Fall 2024 Submissions Open: Sept. 17 – Oct. 31!

It’s time again to submit your creative work to Unearthed, the literary and art journal produced by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming Fall 2024 issue, exploring the themes of transition and transformation.

As the nights get cooler and the wind carries in the first hints of autumn here in Central New York, we’ve been thinking about the many kinds of metamorphosis, transition, and change that will soon be upon us and the more-than-human worlds we belong to. While transformation often suggests growth, progress, and hope, this season has our editorial board also sitting with feelings of loss, mortality, and yearning. We encourage you to interpret the theme broadly–from embodied transitions, ecological grief, and the painful beauty of transformation to newly imagined futures and beyond. We welcome fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, graphic essays, photo essays, and short films that wrestle with change in its myriad forms. We are eager to learn how the theme speaks to you, and we hope to be surprised by your unique perspective.

Submission Deadline: Oct.31, 2024.

Submission Guidelines

Cover Letter & Artist Statement: Please attach a short cover letter (.doc, .docx, or .pdf.) that includes: 1. a short biographical statement of 100 words or less; 2. A brief artist statement of 150 words or less in which you briefly describe any or all of the following: what inspired the piece, what you hope audiences take from it, how your work fits into (or chafes against) the theme. If your submission is chosen for publication, we will publish your bio and your artist statement alongside your piece.

Genre: Open to fiction, non-fiction, poetry, visual art, and any creative expression.

* Poetry: up to five poems (one poem on a page), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

* Fiction: up to 6,000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.

* Creative and critical non-fiction: between 800-6,000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.

* Visual Art: up to ten items, formatted as .jpg, .tiff , .png, or .pdf with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Include titles for each piece.

* Video: up to two video products submitted in .wav, .wmv, .avi, or .mov. or a link to a previously unpublished vimeo, etc.

How to Submit

Email your submission to [email protected] with the subject line: “Fall 2024 Submission – [Your Name].” We allow simultaneous submissions but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.