SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE SUN ROOM VOL 2
“INSIDE OF THOSE POEMS I FELT I WAS IN AN EARTHLY PARADISE”
The Sun Room is a place where there are palms and limes. It is far enough from Earth so it can be seen in its entirety. A distancing that allows for a new honesty to emerge. The unconscious is the wilderness. As Gary Snyder wrote “Poets are the voice of primitiveness, that which contains the nakedness of the world. They speak of nature not society.”
The Sun Room is a philosophical & experimental literary print publication that aims to explore where the natural world and the human experience intersect. We are interested in (but not limited to) eco-poetics, memories of landscapes, moments of freedom, contemplation of essential spirit, the mundane, transmissions from nature, documentation of travel or states of transience, meditations on vastness, the mountains, the seaside, connectedness, modern brokenness, migration. We acknowledge the ability for language to behave like prophecy and hold a vibratory charge.
This publication was born out of celebration for the Sun—not just as a celestial body but as a symbol of life, energy, and the source of all time. Our books are contemporary statements that channel the playful kitsch of summer, with a compelling tactility intended to travel great distances. The Sun Room invites readers to contemplate their place within the vastness of themselves and Earth’s rhythms, in a way that not only incites a collective care for our environment, but reconnects us to the values of simplicity and slowness.
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS MAY 23, 2025.
Send up to 8 pages of writing to grapeseedbooks@gmail.com
Email Subject Line: “TSR2 CATEGORY” i.e. “TSR2 POETRY”
If you’re submitting to more than one category, please send it as a separate email
Include a short bio about yourself in the email body.
TSR is curated and edited by Iva Celebic
SECTION-SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
Nonfiction: Memoir, essay, and literary journalism. Creative nonfiction submissions should be factual.
Poetry: Anything goes. We invite your surrealist poetry and oddly formatted work. We are interested in what the poem as an entity can reveal.
Short fiction: Up to 6 pages max.
Dispatch: This section is for writing on the road. The inner diary voice direct to self. This can be a correspondence or journal entry. This work can also be published anonymously if you prefer.
Interview: Pitch us an interview. We are interested in profiling artists who are exploring sustainability, the bounds of organic matter/natural materials, the climate emergency, any work that is directly/or indirectly invested in closing the anthropocentric gap or decentering the human species.