WE’RE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR volume i
Calling BIPOC and immigrant storytellers
volume i: Write to Return
is more than a book.
THE INVITATION
We’re calling on established and emerging BIPOC and immigrant writers, artists, and storytellers to submit their best work.
We are creating a beautiful inaugural volume of original work that reflects the unvarnished truths of our communities.
Submit poetry, essays, short fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, or experimental and hybrid work.
If you're a first-time creator with no publishing credits, your work is welcome here.
This inaugural volume will include a curated selection of:
15 poems
5 essays or short stories
5 visual artworks (digital media or fine art)
Rights stay with you. Always.
You retain full ownership of your work.
We do not take rights, and we do not claim control over your writing or art.
If your work appears elsewhere now or in the future, that’s fine, just let us know so we can credit it accurately.
This is the first in a series of living archives where BIPOC stories are reclaimed and preserved. Become part of an enduring record of our identities, cultures, and histories.
Poetry. Short Stories. Visual Arts. Hybrid work.
25 selected works will form the foundation of Prohibition Press’ inaugural Volume.
THE Theme
We're looking for work that confronts erasure, displacement, cultural silencing, and the contradictions of belonging.
Share your story in a form that resists polished silence. Let your work disrupt the cadence of assimilation.
We aren’t looking for decor. We’re looking for detonations: fragments, stutters and brazen refusals of comfort.
We won’t bleach the page.
Because we don’t survive through the polite syntax of compliance.
no ghosting
We won’t leave you waiting if we can help it.
You can expect a response within 1–2 weeks of submission, whether your work is selected or not.
If your work isn’t selected, we won’t send a cold automated rejection and call it a day.
We’ll tell you why it didn’t make this issue. We’ll tell you what worked, what didn’t, and we’ll invite you back.
Selected contributors receive:
✓ Publication in Anthology No. 1
✓ One complimentary contributor copy
✓ Ongoing royalties from sales
✓ Official Founding Contributor status
THE RECEIPTS
You’ll get paid if your work is selected for publication.
We believe the people creating the work should share in its success.
All revenue first covers direct publishing costs: printing, fulfillment, distribution, payment processing, and ISBN registration.
After publication expenses are recovered:
80% → Contributors
20% → Prohibition Press
We will, literally, share the receipts.