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10/05/2026

"there, there was my sword I could not deny or erase!"

"I didn't know I had a cl****is" by Natalie K. Gunn
CALYX Journal 36:1
Publishing writing and art by women+ since 1976

10/01/2026

📢 Call for submissions! Fees are $5.00 for general submissions and $3.00 for student/low-income submissions, waived for BIPOC submissions through 10/17. Why CALYX? ✅ Fifty years of publishing women+ writers and artists. ✅ More than 4,000 voices amplified and counting. ✅ We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and put beautiful print journals into bookstores—including one of the largest independent bookstores in the country. ✅ CALYX Live! virtual readings feature writers and visual artists. Help us put the “our” in JOURNAL. Add your voice. Guidelines are on our website: calyxpress.org.

09/24/2026

Please save the date for a very special CALYX LIVE virtual reading honoring long-time CALYX volunteer, Linda Varsell Smith. Join us for a reading by the contributors to issue 36:1. Lineup TBA. Register early. LINK IN BIO.

09/22/2026

“Times are ruff,” says Sky, my neighbor’s three-legged greyhound. She’s here to spread cheer and to remind you that there are just a few days left to enter the Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing. Links in bio and on our website: calyxpress.org.

Photo: Sky Smiles by CALYX volunteer

09/18/2026

Got memoir? Or essay, fiction or hybrid?
Just a few more days left to submit your prose writing to CALYX for the Margarita Donnelly Prize! Judge: Kate Carroll de Gutes. 👀 Hey memoirists and writers of CNF, take note! Link in bio.

Photo by Calyx volunteer
Sculpture by Betsy Power

09/13/2026

We are absolutely thrilled for Carolyn Williams-Noren, who is the Winner of the 2025 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Please find Carolyn's new book, OIL COURSES, fresh out from Kent State University Press. We are very pleased to have published Carolyn's earlier poetry in CALYX Journal! Link in comments.

"Poems grounded in the climate crisis..."

09/13/2026

We celebrate your successes! Submissions for the Margarita Donnelly Prize for prose are open through Sept. 30.

Final judge: Kate Carroll de Gutes