CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: MIZNA 27.2 ‘ANCESTRY/INDIGENEITY’

Mizna

DEADLINE: July 6, 2026 at 11:59pm CT

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

INFO: Mizna is opening submissions for its newest issue, seeking poetry, prose, and hybrid literary work that focuses on ancestry and indigeneity. Guest-edited by poet and scholar Umniya Najaer, this issue is interested in honoring Indigenous wisdoms in their many forms and giving space for writers and artists to explore their relationships to ancestry, inheritance, memory, spirit, land, flora, fauna, and the cultural practices that have grown from them. Amid mounting planetary brutalities, how do our ancestors speak across time? How do our experiences echo, extend, or depart from those of our ancestors? What freedom dreams have each of us inherited, and how do we live these dreams? What methods do we as writers, artists, and cultural stewards call upon to center Indigenous wisdoms and carry ancestral stories forward, whether they belong to direct kin, chosen kin, communal lineages, our deep species ancestors, or more-than-human kin?

We invite work that views ancestry and indigeneity not as static legacies, but as living practices of remembering, grieving, resisting, creating, and imagining otherwise. We are especially interested in work that attends to the intimate and collective forms through which ancestral knowledge ruptures, transforms, and survives—in kitchens, songs, ceremonies, gardens, garments, prayers, archives, dreams, rivers, ruins, and revolutionary movements. We welcome work that utilizes experimental methods to tell new stories about our ancestors, our obligations to the living, and our relationships to land, indigeneity, sovereignty, memory, and belonging.

This issue begins from the question of rootedness: What does it mean to belong to land, lineage, memory, and place across Southwest Asia and North Africa? Across the vast SWANA region, communities have long been bound to one another through overlapping histories of migration, trade, kinship, pilgrimage, agriculture, pastoralism, urban life, and shared ecological worlds. People have practiced nomadic, agrarian, and urban lifestyles; passed on ancestral wisdom and practices; endured, resisted, and adapted to invasion, conquest, empire, enslavement, displacement, and extraction. How have histories of successive empires, interferences, destructions of heritage and sacred sites, forcible removals of people groups, and slave trades altered lives and landscapes? How have modern nation states, colonial borders, Western colonialism, neoliberal militarism, capitalist extraction, and the expansionist settler colonial project of Israel—financed and justified by the United States—intensified the struggle over land, memory, and sovereignty? And how are these struggles further compounded by regional imperial and sub-imperial powers, including Gulf states such as the United Arab Emirates, whose extractive investments, proxy wars, and militarized interventions in Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and elsewhere have deepened contests over belonging, territory, resources, self-determination and collective survival?

More concretely, how do those of us whose homelands are under active economic and military siege create new cultural technologies for surviving the present? How do those of us violently separated from our ancestral homes keep Indigenous practices alive? How do those of us living in settler colonial states such as the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand support Indigenous struggles, land rematriation, sovereignty, and ecological repair? What solidarities, tensions, responsibilities, and contradictions emerge when our own freedom dreams unfold on lands whose Indigenous peoples continue to struggle for liberation? We welcome narratives from across the region that investigate and grapple with indigeneity and ancestry in a SWANA context while making connections with global Indigenous struggles.

Transregional SWANA beyond the cartographic genres of area studies

We’re interested in how and to what extent the term indigeneity maps onto the SWANA context. A SWANA framework that stops at the inherited borders of “the Middle East” risks reproducing the very colonial cartographies it is designed to unsettle. While SWANA conventionally names South West Asia and North Africa, the histories of indigeneity, land, water, sovereignty, and dispossession that animate the region cannot be understood apart from the Sahara-Sahel, the Nile Valley, the Red Sea, the Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the western Indian Ocean. For this reason, Mizna 27.2 embraces communities and geographies often placed outside the edges of SWANA, including South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Pakistan, and India. These sites are constitutive zones through which transregional SWANA histories of mobility, empire, enslavement, ecological relation, and Indigenous world-making have unfolded.

We especially welcome work that attends to Black, Afro-descended, and Afro-Indigenous communities across the region, including Haratin, Tebu, Black Tunisian, Black Moroccan, Afro-Iraqi, Afro-Iranian, Zanj-descended, Sudanese, and other communities whose histories raise urgent questions about the relationship between indigeneity, Africanity, Arabization, enslavement, anti-Blackness, and caste. At the same time, we invite submissions from writers and artists working across the many Indigenous and ancestral transregional SWANA communities, including Amazigh, Assyrian, Kurdish, Armenian, Palestinian, Nubian, Beja, Bedouin, Yazidi, Mandaean, Coptic, Marsh Arab, Ahwazi, Afar, Somali, Oromo, Tuareg, and other peoples whose histories unsettle the boundaries of the region itself.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors do not need to be SWANA- or Arab-identified and can be based anywhere in the world, but work submitted should be considerate of Mizna’s ethos and the social realities of our audiences, as well as aim to contribute to ongoing conversations in and beyond our communities. While we welcome submissions from former contributors seeking a space for their work in this urgent moment, we also especially encourage submissions from writers who have never been published by us before. We encourage submitters to become familiar with work that has been published in Mizna before submitting work.

FORMS OF WRITING

Mizna has long been a home for literature with innovative, experimental forms and is published with high quality print production practices. We welcome visual poetry submissions or hybrid works that cross the arbitrary boundaries of genre. In general, literary works of poetry, visual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, comics, collage, invented forms, and any forms of mixed print or hybrid work will be accepted, with consideration to the physical parameters of our print journal, technical staff, and budget. We do not consider visual art submissions.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

> Selected contributors will receive a $200 honorarium, a one-year subscription to Mizna, and five copies of the issue.

> Please include a short cover letter (max. 200 words) with the following:

Titles of all submitted pieces
Indication of any simultaneous submissions
For prose over two pages, a 1–2 sentence overview of the piece
Author bio (max. 50 words)
Any additional information you would like the editorial team to know (max. 1 paragraph)

> File types must be .doc or .docx or PDF for pieces with more complex layouts. We do not accept other file types (e.g. Pages, Notepad, JPEG).

> Prose submissions should be double spaced and limited to 3000 words.

> Pitches for essays will not be accepted, please submit only complete and finalized drafts.

> Poetry submissions should be limited to four poems of any length (verses exceeding our page width will be treated with a runover indent).

> Please only submit once per submission period.

> Please do not send visual art submissions.

> Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines are subject to being discarded unread. Submissions outside the open call window will likely not be considered or receive response.

> Pieces are chosen by Mizna editorial staff and a regularly changing selection committee. Accepted pieces will be contracted to be published in print after an editorial process involving authors. Mizna will hold rights to publish online or in future publications, but authors will hold copyright. Emails will be sent out for rejected pieces but regrettably we do not have capacity to provide feedback or editorial support.

mizna.org/journal/submissions/

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CREATIVE INCUBATOR FOR LGBTQ+ WRITERS

Lambda Literary

DEADLINE: July 8, 2026 at 11:59 pm ET

APPLICATION FEE: $25 (you may apply to more than one workshop, however, each application must be submitted separately and requires an additional fee)

INFO: Introducing Lambda Literary’s newest program: a nourishing virtual retreat dedicated to generative writing and community building for writers at all stages of their career

Each of the cohorts in fiction, nonfiction, performance writing, and poetry are facilitated by a talented faculty member with a wide range of experience across the genre they’re leading. 10 fellows per cohort offers a chance for deep, personal connection and dedicated time to focus on their own writing, community building, and learning craft across genre.

We’re excited to build something fresh and new for our Creative Incubator Fellows. This space will encourage experimentation and invite writers at all stages of their career to practice writing as an act of creative nourishment. Together, we will foster a growth space for multi-hyphenate artists and those whose work defies genre or who are looking to learn craft elements outside of their norm and apply them to their own practice.

In this creative incubator, programming will focus on generative writing. Cohort groups will meet to create and share new work while weaving craft lessons and discussions with their faculty members and peers. No matter one’s genre(s), these sessions will support all creative writing pursuits.

INCUBATOR FELLOWS WILL:

Participate in 3 days of generative cohort workshops
Have a one-on-one session with their faculty member to closely discuss their own writing practice, product, and journey in publishing
Attend generative writing sessions from visiting authors in geared towards producing writing that supports their current project or that generates something wholly new
Read a sample of their work during the evening reading celebrations alongside fellows and faculty members
Become a part of a powerful community of queer and trans writers and gain access to future opportunities from Lambda Literary and partner organizations such as residencies, scholarships, workshops, and more

DETAILS:

When and Where: February 13 and February 19-February 22, 2027, takes place online. See below sample schedule for an example of what the Incubator may offer (subject to change).
Tuition: $725, offered on a sliding scale basis
Scholarships, Financial Support, and Fundraising: Thanks to the support of individual and institutional donations, Lambda Literary has a robust scholarship and financial support program. Our scholarships are manuscript-, demographics-, and need-based. In addition to scholarship opportunities, Lambda Literary also offers full financial support on a need-based basis. Even if you do not receive one of the available scholarships, you’re still eligible for financial support from us.
You may apply to as many scholarships and/or opportunities as you are eligible for. Application to scholarship and financial support does not have an impact on your application status and is only seen by Lambda Literary staff, and where noted, fellowship committees. Your response is concealed from other reviewers including faculty members who make the final decisions on all selected fellows.
With this new plan, Lambda Literary will be offering financial support to make sure every accepted writer can attend, regardless of financial status.
Application Fee Waivers: A limited number of application fee waivers are available for QTBIPOC (Queer and Trans folks who are Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color) members of our community. To inquire about a fee waiver, email retreat@lambdaliterary.org confirming your eligibility as a member of the QTBIPOC community.
You do not need to provide any other identifying information. Waivers are given out on a first-come-first serve basis. Secure yours sooner rather than later!
Application Review: Our application review is done in three stages by a team of Writers Retreat Alumni, our Program Manager, and Creative Incubator Faculty. Our application process is unique in that each Faculty member chooses their own cohort.

lambdaliterary.org/creative-incubator/

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The Maureen Seaton Book Prize for LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writers

Small Harbor Publishing

DEADLINE: July 10, 2026

SUBMISSION FEE: $15

INFO: The Maureen Seaton Book Prize for LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writers (Seaton Book Prize) honors the life and legacy of Maureen Seaton (1947–2024), whose poetry illuminated queer experience, and life in general, with wit, ferocity, and tenderness across more than three decades of publishing.

The author of more than two dozen books of poetry and a memoir, Maureen's solo collections include Fear of Subways (winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize), Furious Cooking (winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award), Venus Examines Her Breast (winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award), and Sweet World (first place, Florida Book Award), among many others. Her memoir Sex Talks to Girls earned her a second Lambda Literary Award. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Pushcart Prize contributor, and Miami's Best Poet (Miami New Times, 2020), Maureen was also a celebrated collaborator who championed other writers throughout her career. This prize is dedicated to continuing that work—discovering and amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices at the beginning of their literary lives.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Seaton Book Prize is open to LGBTQIA+ writers who have published no more than two full-length poetry collections at the time of submission. Chapbooks do not count toward this limit.
Submissions are welcome from writers at any career stage who meet the above criteria. We strongly encourage submissions from writers who are also BIPOC, disabled, or otherwise from communities historically underrepresented in publishing.
Current students, former students, former classmates, or friends of the final judge should refrain from entering the contest.

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES: Full-length manuscripts should be between 50–80 pages. Manuscripts must include a title page, table of contents, and a list of acknowledgments for any previously published poems. Collections centered around a unifying theme will be given preference.
Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines or chapbooks, but not in full-length collections. The collection as a whole must be unpublished.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere while under our consideration.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Include in your cover letter your name, contact information, a brief bio (max of 100 words), and a statement of eligibility (confirming that you identify as LGBTQIA+ and have published no more than two full-length poetry collections). Attach your manuscript as a Word or PDF file. Please use the title of your manuscript as your document name. Do not include your name or identifying information anywhere in the manuscript itself.

PRIZE: Harbor Editions will publish one manuscript selected from the contest. Finalists may be considered for publication. The winner will receive $1,000 and 43 copies of their book—a tribute to Maureen, who was 43 when she published her first full-length collection, Fear of Subways.
We will notify all entrants of our decision within six months after the submission period closes.

smallharborpublishing.com/the-maureen-seaton-book-prize-for-lgbtqia-emerging-writers

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2026-2027 Breakthrough Writing Residency

Literary Cleveland | Cleveland, OH

DEADLINE: July 12, 2026 at 11:00 pm ET

INFO: Publishing a book is breakthrough moment in a writer’s career, a transformational step that suddenly makes available a whole host of opportunities, including readings, speaking engagements, teaching and more. But it is very difficult to complete a book-length project without support. It is a long-term process that requires encouragement, feedback, mentorship, and resources. That is why Literary Cleveland created the Breakthrough Writing Residency.

Literary Cleveland’s Breakthrough Writing Residency provides free yearlong mentorship, support, and opportunities to help six emerging writers in Greater Cleveland develop a book-length project.
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Residents (two in each genre of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) will work with a mentor to make progress on a manuscript, gain free access to Literary Cleveland programs, take part in professional development opportunities, and present their work at the annual Inkubator Conference. The program is primarily virtual with monthly in-person meetings throughout the year. Thanks to a generous funder, residents will also receive a monthly stipend of to support their work.
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The Breakthrough Writing Residency is intended for those who demonstrate a passion for writing and a commitment to developing a book-length manuscript but who have not published a book or attended a MFA program.

Applicants are selected for the program based on the excellence of their writing and ability to complete their proposed writing project. Writing projects may include (but are not limited to) completing the first draft of a novel, memoir, poetry manuscript, or similar creative work, or revising and submitting a book-length project for publication. The residency is for personal writing projects (manuscripts) only, not community writing programs.

BENEFITS TO RESIDENTS:

Mentorship with professional writer for encouragement and accountability
A supportive writing cohort and environment
Free access to Literary Cleveland classes and programs (with some restrictions)
Participation in Inkubator Conference (as reader, presenter, or panelist)
Opportunities to develop teaching skills
Professional development consultation from working writers, agents, and more
$200 monthly stipend for 12 months

WHAT THE PRORGRAM SUPPORTS:

The development of new writing
Personal writing projects that will be completed within one year (manuscripts, not community writing projects)
Works not previously published and/or produced (excluding excerpts or individual poems or stories that are part of a larger project)
Works of writing, including, but not limited to, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction

WHO CAN APPLY:

The residency specifically aims to assist emerging writers who have not published a book and have not completed an MFA program.

We are especially interested in reaching writers with low or limited income for whom expensive writing opportunities are out of reach. Additionally, we encourage writers who are Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American Pacific Islander, or multihyphenate, those who identify as LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and other members of communities historically underrepresented by and in the literary community to apply.

Applicants must meet all of the following criteria:

Resident of the Greater Cleveland/Northeast Ohio area at the time of application and through completion of the residency period
Age 18 or older
Cannot be a current staff, board, or committee member of Literary Cleveland
Cannot be a graduate or undergraduate student in any degree program during the residency
Cannot already have and MFA or a traditionally published book

Do not reject yourself! Don’t stop yourself from applying because you don’t want to take the opportunity away from someone else who needs it more. Apply and let us sort that part out! If you have any questions, email info@litcleveland.org.

‍APPLICATION + REVIEW:

The application includes:

Application form
Artist biography
Artist résumé or CV
Commitment level
Personal statement
Project description
Project plan
Writing sample and description

Applications are reviewed by an independent panel of writers from out of town so they will not know the applicants. The panel will select finalists based on the following criteria:

Artistic excellence of writing sample
Quality of the proposed writing project
Feasibility of and ability to complete the writing project

Mentors will then select participants from the list of finalists.‍ 2026-2027 mentors include Joseph Earl Thomas (fiction), Ira Sukrungruang (nonfiction), and Brittany Rogers (poetry).

The residency will begin November 2026 and run through October 2027.

litcleveland.org/events-programs/breakthrough-writing-residency

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OPEN CALL: MISRECOGNITION

A Public Space

DEADLINE: July 13, 2026 AT 11:59 p.m ET

SUBMISSION FEE: $0

INFO: In connection with the Editorial Fellowship at A Public Space, we are pleased to announce an open call for a special portfolio in the magazine to be edited by Sam Karagulin.

MISRECOGNITION:

You insist you are not the person everyone, including the state, says you are.*

Your nose detaches itself from your face, and runs off. It becomes more popular, more important, than you.**

You appear to your mother as a monstrous bird, and not her child.***

Have you been mistaken for someone else? Did they insist you really were that other person? Like catching a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and not recognizing yourself, misrecognition can destabilize. The present can contradict the surety of memory. For this open call, I want writing of any genre, that tells me what emerges from this encounter.

* Max Frisch’s Stiller (1954); It Was Just An Accident (2025)
** Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” (1836)
*** Jordy Rosenberg’s Night Night Fawn (2026); Monica (2022)

ELIGIBILITY: Only writers who have not yet published or been contracted to write a book-length work with a U.S. publisher are eligible. Writers who have self-published, published an academic text, published a book with a publisher outside the U.S., or translated another writer’s work are eligible to apply. Writers who have published a chapbook in the U.S. are ineligible to apply. International applicants are encouraged to apply. Work that incorporates multiple languages is eligible, so long as the primary language is English. Works of translation are eligible. Please note it is the translator’s responsibility to secure rights to the work before it is submitted. Only one submission per person is allowed. A Public Space reserves the right to invite submissions.

All submissions will receive a reply by the end of August.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

A cover letter, including a short biographical statement and how your submission connects to the open call.
One previously unpublished piece up to 6,000 words, double-spaced, or up to five (5) poems.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

Note that we only accept PDF or Word files (.doc and .docx) are accepted. Please do not include your cover letter as part of your manuscript.

Questions? Write Editorial Fellow Sam Karagulin at sam@apublicspace.org.

RECOMMENDED READING: Below are selections from A Public Space’s archive that were among my references in developing this open call. These pieces are part of this month’s Public Access—work from the magazine’s archive, made free and open to all.

“The Let-Out” - Jamel Brinkley
But all of a sudden she started walking again, with more quickness and purpose. Her steps were bringing her in the direction she was looking, and it became clear, despite every self-abnegating doubt, that she was walking toward me.
“Again It Has Prepared Itself For My Awakening” - Patrizia Cavalli, translated from the Italian by Jorie Graham
In broad daylight on the other hand I shall mistake them, / I shall not compete with them, / I shall act like it’s nothing…
“This Handwriting” - Matthew Zapruder
Very / small horses attached to invisible reins attached / to facts is how I would describe my thoughts, / but what of my memories?
“Trans-Neptunian Object” - Suzanne Buffam
Facts exist for whole centuries and then suddenly cease.
“Compromise” - Ada Zhang
It was like receiving a new man, a new husband, and to me this was a relief.

apublicspacedemo.submittable.com/submit

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EMERGING WRITERS CONTEST

Electric Literature

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026 by 11:59 pm PT

SUBMISSION FEE: $20

INFO: For 17 years, Electric Literature has remained dedicated to uplifting emerging writers. Now, we’re furthering that mission by launching our very first Emerging Writers Contest, with categories in fiction and poetry!

One winner in each genre will receive $1,000, publication in either Recommended Reading (fiction) or The Commuter (poetry), and two weeks at the Writing Downtown residency program in Downtown Las Vegas, started by Plympton and the Writer’s Block bookstore. Second-place winners will receive $250, and third-place winners will receive $100. All fiction finalists will receive a review with feedback from a literary agent.

See below for information on judges, eligibility, and submission guidelines.

2026 CONTEST JUDGES: Our 2026 contest judges are Alexander Chee for fiction and Danez Smith for poetry.

ELIGIBILITY:

This contest is for emerging writers only. We define an emerging writer as anyone who has not published a full-length book with a major publisher. Authors who have published chapbooks, indie or university press books with a print run of under 500, or who have self-published are all eligible, provided the work submitted to the contest is original and unpublished.
The contest is open to both U.S. and international writers.
Current or past Electric Literature staff members, interns, or readers in any genre are not eligible to submit.
Friends, family, and close associates of the guest judges are not eligible to submit to that judge’s contest category.

If you have any questions about your eligibility, please email us at editors@electricliterature.com.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submissions will open from July 1, 2026 through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on July 15, 2026 or until we reach our submission caps: 1,000 for fiction and 600 for poetry. All submissions will be considered for publication.

Fiction writers may submit one story between 2,000 and 10,000 words. Poets may submit up to three poems, totaling no more than 1,500 words.
Work will be judged anonymously. Please remove all identifying information from your manuscript.
All work must be original and unpublished. Work previously published in any form (including self-published) cannot be considered.
Translations are accepted, provided the work has not previously been published in the English language and that the translator has obtained proper permissions.
Multiple submissions are allowed. Each entry must be sent as a new submission, and an entry fee must be paid for each.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if a submission is accepted elsewhere.
Files should be submitted as .doc or .docx.
Work that was created using generative AI is not permitted, with rare exception made for pieces that engage with the tool in an intentional, artistic, and transparent manner (e.g., “A conversation between Ethan Gilsdorf and ChatGPT”). Any use of AI in the creation of a piece must be disclosed in your submission.

PRIZES:

Winners in each category will receive $1,000, publication in Recommended Reading (fiction) or The Commuter (poetry), and two weeks at the Writing Downtown residency program in Downtown Las Vegas, started by Plympton and the Writer’s Block bookstore.
Second-place winners in each category will receive $250, and third-place winners will receive $100.
All fiction finalists will receive a review with feedback from a literary agent.
Winners will be announced in early 2027.

electricliterature.com/about/emerging-writers-contest/

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘Black Panama: A People in Transit’

Callaloo

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026 at 11:59pm EST

INFO: Callaloo calls for submissions to contribute to a forthcoming special section called Black Panama: A People in Transit. The special section will showcase poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and scholarly work that:

Centers Black Panamanian American voices and experiences
Explores the complexities of diaspora, migration, and transnational identity
Examines the ongoing impacts of U.S. imperialism and extractive capitalism
Contributes to conversations about global Blackness and Latinidad
Highlights the literary innovations emerging from communities in transit

We invite self-identifying Black Panamanian writers based in the United States, Panama, or elsewhere to submit their short fiction, essays, and poems, and writers of any background to review a literary novel, short story, essay or poetry collection written by a Black Panamanian writer.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT + CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE:

The legacy of Afro-Caribbean migration during the U.S.-led Canal project fundamentally transformed Panama's cultural landscape. As Juan González documents in Harvest of Empire, subsequent mass migrations of Black Panamanians to the United States resulted directly from U.S. interventions, including 95 years of occupation.

Today, as Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal faces renewed uncertainty, North American businesses continue to claim and extract resources from Panamanian lands. In the United States, Black and Latinx immigrants navigate heightened precarity. Black-Panamanian American writers reside at the intersection of these tensions, embodying a state of perpetual transience that uniquely positions them to excavate themes of global Blackness—a manifold identity that is simultaneously rooted in and transcends Caribbean, Latin American, and North American contexts.

Callaloo seeks new, original and unpublished work from writers who embody what Carlos Melo Wynter describes as Panama's "culture in transit." In his book Panama: El Dique, El Agua, y Los Papeles, Melo Wynter writes, "Panama has been marked—indelibly or not—as the bridge of the world," a designation that has shaped the nation's constant state of flux and migration.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS + GUIDELINES:

Please adhere to Callaloo’s general Submission Requirements and Style Guidelines particularly with regard to word count and number of submissions. All prose submissions must be submitted in English. We will review submissions that have been translated from Spanish into English with proper citation provided for the translation.
Poetry submissions may be submitted in both English and Spanish. We will consider accepted submissions for publication in both languages. Any work translated by someone other than the author must include proper citation for the translation. Callaloo will not provide translation services.

Inquiries related to this call for submissions should be directed to info@callalooliteraryjournal.com, using the subject line: Black Panama Special Section

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All manuscripts must be double spaced (except poetry) and submitted only as a Word document (.doc or .docx). We suggest that prose manuscripts not exceed 6,000 words (excluding the abstract and references in the case of scholarly articles), although we will consider submissions of up to 10,000 words if the piece truly merits the length. All manuscripts should follow the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd edition) and include a works cited and endnotes, not footnotes.

callaloo.submittable.com/submit/353958/black-panama-a-people-in-transit

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call for submissions: POETRY, FICTION, NONFICTION

MER

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026

SUBMISSION FEE: $3

INFO: MER publishes creative work on mothers, mothering, and motherhood, in all its forms. You need not be a mother to submit, as long as your piece is focused on motherhood.

We publish poetry (up to 3 poems, no more than 5 pages), and fiction, creative prose/nonfiction, and hybrid works (up to 1000 words) on mothering or motherhood. We also seek mother-themed art. You need not be a mother to submit. Our calendar conforms to Eastern Time.

WHAT TO SUBMIT:

Please read our print journal and online quarterly: http://merliterary.com

Submit work that has not been previously published online or in print.
Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please let us know promptly if your submission is accepted elsewhere, by using your Submittable.com account to add a note to your submission telling us which titles are no longer available for consideration.
Submissions will be considered for the print issue and for MER Online on our website unless you specify in your cover letter that you are only submitting for one or the other. If you have previously submitted to MER online or print, we request that you submit work other than that previously submitted.
Submit your own creative work. If you collaborated with anyone or thing (eg. AI) in creating the piece, you must note that in your cover letter.

themomegg.submittable.com/submit

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Loghaven Artist Residency

Loghaven |📍

DEADLINE: July 15, 2026 by 11:59pm EST

APPLICATION FEE: $25 (If this presents a financial barrier for you, please email us by noon on July 15) at info@loghaven.org.

INFO: Loghaven Artist Residency’s mission is to serve artists by providing them with a transformative residency experience and continued post-residency support. The residency is located on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. Artists live in five historic log cabins that have been both rehabilitated and modernized to create an ideal setting for reflection and work, and they have access to new, purpose-built studio space. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency.

ELIGIBILITY: Practicing artists of all backgrounds and at any stage of their career are eligible to apply for a Loghaven residency. International artists and artists currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program are not eligible. Due to the living stipend and other support Loghaven provides, artists applying for a residency must already have the ability to work in the United States and receive income from Loghaven Artist Residency and the Aslan Foundation, per US tax law. Artists must be at least twenty-one years old and live more than 120 miles away from Knoxville.

This distance requirement is designed to ensure that artists are able to be fully immersed in their residency experience and can take advantage of the retreat-style environment. Please note that all eligibility requirements must be met at the time of application.

We invite applicants in the creation stage of their specified project or work cycle to apply in the following disciplines:

Writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism)
Visual Arts
Dance
Theater
Music Composition
Architecture
Interdisciplinary Work

DIVERSITY STATEMENT: Loghaven actively seeks to assemble diverse cohorts. Loghaven does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, religion, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, veteran status, medical conditions including HIV, or sensory, physical, or mental disability.

RESIDENCY SESSIONS:

Monday, February 1 – Friday, February 26, 2027 (4 weeks)
Monday, April 12 – Friday, May 21, 2027 (6 weeks)
Monday, June 14 – Monday, June 28, 2027 (2 weeks for Loghaven Fellows)
Monday, July 12 – Monday, July 26, 2027 (2 weeks for teaching and faculty artists at the university level)
Monday, September 13 – Monday, September 27, 2027 (2 weeks)
Monday, October 18 – Friday, November 12, 2027 (4 weeks)

APPLICATIONS:

The application panel will meet in August and September, and applicants will be contacted by November 1.

A national selection committee composed of artist peers and other arts professionals selects artists. Applicants are judged by the same criteria across disciplines. Panelists are looking for artistic excellence, defined by a depth of conceptual content, sustained impact, and boldness of vision. The panel seeks those with sophisticated technical knowledge, whether the applicant displays a high level of traditional skill or, conversely, subverts that knowledge in new or challenging ways. The panel values potential in emerging artists and evidence of commitment and evolution in more established or mid-career applicants.

REFERENCES:

All applicants are required to submit two professional references. Please provide the name, contact information, and a very brief description of the nature of your professional relationship for each reference. Loghaven contacts references only if the application advances. References would be contacted in the fall by either email or phone and would not submit a formal letter.

WORK SAMPLES:

Determine which discipline best fits your work and follow the instructions below to upload the required work samples.

There are three fillable fields for each work sample upload. Required fields are marked with an asterisk. Include the title of the work in the “Title” field. In the next field, indicate if the submitted work sample is more than four years old by answering Yes or No. In the final field, you may include an optional, short description of the work sample.

Provide all submissions in English or accompanied by a translation.

If the attached work sample is longer than the limits for your discipline, please indicate the section you would like the panel to review. If you do not indicate a section, the panelist will review it from the start until the time limit is reached.

VISUAL ART - Submit eight JPEG images that best represent your work. They can be no more than three MB per image. Each image should contain only one artwork. Two additional optional submissions: Installation documentation (either images or video) or detail shots. If your work is based in video, please submit up to two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Video can be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
MUSIC COMPOSITION - Submit two or three audio samples of representative work. Each should be no more than 30MB each and should be in MP3 format or in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. The work samples should total no more than fifteen minutes of video or audio. If available, please include a score submitted as a PDF.
DANCE - Submit two or three works totaling no more than fifteen minutes of video. Each work sample should be submitted in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link.
THEATER - Submit either two or three videos or PDFs. If you submit via video, they should total no more than fifteen minutes together in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. If you submit via PDF, they should total no more than 250MB or two or three PDFs of scripts or librettos, totaling no more than twenty pages.
POETRY - Submit eight to ten short poems or excerpts of poems. The total should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted as a single PDF.
FICTION, NONFICTION, & SCREENWRITING - Submit two or three work samples. The total should not exceed 20 pages, and should be double-spaced and in PDF format. Though not required, we recommend that at least one work sample be in the genre that you wish to work in during your residency.
ARCHITECTURE - Submit two to three examples of previous design-based architecture projects in the form of PDFs, video, or a combination of the two. The applicant may submit work samples including but not limited to models, drawings, and images of completed work. The applicant may submit multiple pages for each project, but the total number of pages submitted should not exceed ten and should be in PDF format. If submitting video, work samples can be in MP4 or MOV format or by Vimeo or YouTube link. The total length should not exceed ten minutes. The applicant should include a brief, 250-word description of each project with the other submitted materials. In this description, please include whether this project was ever constructed. Please review the FAQs before applying in the discipline of Architecture for additional application guidelines.
INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK - If you are submitting only images, you may submit up to eight JPEGs that best represent your work. They can be no more than three MB per image. Each image should contain only one artwork. If you are submitting other types of media or a mix of media, please submit no more than five work samples. The work samples can include images (jpegs should be no more than three MB each), PDFs, video (MP4/MOV should be no more than 250 MB), Vimeo link, YouTube link, or audio (MP3 should be no more 30MB each).

COLLABORATIVE GROUPS: Loghaven invites collaborative teams of up to and including nine people to apply. Each collaborative team will submit one application to be considered for a residency at Loghaven. Teams will apply together by selecting the “Loghaven Artist Residency Collaborative Team Application“ within the Loghaven Slideroom portal. Please note that all team members intending to take part in the residency and receive a stipend must fill out a team member informational form within the larger team application. Collaborative groups share working space and may be expected to share living space.

QUESTIONS: Please review the FAQs on the Loghaven website for answers to many common questions. If you have a question that is not answered there, please email info@loghaven.org, and a staff member will get back to you as soon as possible.

loghaven.org/residencies/apply/

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THE KYOTO RETREAT

DEADLINE: July 17, 2026 |📍 Kyoto, Japan

APPLICATION FEE: $95

INFO: For writers, Kyoto's tranquil gardens and winding cobblestone streets evoke narratives waiting to be penned. The changing hues of autumn during October and November paint the city in vibrant reds and golds, providing a stunning backdrop for contemplation and storytelling. Walking through the bamboo groves of Arashiyama or along the philosopher's path can stir reflections on nature, philosophy, and the human experience.

Although there will be several scheduled events during your stay, the primary purpose of the retreat is to give you an opportunity to immerse yourself in various aspects of Japanese culture and to meet other creatives. You are not required to make new work during the retreat. We want you to have ample time to explore Japan and get inspired in a calm, nurturing environment.

OUR SELECTION PROCESS: We select artists, curators, and writers at all career stages, working in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, interdisciplinary, and social practice. Individuals must be over 21 years old to apply. Our application requires you to submit a CV or resume, a brief statement about your creative interests and a description of how you anticipate using the time if selected for The Kyoto Retreat. You can also provide up to 10 work samples.

FLIGHTS & ACCOMMODATIONS: If you are selected for the retreat, you will receive a roundtrip flight to Kansai International Airport (KIX) or Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport, ITM). You will have a private bedroom in a shared, private house for four weeks (November 1 - 30, 2026). You will also receive $800 USD to supplement your meals and local transportation. Please visit our FAQs for more information.

kyotoretreat.com/about

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2026 Book Prize

Wendy’s Subway

DEADLINE: July 24, 2026 at 11:59pm EST

ENTRY FEE: $20

INFO: Wendy’s Subway is pleased to announce the 2026 Book Prize for full-length manuscripts. Manuscripts selected for this award are published as part of the Passage Series, which features books by emerging writers and artists whose work manifests in innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre forms that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social.

The author will publish a book with Wendy’s Subway within 18 months, and receive an honorarium of $1,250 and 25 author copies.

The selected book will be announced in September 2026.

GUEST JUDGE: Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights, 2024), recipient of the Colorado Book Award; Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023); and The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), recipient of the PEN Open Book Award. He co-edited, with Brynn Saito, the first full-length anthology of Japanese American poetry, The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket Books, 2025), which also includes work by Japanese and Okinawan Canadians; and co-edited, with Thom Donovan, To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books, 2014). He curates the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is currently installed at Colorado College, where he also teaches (creative writing and Asian American literature).

ELIGIBILITY: The call is open to writers at any stage of their career. Writers may be based anywhere. Wendy’s Subway is committed to a publishing practice that amplifies marginalized and underrepresented writers.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but should the manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere, we ask that you notify us as soon as possible and withdraw your Submittable application.

FORMAT + GUIDELINES: Please submit a manuscript of 40 pages or more of original work. While excerpts from the manuscript may have been previously published (as chapbooks, online, or in journals and anthologies, for instance), the manuscript as a whole should reflect a new and unpublished work. Your manuscript may include visual art and illustrations, but please note any pre-designed manuscripts will undergo a significant design process if selected. Collaborations are accepted. While experimental approaches to translation will be considered, one-to-one translations of another author’s writing are not eligible.

Our submission review process is not anonymous. Your manuscript should include: page numbers, a title page, a table of contents, and acknowledgments of previous publication, if applicable. Please also include a one-paragraph biographical statement in the submission form. You may only submit one manuscript for consideration. You will not have the opportunity to make any edits or revisions to your manuscript in Submittable once it has been submitted. The selected author will engage in an editorial process with the Wendy’s Subway editorial team once the manuscript has been accepted.

We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our program and with the Passage Series to learn more about our work before submitting.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Wendy’s Subway abides by the Code of Ethics developed by the Community of Literary Magazines and Publishers (see below). We are committed to fairly and ethically evaluating each and every submission. A group of external readers and Wendy's Subway staff will review all applications before the judge selects a manuscript from the 10 finalists. Close friends, relatives, colleagues, and students (past and present) of the judge are not eligible to submit.

CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believe that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Please submit online using our Submittable page. No hard copies accepted. There is an entry fee of $20.

The $20 submission fee assists our small press in supporting publishing costs and writer honoraria. We recognize that not everyone can afford this expense at this time, and are committed to making this call as accessible as possible. Please email publishing@wendyssubway.com using the subject line “Book Prize Waiver” to make a request for a fee waiver if this expense presents a hardship for you.

You can write to us at publishing@wendyssubway.com with any questions about your eligibility or the application process.

wendyssubway.submittable.com/submit

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Carolyn Bush Award

Wendy’s Subway

DEADLINE: July 24, 2026 at 11:59pm EST

ENTRY FEE: $15

INFO: The Carolyn Bush Award aims to support innovative, hybrid, and cross-genre work that contributes to expanding the discourses and practices of poetry. Manuscripts selected for this award are published as part of the Passage Series, which assembles books by emerging writers and artists that imagine new possibilities and expressions of the poetic, the political, and the social.

This award honors the life and work of Wendy’s Subway co-founder Carolyn Bush and seeks to provide in-depth editorial and professional support to an emerging writer in her name.

The author will publish a book with Wendy’s Subway within 18 months, and receive an honorarium of $1,250 and 25 author copies. Crucial to the award is the editorial support provided to develop and complete the manuscript for publication. During the 18-month award period, Wendy's Subway editors will work closely with the author to provide a unique support structure and opportunities for creative and professional development. This includes:

One-on-one consultations with an external mentor who will offer substantial feedback and guidance on the manuscript at key stages in addition to the publisher’s editorial process.
Professional development opportunities tailored to the author’s specific needs and interests, including but not limited to building strategies for residency and fellowship applications, crafting personal statements, submitting to journals and magazines, undertaking successful marketing and publicity campaigns, and envisioning programmatic presentations of their work.
Free enrollment in three workshops at Wendy’s Subway.
“Contributor” membership at Wendy’s Subway, with key-holding access to our reading room in Brooklyn, which carries a library collection of over 4,000 titles, and a subscription to receive all titles published during the award period.

Wendy’s Subway is committed to a publishing practice that amplifies marginalized and underrepresented writers. The Carolyn Bush Award aims to encourage an emerging writer to follow and develop their work and envision a future for their practice with confidence and an abundance of support.

The award recipient will be announced in September 2026.

ABOUT THIS AWARD: This award has been established in honor of founding member of Wendy’s Subway, Carolyn Bush (1990–2016). In honoring Carolyn and continuing her legacy, we seek to acknowledge her fiercely particular approach to learning, writing, and collaborating. Carolyn chose her own path and followed her own schedule. She was wary of formal education but sought out workshops, reading groups, and informal collectives where learning is enacted relationally, as a form of exchange and intimacy. She engaged mentors but was skeptical of received wisdom of any kind. Her library included poetry and fiction, mystical and religious texts, feminist theory and biography, and idiosyncratic curricula including a collection of texts on the limits of language itself. The poetry and essays she left us are densely allusive, hybrid in forms, galvanized by her concern with social and political justice, and alive with the curiosity and irreverence for which she was famous and beloved. She loved truth-tellers and was one.

JUDGES: The Wendy’s Subway Carolyn Bush Award Editorial Committee, composed of Wendy’s Subway staff and community members: Harris Bauer, Corinne Butta, Sanjana Iyer, Juwon Jun, Gabriel Kruis, Michael Valinsky, and Rachel Valinsky.

ELIGIBILITY: This award is intended for emerging writers residing in New York City. We welcome submissions from female-identifying, genderqueer, non-conforming, non-binary, and trans writers.

FORMAT + GUIDELINES: We seek in-progress manuscripts of 20 pages in length to be considered for the Carolyn Bush Award. Your manuscript may include visual art and illustrations, but please note that any pre-designed manuscripts will undergo a significant design process if selected. While experimental approaches to translation will be considered, one-to-one translations of another author’s writing are not eligible.

The manuscript need not be complete at the time of application. While excerpts from the manuscript may have been previously published (as chapbooks, in journals, for instance), the manuscript as a whole should reflect a new and unpublished work.

Please include page numbers, a title page, a table of contents, and acknowledgments listing previous publications (if applicable). You may only submit one manuscript for consideration. You will not have the opportunity to make any edits or revisions to your manuscript in Submittable once it has been submitted.

Applications also consist of a 500-word written reflection about your work, including the current status of the manuscript, how you see it developing, and how you think you will benefit from this opportunity with Wendy’s Subway. We encourage applicants to familiarize themselves with our program and with the Passage Series to learn more about our work before submitting.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Wendy’s Subway abides by the Code of Ethics developed by the Community of Literary Magazines and Publishers (see below). We are committed to fairly and ethically evaluating each and every submission. Close friends, relatives, colleagues, and students (past and present) of any of the judges are not eligible to submit.

HOW TO SUBMIT: Please submit online using our Submittable page. No hard copies accepted. There is an entry fee of $15.

The $15 submission fee assists our small press support publishing costs and writer honoraria. We recognize that not everyone can afford this expense at this time, and are committed to making the contest as accessible as possible. Please email publishing@wendyssubway.com using the subject line “CBA Fee Waiver” to make a request for a fee waiver if this expense presents a hardship for you.

You can write to us at publishing@wendyssubway.com with any questions about your eligibility or the application process.

wendyssubway.submittable.com/submit

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THE SARABANDE OPEN: POETRY

Sarabande Books

SUBMISSION FEE: $30

DEADLINE: July 31, 2026 at 11:59pm

INFO: Each year during the month of July, Sarabande offers writers and translators the opportunity to get their manuscripts in front of our editors without the mediating factors of agents or judges. Providing direct access to writers is a core Sarabande value, rooted in our long-held belief that you, writers, know best what kind of work we're going to love.

We can’t wait to read your full-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, hybrid work, literary nonfiction, and literature in translation!

ELIGIBILITY:

The Sarabande Open is open to manuscripts in English. Employees and board members of Sarabande are not eligible. Agented manuscripts are not eligible. Works that have previously appeared in magazines or in anthologies may be included.

It is highly recommended that those who intend to submit a manuscript familiarize themselves with Sarabande’s catalog. You can find some of our recent titles below.This submission period is open to manuscripts in English. We recommended all those who intend to submit a manuscript familiarize themselves with Sarabande’s catalog.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Submission form must include a cover letter with a brief author bio and acknowledgements of past publications.
Manuscript must be anonymous.
Manuscript must be typed, standard font, 12 pt.
Poetry manuscripts should have a minimum length 48 pages.
Manuscript should be paginated consecutively with a table of contents.
Submission must be submitted electronically through Submittable, accompanied by a $30 submission fee

sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit

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Open Call for ‘Crip Time’

SUSPECT

DEADLINE: August 1, 2026

INFO: “Good shit takes time.” Alice Wong says in her disability memoir Year of the Tiger. In both senses of “crip time” — both the non-normative, flexible timelines of disability culture and an appropriate moment for disabled folks to take center stage — SUSPECT seeks writing that draws on and centers disabled lived experience and disability theory.

Rejecting the mind/body binary, we invite writing on all stripes of disability: physical, cognitive, and psychological, invisible and visible. Bring us your writing from beyond fearmongering pity and supercrip inspiration porn. Bring us your writing from (un)expected places of becoming — from the daybed to the highway, from mountains to menus of braille. Give us stim and sensory overload, ramp and rattling pills. Give us obstinance and gloss, access intimacy and mess. Come as you are, in joy or with steel. Let's see what good shit we can make with crip time.

Submissions might address (but not be limited to):

Crip time and futures
Ableism and accessibility
Mad studies and neurodiversity
Disability culture and materiality
Interdependence and independence
The double edges of diagnosis and cure
Intersecting struggles

call for submissions: ‘Stories of Women of Colour, Culture & Becoming’

IHRAM Press

DEADLINE: August 1, 2026

INFO: We are opening submissions for an issue dedicated to amplifying the voices of women of colour, including transgender women and women living across cultures as expats, migrants, or in diasporic communities.

This issue will explore stories of hope, resistance, and resilience—shining a light on the struggles, strengths, and creativity of women of colour worldwide.

WE ARE EAGER TO PUBLISH:

Experiences of discrimination and inequality (health, social, political, economic).
Intersectional feminism: recognizing that inequalities are lived differently across identities and contexts.
Cultural and generational stories—memories, traditions, and the legacies women carry.
Creative expressions of solidarity, empowerment, and collective care.

WHAT DO IHRAM PRESS PROMISE TO YOU?

We also acknowledge that terms such as “women of colour,” “BIPOC,” or “BAME” can be limiting, centering whiteness in ways that feel triggering or reductive. We invite contributors to self-identify in the ways that feel most authentic to them. This issue is a platform for visibility, empowerment, and art as resistance. We recognize that not all inequalities are experienced the same way. Therefore, we wish to highlight intersectional feminism in this collection and amplify those voices.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

Poetry - Maximum 5 poems per submission, one publication per author.
Short-Stories/Essays - 2500 words or less
Visual art - Accepted Visual Art includes: mixed media, acrylics, oil paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, sculptures, or any forms that fit our publication’s themes. *Submission for artwork is unlimited. Please note, your published artwork might be presented in black-and-white and therefore should be suitable for “print”. We WILL NOT accept any AI-Generated art. Ensure your artwork is submitted as .JPG, .PDFs, or .PNGs.
Submission Requirements - Include the call you are responding to in the email’s subject line
- Your full name and/or pen name.
- Your country of residence.
- A brief third-person bio (roughly 100 words). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!
- A brief foreword to your piece (between 300-500 words), explaining your inspiration for creating it, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.
Compensation for Accepted Submission - Writers whose submissions are accepted will receive payment of $50. Accepted artists will receive $25.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Submit your work to submit@humanrightsartmovement.org

Please include the the following required information in your submission email:

Include the call you are responding to in the email’s subject line

Your full name and/or pen name.
Your country of residence.
A brief third-person bio (roughly 100 words). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!
A brief foreword to your piece (between 300-500 words), explaining your inspiration for creating it, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.
*If your piece is accepted, we will request a high-resolution author photograph. However, authors are not required to provide photographs of themselves and are always welcome to decline, should they wish to remain anonymous.

humanrightsartmovement.org/ihram-submissions