CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Nature Issue

Everyone experiences the natural world differently, particularly across gender, race, ability, socioeconomic status, and other identities. Many people have not had the same access to or positive relationship with the natural world due to structures of exclusion, exploitation, and oppression. At the same time, some marginalized communities and cultures have also found solace, refuge, and power in connecting with and retreating to the natural world.

Whatever our experiences may be, how does our relationship with the natural world make and unmake our cultural, gender, social, sexual, spiritual, and personal identities? What do we learn about ourselves as we interact with nature? Why are we drawn and/or repulsed by nature? What freedoms, inspiration, or reprieve does nature offer us? What fears and challenges does it present for marginalized bodies, identities, and experiences?

Burrow Press Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that explores these and similar questions, with particular interest in the voices and work of Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented communities.

Submissions close August 31 at midnight. Selected work will appear weekly on BP Review in the fall of 2021.

GUIDELINES

• Include a bio in your cover letter.
• Must be previously unpublished.
• Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Withdraw the work ASAP if it has been accepted elsewhere.
• Submit 1 piece of prose (fiction or nonfiction) up to 30 pages or 7,500 words. Inclusion of image and/or sound is welcome. Low-res images can be included in the Word doc as placeholders. Sound can be uploaded separately as mp3.
• Up to 3 poems or three pages.
• Writers may submit once to each genre (fiction, nonfiction and poetry): group all documents in a single submission, with separate attachments per genre. Clearly mark on the genre on each document.
• Burrow asks for first electronic rights and archival rights. Rights revert to you upon publication. We cannot offer compensation at this time.

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ABOUT THE EDITOR

Chad B. Anderson is a writer living in Michigan. Born and raised in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, he earned his B.A. from University of Virginia and his M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University, where he served as fiction editor for Indiana Review. He has been a resident at the Ledig House International Writers’ Colony and was the Winter 2018-2019 writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House in Orlando. Chad’s fiction is published in Salamander Review, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Best American Short Stories 2017, and Clockhouse and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.