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P – Call for Submissions to Home on the Range. The Theme: Queer Pastoral
Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral
We’re thrilled to announce a new book, coming in 2027 and edited by Caleb Nichols. Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral will collect together exciting contemporary poets writing about queerness and nature, helping create a new canon of LGBTQ+ writers in a genre that has traditionally been off-limits to them.
The book will celebrate and complicate a poetics of queer nature, from redefining the boundaries between the urban, the rural, and the wilderness, to rendering the ways in which queer people make their homes in the pastoral traditions which have so often excluded them. Send us your strangest, sexiest, thirstiest, poems that, broadly speaking, fit with or interrogate the theme of queer pastoral. Published examples of the genre include Richard Scott’s poem, ‘Pastoral’, from his excellent collection Soho, Mícheál McCann’s ‘Late Blight’ from Devotion, or Seán Hewitt’s ‘Dryad’ from Tongues of Fire, but many other possibilities abound. We welcome poems that celebrate queerness in nature; poems that queer the idea of nature; poems that bring the natural world into urban or queer spaces or situations; poems that complicate and/or interrogate these ideas.
The book will be edited by Caleb Nichols and released via fourteen poems in early 2027. We will have an open call for all queer poets that feel moved by the themes, whether published or new to writing. The submission window will run from September 15th until December 15th and we will be accepting a maximum of 3 poems per submission.
Submission guidelines
Please send a single Word or pdf document containing your work, with a small additional paragraph about yourself. We judge the poems blind, so try to keep your name off the actual poetry document if possible. Don’t worry too much about what to say in the paragraph. We just want to know a little bit about you, how you identify, if you’ve been published elsewhere, and what your work is like. Please don’t include any graphics or images in the bio or in your submission.
We’re based in London, but publish poets from all over the world. Submission is free and, with our anthologies, you retain your copyright. We know how difficult it is to get published, so we’re happy for you to submit elsewhere simultaneously. We don’t publish work that has already been published online or in print.
Can’t wait to read your poems!