What We're Looking for
We accept poetry, hybrid works, personal essays, fragments, diary entries, short fiction, experimental prose, or visual pieces (photography, digital art, scanned analogue work, collage, handwritten work).
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We are drawn to pieces that are:
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- Rooted in identity, memory, body, and struggle
- Voiced from the margins-- emotionally, politically, structurally
- Tender and unflinching-- we like soft rage, raw mourning, quiet revolution
- Non-traditional in format or feeling-- format-bending, margin scribbled, unlabeled, unusual
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We especially welcome work from:
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- Black, Brown, Indigenous, and global south creatives
- Queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent voices
- Students, young writers, and first-time submitters
- People who have never been published and never felt seen
Accessibility & Intention
We are not here to police grammar, structure, or perfection.
We are here for emotion, clarity, honesty, art that lives and bleeds.
If you're unsure if your work " fits"-- submit it anyway.
If you're afraid you're not "good enough"-- submit it anyway.
This journal is for the overlooked, the fragmented, the rebuilding.
You are welcome here.
Content Boundaries
Lilomul Journal does not accept work that contains or promotes hateful, discriminatory, or bigoted language or ideas-- including but not limited to racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, fatphobia, ableism, misogyny or classism.
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We do not platform:
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- White guilt or white fragility-centred narratives
- Great Replacement rhetoric or xenophobic moral panic
- Trauma porn framed for shock value rather than care or critique
Anger is valid. Grief is valid.
We welcome work that expresses personal or political rage, grief, or disillusionment with oppressive systems and histories. However, we do not publish work that sensationalises trauma, exploits identities, or centres privileged discomfort in spaces meant for marginalised voices.
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This space is for truth, not spectacle.
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We are not afraid of intensity-- but we ask for intention. Your work doesn't have to be "safe," it just needs to be responsible.
Submissions Guidelines
• Up to 3 poems or 2 short pieces (max 1500 words each)
• Visual submissions: up to 3 pieces
• Please send your work as a PDF or DOCX for text/ PNG or JPEG for visual work.
• Simultaneous submissions allowed, but let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere
• No submission fees-- ever
• Submit through Google Forms
• Include a short bio (3-5 lines) and an optional note about your piece
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Important dates for the Act 1:
Submissions open: 15 May 2025
Deadline: 01 July 2025
Release of Issue 1: 01 September 2025
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This is a rolling journal-- so if we love your work but it does not fit this theme, we may hold it for a future issue.