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- Spring 2025 Limited Edition Broadside+Book Bundle Now Available! And Open Anthology Submissions...
Spring 2025 Limited Edition Broadside+Book Bundle Now Available! And Open Anthology Submissions...

First, we are so excited to let you know that our limited edition broadside bundles are now available for purchase at our online bookstore.
This limited edition bundle includes a print copy of both Pastoral, 1994 by Joe Wilkins and Your Mother's Bear Gun by Corrie Williamson AND two print 6x6" poetry broadsides, designed by editor Amorak Huey and signed by authors Joe Wilkins and Corrie Williamson.
These are LOVELY broadsides, and very much in demand, and sell out every year, so acquire yours before it is GONE. We offer 25 and make no more!
And there’s more…
Second, today our first anthology submissions call goes live on Duosuma, for short-form essays on the theme Rivers: Form and Water. Read more at the above link, and find our full description below.
“How can we speak in metaphor when we need the river to be seen as literal?”
Call for Submissions - Description
The editors invite you to submit short-form essays (around 500-1000wds) centering on the writer’s experience with rivers–experiences can be of a particular river, or multiple. We are looking for writing that is strongly rooted in place and that opens up into an exploration of form in writing. Questions you might consider: how does your particular experience with/of/alongside a river inform your understanding of form in writing, whether that be the sentence, the line, the paragraph, the stanza, the comma, etc? Hybridity is welcome, lyricism is welcome. We encourage submissions from writers/artists of all genres. We hope to see pieces written directly responding to our hybrid prompt that calls for both attention to environment and to writerly craft (by this, we mean the form language takes, its shape and many terms). Our aim is to bring together a variety of voices, from different geographical, class, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds; we want to assemble different choruses of voices on rivers, rather than one kind of sound. We encourage writers to think capaciously about rivers and water, and the many topics/themes rivers intersect with, among them: childhood, labor, love, home and belonging, Indigenous land, borders and immigration, transit and travel, climate change and conservation, death and disaster, life and rebirth, human ritual and rites, queerness, and more.
We can’t wait to read your reflections on rivers and writing forms!
Han & Amorak