Saw Palm goes beyond the tourist brochures to capture the unique experience of Florida lives, landscapes, and tropes through the work of artists and writers in-state and out.

Florida writers living in or out-of-state. 

We asked, you guys answered. Here are more of the community's spring 2026 favorites for you cool kids, weird kids, very serious adults, etc.

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Part 2: https://www.chillsubs.com/lists/Cool_kids_2
Part 3: https://www.chillsubs.com/lists/cool_kids_pt3

Where The Cool Kids Are Submitting Their Writing: Part 4

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Saw Palm: Florida Literature & Art

General call

We're interested in nonfiction that challenges or complicates what it means to be Floridian. We especially want to feature voices that are often underrepresented in the literature of the state. We accept all kinds of nonfiction forms, including but not limited to: memoir, personal essay, travel writing, prose poetry, lyric or hybrid essays, criticism, and journalism under 6,000 words. 

Creative Nonfiction

Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.

We are seeking poetry that is lucid and fresh and illuminates the fascinating, strange, and strangely fascinating Floridian point of view. Saw Palm welcomes experimental and hybrid creative work emblematic of Florida lives, landscapes, and tropes.

We accept up to five poems per submission period at a maximum of 10 pages. Please send all poems in one document.

Poetry

Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.

Our team is looking for work expressing the odd and the tender, rendered on canvas using materials ranging from watercolors, gouache, acrylics, and pen and pencil, to torn bits of maps and magazines. We look forward to your digital interpretations of theme parks, nature, beach ephemera, and so much more. We await your visually and emotionally exciting works of art that draw on both Florida’s and your unique personalities.  

We understand that visual art is often published on personal websites but ask that your submissions have not been previously featured in literary magazines.

We accept up to five submissions of art or photography per reading period. Please send files in .jpeg / .jpg format only. You may also include a URL if a portfolio of your work is online.

Art & Photography

Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.

Our team is looking for work with a strong sense of voice and setting. We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.

Fiction submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words. We accept flash fiction in our Flash Fiction 2026 submission portal on Submittable.

Fiction

Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.

In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's something lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal writing! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.

We're interested in nonfiction that challenges or complicates what it means to be Floridian. We especially want to feature voices that are often underrepresented in the literature of the state. We accept all kinds of nonfiction forms, including but not limited to: memoir, personal essay, travel writing, prose poetry, lyric or hybrid essays, criticism, and journalism under 6,000 words.

Creative Flash Nonfiction

We are especially interested in interviews of Florida writers and artists, although we're open to almost any Florida-related subject. Please query us about the interview subject first via email at sawpalmeditors@gmail.com.

Current or recent USF students and faculty are welcome to submit interviews.

Interview

Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.

Our team is open to any style of comics, including, but not limited to everything from four-panel haiku comics, poetic collages, or your asemic dream journal. We want to experience your creativity and sense of Florida, from nuanced to outrageous, and look forward to your submissions.

We welcome comics submissions of up to seven pages, whether in black & white, greyscale, or full color. Submit in .jpeg / .jpg format only. The journal's dimensions are 5" x 7."

Comics

Tell us what it's like to stand at a specific place in Florida at a specific time of day in 500 words or less. While we enjoy the unusual, locations should be public and accessible (so not your bathroom!) Please include GPS coordinates. Also consider attaching a photo from/of the location that we may use when promoting your piece on social media. If you'd like us to tag you, send along your Instagram and/or Twitter handles. 
Places to Stand appears on sawpalm.org.
 
Current or recent USF students and faculty are welcome to submit to the Places to Stand series.
 
Poems submitted as part of the Places to Stand series are welcome but should be justified left and otherwise not have complex formatting and spacing (due to technical limitations in Google Earth).

Places to Stand in Florida (web) - Nonfiction

We are
interested in reviews of Florida-related subjects: authors, films, tourist attractions, books, CDs, websites, beaches, parks, toll roads, snack
stands, local landmarks—anything! Submissions should be no longer than 6,000
words and, if accepted, will appear on www.sawpalm.org.

Current
or recent USF students and faculty are welcome to submit reviews.

Saw Palm: Florida Literature & Art

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