Elm Leaves Journal has opened a reading cycle for its "Me" edition, a themed issue that takes as its provocation the first-person pronoun and all the territory it fails to contain. The editors frame the theme with deliberate elasticity: identity and anonymity, walls and membranes, borders and skulls, the here and there and everywhere of a self that is past, present, and future at once. This is not a call for confessional writing narrowly construed; it is an invitation to interrogate the membrane between interiority and the world, to consider what passes through and what is held back. The journal's reference points—land, sea, and the counting that follows—suggest a curatorial appetite for work that is formally restless as well as thematically ambitious. The scope is broad by discipline but disciplined in submission: poetry, short and flash fiction, short and flash creative nonfiction. Poets may submit up to three poems within five total pages; prose writers may submit a single work of up to 3,000 words, or up to three flash works totaling no more than 3,000 words. One submission per genre per reading cycle. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, provided the editors are notified promptly of acceptance elsewhere. There is no fee to submit, and no prize is attached; what the journal offers is publication and the editorial attention of a reading cycle organized around a single, deliberately open question. The curatorial vision here is one of suggestion rather than prescription. The editors state plainly that they are open to interpretations of "Me" and would rather leave the going-on to the writer. That posture—an invitation without a rubric—rewards work that takes the theme seriously without illustrating it. The strongest submissions will likely treat "Me" as a problem to be tested rather than a subject to be described: the self as border, as leak, as address, as fiction. Writers working in other genres are advised to contact the editors before submitting, a courtesy that signals a genuine openness to form beyond the listed categories.