Lullaby Machine is a digital rest-stop dedicated to the lullaby. Growing from the idea of lullabies as portals into dream and tools for collective care, the site hosts a library of .mp3s and a quarterly e-magazine ft. work on lullaby, rest, dreams, grief, capitalism, ecology, and the internet.

Olivia Q. Pintair

Maia Sauer

Cheryl Engmann

Lullaby Machine

We're looking for creative nonfiction (including interviews and reviews) that engages, however expansively or experimentally, with the threads connecting lullaby, rest, grief, dream, capitalism, ecology, and the internet. We welcome submissions that range in style and voice to offer creative and unexpected takes on the topics that Lullaby Machine explores. We encourage you to read about the project before submitting (lullabymachine.com), but hope you'll trust your own voice—we'd be equally excited to receive a poem about the weird dream you had last night as we would be to read an essay exploring barriers to rest amid racial capitalism. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for nonfiction submissions

We're looking for fiction that engages, however expansively or experimentally, with the threads connecting lullaby, rest, grief, dream, capitalism, ecology, and the internet. We welcome submissions that range in style and voice to offer creative and unexpected takes on the topics that Lullaby Machine explores. We encourage you to read about the project before submitting (lullabymachine.com), but hope you'll trust your own voice. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for fiction submissions

We're looking for poetry that engages with the threads connecting lullaby, rest, grief, dream, capitalism, ecology, and the internet. We welcome submissions that range in style and voice to offer creative and unexpected takes on the topics that Lullaby Machine explores. We encourage you to read about the project before submitting (lullabymachine.com), but hope you'll trust your own voice. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for poetry submissions 

We welcome visual and hybrid submissions to the e-magazine including (but not limited to) film, visual art, and recorded dance work. Please send us your strangest, most dreamlike projects. If you have an unrealized idea for a piece you want to make for Lullaby Machine, feel free to send a pitch to lullabymachine@gmail.com. 

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

Call for visual & hybrid submissions 

We are currently accepting submissions of .mp3/.m4a lullabies on a rolling basis.

We welcome subjective and creative interpretations of "lullaby" from established artists and non-self-proclaimed artists alike. We like to think of "the lullaby" as a form with an expansive definition and are excited about contributions that span languages, geographies, genres, and production methods. A recorded soundscape, a rendition of a folk song, and an abstract collage of sound, for example, are all equally welcome.

While we maintain a selection process for work submitted to our quarterly e-magazine (see below), we review all .mp3 lullaby submissions with the intention of publishing each one. As long as your contribution aligns with our community guidelines, we'll do our best to get it online as swiftly as possible.

Learn more and submit at lullabymachine.com/submit.

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