Want to Submit to the OBP Journal?
Want to Submit to the OBP Journal?
The One Black Perch Publishing Review is seeking compelling writing; inspired by a sense of adventure, has original, but skillful voicings. Indicative of an intimate engagement with craft.
We welcome creative nonfiction, memoir, slice-of-life vignettes, and personal essays. We prioritize thought-provoking writing that extends the reader’s capacity for empathy, can be appreciated anew when reread, displays skillfulness with grace, and may inspire the imagination of a reader enough to begin to write.
In fiction, we accept novel excerpts that can standalone and short fiction of any genre, including genre-blending or -bending.
For Poetry, we’re open to most styles and forms.
Theme: Personal Transformation
We’re in an archival moment. Like Talib Kweli said on the Black Star album, that we’re Real Life Documentarians, but we’re also the raw and fine material whose value is more gravitational than tangible, and made less apparent because our creations increasingly pulls us away from ourselves. Stories can be meditations; grounding us and dissolving illusions through an apt illustration, drawing us nearer again and magnified. Your stories can be left to no one else to write, but you. Whatever stories you have, whether you had any control over their arrival in your trove of experience, they came to you, and you’ve been predisposed to express.
One of the objectives of One Black Perch Publishing is to honor the Sankofa principle: to “go back and get it”, or to be moving forward with a keen sense, knowledge of, and reverence for the past. So we seek submissions that may have initially served you in satisfying your commitment to write well for what it gives back to write again and write better, but that you believe also already belongs to the future. One you may never know, but that your ear attends to clearly, that smiles in you as you keep writing. Joyfully purposeful.
Our Deadline is 12/12/2023
Send all submissions to submissions@oneblackperchpublishing.com
Expected response within 30 days
No submission fees