Normal School

Submitting your work

Artists should approach Normal School with a spirit of generosity and experimentation. Submissions are typically reviewed by a rotating peer committee, so work that engages with collective themes, social practice, or pedagogical inquiry is favored. There is no fee to apply, but selected artists are expected to contribute to the collective's maintenance through participation in crits, workshops, or administrative tasks. Proposals should articulate a clear process or question rather than a finished product, and demonstrate an awareness of the organization's non-commercial, community-oriented framework.

Read our website and get a feel for normal. Write well; then submit. Check out our website for more information. We are particularly interested in essays that challenge established norms for the genre or that don’t seem to fit in easy categories of classification. Genre fiction is very unlikely to suit us, but if you think you can sell us on it, well, then shoot it on over. We thought we didn’t want sci-fi until we met some particularly compelling fighting robots, after all. We consider poetry of any style. Please limit the number of cat poems (unless, of course, they are really, really good cat poems).