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about Calla Press, the Literary Journal

WHO WE ARE

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.

WHERE WE'RE LISTED

We are listed in The Writer's Market Guide, Poets & Writers, and the Community of Literary Magazines & Presses, among others.

GUIDELINES

We welcome three simultaneous submissions at once. Please wait one month before submitting again. We do not offer feedback if your work is not selected at this time.

SUBMIT

Due to the many submissions we receive, we now have a small but reasonable reading fee of $7. Thank you for submitting. Please submit your work only using our form here.

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Illumination by Meg Freer
Prose and Poetry

Illumination by Meg Freer

The clouds sing woodsong in distant hills, discuss secrets of ancient water, divine the future, interpret wondrous pearl-light, a radiance that transfigures vision into Love, lets o...

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Forgetting to Remember by Linda McCullough
Prose and Poetry

Forgetting to Remember by Linda McCullough

The backyard whited overnight, now raindrops clink – dawn wants it worded: crinkle – on the air conditioner a fugacious summer left to rust there in the sunroom window. So much water we...

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Of Whom by Kirk Jordan
Prose and Poetry

Of Whom by Kirk Jordan

This is a tribute that I wrote to my mother, Ellie Marie Jordan (4/23/1938-12/3/2009).I shared it with her many times before her death, then read it at her funeral. I am the son of Tita...

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Autumn Ashes by Joshua T. Baylis
Prose and Poetry

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
Prose and Poetry

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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"A Word made Flesh is seldom" by Dr. Kellie Brown
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"A Word made Flesh is seldom" by Dr. Kellie Brown

Regarded by some as The Belle of Amherst, the American poet and woman of letters Emily Dickinson can hardly be described by a single moniker. She remains a mystery, not fully knowable, and ye...

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