The brilliantly titled Deaf Poets’ Society is a new bimonthly journal for work by writers and artists with disabilities. It publishes poetry, prose, cross-genre work, book reviews, and art. It needs ‘narratives about the experience of disability’ but which ‘complicate or altogether undo’ stereotypes and explore the complexities of disabled living. Their definition of disabilities is wide and includes chronic pain.
Deadlines are every two months, 1 September, 1 November, etc. Submit by email, in a single doc, docx, rtf or txt attachment: up to three ‘poems that will change our readers in some way as well as validate their experiences’; compelling prose/cross-genre writing, up to 2,000 words, or no more than three 750-word pieces; a book review, under 1,000 words.
Response time is ‘reasonable’. Payment fluctuates, enabled by a fee to be charged for some future submissions.