Metonym Literary Journal operates as a space where visual art and photography are considered alongside poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The journal's editorial practice treats images as complete works rather than illustrations, and its blind review process ensures that each submission is evaluated on its own terms, without regard to the artist's name, biography, or prior exhibition history. This is a publication that asks for finished, sophisticated pieces—not sketches, not works-in-progress—and it asks for them in small, deliberate groupings of one to four. The journal's stated position on artificial intelligence is unambiguous: it does not accept works generated by AI. This places Metonym within a broader curatorial conversation about authorship, originality, and the hand of the maker—a conversation that many editors now feel compelled to address directly. For artists working in photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and related media, this policy signals a commitment to work that emerges from embodied practice and intentional craft. What the journal offers is publication in a literary context, with the artist's name attributed upon acceptance. There is no fee to submit, and no prize or monetary award is attached. The value here is editorial: a blind, no-fee reading of your work by editors who are looking for complete and sophisticated pieces, and a place in a journal that takes both writing and visual art seriously. The extended deadline of November 9, 2025, is the operative date; the earlier date of October 25, 2025, has been superseded.