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When I fall dead, I'll still crave the next place all the same
The Deadlands! An announcement.
In a lightly Julian to Gregorian fashion, our publication schedule has been reset from the third of every month to the nineteenth, meaning that the first issue will hit the metaphysical stands in mid-May rather than tomorrow.
Poetry submissions are still open for the first two weeks of every month, however, and that means we are open to poetry submissions now. As it says in the guidelines:
"When I enter the earth
I take this sky with me, an offering
to the gods of those whose graves I opened.
—Rika Lesser, 'Lucien's Ploughman 1848'
"The Deadlands are a liminal space reached by a broad road and we are looking for the same diversity in our speculative poetry. We welcome the weird, the mythic, the interstitial, and the unclassifiable; we are as interested in the underworld and its denizens as we are in ghosts, grief, and history. We prefer the uncanny to the gross-out, although we do not shy from physical realities. Death may be personified or not as you please.
"We are at home to the hauntological in a major way. We value boundary-crossing in style as well as subject and will consider both experimental and formal verse, although we are a hard sell on full-scale epic poetry; we would love to see bilingual or multilingual work. We are especially committed to the voices of marginalized poets. Please try us rather than self-reject! Whichever way you approach these ambiguous lands, we want to read what you find there.
"Please send us no more than three poems per submission. We do not accept simultaneous submissions or unsolicited reprints. Payment is $50/poem, no length limit."
I cannot wait as the earth waits, as the sea waits, but I can wait as human things wait on the borders and I assure you, I am looking forward.
In a lightly Julian to Gregorian fashion, our publication schedule has been reset from the third of every month to the nineteenth, meaning that the first issue will hit the metaphysical stands in mid-May rather than tomorrow.
Poetry submissions are still open for the first two weeks of every month, however, and that means we are open to poetry submissions now. As it says in the guidelines:
"When I enter the earth
I take this sky with me, an offering
to the gods of those whose graves I opened.
—Rika Lesser, 'Lucien's Ploughman 1848'
"The Deadlands are a liminal space reached by a broad road and we are looking for the same diversity in our speculative poetry. We welcome the weird, the mythic, the interstitial, and the unclassifiable; we are as interested in the underworld and its denizens as we are in ghosts, grief, and history. We prefer the uncanny to the gross-out, although we do not shy from physical realities. Death may be personified or not as you please.
"We are at home to the hauntological in a major way. We value boundary-crossing in style as well as subject and will consider both experimental and formal verse, although we are a hard sell on full-scale epic poetry; we would love to see bilingual or multilingual work. We are especially committed to the voices of marginalized poets. Please try us rather than self-reject! Whichever way you approach these ambiguous lands, we want to read what you find there.
"Please send us no more than three poems per submission. We do not accept simultaneous submissions or unsolicited reprints. Payment is $50/poem, no length limit."
I cannot wait as the earth waits, as the sea waits, but I can wait as human things wait on the borders and I assure you, I am looking forward.
no subject
no subject
no subject
Seriously, don't self-reject. It says so in the guidelines! I may not accept a submission for any number of reasons, but being upset by it is a very low probability.