Don’t forget that submissions are open for ProForma! Send us your best hybrid, genre-defying, or formally out-of-the-box work by May 15.

We’ve got something for you over at gristjournal.submittable.com :)

Here is your reminder❕The ProForma submission window closes in ONE WEEK❕Get your work in by the deadline❕Judged by Monica Prince—ROADMAP AVAILABLE NOW! ⏰

An absolute honor to edit Melanie Pierce’s debut essay “Take Good Care” during my tenure at Grist Journal—the ways this piece establishes ownership of the speaker’s body in a world hellbent against autonomy always leaves me crying. Give it a read 🩷gristjournal.com/2024/05/take-g…

I’ve been a fan of alysia ever since I read her piece in DIAGRAM, and was ecstatic to publish her micros in Grist Journal. The first of three: “Ghosts Are Only Real If You Say Their Name” is so haunting in how it layers memory and place. gristjournal.com/2024/05/ghosts… 1/4

"sometimes I imagine it soft as a small chipmunk nuzzling my ankle whimpering for milk because it’s aloof & confuses whose tongue-ridge is worth remembering" Read new poetry by Jennifer Whalen in our Issue 16! gristjournal.com/2024/05/if-i-e…

"You’ll make it, Frank!" we call, we call. He doesn’t. The swimmers never win. Read "Labor Day, 1961, Last Poolside Event," John Tabb DuVal's elegy for his brother, in Issue 16. gristjournal.com/2024/05/labor-…

"the satisfying click after a successful left turn; right turns; always right turns; the sun peaking just over the Ozarks" Read new work from Hiba Tahir as part of our new Issue 16! gristjournal.com/2024/05/when-i…

Here is one more reminder that the ProForma submission window closes tomorrow! This year’s contest will be judged by Choreopoems Scholar, Monica Prince—ROADMAP AVAILABLE NOW! Winners receive $1000 and publication in next year’s print issue. Submittable is open April 1-May 15: gristjournal.submittable.com

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Fee Free Submission Day is approaching!! Mark your calendars! 📆🤍

ATTENTION!! Fee free submission day is TODAY!!! Want to submit? Click the link below! gristjournal.submittable.com

Congratulations to all finalists!! Stay tuned for Issue 18 to read the winners’ work!

Best of luck to our nominees! Read their work at gristjournal.com !!

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.” — Hemingway 🎙️ Let your form do the talking. TWO WEEKS left to submit to Grist’s ProForma Contest: gristjournal.submittable.com

🗣 Calling all writers and artists 🗣 Submissions are officially OPEN for fiction, nonfiction, and visual art! Send us your best by October 31st 👉gristjournal.submittable.com