Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish

$28 each session or $70 for all 3 sessions (October-November)

What is micro fiction in the context of a woman's busy and plucky life? In this workshop we will navigate and dissect the 50-word micro fiction/nonfiction art form. Weekly, we will enjoy the quality micro fiction work of other women across culture and identity through a "read, discuss, try it, and prepare for publication" approach. Micro fiction differs from poetry in that it's living prose, but is also related in that it reveals a narrative that is sometimes hard to tell. We will discover how the 50-word piece can pack a punch that is often more effective than longer prose.

There is a market and need for well-written, women-centric micro fiction, and we will unearth it.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/microfiction

When: 6:30 pm-8:00 pm EST

October 29

November 12

When: 10:30 am-12:00 pm EST

November 15

$28/ session or $70 for the 3 session bundle

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Elaina has seen her poetry, essays, and short stories published across dozens of literary journals. She’s also served as Editor in Chief for installment number two of a micro fiction anthology called 50-word Stories of 2023, while also acting as an acquisitions reader for Vine Leaves Press in the genres of memoir and historical fiction. She is also an active member of the Ocean County chapter for NOW: National Organization for Women.

Over the course of the last two years, Elaina has continued to devote her time to a few very important purposes—her favorite being The Toms River Arts Community (TRAC), bringing to fruition one of her final graduate projects that began as a hypothetical. In June 2025, Elaina collaborated with a two Jersey Shore high schools to collect and curate poetry, paintings, and textiles for a Queer Art Exhibition currently displayed in one of the main gallery windows in downtown Toms River. Future art exhibits for TRAC will call upon Elaina’s writing skills for informational panels and object labels. Elaina also served as communications coordinator for the Trans Equity Coalition’s community social calendar in 2024: a grassroots resource for transgender and nonbinary individuals in New Jersey.

Elaina is a writer, teacher, and graduate student. She wrote a short memoir collection of essays and poetry (Italian Bones in the Snow) and a short story collection (Heart and Salt) both published by Vine Leaves Press. She loves ice cream, antiques, dogs, and actively advocating for LGBTQ+ community. She’s a graduate student through CUNY in Museum Studies. Her newest memoir about growing up with sensory dysregulation in the 1980s and 1990s called Chomp, Press, Pull is a full-on immersive encounter. She loves ice cream, antiques, and fabric patterns.

Yellow Arrow Journal’s Vol. X, No. 2 issue (fall 2025) on KAIROS, guest edited by Darah Schillinger, is now available as a paperback and a PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. You can also find KAIROS through most online distributors.

yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-kairos-release-time-memory-snapshots

KAIROS explores the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration. Kairos is a Greek word meaning an opportune and decisive moment. The cover of KAIROS features the collage “The Awakening Aperture.” According to the cover artist, Clara Garza, “The circle (inspired by the aperture of a camera, or the lens that captures a fleeting fragment of time) is composed of pieces of the diary of a fictional college student experiencing college life, from the day she is accepted to the school to her graduation. Her initial doubt is reflected by the moody outer rim of the circle, and as she opens herself to the brightness of college, she starts to appreciate her life more fully.” You can learn more about Clara in an interview with Darah at yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/spotlighting-clara-garza-yaj-kairos.

You can learn more about Darah and the issue at yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/become-unbecome-unveil-recover-guest-editor-yaj-x-02-schillinger. Get your copy of KAIROS today at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-kairos-paperback. Thank you for supporting independent publishing

Poetry is Life

$35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)

In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Participants will have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life

When: 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST

September 6, October 4, November 8

You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.

Cost: $35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.

Writing the Body Politic: Poetry as Personal and Public Voice

$28 session in November

This generative poetry workshop invites women-identified writers to explore how the body, memory, and personal experience can serve as powerful sites for political expression. Whether grappling with race, gender, religion, migration, or mental health, participants will learn to transform private truths into poems that speak with collective resonance.

Through close readings of contemporary poets, guided discussion, and writing prompts, we’ll explore how to braid the lyric and the political, the intimate and the structural. Emphasis will be placed on poetic strategies—image, repetition, fragmentation, juxtaposition—that allow for emotional complexity and ethical clarity.

Together, we’ll examine the role of the poet as witness, mythmaker, and world-builder. Writers will leave with drafts, craft tools, and a renewed sense of how poetry can carry both personal and communal stakes.

Craft Focus:

• Weaving personal experience with sociopolitical insight

• Writing poetry with urgency, clarity, and layered identity

• Using form, structure, and voice to deepen emotional and cultural resonance

• Ethical considerations when writing about trauma, family, and community

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/writingthebodypolitic

When: 6:00 pm-7:30 pm EST

November 6

$28/ session

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Kavitha Rath is a writer based in the Baltimore-DC area whose publications have appeared in Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Papercuts Magazine, and more. She interweaves myth, magic, and mysticism into her poetry and short stories. Kavitha participated in the 2024 Yellow Arrow Writer-in-Residence program. She has lived in a number of other cities, including Atlanta, Chennai, and London.

Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish

$28 each session or $70 for all 3 sessions (October-November)

What is micro fiction in the context of a woman's busy and plucky life? In this workshop we will navigate and dissect the 50-word micro fiction/nonfiction art form. Weekly, we will enjoy the quality micro fiction work of other women across culture and identity through a "read, discuss, try it, and prepare for publication" approach. Micro fiction differs from poetry in that it's living prose, but is also related in that it reveals a narrative that is sometimes hard to tell. We will discover how the 50-word piece can pack a punch that is often more effective than longer prose.

There is a market and need for well-written, women-centric micro fiction, and we will unearth it.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/microfiction

When: 6:30 pm-8:00 pm EST

October 29

November 12

When: 10:30 am-12:00 pm EST

November 15

$28/ session or $70 for the 3 session bundle

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Elaina has seen her poetry, essays, and short stories published across dozens of literary journals. She’s also served as Editor in Chief for installment number two of a micro fiction anthology called 50-word Stories of 2023, while also acting as an acquisitions reader for Vine Leaves Press in the genres of memoir and historical fiction. She is also an active member of the Ocean County chapter for NOW: National Organization for Women.

Over the course of the last two years, Elaina has continued to devote her time to a few very important purposes—her favorite being The Toms River Arts Community (TRAC), bringing to fruition one of her final graduate projects that began as a hypothetical. In June 2025, Elaina collaborated with a two Jersey Shore high schools to collect and curate poetry, paintings, and textiles for a Queer Art Exhibition currently displayed in one of the main gallery windows in downtown Toms River. Future art exhibits for TRAC will call upon Elaina’s writing skills for informational panels and object labels. Elaina also served as communications coordinator for the Trans Equity Coalition’s community social calendar in 2024: a grassroots resource for transgender and nonbinary individuals in New Jersey.

Elaina is a writer, teacher, and graduate student. She wrote a short memoir collection of essays and poetry (Italian Bones in the Snow) and a short story collection (Heart and Salt) both published by Vine Leaves Press. She loves ice cream, antiques, dogs, and actively advocating for LGBTQ+ community. She’s a graduate student through CUNY in Museum Studies. Her newest memoir about growing up with sensory dysregulation in the 1980s and 1990s called Chomp, Press, Pull is a full-on immersive encounter. She loves ice cream, antiques, and fabric patterns.

The Best of the Net recognizes the work of writers published online by independent presses. The project was started in 2006 by Sundress Publications to create a community among the online literary magazines, journals, and self-publishing platforms. The award represents an incredible opportunity for Yellow Arrow to further showcase and support our authors. Our staff is committed to letting our authors shine. Every writer has a story to tell and every story is worth telling.

Let’s meet the Yellow Arrow Best of the Net nominees for 2026!

Barbara Westwood Diehl is senior editor of The Baltimore Review. Her fiction and poetry appear in a variety of journals, including Quiddity, Potomac Review (Best of the 50), SmokeLong Quarterly, Gargoyle, Superstition Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Atticus Review, The MacGuffin, The Shore, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Raleigh Review, Ponder, Fractured Lit, South Florida Poetry Journal, Poetry South, Painted Bride Quarterly, Five South, Allium, Split Rock Review, Blink-Ink, Switch, Unbroken, Bacopa Review, and Free State Review. We nominated her poem “Wish You Were Here” from AMPLIFY.

Tracy Dimond is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry (Barrelhouse). A 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist, she is also the author of four chapbooks, including: TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE (akinoga press) and Sorry I Wrote So Many Sad Poems Today (Ink Press), winner of Baltimore City Paper’s Best Chapbook. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Smartish Pace, Lines + Stars, Washington Writers Publishing House, and other places. She blogs about chronic illness, creativity, and movement at poetsthatsweat.com. Her poem “IT WORKS, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT” was nominated from AMPLIFY.

Katherine Fallon is the founding editor of Whittle Micro-Press and the author of the chapbooks Zero Sum (Bottlecap Press), The Book on Fractures (Ghost City Press), The Toothmakers’ Daughters (Finishing Line Press), and Demoted Planet (Headmistress Press), which was the finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net finalist, her work has appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, Nimrod, Meridian, Passages North, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. You can find her online at katherinefallon.com or whittlemicropress.com and on Instagram @ghostelephants. Her poem “ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR DEATH” was nominated from AMPLIFY.

My-Azia Johnson (they/them) cherishes the unique sources of intimacy found in themself and within their beloveds. A community caretaker with a fiery passion for transformative justice, My-Azia uplifts the Black, queer, mentally ill, and gender-expansive perspective. From their journey through the ex-vangelic to ethical slut pipeline, they share stories of breakthroughs and breakdowns experienced along the way. They’re confident that pleasure is a liberatory pathway to radical change and they see their work as a satirical conversation with the dark-spirited cunni-linguists who agree. Their lens draws from a burgeoning understanding of pleasure activism, biomimicry, decolonization, and somatic wisdom. We nominated her creative nonfiction piece “Crisis in the Club” from AMPLIFY.

Anna Slesinski is a Baltimore City poet and artist. After receiving her high school diploma from the Baltimore School for the Arts, with a visual arts major, Anna studied creative writing and studio art at Goucher College. She received her BA in creative writing from Goucher in 2006, followed by an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts at the University of Baltimore in 2015. Her thesis, a book of poetry titled Eating the Sun, was published in May 2015. Her work has been previously published in Welter Literary Journal and by the Baltimore Ekphrasis Project. We nominated her poem “I am not her mother” from AMPLIFY.

Laura Taber is a mom of two who was born, raised, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. She has a BS from Vanderbilt University and works in marketing for retail and tech brands. She enjoys journaling, drawing, hiking, exploring Baltimore, and spending time with her family. She recently shared her angsty adolescent poetry on stage at Mortified in Baltimore. Through her writing, Laura aspires to capture and share a raw and honest view of the human experience. Her poem “Undressing” was nominated from AMPLIFY.

Thank you to everyone who supports these women and all writers who toil away day after day. Please show them some love in the comments below or on Yellow Arrow’s Facebook or Instagram.

Yellow Arrow Publishing is a nonprofit supporting women writers through publication and access to the literary arts. To learn more about publishing, volunteering, or donating, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com.

It’s cover reveal time! Yellow Arrow Journal’s Vol. X, No. 2 issue (fall 2025) on KAIROS, guest edited by Darah Schillinger, is available to preorder. The issue will be released on November 11. Reserve your copy today.

yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-kairos-paperback

KAIROS explores the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration. Kairos is a Greek word meaning an opportune and decisive moment. The cover of KAIROS features the collage “The Awakening Aperture.” According to the cover artist, Clara Garza, “The circle (inspired by the aperture of a camera, or the lens that captures a fleeting fragment of time) is composed of pieces of the diary of a fictional college student experiencing college life, from the day she is accepted to the school to her graduation. Her initial doubt is reflected by the moody outer rim of the circle, and as she opens herself to the brightness of college, she starts to appreciate her life more fully.”

You can learn more about Darah and the issue at yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/become-unbecome-unveil-recover-guest-editor-yaj-x-02-schillinger. Get your copy of KAIROS today at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-kairos-paperback. Thank you for supporting independent publishing

Redact to Reclaim: Erasure Poems as Acts of Defiance

$25 session in October

In a time of overwhelm and hopelessness, erasure poetry is one way to reclaim our power and write a new story. In this workshop, participants will learn more about the history of erasure poetry and the various ways erasure poems have responded to and/or subverted the original source material. We will explore erasure poems with political, socio-cultural, and literary themes.

The instructor will highlight different strategies for creating erasure poems including both digital and paper processes. Participants are encouraged to bring source materials for use during a generative writing portion of the workshop. Following the generative writing time, there will be an opportunity to share what has been created or any thoughts on the erasure poem process.

The instructor will also discuss suggestions for source material texts, considerations for publication, and publication opportunities. The goal of this workshop is for every participant to walk away feeling empowered to create their own erasure poetry in order to reshape or defy an existing narrative.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/erasurepoems

When: 2:00 pm-3:00 pm EST

October 25

$25/ session

*Participants are encouraged to bring source materials for use during a generative writing portion of the workshop.

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Candace Kronen is a poet, activist, and speech-language pathologist currently residing in Ontario, Canada. She is a strong believer in the power of language and storytelling to effect change. Candace is a co-editor of If You Ever: Poems Inspired by Kim Addonizio, an anthology with all proceeds going to Keep Our Clinics to support independent abortion clinics. Her first full-length collection features political erasure poems and is currently under development with North Meridian Press. Additional writing can be found on Substack at "Stories I'll Tell My Daughter."

Burn Bright, Plant Anew: The Tower as a Guide for Revision

$30 each session or $50 for all 2 sessions (October)

Rooted in the fire of Aries, The Tower guides us in both releasing what we no longer need and reseeding the earth with what can truly serve us going forward. This Major Arcana card is the perfect tool for revision—a guide for the writer in both letting go and planting anew. As we face challenges in incorporating feedback, rethinking character development, and even questioning voice, we can look to the Tower to come home. We can let go of others’ assumptions and embrace the true fiery heart of our story.

This two-session workshop will feature craft study, creation, and revision in partnership with the Tarot, including but not limited to study of the following cards: The Tower, The Fool, and The High Priestess.

This workshop is for:

• Writers about to embark on a revision journey

• Writers struggling with current revision goals

• Writers who are curious about their own drafting and revision process and are seeking new tools

*No previous knowledge of Tarot is necessary. All genres of writers are welcome.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/thetowerrevision

When: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm EST

October 1

October 8

$30/ session or $50 for the 2 session bundle

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

A novelist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, Claire Campbell is the founder of Blue Stone Writers. She reads Tarot for writers and seekers all over the world and loves teaching classes that blend artist needs with character quirks. As an avid gardener and Texas Master Naturalist, Claire is always incorporating wild spaces and weird nature into her work.

Poetry is Life

$35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)

In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Participants will have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life

When: 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST

September 6, October 4, November 8

You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.

Cost: $35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.

Burn Bright, Plant Anew: The Tower as a Guide for Revision

$30 each session or $50 for all 2 sessions (October)

Rooted in the fire of Aries, The Tower guides us in both releasing what we no longer need and reseeding the earth with what can truly serve us going forward. This Major Arcana card is the perfect tool for revision—a guide for the writer in both letting go and planting anew. As we face challenges in incorporating feedback, rethinking character development, and even questioning voice, we can look to the Tower to come home. We can let go of others’ assumptions and embrace the true fiery heart of our story.

This two-session workshop will feature craft study, creation, and revision in partnership with the Tarot, including but not limited to study of the following cards: The Tower, The Fool, and The High Priestess.

This workshop is for:

• Writers about to embark on a revision journey

• Writers struggling with current revision goals

• Writers who are curious about their own drafting and revision process and are seeking new tools

*No previous knowledge of Tarot is necessary. All genres of writers are welcome.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/thetowerrevision

When: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm EST

October 1

October 8

$30/ session or $50 for the 2 session bundle

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

A novelist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, Claire Campbell is the founder of Blue Stone Writers. She reads Tarot for writers and seekers all over the world and loves teaching classes that blend artist needs with character quirks. As an avid gardener and Texas Master Naturalist, Claire is always incorporating wild spaces and weird nature into her work.

Poetry is Life

$35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)

In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Participants will have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.

https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life

When: 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST

September 6, October 4, November 8

You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.

Cost: $35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)

Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)

Class Size: 15 participants

About the instructor:

Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.

Yellow Arrow Publishing is delighted to release the next issue in our online series, Yellow Arrow Vignette BLAZE. For our fourth issue we chose the theme of BLAZE, our 2025 yearly value. With that, here is the BLAZE issue of Yellow Arrow Vignette:

yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette/blaze-2025

yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/vignette-release-follow-spark-ember-blaze-2025

With Vignette BLAZE, we wanted to continue some of the earliest goals of Yellow Arrow: sharing and augmenting the creative work of voices and themes that aren’t heard loudly enough. This summer’s Vignette series is dedicated to emphasizing those women who aren’t often heard enough, and the stories, essays, poems, themes, and topics that are too often missed. And as part of commitment to our roots in Charm City: we wanted to hear from writers who live in or are otherwise connected to our home base of Baltimore.

Learn more about the conception of BLAZE and Yellow Arrow Vignette:

• Yellow Arrow Vignette BLAZE 2025 by Vignette Managing Editor Catharine Robertson

• BLAZE-ing the Path: The Importance of Yellow Arrow Publishing and Yellow Arrow Vignette by Vignette Intern Sophia Graney

Yellow Arrow Vignette was created by Siobhan McKenna. Through Yellow Arrow Vignette we hope to continue and expand our mission of creating a space where writers who identify as women have a place where their voices are amplified and create ripples of empathy and resilience. We landed on “vignette” because literary vignettes are known to be pieces of writing that depict brief, but highly detailed moments in time. Through the Yellow Arrow Vignette we look forward to sharing vibrant and poignant glimpses into the lives of our writers and hope that these stories, when viewed as a collective, will tell an expansive and inclusive narrative.

If you have any questions, please email them to submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com.

Yellow Arrow Publishing is excited to announce that submissions for our next issue of Yellow Arrow Journal, Vol. X, No. 2 (fall 2025) are open August 1-31, exploring the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration.

yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-x-02-submissions-open-kairos

The second issue of volume X will reflect on this idea, our (collective/individual) experiences with the blazes, trials, and/or life events that shape both our present and imagined futures as we search for our path(s) forward. This issue’s theme is KAIROS

: a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action

: an opportune and decisive moment

: in modern Greek, also ‘weather’ or ‘time’

: in ancient Greek, ‘the right or critical moment’

Here are some guiding questions about the topic and theme:

1. Consider the long-term effects of an event, feeling, or experience. How has it shaped you, your speaker, or your writing as a whole?

2. Has this impactful experience uncovered something positive?

3. What is the timeliness of your writing? What is it about now that makes you want to reflect?

4. When you write, what is it you are looking for? If you’re unsure, search for something.

For more information regarding journal submission guidelines, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions. Please read our guidelines carefully before submitting. To learn more about our editorial views and how important your voice is in your story, read About the Journal. This issue will be released in November 2025. To learn more about KAIROS’ guest editor, Darah Schillinger, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/become-unbecome-unveil-recover-guest-editor-yaj-x-02-schillinger.

Thank you for supporting independent publishing.

Yellow Arrow is excited to announce the theme for our next issue.

The Vol. X, No. 2 issue, guest edited by Darah Schillinger (she/her) will explore the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration. It will reflect on our (collective/individual) experiences with the blazes, trials, and/or life events that shape both our present and imagined futures as we search for our path(s) forward.

Darah is a writer based in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in AVATAR Literary Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Maryland Bards Poetry Review, Empyrean Magazine, Grub Street Magazine, and The Eunoia Review and on the Spillwords Press website. In October 2024, her poem, An elegy for the Pompeii woman the Internet wants to fuck, was named a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her first poetry chapbook, when the daffodils die, was released in July 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her second collection, Still Warm, is a work in progress.

To learn more about our submissions guidelines, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions. Thank you for supporting independent publishing.

Yellow Arrow Publishing would like to announce the next guest editor for Yellow Arrow Journal, Darah Schillinger. Darah will oversee the creation of our Vol. X, No. 2 issue (fall 2025).

yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/become-unbecome-unveil-recover-guest-editor-yaj-x-02-schillinger

Darah Schillinger (she/her) is a writer based in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in AVATAR Literary Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Maryland Bards Poetry Review, Empyrean Magazine, Grub Street Magazine, and The Eunoia Review and on the Spillwords Press website. In October 2024, her poem, An elegy for the Pompeii woman the Internet wants to fuck, was named a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her first poetry chapbook, when the daffodils die, was released in July 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her second collection, Still Warm, is a work in progress.

This next issue of Yellow Arrow Journal reflects on the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration. It will reflect on our (collective/individual) experiences with the blazes, trials, and/or life events that shape both our present and imagined futures as we search for our path(s) forward.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

• Theme announcement: July 21

• Submissions open: August 1

• Submissions close: August 31

• Issue release: November 11

On June 11 at 7pm, join us to celebrate the newest issue of Yellow Arrow Journal, UNFURL, guest edited by Sara J. Streeter, in a virtual reading event!

We’ll hear pieces from the publication read aloud by the writers, and hear about their inspirations and connections to UNFURL. This event will take place on Zoom. 

Consisting of works only published by women-identifying writers, UNFURL, Vol. X, No. 1, is a soul-searching survey of the unique journeys people take when experiencing and undergoing self-transformation, journeys that all start with a little fire, a desire, deep inside.

Hope you can celebrate with us!

When: June 11, 7pm

Where: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87154785191

Want to purchase the journal before the event? You can do so here: https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/yellow-arrow-journal-unfurl-paperback

From June 1 to 30, 2025, Yellow Arrow Publishing will accept submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid chapbooks by authors who identify as women from around the world. For more information, see yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions. You will be asked to submit through the YAP Chapbook Submissions Form.

Please note that as a small press we produce a limited number of publications each year. We pour our hearts and souls into each submission and each Yellow Arrow publication and thank everyone for their interest and inquiries.

Learn more about our guidelines and check out our FAQs at yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions. Please read the guidelines completely before submitting.