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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Autumn Ashes by Joshua T. Baylis
In the autumn the fires burnFor the life in the leaves drains awayTill they each, one by one, slowly turnTo the colour of flame and are shedOnce extinguished, like ash, to decayWhere they lay...
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Open Invitation by Charissa Sylvia
You’ll pay with steps you were going to take —but a holy momentanointed with the dripping grace of a rainy dayis worth tearing openthe offered invitationto hold in tensionany and all progress...
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Silent mysteryNow flesh and bone.Of me - Yet not me. Holy new andWholly you. The sacred mingling ofDivinity and dirt;The Potter and hisClay. Still wet with theImprint of His scarred pal...
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A Window View at Regency Park by Leslie Bustard
Proverbs 4:18 As light streams underneath a closed door, then once welcomed in, radiates wide— whisking away every shadow— today’s dawn spread brighter and brighter across t...
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Rearrangement by Lee Kiblinger
My soul’s furniturerearrangeson Sundaysafter hymns floatinside stained windows,resounding rainbows throughmy dusty spirit;ensconced confessionslie heavy on couchesof conscienceand melodiesmov...
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Field Hospital by Adam Whipple
Between the tables arrayed with standard steel armamentsof scalers and picks and forceps are a small box of teeth which will drop into historyto outlive all other bones and one of glass v...
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