Call for Submissions➡️The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | Seeking works that engage w/ land, home, borders, environment, & community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation.

But you don’t sail aimlessly either. Unlike what some ill-wishers say, imprisoned spirits who envy your fluidity, you know exactly where you want to go, and every stroke of your oar is a reaffirmation that this is where you are headed, here and now. https://t.co/Eaju3A6ESc

Join us for an off-site reading during the #AWP2026 conference! March 6th, from 6-8pm, at the Black Genius Art Show. ➡️ 15 readers will read their work from the "Taking Liberties" & "On Freedom" editions of @aboutplacejourn. https://t.co/faSkgaoxdg

We welcome poetry, essays, fiction, hybrid work, visual art, and multimedia submissions from those rooted in activism, spirit, & justice. 🗓️ Submissions open January 1, 2026 ✅ Submissions due March 10, 2026 📑 Issue to be published May 2026 🔗

@aboutplacejourn Both poems, both paintings are very moving.

About Place Journal is accepting work on the theme of The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, & Resistance. Deadline: March 10. No reading fee. They publish poetry, prose, visual art, photography, video, & music. #writers #callforsubmissions @aboutplacejourn https://t.co/UEwdHg7lmL

J.W.M. Morgan is writing a novel as a series of linked stories about the inspiration of the religious mystic slavery abolitionist John Brown. 📖Read Morgan's text: John Brown: Only the Messenger, in the latest edition of About Place Journal. https://t.co/bp6kZGWkAa

🖌️Icarus Reborn (feel the burning light) Joseph Laurro's recent works take the form of resilience. Perhaps a myth rewritten in defiance of fate or the freedom of a swimmer late in life. Meditations on movement—turn to folklore, science, and the sacred. https://t.co/dFxrBKppAB

The call for the next issue of About Place Journal, "The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, & Resistance," is open. We would love to have your work! Submission period: Jan 1 to Mar 10, 2026 🖋️ Editorial team: Amanda Ngoho Reavey, Seth Copeland, Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak.

🎨Dancing with Fireflies/down here below by Joseph Laurro Laurro searches while painting, making visual decisions directly in the process. His work is visceral, open-ended, allowing anything to feel possible. Recent works take the form of resilience. https://t.co/dFxrBKoRL3

Pretrial Case Management: The Weight of 1.5% (for the underpaid, overwatched, and underestimated) They gave me a 1.5% raise as if I wouldn’t notice the extra weight of my silence, as if the decimal point could polish the edge of my exhaustion. -A. Reavey https://t.co/YCTUSzCe3a

Call for Submissions➡️The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance. | Seeking works that engage w/ land, home, borders, environment, & community, not as static backdrops, but as living terrains that hold grief, memory, & the seeds of transformation.

You love your home but leave it, visit when shells cease and soldiers go to military tents beyond the concrete tons of Ukrainian grief. From 'Epistle to Liubov Tymchenko' by Theresa Senato Edwards (poem), Lori Schreiner (painting) https://t.co/Y38LdYyx8x

Exciting news! On March 6th, at 6:00pm, Cutthroat and the #BlackEarthInstitute are holding a reading during the @awpwriter conference at the Black Genius Art Show. We hope that you can join us.

Young twins, somber eyes below scuffed foreheads. The artist’s painting holds you amid the ship’s sway before disembarkment from a porthole you’ll never stop looking through. Poet - Theresa Senato Edwards / Artist - Lori Schreiner https://t.co/Y38LdYyx8x

And there, face down on the carpet of an old Victorian apartment building that had survived the 1906 earthquake, he realized something: He had entered a new world. _ From 'Pan Francés,' by Mauricio Ernesto Ramírez, a Salvadoran American artist and scholar. https://t.co/6qKtgMj0Bj

Churches constructed along riverbanks, helped with waterborne escapes, becoming havens for all who entered. Finding strength through faith, within the hallowed walls, worshippers found solace there that no one could ever take away. -Marjory Wentworth https://t.co/QB9kFJkZ6w

Very important to know, Renee Nicole Good, murdered by an ICE agent, was a poet. Here is one of her works. Read and Remember her. @POETSorg https://t.co/yT0ri3E4VD

I am a branch grown wild far from ancient groves— Olive roots watered by distant sun, Shadowed now by London rain. Even here, the keffiyeh’s threads run under my skin— heredity memory stitched into mornings dense with tea 'Roots in exile' - Adam Suleiman https://t.co/zh9WzagPUt

These days, our only sanctuary might be with one another. Wherever the women are calling us, fear can galvanize action, impelling us to take risks, to voice our dread when even everyday life becomes paralyzing. From 'Anthem for the Silenced' Gail Tyson https://t.co/IfXh4yxici

The Call for Submissions for the next edition of our literary journal opens Jan 1, 2026. The @aboutplacejourn editorial team for 'The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance' issue invites work that explores place as a site of struggle and survival. Explore the call ⬇️