Submissions are now open for the latest anthology fourteen poems,

Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral is a new anthology from fourteen poems that will collect together exciting contemporary poets writing about queerness and nature. We're hoping this book will help create a new canon of LGBTQIA+ 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.

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. The deadline to submit is 15th December, 2025.

Questions regarding the submission process, theme, or anything else can be directed to the editor, Caleb Nichols, at calebknichols@gmail.com.