Submissions

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Rastrojo.

Rastrojo is an online and print forest media press and experimental poetics revista committed to curating and publishing creative works and writing in the defense of forests. We’re looking for poetry, experimental writing, film, sound, and other forest media that intervene in forest destruction and generate resurgent forest futures. We invite contributions from those who compose with and from forests and their diverse life‑worlds in response to their destruction. We’re interested in work that generates poetic resistance and response to ongoing colonization and forest destruction, grounded in relationality and oriented towards resurgent forest futures cultivated together with forests themselves and those who defend them. We especially encourage poetic and media experiments with forests and their diversity of forms and languages, including listening to forests, performances, film, sound pieces, and cross‑genre experimental writing.

Submission Guidelines

  • In no more than 500 words, include a description of the work.

  • In 200 words or less, include why you think this work resonates with Rastrojo’s editorial ethos.

  • Poetry and other written work: Please include an unpublished online link (Google Docs). Other acceptable file types include doc, docx, and rtf. If your poetry contains special formatting, we recommend submitting a PDF in addition to your Word doc.

  • Films: Please provide a password-protected Vimeo link. Other acceptable file types include mp4 and mov.

  • Digital, sonic, and audio-visual work: Please provide a link to view or listen to the work (for example via Google Drive). Other acceptable file types include jpg, tiff, mp3, and related formats.

  • Include your bio and links to previously published work or portfolios if you have them.

Please submit all work to editors [at] revistarastrojo [dot] com (title your email subject as follows: FULL NAME_Title of work).

Author’s Rights

Rastrojo holds first publication rights for three months following publication. Authors agree not to publish, nor authorize or permit the publication of, any part of the material for three months following the first publication. For reprints, we ask for acknowledgment of publication in Rastrojo first.