Updated November 2025: We are now OPEN for submissions for poetry and fiction.
Our next harvest-themed anthology will be launched in September 2026 as an eBook and paperback. For the theme, think any of the following: Lughnasadh/ Lammas/ Harvest/ Autumn equinox/ Mabon/ Halloween/ Samhain/ Diwali/ Thanksgiving.
Submissions will close on 1st July 2026. We look forward to reading your autumnal poems and stories!
We’re looking for short stories of up to 3000 words and 6 poems of maximum 50 lines for inclusion in our next harvest-themed anthology to be published in September 2026. We ask for first publishing rights and after that, all rights revert to the author.
1 🍃 NO ATTACHMENTS. Please copy and paste one story of up to 3000 words or 6 poems of maximum 50 lines into the body of an email. We don’t download or read attachments.
2 🍃 COMPLETED WORKS ONLY PLEASE. The editors will not look at any revisions once an offer for publication has been made. Whilst we endeavour to amend all typos before publication, please ensure that you have proofread your work before submitting.
3 🍃No simultaneous submissions, sorry! It wastes our time if we read work and find out that it was published elsewhere, but the author didn’t inform us. We won’t consider future work from authors who don’t follow this important guideline.
4 🍃 If you’re publishing under a pen name, please mark this clearly if it’s a different name than your email address. We won’t make changes once the issue is published.
5 🍃 If you wish to, you can include a THIRD PERSON BIO and links to your blog/ website/ social media. If no bio is provided, we’ll simply use your name under your work upon publication.
6 🍃 All work submitted to Bindweed must be unpublished. This includes on personal blogs/social media accounts, etc. Work published in Bindweed Anthologies will appear in the Kindle eBook and paperback.
7 🍃 Single spacing in font size 12 is preferred with hard returns between paragraphs, rather than tabs – but isn’t essential. Please bear in mind that if your submission has unusual formatting, it may not appear as intended in the eBook, due to the nature of the digital version (we strive to publish as the author intends in the paperback version).
8 🍃 If you wish to withdraw work, please inform us no later than 1st July 2026 in order to give us time to re-format the anthology. Later than this and your work will stay in the scheduled publication as otherwise agreed.
9 🍃 We will respond to all submissions that follow our guidelines within a month; if you haven’t heard from us within 4 weeks, then your work didn’t follow all of the above.
Acceptance means that Bindweed Magazine has first/one-time electronic publication rights. Upon publication, all rights revert immediately to the author. If you republish later, please consider citing Bindweed Anthologies as your first bloom 🌺.
Please bear in mind that we cannot offer free contributor copies of our anthologies or even a token payment: as listed on Duotrope, we are a non-paying market. However, we have 1000+ followers on social media, and receive reader reviews on Amazon/Goodreads, so we can offer exposure for our authors.
Submit to: heavenlyflowerpublishing@gmail.com
We look forward to reading your work.
Leilanie and Joseph
Bindweed Anthologies 