Vincent Brothers Publishing — Flash Fiction/Time Capsules/Haibun/Short-Lined Poems/Dispatch Prose (i.e., Writer and/Or Their Book Tributes, Book Reviews, and Rock ’n’ Roll Albums That Changed How I Listen to Music) Submissions

Overview
The Vincent Brothers Review, a literary endeavor with both digital and print manifestations, opens a call for work that engages three distinct thematic territories: the rock 'n' roll album that reshaped a writer's listening, an elegy for a writer or book that altered a life, and the immigrant experience as expressed through labor and belonging. The editors seek flash fiction, time capsules, haibun, short-lined poems, and dispatch prose—forms that favor compression, resonance, and the precise gesture over sprawl. Submissions may include up to three time capsules, three haibun, five to seven short-lined poems, or one dispatch prose piece of up to 2,500 words per entry. The venue is a Substack newsletter, The Vincent Brothers Review Weekly Reader, with a parallel print component. This dual existence suggests an editorial vision that values both immediacy and permanence—work that can live in a reader's inbox and, later, on a shelf. The reading fee of $3.00 per submission is modest and, per the editors, directed toward writer payment and production costs, a transparency that distinguishes this call from vanity operations. All rights revert to authors upon publication, a standard that respects the writer's ongoing ownership. What the editors appear to want is not merely thematic compliance but genuine reckoning: a piece that traces how a song rearranged one's auditory expectations, or how a book became an elegiac companion, or how immigration is itself a form of work—unfinished, daily, and defining. The forms listed (haibun, time capsule, short-lined poem) imply a preference for brevity and intensity, for writing that trusts the fragment and the leap. This is a call for writers who understand that a single album, a single book, a single crossing can be a hinge in a life.