Anthology on Wildfires

Call for Poetry and Photography Submissions

Deadline: July 31st, 2023

South Broadway Press is seeking poetry and photography inspired by living in the line of wildfires. We are interested in your experiences during or after a wildfire. We seek work that shares the realities of living with the effects of climate change, the main contributor of the increase and ferocity of wildfires, and wildfire climate refugees.

We understand this can be a very traumatic subject. If there are any accomodations we can provide you in our communications with you, please let us know.

An initial call for submissions was reviewed by by Kathleen Willard, Colorado poet and Jill Bergantz, California poet. This follow-up call for submissions will be edited by Emylee Frank, Joshua Gaydos, Kali Heals, Brice Maiurro, Sarah Rodriguez, and Kathleen Willard.

In alignment with our past anthologies, this anthology will support a non-profit, probably local to Colorado, doing work in prevention or education around wildfires. We are still currently seeking this. Contributors will be paid a small honorarium for work included in the anthology, $20 for poetry and $20 for photography.

Tentative release is fall of 2023.

Submission Guidelines

The Basics

• Please send submissions to submissions@soboghoso.org
• Submit up to three pages of written work and/or three images 
• Please put your last name and “Wildfire Anthology” in the subject of your email
• Please include a bio appropriate for publication (50-100 words)
• Please include your pronouns, if you’d like to
• Please include a brief description of your lived experiences with wildfires in your cover letter
• For photos, please include any important details of the photo, a caption. A good guideline is to answer the questions who, what, when, and where briefly in the caption of your photos. Please include the place where the fire occurred, and how many acres were burned.
• Please attach your poems as a .doc or Google doc
• Please include a third-person bio up to 100 words
• Please include a headshot
• Please include links to any social media

More Details

• You will receive an email confirmation that we have received your submission
• We seek solely journalistic photography appropriate for inclusion in this anthology
• Please interpret “poetry” as you will. We will accept submissions of prose, collage poems, erasures, you name it
• If you are unable to attach a Word or Google doc, please just put the poems directly in the body of the email
• Please email submissions@soboghoso.org with any questions, comments, or inquiries

Inclusivity Statement

BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ poets, and anyone from an underrepresented group are highly encouraged to submit. As a journal, we understand that the United States, as well as much of the world, has been created as a white patriarchal christian heteronormative capitalist landscape, and that this has and continues to perpetuate oppression and violence. Part of our mission is to challenge these doctrines for better ones. We believe in love, and that love often looks radical and disruptive during its time.