Back in 2020 (one of the most hectic years many of us have experienced), N&S opened for our second chapbook submissions period. Between the global chaos and issues that hit closer to home, our decisions for these and other pending submissions have been a long time coming.
We are so grateful to each and every author who sent in their work—compiling this list was made incredibly difficult by the quality of each and every manuscript. With every batch of submissions we receive, we’re faced with the inevitable heartbreak of having to turn away work that speaks to us. We truly wish we could accept all of the below titles and more!
As always, manuscripts were reviewed without identifying information, so it was especially exciting to find that a few of our former contributors were the authors behind these works—and even more so to discover several names that are entirely new to us here at N&S!
From the following manuscripts, we’ll create our shortlist of chapbooks before choosing our final selections, which will be published by Nightingale & Sparrow Press.
- apparitions of you and me – jessie caitlin bullard
- Aquarius Rising – Bernadette R. Giacomazzo
- Ave Mater Militantis – Sarra Culleno
- BEHIND THE GHOST METROPOLIS – Asper Blurry
- Bone Memory, Moon Tissue, Blood Medicine – C.T. McClintock
- Bough Break – Jessica Hudson
- Built on Broken Bedrock – Wendy Humphries
- Days Disowned by Memory – Israel Bonilla
- inside the pale – Christine Brooks
- JOAN:ARC – Preston Smith
- just a few words – Jim Young
- knick-knacks/ things no one is saying – Sarah Jean Valiquette
- La Revedere – Adela Sinclair
- Melodies of the Oppressed – Chris L. Butler
- A Moon in Gemini – Rachel Boury Baxter
- The Moon is never as bright as it appears – Marchell Dyon
- The Morning After – Diane Payne
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis – Miriam Hilmi
- Postcolonial Memory – Nibras Malik
- Pout – Aishwarya Javalgekar
- Relapses of spiny desires – Eleni Cay
- ROCD Around the Clock – Rota
- A Sorrow of Ghosts – Amanda Crum
- Sunbath – Amara George Parker
- TACTICS OF A SHORELINE – Avleen K Mokha
- Terrestrial Songs – Peggy Landsman
- The Unaccounted for Circles of Hell – Lynne Schmidt
- Water Damage – M.E. Gallucci
- We Could Be Free – Mollie Williamson
- When the floods came – alison armstrong
- A Year After the Divorce – AE Hines
