New Call for Work: Caribbean Yard Poetics
ANMLY is now open for our new folio exploring the yard as the site in which we understand modern Caribbean geography and social life.
We’re seeking previously-unpublished poetry, creative nonfiction, and art. Absolutely no AI.
Deadline: August 14th, 2026
This collection of work, featuring genres of poetry, art and creative non-fiction essays, will explore the yard as the site in which we understand modern Caribbean geography and social life. From the iconic “government yard in Trenchtown” of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” to the rural fields and estates passed down through generations, the yard is a site of memory, history, and the everyday poetics of survival and community.
The yard’s significance is rooted in the post-plantation society, where descendants of Indigenous, African and Indian peoples carved out new forms of life and autonomy. These spaces, whether in urban margins or inherited homes, are where personal and family histories are woven, where futures are imagined, and where the senses of a people are shaped. We have tidy yards, dirty yards, ghetto yards, tenement yards, barrack yards and grandmothers’ yards.
This folio is a deliberate disruption of two prevalent stereotypes: (1)The Caribbean as a “paradise” of “free island people” to reveal the complexity and nuance of lived experiences. (2) The “Caribbean writer” as a person’s region stands in for their entire identity.
Selected pieces will amplify unique and diverse voices within the region, celebrate their individuality while acknowledging the shared historical and cultural landscape of yards. The goal is to highlight the everyday struggles and joys that continue to shape post-emancipation societies.
Guest edited by Amilcar Sanatan with support by Folio Editor Shon Mapp
***Please note that this submission call is limited to Caribbean writers born and/or residing in the region.***
To send work: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIIZ4NMuTzrVqOkGJHOjlDpXhtJOo2uqdv0KIhZ-WnQHqlVA/viewform
GENERAL Calls for Submissions
Thank you for liking us enough to submit! We’re grateful that you’re considering us as a home for your work. For our regular issue, we accept submissions through our Submittable platform only.
We do not accept AI-generated or AI-assisted writing or art.
General submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic narratives, and translation are open October 1 – February 1 and May 1 – August 1.
For submissions to our special folios, published in and between regular issues, submissions are accepted under the terms stipulated in the folio call, determined by and at the discretion of the guest folio editor, in consultation with our staff folio editor. For current folio calls, see the bottom of this page.
To cover operational costs, we must charge a $3 fee for each submission. If, for reasons of financial hardship, you cannot afford to pay the submission fee, please send us an email at editor at anomalouspress dot org.
We strongly encourage you to take a look at http://www.anmly.org to see previous issues and see if you think your work is a good fit.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but we ask that you notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. You can use this handy system to withdraw, or leave a note on your submission.
We only consider previously unpublished work. That includes work published on personal blogs, sorry. We’re especially interested in work that uses the medium of the web as part of its compositional strategy.
We aim for a two-month response time, but we’re only human. Because we’re an all-volunteer organization we try our very best to offer a fair turnaround time, about three months. For any genre other than poetry please drop us a line if you haven’t heard from us within three months. For poetry submissions, we can’t respond to individual inquiries: if you haven’t heard from us yet, it’s because we’re still working on your submission. We get over 500 poetry submissions every period and are spending time reading each one carefully.
Send us your best, most challenging work through Submittable today.
Graphic narrative submissions may be sent to Parisa Karami at [email protected].
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Call for Blog & Feature Writers
We’re looking for writers who are interested in contributing in an ongoing manner to the ANMLY Blog, either by proposing a column or series, or by joining a team of staff writers who both pitch and take on assigned pieces for the blog. We are particularly interested in writers to focus on reviews, interviews, and profiles of artists and writers; and in getting pitches for columns or series that focus specifically on a particular artistic or writing community within the purview of our expanded mission. If you are interested, please send an email to Features & Reviews Editors Addie Tsai and sara hammami with a paragraph about what you’re interested in writing.
Call for Folio Proposals
ANMLY features special sections, that we call folios, in each issue, and between issues. To propose a theme or topic for an upcoming folio, please submit a brief, 500-word description, making sure to specify what genres will be included in the content of your folio, and the names of some potential contributors (you do not need to already have content selected, just a few names as examples!).
Folios proposals are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis. To propose a folio, please send an email to Folio Editors Shon Mapp and Jie Venus Cohen.