We are excited to announce our call for submissions for Volume III of our beautiful Farmer-ish print annual. Our print annual, like our journal, is arranged by the seasons with sections for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While about 20 percent of the annual is “best of” from our online journal, most of our content will be original.
What We Are Looking For
We are seeking poetry, narrative essays, educational essays, recipes, and how-to pieces that fit well into the seasons. We love personal essays and poetry but always especially need educational pieces and instructional maker essays. We also love a good farmer profile. Additionally, because our call for submissions comes in late Spring and early Summer, most of our submissions last year neglected Fall and Winter, so we will be especially looking for essays, recipes, and more that work well for Fall and Winter. We are also looking for high-quality photographs to accompany your essay. If you are writing about cows on your farm, we would love to see your photographs. We love nothing better than featuring the animals being written about whenever possible!
About Our Annual
Living somewhere between a magazine and a book, our beautiful full-color print annual published with high-quality paper features award-winning authors and authors who are being published in print for the first time. Volume III will be approximately 150 pages and will again feature original Farmer-ish artwork by Maine artist, Max Silver.
To see what you can expect, please be sure to check out previous volumes.
Farmer-ish Topics
Farm Animals
Livestock Guardian Dogs
Nature
Gardening
Sustainable Living
Transcendentalism
Recipes
Maker Insights and Projects
Frugality
Simple Living
Canning and Preserving
Food and Health
Farmers
Farmer-ish Genres
Expository Essays
Poetry
Personal Essays
Creative Nonfiction
Instructional or How-To Essays
Farmer Profiles
Recipes
Book Reviews
Compensation
Accepted authors will be offered a $25 honorarium or a free copy of the book (free copies available to U.S. residents only). Authors will also have access to discounted copies.
Length
Prose submissions should be between 800 and 2,000 words, though we are open to pieces outside of this range.
Deadlines
Submissions: May 31, 2023
Proof Reviews: July – August, 2023
Anticipated Publication: September 30, 2023
Please send submissions in the body of an email message to farmerish.print@gmail.com. Please put your proposed title in the subject line of the e-mail and tell us a little about yourself and your publication experience, if any. Please know previous publication is not required. You can read more about our general calls for submissions here.
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