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Spring Issue – Rot & Bloom

Submissions open 3/5/26-3/31/26

The Spring issue of Trashlightt Press is a celebration of the strange beauty that grows from decay. The moment when something broken mutates into something new.

We want work that understands rot isn’t the end but the beginning of something wilder. Send us the pieces about transformation, collapse, regrowth, and the messy ecosystems of human life. Show us the fungus growing from your grief, the poems that have fermented with want, the art born of a composting pain.

If it grows in the dark, we want to see it.

Send us:

  • Fiction about mutation, reinvention, survival, and strange rebirth.
  • Essays that dig into personal and cultural decay to find somehting growing
  • Poetry that revels in beuatiful mess
  • Art that explore rot, nature, and feral transformation
  • Unclassifiable chaos is always welcome here.

What we are not looking for:

We don’t have a lot of rules around here, and we pride ourselves on a place where creatives have room to express their depths. The few rules we have though, are sacred to us, so please keep them in mind.

  • TrashLight Press publishes only original, human-authored work. Any form of generative AI use is prohibited.
  • While we are open to adult themes, we do not accept anything classified as erotica or pornography.
  • There is a limit of one submission per creator per issue.
  • Please do not submit previously published work to our quarterly issues.

TrashLight Press is open for rolling submissions.

We publish raw, feral, genre-bending work twice a week on our website. We also release seasonal issues with themed calls for submissions (keep reading to see what’s on the horizon).

We’re looking for

  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Hybrid & Uncategorized chaos

We accept simultaneous submissions, don’t charge fees, and don’t publish AI-generated work. However, we are willing to consider previously published work if proper credit is provided. All rights revert back to the author after publication; we ask for first serial rights and archival rights. We don’t care how many times it’s been rejected—if it haunts you, we want to see it.

Check us out on Duotrope to see what we have open

Rolling Submissions

For work published directly on our site, Submit Here or Here

Questions about whether your work is weird enough? Hit us up at TrashLightPress@gmail.com or scream into the void – we might hear you.

Trashlight Press is currently a labor of love and chaos, funded entirely out of pocket. As much as we believe all artists and writers should be paid for their work, we’re not there yet. Our goal is to growing into a paying market – and we’ll be fully transparent on how we get there. If you want to help us along the way please consider donating. For now we offer eternal gratitude, feral audience vibes, a glowing author feature in our digital issues, and aggressive promotion of your work. We will never charge submission fees, and we won’t ask you to jump through boring hoops. Just bring us your fire.