Porkbelly Press

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Porkbelly Press publishes small-edition chapbooks, micro chapbooks, zines, anthologies, and literary magazines featuring tightly linked poetry, prose, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid work with a strong fabulist, folkloric, and magical inclination.

Submission calls

otherOpens Oct 1

Sugared Water is a submission period running October 1–31; the page does not specify the accepted literary forms or limits for this call.

fictionLiteraryFantasyHorrorOpens Jan 1, 2027

Chapbooks accept collections of short, flash, or micro fiction in 12–26 pages; submissions are accepted January 1–31. The press gravitates toward concise flash and micro fiction and does not accept erotica, fan fiction, novels, novellas, or slashers.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Jan 1, 2027

Chapbooks accept creative nonfiction including lyric essays, flash, micro essays, character sketches, travel narratives, and collections of vignettes in 12–26 pages; submissions are accepted January 1–31. Braided forms are especially welcome.

poetryLiteraryFantasyOpens Jan 1, 2027

Chapbooks accept poetry and prose poems, with 12–26 pages; submissions are accepted January 1–31. The press favors lyrical, narrative, and confessional work, often leaning toward fabulism, folklore, and magic.

otherOpens May 1, 2027

Love Me, Love My Belly is a zine submission period running May 1–31; the page does not specify the accepted literary forms or limits for this call.

fictionLiteraryFantasyHorrorOpens Jul 1, 2027

Micro chapbooks accept collections of flash or micro fiction in 8–10 pages; submissions are accepted July 1–31. The press gravitates toward concise flash and micro fiction and favors tightly linked work.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Jul 1, 2027

Micro chapbooks accept creative nonfiction such as lyric essays, flash, and micro essays in 8–10 pages; submissions are accepted July 1–31. Multiple short essays and braided forms are especially welcome.

poetryLiteraryFantasyOpens Jul 1, 2027

Micro chapbooks accept poetry and prose poems in 8–10 pages; submissions are accepted July 1–31. The press favors lyrical, narrative, and confessional work, often leaning toward fabulism, folklore, and magic.

other

Anthology submissions vary; the page provides no fixed annual window or additional literary submission requirements.

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