LONESOME PRESS is community-driven and interdisciplinary. We seek work from all artists, writers, thinkers, regardless of publication or exhibition history. We wish to be moved, surprised, inspired. We are all artists. 

We accept submissions of previously unpublished work across a wide range of media, including but not limited to: 

  • literature
  • poetry
  • fiction
  • flash fiction
  • creative non-fiction

Mixed Media:

  • fine art
  • photography
  • video
  • music
  • collage

We recommend engaging with our publication, whether via our website, our newsletter, or our inaugural print volume prior to submitting. Every submission is individually reviewed by the editors. Responses are sent on a rolling basis. 

LONESOME PRESS is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)

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Purchase our inaugural print volume LONESOME Nº1 YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. 

In a society mired in loneliness, LONESOME PRESS creates community through our stories, our struggles, and the beautiful pain of art-making. In so doing, we create connection and hope. Harnessing our deep roots in the international arts, our goal is to bring poetry and the creative arts to a broad audience who might not otherwise encounter such vital work.

LONESOME is a celebration of life, a meditation on loss, and foremost, the elevation of poetry, fine art, music, and culture into a bookform art object in itself: our inaugural issue, LONESOME Nº1 YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE is offset printed, signature bound, hardcover, hand-numbered, hand-signed and personally inscribed. There are two limited editions of 500, one numbered in black ink, and one in red.

LONESOME is a new mom in Arizona nursing her four-month-old, wondering if she'll write poetry again. LONESOME is a haiku that captures the reality of Black motherhood in America, an Asian man's experience of visibility, who has it and who doesn't. A famous artist who swears he's just a failed poet made the sculpture that graces our cover: Night Scene, a monument to hidden grief and shadow loss. Two leading fashion designers discuss their drive to push the fashion industry, by hook or by crook, to greater sustainability, and the strain they feel as working mothers.

We are independent, international, and intergenerational. From established names to newcomers, all are welcome here.

with: Albano Afonso & Sandra Cinto / Penny Arcade / Tara Betts / Ama Birch / Max Blagg / Luigi Cazzaniga / Maria Cornejo / Judd Crane / Melora Creager / Rebecca Rose Cuomo / Mo David / Monique Erickson / Ashley Escobar / Francine / Jordan Galland / Andrea Galvani / Theresa Ganz / Anton Ginzburg / Katherine Gleason / Bob Holman / David Horvitz / Ingrid Jacobsen / Gregory Krum / Elizabeth Jaeger / Laura Leleux / Lily Ludlow / Mark Manders / Maria McManus / Kristin Miller / America Murphy / David Pickering / Matt Proctor / Anthony Ray / Ilka Scobie / Dana Sherwood / Cathy Simmons / Lily Simonson / Gwen Smith / Sasha Weleber / Jeffrey Cyphers Wright / Seldon Yuan

For more information visit lonesomepress.com.

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For long lead print submissions. Upload a cover letter and submission of up to five poems (10 pages only 1 poem per page) of poetry, 2000 words (prose), 10 artworks (art), or 3 songs (music) in consideration for publication in our future issue.

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