Hollow and Sky

Submissions for Issue One are now closed.
We’re deeply grateful for the care and generosity of everyone who submitted.
Our next reading period will open June 15th.

Submissions

We welcome work that arrives from a place of attention.

Hollow and Sky is a space for writing and art shaped by listening to the inner world, to the living world, and to the spaces where the two meet.

If your work belongs here, it will likely feel quiet rather than certain, observant rather than declarative.

Reading Periods:

Hollow and Sky publishes two issues per year and accepts submissions during the following reading periods:

Winter Reading Period: January 15 – February 5
For the Spring issue
Anticipated publication: March

Summer Reading Period: June 15 – July 6
For the Fall issue
Anticipated publication: August

There are no fees to submit. Submissions received outside of these windows cannot be considered.

What We Publish:

We are interested in poetry, short prose, and visual work that engages with:

  • Spiritual or metaphysical inquiry
  • The natural world
  • Interior landscapes
  • Stillness, grief, wonder, memory, and restraint

We value work grounded in lived experience and honest observation.

We are not interested in doctrine, instruction, or certainty.

What We Do Not Publish:

We are generally not a good fit for:

  • Overtly religious or prescriptive work
  • Manifesto-style writing
  • Work that relies heavily on abstraction without anchoring in experience
  • AI-generated or AI-assisted work

Submission Guidelines:

  • Poetry: up to 5 poems in a single document
  • Prose: up to 3,000 words
  • Visual work: up to 5 images (JPEG or PNG), accompanied by a brief description

(Multiple category submissions are welcome)

Please include a short third-person bio (2–3 sentences).

Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Rights:

Rights & Fees: Hollow and Sky does not charge submission or reading fees.

Hollow and Sky requests first publication rights.

All rights revert to the author after publication.

We do not claim ownership of your work.

How to Submit:

Please send submissions as a single docx document to:

hollowandsky@gmail.com

Use the subject line: Submission — [Genre] — [Author Name]

Response Time:

We read with care and intention.

We aim to respond within 1–3 weeks of submission.

If you have not heard from us after that time, you are welcome to follow up once.

Thank you for trusting us with your work.

Whether or not it finds a home here, we hope the act of making it was meaningful.