Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, based at Iowa State University, occupies a distinct position among literary journals for its sustained attention to the word environment—construed not merely as landscape but as rural, urban, and suburban; built and wild; social and political. The journal publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short scripts, and visual art, and its editorial sensibility is one of complexity and nuance rather than sentiment. For nonfiction specifically, the editors seek work that immerses the reader in a place, whether that place is a natural setting, an urban environment, or even a body. The charge to find the extraterrestrial in our very own world signals an appetite for the strange, the curious, and the overlooked within familiar surroundings. The submission parameters are precise: nonfiction pieces between 500 and 5,000 words, with the option to submit up to three pieces of fewer than 1,000 words each in a single submission packet. A fee of $3.00 USD is required. There is no prize associated with this call; it is a standard reading period for publication consideration. The journal reads during defined windows, and the deadline for this opportunity is October 15, 2026. What the journal offers is publication in an online venue with a clear curatorial identity and an institutional affiliation that lends academic seriousness. The editors are not seeking boosterism or generic nature writing; they are seeking work that demonstrates the complexity, nuance, and diversity of environment in all its forms. Writers should consider how their nonfiction engages with social and political implications, and how it might explore curiosities in our surroundings without resorting to the predictable.