the work in PDF format

We do not accept revisions to manuscripts once submitted

Please allow up to six months for a reply, if interest.

IMPORTANT NOTE: We do not publish works of fiction, memoirs, comics, or stagecraft. Please only submit once per year.

Additional submissions outside this period will be returned unread. In 2024, we are reading for our 2026 season.