We are moving through a time that feels unfamiliar and all too familiar. Our bodies ache, uprooted. Our souls search, severed. We are tossed in the cyclone, yearning.

For Issue 15, we invite you to submit your original work on the theme Weathering. This moment demands resilience. This moment beckons us back to the communal earthbody. We are in constant motion, constant change, unable to return to our past states. 

We welcome your alchemic transformations through written word and art. We want your hybrid forms that defy boundaries and emerge like birds above storm clouds.  

We want your writing like rust / poetry like spores / prose like rhizomic roots.

What tectonic plates are shifting? Can storms sweep away oppressive systems of the past? What do we hold onto while the winds rage? How does decomposition fertilize the future? 

What is violent, happens in an instant? What is slow, almost unnoticed, the gradual residue of time?

Where does our community withstand? And how? When do we dance atop a hurricane? When do we sleep in the earth’s underground womb? When do we make each other warm soup? 

Weathering wears away. Weathering makes us stronger.

Hang on!

We are all Weathering.

What We Look For:

Here at Tiny Spoon, we are especially interested in experimental work, although not exclusively. If you’ve had trouble finding a home for your work because it doesn’t fit into generally recognized categories, chances are your home is right here with us.

We seek work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring, experimental, innovative, quirky, thoughtful, vulnerable, electric, eccentric. In other words, your inner workings expanded and exposed, raw and immediate; your fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Your voice is beautiful, edgy, infinite, and unique, and we want to raise it.

Please take a moment to review our guidelines before submitting.

We look forward to reading your work!

SUBMIT

Submissions are open for Issue 15 Weathering. Please use this form to submit your work.

Pieces submitted via email or not following guidelines will not be accepted.

Guidelines:

• Format text: sent as .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf
• Art: .jpeg or .tif
• Please label the file “Last Name_Title of Work”
• Length per piece: 1,000 words max
• Font: 12 pt Garamond or a similar font
• Up to three pieces per submission. Any additional work after the first three will not be reviewed. Please refrain from inserting text submissions directly into the body of the email.
• Please limit to one submission per issue.
• Simultaneous submissions allowed. Please let us know if it is published elsewhere.

• Submissions are free!
• Please provide a one sentence bio about yourself.
• Cover letters are not required, but you may send one if you’d like. We won’t show preference based on this.
• You will maintain the rights to your work; if it is published elsewhere or in a collection, we simply ask that you give us credit for first publication.
• Please keep in mind that we print Tiny Spoon as a pocket sized book at 4.25″ x 6.87″ inches. In layout design, we do our best to maintain the integrity of the piece and how it should read. If you are particular about your piece’s line breaks, please format to this size.

• Please note, that due to ensure the consistency and respect the time of our small and dedicated team, we ask that all submissions submitted to this call are in their final form upon submission. We’re aware small edits may arise in the proofing of the issue if your piece is accepted. 
• If the submission call is still open, you may however, please submit the revised piece using the official form and note that it is a revision.
• We are a small staff of three. Tiny Spoon has lots of love that goes into production. That said, it can take around 6 months for an issue to come to fruition. Please do not email us to inquire about the status of the piece (unless you are letting us know it has been accepted elsewhere). We we email you with results of the issue. Please do keep in contact over social media and newsletters to see where we might be in the process or what else we having going on! We appreciate your patience and understanding!