Porkbelly Press

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Porkbelly Press publishes small chapbooks, micro chapbooks, zines, anthologies, and literary magazines featuring tightly linked poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid work with a strong affinity for fabulism, folklore, and magic.

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryFantasyOpens Jan 1, 2027

Chapbook submissions are accepted January 1–31 and should contain 12–26 pages; micro chapbook submissions are accepted July 1–31 and should contain 8–10 pages. The press favors tightly linked micro and flash fiction and does not accept erotica, fan fiction, novels, novellas, or slashers.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Jan 1, 2027

Chapbook submissions are accepted January 1–31 and should contain 12–26 pages; micro chapbook submissions are accepted July 1–31 and should contain 8–10 pages. The press particularly enjoys multiple short essays, lyric essays, braided forms, character sketches, travel narratives, and vignette collections.

otherLiteraryFantasyOpens Jan 1, 2027

The press accepts combinations of poetry, prose poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, and sequential artwork for chapbooks and micro chapbooks, provided the work is tightly linked by theme, image, voice, or another unifying element. Graphic narratives and sequential artwork may be black and white.

poetryLiteraryFantasyOpens Jan 1, 2027

Chapbook submissions are accepted January 1–31 and should contain 12–26 pages of poetry or prose poems; micro chapbook submissions are accepted July 1–31 and should contain 8–10 pages. Work may be lyrical, narrative, or confessional, with tightly linked pieces.

otherLiteraryFantasy

The Love Me, Love My Belly zine submission period runs May 1–31; Sugared Water submissions run October 1–31. Anthology submissions vary. The press accepts tightly linked literary oddities and curious work, including hybrid projects.

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