seedfall

seedfall is Tulipwood's annual journal of poetry, prose, and visual art by women and nonbinary and trans artists and writers.

Each year, we invite you to submit work on a theme. Whatever your take on that theme, we want to read your words and see your art.

Please consider buying a back issue to get a sense of what we publish.

Submission Guidelines

Tulipwood Books is a developmental-editing press. We work with authors to develop work toward publication, and we're excited to get the chance to collaborate with you.

For seedfall, we only consider work from women and trans and nonbinary people. Please respect this constraint. See our other submission calls for opportunities open to people of all genders.

Submissions

Please send only previously unpublished work: 3-5 poems (totaling no more than 10 pages), or one prose piece (3000 words or less), or 1-3 visual art pieces, along with a cover letter, short bio, and any questions that you might have for us, via our Submittable portal.

• .docx or .pdf format for writing

• Please start each new poem on a new page.

• Use a 12-point font or larger, and a standard typeface like Times New Roman or Aptos.

• Please submit writing that you are willing to develop with an editor.

Collaboration

• All work submitted in our regular category receives editorial feedback.

• If your work is chosen for publication, we will notify you via Submittable and contact you via email with our edits.

• Your work will not be published until all edits are approved by both author and editor.

Policies

• We charge a $5 reading fee, to support the operations of the press.

• We do not consider previously-published work.

• We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. Once your piece is accepted, we expect that you will withdraw it from consideration elsewhere.

• There is no guarantee of publication.

Terms of Use

• Please submit only work that you are willing to develop and publish with Tulipwood Books.

• We are unable to consider previously-published work.

• Please make sure that you've read and understand our policies below. Any work that violates these policies will be destroyed without acknowledgement or refund.

• No hate speech. This includes: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, ableism, or any other oppressive or shameful language of any kind.

• No sexual violence. Other violence is also not recommended.

• No depictions of self-harm, suicide, or suicidal ideation. No exceptions.

• No AI-generated or AI-collaborated work. This should go without saying.