Winter Issue – Black Frost (Open December 1 – December 20)

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Winter is here, and it’s carrying blades.

For our next issue, Black Frost, we’re looking for work that knows how to freeze and burn at the same time. Pieces that glitter with danger, crack underfoot, carry the uneasy warmth of sacrifice.

We are looking for:

• Essays that gnaw at winter’s bitter chill
• Fiction that treads between survival and surrender
• Poetry that feels like breath crystallizing mid-sentence
• Art from the frozen dreamscape
• Hybrid Work that screams of wintery nightmares

If your piece feels like a warning etched into frostglass, a confession whispered into the cold, or the last spark glowing under a heavy drift, then it belongs here. Trashlight published the atmospheric, the unpretty, the sharp, the strange. Give us your black ice, your quiet violence, your tender ruin.

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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

Questions about whether you’re 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.