Call for Submissions: In Every Generation, An Anthology
“Evil has a blockbuster audience. Goodness lurks backstage. Goodness is really and truly hard. You can’t seduce it. Writing and trying to find language for it is probably all I have ever done.”
— Toni Morrison
About the Anthology
Peace is not passive. It is a practice we inherit, shape, and carry forward. In Every Generation invites writers, poets, artists, and cultural practitioners to explore how peace moves through families, communities, and collective memory. Unsolicited Press is seeking bold, original work that examines peace not as an abstract ideal, but as a lived relationship with the world around us.
We are especially interested in pieces that ask difficult questions and open new pathways for dialogue, reflection, and shared understanding.
Themes We’re Exploring
We welcome submissions that consider:
How is peace passed down in your culture, family, or community?
How do you honor or challenge your legacy of peace?
How have you created communities of feeling that sustain care, accountability, and connection?
Submissions are welcome in multiple languages. For works written in Indigenous or Creole languages, please include an accompanying version for reviewers in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. The anthology is planned to include an audiobook edition, and participating authors will be invited to submit recordings of their work.
Submission Guidelines
We are accepting original, unpublished work in the following categories:
Prose
Up to 1200 words
File formats: .doc or .docx
Poetry
Up to four poems, seven pages total
File formats: .doc or .docx
Still Images
Up to three images, 300 dpi
File formats: .jpg, .tiff, or .png
We are also open to flash, short stories, imagery, and annotated ritual practices that align with the spirit of the anthology.
How to Submit
Please submit via Duosoma or Subfolio.
Include:
A brief cover letter (250 words max)
The title of your piece in the subject line or submission form
Your manuscript in .docx format
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. There is no submission fee for this reading period. We do not accept AI assisted submissions.
Compensation and Rights
Contributors receive one free copy of the anthology upon publication.
We request first North American serial rights and nonexclusive anthology rights.
All rights revert to the author after publication.
Timeline
Submission Period: March 15 through May 15, 2026
Author Notification: August 31, 2026
Publication: 2027
Meet the Editors
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan American writer, editor, and teaching artist and the author of Study of the Raft (Colorado Prize for Poetry 2021). Her work explores myth, language, exile, and land, and has appeared in Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine, the Academy of American Poets Poem a Day, About Place Journal, Amsterdam Review, Whale Road Review, and more. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Poetry Foundation, VONA, CalArts, Vermont Studio Center, Esperimento Sul Respiro, and Anaphora. She lives on the unceded lands of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York.
Amy Shimshon Santo was born on Tovaangar land in present day Los Angeles and has immediate family across the Americas, the Northern Territories, and the Middle East. She is the author of six books, including Piecework: Ethnographies of Place (Unsolicited Press) and Random Experiments in Bioluminescence (Flowersong Press). Her work appears in Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, ArtPlace America, ASAP/J, Zocalo Public Square, GeoHumanities, and more. She has edited publications for UC Press, LA Public Library, Braille Institute of America, Illinois Open Publishing Network, Libretto Magazine, and Revista de Crítica Cultura, and has served as a guest artist with UNESCO, Pa Gya Lit Fest, Lagos International Poetry Festival, and universities across the Americas.
About Unsolicited Press
Unsolicited Press publishes fearless, craft driven work across genres, championing independent voices and reader first storytelling. We believe literature should disrupt, question, and connect across communities and generations.
