Submissions wanted (Miami, personal essays, criticism) | 25 cents per word
Added 2025-05-03 00:32:31 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: ISLANDIA JOURNAL
Deadline: 1 June 2025
In partnership with Underwater Publishing, Islandia Journal announces Issue 12.
Invasive species are the subset of established non-native alien or naturalized species that are a threat to currently native species. In our next issue, we invite you to stretch the moral fabric interwoven with the concept of the invasive. We love Miami’s mangroves (native), but also its roosters (invasive). We love Miami’s coconut palms, oolite, parrots, guava pastries, flamingos, glistening white sand, manatees, Florida orange juice, royal poincianas, and coral reefs. Only three of the aforementioned are native; three and a half if you’re feeling generous.
Miami has continually been branded a place where people kind of just “end up.” The same can be said for the boa constrictors out in the everglades. If they could speak, they might plead: “Have mercy on us, we didn’t ask to end up snout to snout with the alligators."
We welcome any and all essays, drawings, photos, journal entries, and poems.
Come join us! Invade us with your ideas. If you don’t fit in, you’ll fit right in.
SOME EXAMPLES OF THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE:
Personal essays about a relative who played a bit part on the tv show, or who worked on the production side.
Criticism
Poems
Short Fiction
Illustrations and graphics
SOME DETAILS:
For essays and criticism that require reporting and research we pay 25 cents/word up to 1500 words.
We pay $50/poem
We pay $100 for short stories
Our pay scale for visual art depends on the scope and labor required to execute it, and also how many pages of the print journal (each page lays out simply at 5.5" x 8.5" FYI) the work may occupy. Pay range is usually $100-$500
WE ALSO SEEK:
Pitches for work can be emailed to islandiajournal at gmail.com
We are publishing more regularly at islandia.substack.com -- if you would like to see your writing online, email it to us for consideration. We pay $100 for reviews, essay, hidden histories, and criticism.
DEADLINE IS JUNE 1st.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Submissions: Via Submittable
Website: https://www.islandiajournal.com/
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