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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We accept all forms of digital making— visual arts, poetry, prose, and we especially encourage submissions from historically underrepresented voices and emerging artists and writers. unearthedesf.com/call-for-sub...

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Call for Submissions | Nourish

Fall 2025 Submissions | Open until Oct. 31 It’s time again to submit your creative work to Unearthed,

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🔔 We are open for submissions until October 31st! The theme for our Fall 2025 Issue is “Nourish”— of the body, the mind, the spirit, and the land. What does it mean to be fed? What does it mean to feed others, or to be denied sustenance—emotional, physical, or cultural?

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ian Cotter is a student at SUNY ESF in Syracuse NY. He states “As I was writing “Power of Cold,” I wanted to make the reader feel what I felt when the story unfolded: the coldness and isolation, embarrassment and humility, and ultimately the lesson of slowing down to appreciate what you have.”

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

“The most beautiful and the most painful experiences I’ve ever had as a human being have taken place in the wilderness. Backpacking and hiking, I’ve found, have the remarkable capacity to crush your spirit and rebuild it again, in the same fatal blow.” Read the full story linked below!

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Power of Cold | Ian Cotter

Power of Coldby Ian Cotter The most beautiful and the most painful experiences I’ve ever

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Cosmic Journey, by Dr. Chaitali Umesh Hambire, reflects the transition from darkness to light... This transformation is not only observed in nature but also resonates deeply with the human experience, symbolizing resilience, hope, and the pursuit of enlightenment. Link in our bio for more!

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

For more from Izze, subscribe to their substack: wwavveyy.substack.com. Image credit: Merlin Kraus, Unsplash

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IMK | Substack

Click to read IMK, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

shrouding my body in evidence of (i want to be holy) i weep and ask each fistful of mud to inherit these hands i pray from my igloo in every soulful swallowing from here, i am hidden so i compost my tongue and grow this body back from blue

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

to where i replace the snow carefully i stand and sink my ankles into the cold numbing the earth warm and wet under the crux i am starved and trembling i crouch low lightly, lapping spirals round my thighs i dig and dig and dig

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

in the bathouse at midnight alone becoming black oil shadowed against the (dark blue) the sun was tempered in a net downtown (dark blue) somehow again it is morning and the newly vapored sun has slipped through i rise and flap my wings panting, i plant my toes sneak out the back door

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We share a poem by SUNY ESF student Izze Modell-Kowalski, titled “On Some Sort of Edge”. This was published in our latest Spring 2025 issue, Searching for Light. unearthedesf.com/on-some-sort...

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On Some Sort of Edge | Izze Modell-Kowalski

On some sort of edgeby Izze M-K in the bathouse at midnight alone becoming black oil shadowed against the (dark blue) the sun was tempered in a net downtown(dark blue) somehow again

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The water rises, buckets swallow the excess, but I cannot. Deckhands burned by fleeting ropes, soothed by the ocean’s mist. I lay down on the deck, like an anchor to the ocean floor. Breathe in the smell of nothing is permanent. ~ Image credit: Abbey Leibert, 2025

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Worry like a ship stuck in a bottle kept in check by my ribcage. The water rises, competing with an ascending airplane. My lungs contract, masts crack under pressure. The water rushes into the fractures with the spirit of glue. My sails expand, lungs capture the wind, disguised as direction.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

We share with you a poem by ESF student, Abbey Leibert, titled Adjusting Sails. You can also read it in our Spring 2025 issue, linked in our bio! ~ Water is a universal solvent. I will not be left unresolved. I can be free, let the water flow. unearthedesf.com/adjusting-sa...

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Adjusting Sails | Abbey Leibert

Adjusting Sailsby Abbey Leibert Water is a universal solvent. I will not be left unresolved.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

she creates art as a form of inquiry, healing, and connection, and she invites us to reconsider how we relate to each other and to the land. Read the interview linked above to learn more!

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Her commitment to community collaboration and spatial justice ensures that her work doesn’t just speak about people and places but speaks with them. In a time marked by great ecological and societal loss, Sheila’s work offers a compelling response:

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

From community-based storytelling to co-created public installations, each of Sheila’s endeavors creates space for shared discovery and mutual expression. By merging creative expression with environmental and social issues, Sheila not only raises consciousness but also fosters dialogue and empathy.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

We are kicking off the Spring 2025 issue by sharing an interview from our own Managing Editor, Erin Hassett @erinhassett.bsky.social Erin had the pleasure of chatting with Sheila Novak, a talented and inspiring environmental artist in Ithaca, New York: unearthedesf.com/an-interview...

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An Interview with Environmental Artist Sheila Novak

An Interview with Environmental Artist Sheila Novak I first met Sheila in 2024 at a book club event in Ithaca—an intimate, monthly gathering focused on exploring themes of environmentalism and outdoor...

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

An incredible open mic event celebrating the talents of our @sunyesf.bsky.social community!

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Taken in the redwoods of Del Norte State Park, CA, Shafts is archetypal imagery representing that wet coast landscape: fog drifting through redwoods with shafts of light becoming palpable shapes. [It’s] a wonderful place to witness the manifestation of light, or how light shapes and takes shape.”

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Green is the author of 11 books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming (Bellowing Ark Press, 1996) and the upcoming Old Man Looking through a Window at Night (Main Street Rag). At the age of sixty-eight, he hopes his new work articulates a mature vision of the world and does so with some integrity.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Sneak peek of our Spring 2025 issue! Cover by Benjamin Green, 2026, titled “Shafts”.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

All acceptances have been sent out! We received so many wonderful submissions for this issue that it was tough to make a decision. Stay tuned for the spring publication during Earth Week!

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Thank you for all the wonderful submissions for our upcoming Spring 2025 issue! We will be in touch towards the end of March with acceptances.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“So often death is something thought of so negatively…I believe the transition from life to death is something that should be seen as beautiful. Through death our bodies are given back to the earth, giving nutrients back to her, allowing the beauty of nature to bloom all around us.”

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“From the way the yellowing leaves parted perfectly around the grave to the harsh contrast of the grey stone to the colorful fall foliage, this image shows the balance between life and death. The beauty of the statue atop the grave represents a life that once was…”

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Nature Surrounds Us | Leila Kuhns

Leila Kuhns

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Transitions and metamorphosis implies an in-between, the territory of hope. Between present and future, between artificial and natural. In this piece I want us to look down and see that hope is enduring. It is to do the work of repairing and coexisting with the world.” Read full piece above⬆️

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Down the valley, he saw ruins of battery powered vehicles, left abandoned with grid empty and electricity unsupplied. Rust and decay were faster these days, and the rain was sulphuric with acid aerosols––a last ditch effort to slow down the future.

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After the Rockets Have Gone | Victor Wang

After the Rockets Have Goneby Victor Zhenyi Wang

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Short Vine Journal @shortvinejournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Short Vine is now accepting submissions for Spring 2025! The theme is Perseverance and Permanence. What endures in the face of change. We are accepting both themed and general submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art&Photography. Learn more at ShortVineJournal.com

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“This essay is part of a broader scholarly project aimed at decolonizing mainstream ecopsychological frameworks which often overlook the nuanced experiences of postcolonial nations in the Global South. It explores the intersections of food, maternal care, and national identity” Full piece in bio!

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“Like most children, India too is a child fraught with parental trauma. A surrogate mother to Hinduism’s political and religious tenets, the cow, in all its oedipal glory, is the most controversial animal in the country. Twenty out of India’s 28 states have a regulation against her slaughter.”

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Appetite for Maternal Care | Sushmita Samaddar

An Appetite for Maternal Careby Sushmita Samaddar Ingredients 1 kg chicken 4 potatoes 1

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“After my first child died unexpectedly in Namibia when she was 17 days old, it took me over a year to be ready to try to conceive again. I was living in Angola and saw danger in every room of the house, on every road and in every car, mosquito and especially in every ill-equipped emergency room.”

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Ay ay, Mama | Stephanie French

Ay ay Mama by Stephanie French After my first child

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We are coming up on 1 month until deadline! We are accepting all forms of writing and artwork for our theme “Searching for Light”, and we encourage new writers to submit. Please see our call below ☀️

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“Church bells pealed canonical hours, matins, lauds, praise be for sunrise, prime, terce, sext become silent graphics— pornography time stamped as a draft, message sent, received marked trail illuminated minute by minute” Read more:

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Inescapable | Sandy Feinstein

Inescapableby Sandy Feinstein

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

ANMLY is now open for new work for 10 more days! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap39

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ANMLY Submission Manager

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

🔔 Call for artwork! The Spring 2025 issue of Unearthed is seeking vertically aligned art for the next cover, inspired by the theme, Seeking Light. Please see guidelines for submissions below. We look forward to seeing your artwork! Deadline April 1st unearthedesf.com/artists-help...

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Call for Cover Art – Spring 2025

Call for Cover Art We are inviting all artists to submit their work for the

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“If there is enough bark left, if its trunk lying nearby or if you were the one to fell it you might be able to tell a tree’s identity once it has been sawn to a stump. Mina was not. She recalled reading the reasons for learning about trees vary from purely recreational to the strictly serious.” …

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Medicine | Loralee Clark

Medicine

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🔔 We are open for submissions for our upcoming Spring 2025 Issue: Searching for Light! Deadline: March 1st 2025 We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming Spring 2025 issue. unearthedesf.com/call-for-sub...

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We share an article by Erin Hassett, titled More than Spinning Wheels. She writes about her bicycle journey across the U.S. and makes a case for bike travel: to see hidden gems off the beaten path, meet strangers, and experience rare fortuitous moments. Read more: unearthedesf.com/more-than-sp...

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

boardwalk greasy with entangled seaweed, the rickety path to my summer blossomed open towards the ten acres of land yanked out of the ocean floor. with virgin hands in a house of experts, the endless waves surrounding us mimicked the vast open emptiness of my mind Read more:

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Petit Manan | Leah Nath

Petit Mananby Leah Nath

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

“I hadn’t thought much of the wind today before I pushed into the pond and found how little, mind you, how little the wind thought of me, contesting every oar stroke, compelling me to yaw and sway off course, and trying out the boat’s stability.” Read more from this collection of 3 poems:

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Poems from Nashawannuck Pond | David Ram

Poems from Nashawannuck Pond by David Ram Rowing in the Harvest Daylight sinking

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Multitudes of hands open and close like sea anemones, blindly by Nature’s law learning to feed and breathe, growing pseudo-gills in foul waters wavy moss, below stony eyes, cans and boxes and these hands, once connected to ancient arms, retain memories of healing and wholeness Read more:

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River Reflections | Scott T. Starbuck

River Reflectionsby Scott T.

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Open mic event to celebrate the launch of our Fall Issue! Our @sunyesf.bsky.social community is so talented 👏

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We are honored to share the work of award-winning artist, Petra Kuppers. In this videopoem, two humans and a tree dance, feel, see and explore together in Leadville, Colorado, a 10,000-foot-high city and Superfund site surrounded by high piles of mining waste that sit upon the water supply.

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Skins: Crip Drift Leadville | Petra Kuppers

In this videopoem, two humans and a tree dance, feel, see and explore together in Leadville, Colorado, a 10,000-foot-high city and Superfund site surrounded by high piles of mining waste that sit upon...

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Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

She was a servant of death. Her charcoal beak pulled apart corpses, freeing their souls back into the world around them. Into the soil, the trees, and a small piece into her own wings. This was the magic her mother gave her as a fledgling. The magic of her mother and her mother’s mother. Read more:

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Song of Coal | Josie Quinn

Song of Coalby Josie Quinn She was a servant of death. Her charcoal beak pulled apart corpses, freeing

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Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hello! This is the beginning of the 2 weeks countdown until submissions open for issue 5. We'll be accepting all forms of art and writing through Oleada and Curatorspace, whichever suits. metachrosislitmag.com/submission-g... #opencall #litmag #literarymagazine

Submissions Open in 2 weeks! 20th December - 3rd March. Beneath is a cartoon octopus.

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