seedfall: LORE — Visual Art
Tulipwood Books
seedfall is Tulipwood's annual journal of poetry, prose, and visual art by women and nonbinary and trans artists. We invite you to submit work on this year's theme: Lore. Lore is story—both true and imagined. Lore carries connotations of family myth-making, of cultural wisdom, of shared ethics. It is knowledge gained through study. “Lore” shares a root with “learn.” Mythology travels alongside lore, with elements of whimsy, memoir, and otherworldliness. In the tradition of “Turn of the Screw,” show us a story within a story. Bring us into the hand-told image passed down from generations, the anecdote, the vignette sanded smooth by Time, where the act of remembering and retelling, with no strict allegiance to fact or to fiction, is our resistance. What customs and experiences have shaped you? Send us your take on fact versus fiction, your own personal mythologies and the secrets you have been waiting to share. We can create our own lore just as easily as we can live by another’s. To quote bell hooks, “We chart our lives by everything we remember—from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering.” Submission Guidelines For seedfall , we only consider work from women and trans and nonbinary people. Please respect this constraint. See our other submission calls for opportunities open to people of all genders. Submissions Please send 3-5 pieces, along with a cover letter, short bio, and any questions that you might have for us, via our Submittable portal. We print seedfall at 8" x 8”, with .125” bleed 300 dpi, full color Collaboration Please indicate in your cover letter if you're comfortable with text overlay with your image. For example, our design team might see potential in a broadside to appear in our pages or on its own. You will be consulted and have final approval of any collaboration. Policies We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately If your work is accepted elsewhere . Once we accept your work, we expect that you will withdraw it from consideration elsewhere. Tulipwood Books retains North American First Serial Rights for all accepted work. Rights revert to the author upon publication. We do consider previously-published work, but you must provide acknowledgment and written proof that you retain the rights to the work. There is no guarantee of publication. A few rules about submissions. This submission call is for work by writers who are 18 years of age and older. Work that was self-published on social media is fine, but we are unable to consider work previously published in a journal or magazine. No hate speech. This includes: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, ableism, cultural appropriation, or any other oppressive or shameful language of any kind. No sexual violence. Other violence is also not recommended. No depictions of self-harm, suicide, or suicidal ideation. No exceptions. No AI-generated or AI-collaborated work. This should go without saying. Please make sure that you've read and understand the policies above. Any work that violates these policies is not eligible for publication.
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