smoke and mold

Open to: Trans and Two-Spirit writers

Interview pitches are accepted on a rolling basis. The journal especially welcomes interviews about method and craft, nature-culture, and creative expansions of the interview form; transcripts are up to 4,000 words and should include a brief introduction and be copyedited.

The regular submission windows are September 1-30 and March 1-31, for publication the following spring or fall. Issue 15, “Other Minds,” accepted fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and hybrid or cross-genre work from September 1-30, 2026, for Spring 2027 publication.

Issue 15, “Other Minds,” seeks fiction exclusively from nonhuman perspectives or work that complicates assumptions about the nonhuman; prose is up to 7,000 words. Submissions were accepted September 1-30, 2026, for Spring 2027 publication.

Issue 15, “Other Minds,” seeks nonfiction exclusively from nonhuman perspectives or work that complicates assumptions about the nonhuman; prose is up to 7,000 words. Submissions were accepted September 1-30, 2026, for Spring 2027 publication.

Issue 15, “Other Minds,” seeks poetry exclusively from nonhuman perspectives or work that complicates assumptions about the nonhuman. Submit only two poems at a time in one Word document or PDF; there is no stated line or word limit. Submissions were accepted September 1-30, 2026, for Spring 2027 publication.