about Calla Press, the Literary Journal
WHO WE ARE
We publish articles on faith, poetry, prose, essays, flash fiction, short fiction, and book excerpts. Max is 5,000 WC per literary genre.
As of August 2026, we are open for online literary submissions only. We are currently not accepting entries for a print journal at this time. Please subscribe to know when we do open for a print journal!
Please fill out our Formester form here to apply and submit your work. Entries submitted by any other means will be overlooked. Thank you for understanding. Please wait two weeks before submitting new work. Simultaneous submissions welcome. Please expect to wait one to two months before hearing back about the status of your submission.
Welcome to Calla Press
Calla Press began in 2017, when our founder first started publishing others' work on her website. In 2019, that early collection of writing evolved into an online literary journal through Issuu every year thereafter, laying the foundation for what would become Calla Press.
The journal soon expanded into an annual print publication. You can find our published journals online.
Today, Calla Press is an established literary journal publishing work submitted online on a rolling basis. We remain committed to creating a thoughtful, lasting space for writers and their work.
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Jacob’s Well by Stephen D. Edwards
Ariella rushes with excitement back into Sychar leaving her water jar at the well. As she walks past people, she urges, “Come and see the man who told me everything I’ve ever done!” The peopl...
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A Story Led Me Home Again by Lara d'Entremont
“Sorry I’m late but I swam into a fishing net. I managed to escape, and I swam away and hid. I was lost, I was scared, but a story led me home again.” — Tiddler: The Story-Telling Fish, by Ju...
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Being Renewed By Motherhood by Lauren Carrizal
For me, March 2021 held a world in turmoil, the pandemic looming, and my hopes for an unmedicated delivery broken. Even with my beautiful newborn baby in my arms, my spirit had been crushed b...
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If It Had Been Different by Hannah Grace M. Staton
What you are about to read was not easy for me to write. I was personally convicted as I wrote it, and it will probably have a similar effect on those who read it. Yet it is the message the Lo...
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Delivered Through by Jennye Bock
The fire lurked insidiously. From a distance. Shy at first, lacking show. A slow burn. Unseen—unless someone was looking. But she wasn’t. And he wasn’t. When a new season arrived, the sli...
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Not a hair. Not a hair. Not one hair can fall from my head. I was at the gravesite of my younger brother and only sibling, reciting familiar words, when I stumbled over this phrase, and my ...
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