{"id":7643,"date":"2025-12-03T22:18:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=7643"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:10","slug":"p-call-for-submissions-to-home-on-the-range-the-theme-queer-pastoral","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/p-call-for-submissions-to-home-on-the-range-the-theme-queer-pastoral\/","title":{"rendered":"P – Call for Submissions to Home on the Range. The Theme: Queer Pastoral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re 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\u00a0 writing about queerness and nature, helping create a new canon of LGBTQ+ writers in a genre that has traditionally been off-limits to them.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s poem, \u2018Pastoral\u2019, from his excellent collection Soho<\/em>, M\u00edche\u00e1l McCann’s ‘Late Blight’ from Devotion, <\/i>or Se\u00e1n Hewitt’s ‘Dryad’ <\/i>from Tongues of Fire<\/i>, 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.<\/p>\n

This call is open to queer writers at any stage of their careers: from widely published poets to first-time submitters and everyone in-between. You may submit 1-3 poems on the theme, but please only submit once.<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Submission guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019t 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\u2019ve been published elsewhere, and what your work is like. Please don\u2019t include any graphics or images in the bio or in your submission.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re 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\u2019re happy for you to submit elsewhere simultaneously. We don\u2019t publish work that has already been published online or in print.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t wait to read your poems!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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