New! ALOCASIA’s Call for Work for Our All-Indigenous Summer Issue
ALOCASIA is now accepting previously unpublished creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. Please include a brief bio including your tribal affiliation. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor. We are also still accepting work for autumn and winter issues.
Deadline: May 31st, 2025.
Our editors will be Yasmine Bolden, tripp j crouse, and Sarah Clark.
Yasmine Bolden (they/them) is a Nahilii poet head over heels in love with their friends, queering the Bible, and ancestral corniness. They’ve been recognized by the Congressional Awards, the Johns Hopkins University Arts & Innovation Awards, Best of the Net, and their mom’s Facebook page for their creative work.
tripp j crouse is Two-Spirit Ojibwe and serves as a poetry reader for ANMLY and Kitchen Table Quarterly. they are the author of the poetry chapbook, For Every Dead Buffalo (Bottlecap Press, 2024). tripp lives in Juneau, Alaska.
Sarah Clark is a disabled two-spirit Nanticoke editor, writer, and freelance editor and cultural consultant. They are Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor at ANMLY, EIC at beestung, and Co-editor of the Bettering American Poetry series, and a Board member at Sundress Press.
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ALOCASIA accepts creative writing of all genres from queer writers on a rolling basis with no reading fee. Please send no more than 6 pieces to ALOCASIAmagazine@gmail.com. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, and we DO accept previously-published work. Please send writing in either .docx or .pdf format. Max word count for prose is 3500 words.
Please include a brief bio, and inform us where your piece was previously-published, if applicable.
We appreciate both traditional work, as well as the weird, erotic, explicit, anti-colonial, and whatever you can come up with.
This is a journal about plants, gardens, gardening, parks, and indoor horticulture. Please don’t send us work that isn’t about plants.
We do not accept AI-generated or AI-assisted writing or art.
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ALOCASIA requests First North American Serial Rights from previously unpublished work. We request Reprint Rights, Electronic Archival Rights, and Anthology Rights from all work you agree to publish with us. We pay $50 per contributor. Our ISSN is 2831-8404. We are a registered 501(c)(3).
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ALOCASIA is edited by Sarah Clark, and is based in Philadelphia, PA.
Sarah Clark is a disabled two-spirit Nanticoke editor, writer, and freelance editor and cultural consultant. They are Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor at ANMLY, EIC at beestung, and Co-editor of the Bettering American Poetry series, and a Board member at Sundress Press. They have edited folios for publications including the GLITTERBRAIN folio and a folio on Indigenous & Decolonial Futures & Futurisms at ANMLY, folios on Sound Art, “Desire & Interaction,” and a collection of global Indigenous art and literature, First Peoples, Plural at Drunken Boat. They were co-editor of two folios at Apogee Journal, #NoDAPL #Still Here folio, and their series WE OUTLAST EMPIRE and Place[meant]. Sarah’s favorite plant is the Cibotium barometz. https://twitter.com/petitobjetb; https://linktr.ee/sarah_clark.
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This work was made possible through the support of the Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.