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 (NO PDF's) and use Times New Roman font and standard formatting. Poetry should be single spaced with double spacing between stanzas. There is no line limit for poetry.
- Art may include photographs of the submitter's own 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 December 5, 2025 and ends on February 15, 2026. Our publication date is March 20, 2026.
Theme: For Equinox Vol 10, spring 2026, we invite you to explore the theme “Liminal Spaces.” As usual, this theme is open-ended, as it can be addressed in physical, psychological, aesthetic, or spiritual terms—you name it. Liminal spaces are “in-between” places. These spaces might be physical (an empty hallway, a stairwell, an unused stadium, an abandoned mall, an old store marked “closed for business” etc.), seeming surreal and causing unease whether because of their emptiness, past memories of them, or their lack of normal purpose and associated activity. Liminal spaces can also be psychological, as in states of transition (divorce, ending a relationship, changing careers, the summer before starting college, etc.) signaling a threshold between the past and the future, between the known and unknown. Such times can cause anxiety and discomfort but they also bring new opportunities and even transformation. Aesthetically speaking, liminal spaces might feature images of vacant buildings, empty rooms, or transitions in nature (between light and darkness, between seasons, the space where the ocean meets the shore, where the sky meets the land, etc.) You might choose to write ekphrastic poetry responding to artworks presenting such elements, or you might produce art of your own that features liminality. In spiritual terms, liminal spaces could include concepts of an afterlife, a haunted house, a portal, or even an alternate life in another universe—opening up this theme to fantasy, horror, speculative works, explorations of a possible world beyond the one we know. This theme is itself a liminal space waiting for you to fill it with your own singular response. We can’t wait to see the art and/or poetry that you submit to Equinox, Vol. 10, spring 2026.