Honey Literary
Overview
Honey Literary is a multidisciplinary journal that treats the page as a site of convergence. For Issue 5, the editors seek work across poetry, essay, painting, film, visual art, comics, and hybrid forms—a curatorial stance that resists medium-specific silos and favors artists who think across boundaries. The reading period is fixed: September 1 through December 15, 2022. There is no stated fee, and no prize or location is attached to this call. What the journal offers is publication within a context that takes seriously the interplay of text and image, narrative and abstraction. The journal's scope is deliberately wide, but not indiscriminate. By listing poetry alongside painting, film, and comics, Honey Literary signals an interest in how different disciplines inform one another—how a poem might borrow from cinematic pacing, or a comic from the compression of lyric. Artists working in hybrid modes are therefore not outliers but central to the journal's project. The absence of a thematic prompt suggests that the editors are looking for work that defines its own terms, rather than illustrating a predetermined idea. For the creative practitioner, this is an opportunity to place work in a journal that values formal curiosity and cross-genre literacy. The rolling deadline—here expressed as a specific reading window—means that submissions are considered for a single issue, not an ongoing basis. There is no indication of payment or prize, so artists should weigh the value of publication, audience, and editorial context accordingly. The journal's commitment to visual and text-based practices alike makes it a viable venue for those whose work does not fit neatly into traditional literary or art-world categories.