Yellow Medicine Review (YMR) Spring 2024
Call for Submissions
The Spring 2024
issue of Yellow Medicine Review seeks your finest creative nonfiction essays and poetry. For this issue, let's keep
it REAL (biography, autobiography, memoir, slice of life). As always, we seek to showcase the depth and breadth of Indigenous
experience and talent. We'd love to see some intergenerational collaborations here. For example, a grandmother/grandfather
writes a poem or essay that inspires their son/daughter to write a poem or essay in response that then inspires a granddaughter/grandson
to write a poem or essay in response. Couples might collaborate in the same way. While collaborations would be awesome, we're
also keenly invested in lifting up the singular voice, especially in pieces that resonate long after the page is turned.
We want to find the wisdom embedded in your experiences, challenges, celebrations, failures, mysteries,
histories, accomplishments, fears, desires, bouts of jealousy or confusion or mental abberation or uncontrolled laughter.
Keep it close to the bone. Make us feel some kind of way. Might
not necessarily be a depiction of something earth shattering. Might be a small, quiet moment or sliver of insight.
We're eager to read work by elders and newbies and everyone in between and from every corner of indigenous
experience. Take a risk. We love risky pieces. Push it. Cross imposed boundaries. Shatter expectations. Challenge norms. But
do it brilliantly.
Deadline for Submissions: April 12, 2024
Expected Publication Date: Late May 2024
Submit
work as a single email attachment to: editor@yellowmedicinereview.com
In your email/cover
letter, please include the following:
- Your
name and physical mailing address
- List
of all titles and genres (story, creative nonfiction essay, poetry) of included work
- Short bio
- Your tribal affiliation [YMR is a journal of Indigenous writing]
Please adhere to the YMR submission format and guidelines:
- Send work as a Word or RTF attachment. If there is unusual
formatting in your piece, please also include a PDF.
- The subject line of your email should read as follows: YMR Spring 2024 Last Name (ex: YMR Spring
2024 Wilson)
- Simultaneous
and/or multiple submissions are acceptable.
- Please no previously published work (though we do sometimes make exceptions--so maybe ask before
submitting such)