Rawhead is a journal of art & lit that publishes work of consequence. We use a monster’s name to honor art’s power to resist, reveal, and endure. Rawhead is seeking visual art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and experimental pieces.

Rawhead is one of many folkloric bogeymen used to frighten children into obedience. In our numerous and varied myths, monsters emerge from cultural shadows, not only as instruments of fear or control, but also as mirrors of our shared humanity.

It’s true that figures like La Llorona, Rawhead, and the Windigo serve as containers for our anxieties, cruelties, and moral compromises. However, they also function as conduits for resilience, truth, and connection. Monsters reveal to us what has been hidden or ignored for too long. They force us to confront realities that are often far more disturbing than what lurks in the dark.

To name a journal Rawhead is to acknowledge that the endurance and evolution of great art and literature has always provoked fear in those who would weaponize their power to feed on society. 

To give this journal a monstrous name is a deliberate act and one that reflects what tyrants, profiteers, and oppressors fear most: a public that is awake, literate, and unafraid to speak. The arts have always been a threat to the real monsters among us. Rawhead, and the work we publish, is only one of countless forms in which resistance can take.

Rawhead is committed to uplifting work by BIPOC, queer, disabled, and neurodiverse artists and writers—and anyone whose voice has been overlooked or underestimated. Please feel safe submitting to us.

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Rawhead

<b>Poetry:</b><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

Issue 04: Poetry

<b>Flash Fiction:
</b>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro-fiction and Hint-Fiction along with Dribbles and Drabbles. 

We accept longer fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. <div><br></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div>

Issue 04: Flash Fiction

<b>Short Fiction:</b><br><div>We accept fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. 

For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro-fiction and Hint-Fiction along with Dribbles and Drabbles. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting previously published work.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b>
Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social

Support:</b>
Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div>

Issue 04: Short Fiction

<b>Flash Nonfiction:</b><div>We accept short Creative Nonfiction pieces up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. 

For flash and experimental submissions of Creative Nonfiction (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div>

Issue 04: Short CNF

<b>Flash Nonfiction:
</b>We accept flash and experimental submissions of Creative Nonfiction (1,000 words or fewer). You may send up to three pieces in a single document. 

For Creative Nonfiction pieces up to 3,000 words, you may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000.
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</b><div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within 3–6 months, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div></div>

Issue 04: Flash CNF

<b>Rawhead &amp; Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 </b>is open to horror, science fiction, fantasy, speculative work, and anything strange, uncanny, or difficult to categorize. We’re looking for visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and hybrid work that takes us somewhere frightening or unexpected.<b>

Visual Art:</b><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><br><div><br></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions by October 13th.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div></div>

Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 — Visual Art

<b>Hybrid:</b>
We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. <div><div><br></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding artist and one standout writer each regular issue to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Response Time:</div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal</b> and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div></div>

Issue 04: Hybrid Form

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.

<div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><br></div><div><b>Poetry:</b></div><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash Creative Nonfiction:</b></div><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Short Fiction and Short Creative Nonfiction:</b></div><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Hybrid:</b></div><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. 

<b><br></b></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within 3–6 months, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram @rawheadjournal and Bluesky @rawheadjournal.bsky.social</div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature

</div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div>

Point Blank: Visual Art

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.

<b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash Creative Nonfiction:</b><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.
<div><br></div><div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><br></div><div><b>Poetry:</b></div><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Short Fiction and Short Creative Nonfiction:</b></div><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Hybrid:</b></div><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div>Follow:</div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div></div>

Point Blank: Flash Fiction

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.<div><br></div><div><b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash CNF:</b></div><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><br></div><div><b>Poetry:</b></div><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Short Fiction and Short CNF</b></div><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Hybrid:</b></div><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal and Bluesky @rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital reading series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div>

Point Blank: Flash CNF

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.
<b>
Hybrid:</b><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. 
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash CNF:</b></div><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Poetry:</b></div><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Short Fiction and Short CNF</b></div><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. </div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within<b> 3–6 months, </b>though will often reply sooner.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram<b> @rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div></div>

Point Blank: Hybrid Form

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.
<b>
Poetry:</b><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.
<div><br></div><div><b>Hybrid:</b></div><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash CNF:</b></div><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.

</div><div><b>Short Fiction and Short CNF</b></div><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months,</b> though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div></div>

Point Blank: Poetry

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.
<b>
Short Fiction and Short CNF</b><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. 
<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash CNF:</b></div><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><br></div><div><b>Poetry:</b></div><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Hybrid:</b></div><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal</b> and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div></div>

Point Blank: Short CNF

Monthly Digital Series. All Genres Accepted. At least one artist/writer selected each month. $30 payment.  Learn more below.<br><div><br></div><div><b>Flash Fiction &amp; Flash Creative Nonfiction:</b></div><div>For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro and Hint along with Dribbles and Drabbles and other experimental forms.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Visual Art:</b></div><div>We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and more. Please submit up to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Poetry:</b></div><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Short Fiction and Short Creative Nonfiction:</b></div><div>We accept short fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Hybrid:</b></div><div>We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Payment:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank featured writers and artists each receive $30.00. Additionally, we donate $10 to an organization chosen by each contributor. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions within <b>3–6 months</b>, though will often reply sooner.</div><div><br></div><div>Follow:</div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div>Support:</div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>About:</b></div><div>Rawhead: Point Blank is a monthly digital series featuring the work of a single writer or artist in response to what is happening now. We accept Poetry, Visual Art, CNF and Hybrid works for this series. Point Blank exists as a form of resistance and documentation, a way of marking what is being done, who it is being done to, and how it is being fought. This series extends our core mission into the present tense, serving as a rapid-response record for the stories and injustices unfolding right now that cannot afford the distance of traditional publication schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a space to name the realities of state violence: from the kidnapping and murder of our neighbors by ICE, to the genocide of the Palestinian people, to the plunder of the earth itself as our forests and oceans are sacrificed to endless greed. It is also a place to witness structural rot of the everyday: the indignity of economic hardship, the legislative attacks on our LGBTQ+ community, and the systemic racism that decides who is protected and who is pushed to the margins. This is a space to call out the corruption that impacts most people’s daily lives. We are meeting that force with a point-blank record of our own.</div><div><br></div><div>At the same time, we recognize that resistance is found in the persistence of hope, the labor of community care, and the bravery of everyday heroes. Rawhead: Point Blank is a space for the work that documents what is being built as much as what is being broken. We value stories of the things we create in spite of the powers that be: the mutual aid, the art, the healing &amp; recovery, the defense of neighbors, the unexpected kindness of the world, and the daily ways we choose each other over the systems that despise us. A ledger of the moment is incomplete without the stories of those who insist on beauty and survival in the face of injustice.</div><div><br></div><div>We want to hear from anyone paying attention, whether that perspective comes from the shop floor, the classroom, the kitchen table, the picket line, the waiting room, the cell, the back roads, or the street. Rawhead has always been committed to work that does not look away, and this series holds space for these conditions to be named and remembered as they unfold.</div>

Point Blank: Short Fiction

<b>Rawhead &amp; Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 </b>is open to horror, science fiction, fantasy, speculative work, and anything strange, uncanny, or difficult to categorize. We’re looking for visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and hybrid work that takes us somewhere frightening or unexpected.<br><div><b>
Flash Fiction:
</b>We accept flash and experimental submissions of Fiction (1,000 words or fewer). You may send up to three pieces in a single document. 

For Fiction pieces up to 3,000 words, you may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000.
<b>
</b><div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one standout contributor to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions by October 13th.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div></div></div>

Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween — Flash Fiction

<b>Rawhead &amp; Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026</b> is open to horror, science fiction, fantasy, speculative work, and anything strange, uncanny, or difficult to categorize. We’re looking for visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and hybrid work that takes us somewhere frightening or unexpected.<div><b>
Poetry:</b><div>You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 6 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding contributor to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions by October 13th.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween — Poetry

<b>Rawhead &amp; Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 </b>is open to horror, science fiction, fantasy, speculative work, and anything strange, uncanny, or difficult to categorize. We’re looking for visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and hybrid work that takes us somewhere frightening or unexpected.<b>

Hybrid:</b>
We welcome work that crosses or blends forms such as prose/poetry hybrids, lyric essays with embedded images, collages, comics, sound pieces, etc. You may submit one larger hybrid work up to 3,000 words, 5 shorter pieces (provided they total no more than the limits above), or up to 10 images. <div><div><br></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding contributor to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Response Time:</div><div>We aim to respond to submissions by October 13th.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal</b> and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div></div>

Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween — Hybrid Form

<b>Rawhead &amp; Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026</b> is open to horror, science fiction, fantasy, speculative work, and anything strange, uncanny, or difficult to categorize. We’re looking for visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and hybrid work that takes us somewhere frightening or unexpected.

<b>Creative Nonfiction:</b><div>We accept short Creative Nonfiction pieces up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. 

For flash and experimental submissions of Creative Nonfiction (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding contributor to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting  previously published work.</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions by October 13th.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b></div><div>Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Support:</b></div><div>Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div>

Rawhead & Bloody Bones: Halloween — Creative Nonfiction

<b>Rawhead &amp; Bloody Bones: Halloween 2026 is open to horror, science fiction, fantasy, speculative work, and anything strange, uncanny, or difficult to categorize. We’re looking for visual art, poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and hybrid work that takes us somewhere frightening or unexpected.

Short Fiction:</b><br><div>We accept fiction and nonfiction up to 3,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. 

For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document. We also accept Micro-fiction and Hint-Fiction along with Dribbles and Drabbles. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Editor’s Spotlight:</b></div><div>Rawhead will select at least one outstanding contributor to receive a $100 award. Each accepted piece will be considered for this prize.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Free to Submit:</b></div><div>We believe financial reasons should never be a barrier to sharing creative work and are fully committed to always offering free submissions. We do, however, also offer paid submission options in the form of Supporter, Expedited, and Priority response submissions. If you'd like to help us reach out goals, please consider selecting a paid submission option or donating to our journal. Donations are appreciated but do not influence our editorial decisions.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Simultaneous &amp; Previously Published Work:</b></div><div>We accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us if any pieces are accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is welcome when rights have reverted to the author. <b>Wait at least 6 months after its initial publication before submitting previously published work.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Response Time:</b></div><div>We aim to respond to submissions by October 13th.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Follow:</b>
Follow us on Instagram <b>@rawheadjournal </b>and Bluesky <b>@rawheadjournal.bsky.social

Support:</b>
Please consider donating to our journal here: </div><div><b>https://ko-fi.com/rawheadajournalofartandliterature</b></div>

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