Wort Journal
Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Last checkedWort Journal is a grassroots herbalism and plant-practice journal seeking writing rooted in medicinal plants, resistance, ecological relationships, and folk traditions.
Response time info: Reviewed on a rolling basis during the three-month submissions period; the journal will let contributors know the outcome regardless of acceptance.
Read the full guidelines at wortjournal.com↗Submission calls
Open to: Contributors must submit work aligned with Wort Journal’s anti-racist, decolonial, anti-ableist, trans-positive, anti-heteronormative, anti-classist, sex-worker-positive, asexuality-positive, body-positive, feminist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist principles; the writing must be original, previously unpublished, and contain no AI-generated material.
Not a fiction call; the journal seeks original plant-focused writing and does not accept AI-generated material. Submissions may be a 150–300-word proposal with relevance, structure, and a writing sample, or a first draft. The deadline is October 15, 2026.
Open to: Contributors must submit work aligned with Wort Journal’s anti-racist, decolonial, anti-ableist, trans-positive, anti-heteronormative, anti-classist, sex-worker-positive, asexuality-positive, body-positive, feminist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist principles; the writing must be original, previously unpublished, and contain no AI-generated material.
Seeking articles, critical reflections, histories, research, plant conversations, experiential herbal knowledge, herbal preparations, ancestral traditions, and writing on plantwork as resistance and resilience. Submit a proposal or first draft; submissions must be no more than 4,500 words including references. Deadline: October 15, 2026.
Open to: Contributors must submit work aligned with Wort Journal’s anti-racist, decolonial, anti-ableist, trans-positive, anti-heteronormative, anti-classist, sex-worker-positive, asexuality-positive, body-positive, feminist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist principles; the writing must be original, previously unpublished, and contain no AI-generated material.
Seeking poetry with herbal themes, lyrical plant writing, and explorations of medicinal plants, herbalism, resistance, folk traditions, ecology, and related practices. Submissions may be a 150–300-word proposal with relevance, structure, and a writing sample, or a first draft. The deadline is October 15, 2026.
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