Equinox is a biannual, digital, multimedia journal that showcases writers and artists. We invite you to send us your poems and art. We look for contemplative, argumentative, globally aware, despair-resistant, and apathy-abolishing works.
Equinox values diversity, aims for inclusion, and does not tolerate hate speech in any form. The use of AI to create work is prohibited, and if detected, the person submitting AI-generated work will be barred from submitting to Equinox for current and future publications.
Submission Guildelines
You may submit up to 3 pieces in either genre (poetry or image) for a reading fee of $5, which will be used toward ongoing programs and publications at hotpoet, and which will fund a $100 “best in show” prize for every category of work (poetry and image) in each edition of Equinox.
- You may submit more than three pieces or in multiple genres, but separate submissions are needed to do so, and separate reading fees will be assessed for each.
- We do not accept previously published work, whether online, self-published, in chapbooks, in anthologies, or in literary journals. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you immediately withdraw any piece that gets accepted elsewhere for publication. No identifying information should appear on the work itself. Please label all works with their titles when submitting (NOT "Poetry" or "Prose for Equinox", for example; RATHER "Poetry: The Road Not Taken, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Fire and Ice".
- All submissions must be Word documents only i(NO PDF's) n Times New Roman font and standard formatting. Poetry should be single spaced with double spacing between stanzas. There is no line limit for poetry.
- Images may include photographs of original paintings, collage, sculpture, mixed media, fabric art, digital art, OR photography itself as art. All images must be high resolution and in JPEG or PNG format, NOT PDF format.
Submission Period and Publication Date
Our submission period begins on June 10, 2025, and ends August 5,, 2025
Theme: The theme for Equinox Volume 9 (fall 2025) is “Wide Open.” As always, this theme is open-ended; in fact, it is wide open. You might think of wide-open spaces like prairies, plains, deserts, ocean, sky. Or wide-open possibilities like love, adventure, success, disaster, loss. Maybe your poems or images will be wide open to interpretation. Or maybe they will be wide open with white space as you play with form and arrangements that invite the light in. Perhaps, on the other hand, you will give the theme a darker twist, as in “Open Wide,” whether referring to dentists with cold instruments or politicians with cold agendas and ideologies that are impossible for people of integrity to swallow. Whatever your spin on it, we the editors are wide open to your responses and can’t wait to see what you send us for the fall 2025 issue of Equinox.