Call for Submissions – “Nourish” Issue of Unearthed

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Fall 2025 Submissions | Open until Oct. 31

It’s time again to submit your creative work to Unearthed, the literary and art journal produced by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming Fall 2025 issue. In this issue, we invite you to reflect on what it means to nourish—to feed, to sustain, to grow, to heal.

Now that the harvest season is upon us, our editorial board seeks poetry, prose, and visual art that explore the many means of nourishing the body, the mind, the spirit, and the land. What does it mean to be fed? What does it mean to feed others, or to be denied sustenance—emotional, physical, or cultural? We want to see how nourishment takes root in your work.

We especially encourage submissions from historically underrepresented voices and emerging artists and writers.

Deadline: Oct. 31, 2025

We accept:

* Poetry: up to five poems (one poem on a page), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf.

* Fiction: up to 4500 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.

* Creative and critical non-fiction: between 800-4000 words (double-spaced), submitted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Include a title and page numbers.

* Visual Art: up to ten items, formatted as .jpg, .tiff, .png, or .pdf with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Include titles for each piece.

* Video: up to two video products submitted in .wav, .wmv, .avi, or .mov. or a link to a previously unpublished vimeo, etc.

What to submit:

In addition to your creative work, please also send a short cover letter (.doc, .docx, or .pdf.) including:

1. A short biographical statement of 100 words or less, written in third person;

2. A brief artist statement of 150 words or less in which you briefly describe any or all of the following: what inspired the piece, what you hope audiences take from it, how your work fits into (or chafes against) the theme. If your submission is chosen for publication, we will publish your bio and your artist statement alongside your piece.

How to submit:
Email your submission to esflitmag@gmail.com with the subject line: “Fall 2025 Submission – [Your Name].” We allow simultaneous submissions but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

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Feature Image: “Pumpkin Spice Cake and Nourishing Sencha Tea” by Kirinohana is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
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Addie Hopes

Addie Hopes (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department (Literary Studies) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). She is also the reviews editor at Edge Effects magazine, an editorial assistant at Contemporary Literature, and a fiction and nonfiction editor at The Hopper. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, CUNY. When she’s not writing a dissertation about documentary ecopoetry, she’s thinking about queer and feminist approaches to mer-people and speculative multispecies worlds.

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