2025
Open call for Submissions of poetry and art
JANUARY 1 – MARCH 1, 2025
Theme
HOMEWARD BOUND
Art by Tricia Scott Homeward
“HOMEWARD BOUND”
This year, we invite poets and artists to explore the theme of “Homeward Bound.” Home can feel safe and comforting, but it can also represent a place we have lost or want to escape. This theme asks you to consider the tension between where we come from and where we are going. Is returning home comforting or challenging? What does returning to a physical space, an emotional state, or an imagined place mean?
We want poems that explore these complexities without being overly sentimental. Challenge the usual ideas of home and reflect unexpected feelings: home as both pain and healing, as memory and transformation. Whether you write about longing, change, migration, exile, or ancestry, please submit work that shows depth and encourages thought. Share what it means to be “homeward bound” in a world where the idea of home is always shifting.
SUBMISSION RULES
The journal will also have a submission fee of $3 with a limit of 3 per submitter to help support and defray the administrative costs of running our non-profit organization.
SUBMIT WORK THROUGH
SUBMITTABLE
https://artemisjournal.submittable.com/submit/316177/artemis-journal-2025
Poems
- 3 poems per poet
- Include your name, email address & title on every poem submission in word doc, no PDFs!
- No previously published works
Artwork
- Artwork – 3 entries per artist of any medium must be of publication condition (300 dpi at “8 x 10”) include title, artist, medium, and email address.
- Editors will contact you when they receive your submission thru Submittable, look for this confirmation to verify that your work was received-if you do not receive confirmation then please contact editors to confirm your entry.
- Submissions are reviewed by our editors and if the submitted works do not follow the exact guidelines, the work will not qualify for review and returned.
Publication Artemis 2025 will be released September 4, 2025
Taubman Museum of Art
Roanoke, Virginia