The Ilanot Review: “A Formal Feeling” Issue
Deadline September 30 (must be received by this date). The Ilanot Review seeks submissions of unpublished fiction, essays, art, photography, comics, translations, or poetry in traditional or experimental forms for their Spring 2026 issue, to be guest-edited by Sherre Vernon and Jeremy Teddy Karn. See website for length limit for each genre. One submission per person (across all genres, not per genre). Submission fee is $3 to cover Submittable costs. Editors explain the theme thus: "'After great pain, a formal feeling comes,' Emily Dickinson noted. Writers have long employed formal constraint to contain intense emotion. Sometimes, the feeling itself is formal, static, stiff, ceremonious. Time collapses and 'the Feet, mechanical, go round'; until we can let go. For this issue, send us formal experimentation and traditional forms; send your work of letting go and your work in the wake of great pain; send us your mechanical feet and your compressed time; the intensity that can barely be articulated and the cavities carved out by the heat of the moment after they've hardened and cooled."
Source: http://www.ilanotreview.com/submissions-page/
Published: August 20, 2025
