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 June 15 and ends on August 16, 2026. Our publication date is September 22, 2026.
Theme: For fall 2026 Equinox Volume 12 we invite you to contemplate the words Wander|Wonder|Wide|Wild. What do these words have in common, besides all beginning with W? To us, the editors of Equinox, they suggest travel: a journey, whether physical, mental, or spiritual (Wander and Wonder)—one that is far reaching and even without restraint (Wide and Wild). That is our take on the theme. What’s yours? You have two verbs (one that doubles as a noun) and two adjectives. You can use them in any combination—or any one of them alone—to create your own variation on this theme. Just let your mind wander and see what comes up. Go wild. We can’t wait to receive the wide array of unique submissions we always receive in response to our open-ended themes. Wonder what this issue will look like? Surprise us!