CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POST AND BEAM (The Architecture Issue)

We've lain the cornerstone. Now we build the house. In this special issue commemorating our 30th anniversary, we want your stories, poems, and otherwise artistic interpretations on the theme of dark architecture and pseudoarchaeology. The connection is closer than you think: chances are the chill summer enclosure on your back deck was built with the same basic principle as Stonehenge: post and beam construction. We're not looking for any old office building—no perfect beachfront property. We want your weird little crawlspaces. We want your five-and-a-half-minute hallways and backrooms. We want your unknowable ancient monuments that might be instruments for giants. Send us your doors found ajar, dwelling and liminality, flash fiction found on street signs and graffiti, and literal concrete poetry. Over the last 30 years, we have built a lasting little nook behind the cracks of the Poets' Corner—our own typeface Fraggle Rock. Let this issue be a testament to the weird: an architecture you don't so much digest as suck it down.

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We accept up to five high-quality, not-yet-curated visual art pieces; up to six pages of poetry in a single document with 1-inch margins on all sides; or prose up to 5,000 words in length, double-spaced, in 12-point font and with 1-inch margins on all the pages per submission.

In your cover letter, please include your name and full contact information, and if your submission has been simultaneously submitted elsewhere. After sending us your work, please wait at least six months before submitting again.

All contributors selected for this issue will receive $15 and two copies of the issue once published.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO WE ACCEPT AI-GENERATED ART OF ANY GENRE, BE IT POETRY, PROSE, OR VISUAL

Deadline is May 31, 2026

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact qwertymagazine@gmail.com.