Understory: Volume II
We’re launching Understory as an annual anthology for writers, artists, and creators from across the American South, and submissions open June 1, 2026, closing August 1, 2026.
Understory is open to writers and artists from the American South — writers who were born in or spent a significant part of their life in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, or Tennessee.
We’re particularly interested in publishing writers from marginalized communities, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color; LGBTQ+ writers; disabled writers; and writers from rural or low-income backgrounds.
Special Call for Submissions
Poverty in the South is too often discussed at a distance. Flattened into stereotype, policy language, nostalgia, or shame, it is rarely given the complexity, dignity, and literary force it deserves.
Hand to Mouth seeks new work by Southern writers whose lives have been shaped by poverty. We are interested in writing that reflects on poverty as lived experience, inherited condition, social structure, class passage, stigma, kinship, resourcefulness, hunger, desire, labor, and survival.
For more information, view the call in our submissions portal or browse our catalog for past titles.
Loblolly Press generally accepts submissions once a year during our open reading period.
General Submissions will open again in late 2026, but until then, explore some of the best work from our previous author cohorts.
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