Contemporary Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2027) solicits original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. No AI work will be accepted.
As a companion to analysis in Contemporary Indigenous Horror (contracted with University Press of Mississippi), we are looking for creative pieces to be published within this academic volume.
To acknowledge the various ways in which Indigenous scholarship may engage in an ongoing conversation with other forms of expression and writing, we welcome both traditional as well as more exploratory approaches to fiction, poetry, flash, and related hybrid, experimental intertexts that rupture settler-colonial categorizations of genre. Word/line count should be as follows:
Flash Fiction: about 500-1000 words
Short Stories: about 1000-4000 words
Poetry: maximum of about 110 lines
Experimental, hybrid words: some flexibility
Honorarium: $250 (Canadian) per accepted piece
Please send submissions and a 100 word bio to editors Naomi Simone Borwein ([email protected]) and Krista Collier-Jarvis ([email protected]).
Submission deadline: July 14, 2026.