Wild Garlic publishes biannually, with issues organized around a theme or question. Submissions are currently open! Please send us work under the theme of “Displacement”

It is hard to read the news, call home, or walk in our communities without encountering displacement in its many forms. We live in a moment when people around the world are losing and being forced out of their homes, when cruel, authoritarian immigration policy is ripping families apart, when climate change is driving people from hometowns leveled by natural disasters.  We feel a collective sensation of constant shifting, constant transfer. We’re sinking as the world around us rearranges itself in real time. On a planet where movement by humans, plants, and animals should be a right, displacement implies a movement that is not planned, abrupt, or somehow not compatible. The inappropriate movement leaves both the scar of what could have been a choice, and the family or ecological environment without a key part of itself. When one is displaced there is instability for all. For this issue, we invite writers and artists to reflect on the many facets of displacement.

Wild Garlic accepts submissions from women-identified writers anywhere in the world, but holds space especially for emerging writers from the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group–visit our page on Meetup.com if you are interested in joining. To submit, please fill out out submission form.

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All submissions will be read blind by our team.

We seek to publish of writing in any genre which has some relationship to the issue’s theme. Word count limit is capped at 5,000 words. Wild Garlic accepts simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your submission is accepted elsewhere so we may withdraw it. We gladly accept submissions with visual components (painting, drawing, comics) as well. We prefer writing submissions to be sent in MS Word or Google Docs, and visual submissions as PDFs or high-resolution JPGs.