Harpur Palate, the literary journal founded at Binghamton University, opens its reading period for creative nonfiction slated for issue 25.2. The journal has long maintained a commitment to narrative-driven work, and this call reflects that editorial disposition: the stated preference is for narrative nonfiction from diverse voices, with explicit welcome extended to hybrid and experimental forms. The parameters are deliberately generous—a single essay of up to 5,500 words, or as many as three flash essays of no more than 1,000 words each—allowing writers to shape their submission according to the demands of the work rather than the convenience of the reader. Submissions are limited to one creative nonfiction entry per reading period, whether that entry takes the form of a single essay or a suite of up to three flash pieces. There is no submission fee. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, with the standard professional courtesy that the journal be notified immediately should the work be placed elsewhere. The deadline is exact: October 16, 2026. What the journal offers is publication within a university-affiliated literary review with a national readership and a history of presenting emerging and established voices alongside one another. The curatorial vision here is not thematic but formal and tonal: work that tells a story, that moves, that risks hybridity without sacrificing coherence. Writers working at the essay's edges—lyric, documentary, speculative, fragmented—will find the guidelines permissive rather than prescriptive.