Table Salt Press is a newly founded independent literary journal focused on prose, essays, and nonfiction, and currently open to submissions for its first issue: *Homesick*.  

*Homesick* explores the many ways people long for a place, a community, or a time that is distant, lost, inherited, or imagined. Work that touches on nostalgia, heritage, displacement, belonging, and the histories carried across borders and generations is encouraged.  



**Areas of Interest**  

\~ Social & Political Realities: Work engaging with the social, environmental, political, and economic realities of a place or community.  

\~ Folklore & Inheritance: Folktales, traditions, superstition, family stories, and oral histories.  

\~ Nostalgia & Memory: Writing about places, people, and periods of life that can no longer be returned to.  

\~ Migration & Inherited Homes: Stories of leaving one home for another, living between places, or growing up with a home known secondhand.  

\[*Featured Perspectives: The journal has highlighted a specific interest in Appalachian, Ukrainian, and Romani voices, though submissions are open to writers everywhere.*\]    


**Accepted Genres**

\~ Fiction: Short stories, flash, micro-fiction.  

\~ Nonfiction: Research, criticism, history, reporting, essays, opinion, conversation, and other nonfiction.  

\~ Personal Essays: Including flash and micro formats.  

\~ Hybrid & Experimental: Cross-genre and unconventional forms.  

\~ Folklore & Cultural Work: Folktales, retellings, and work rooted in oral traditions.    


**Submission Specs & Rules**

*Word Count Limits:*

\* Full-length work: Max 3,000 words  

\* Flash: Max 500 words  

\* Micro: Max 175 words  

\~ Limits: 1 piece per category per reading period (up to 2 pieces allowed for flash/micro fiction).  

\~ AI Policy: AI-generated work is strictly prohibited.  

\~ Previous Publication: Previously published work is accepted provided the author retains republishing rights.  

\~ Simultaneous Submissions: Allowed (notify upon acceptance elsewhere).  

\~Response Time: Five days.  

\~ Non-paying market.  

\~ Free submissions.

\~ Subs open until 9/18.  

\~ Rights Requested: Non-exclusive rights (Authors retain full copyright. Table Salt Press receives non-exclusive permission to publish, archive, and use excerpts for promotion, while authors remain free to publish or share their work elsewhere).

Full guidelines and submission links can be found on the Table Salt Press website:

[tablesaltpress.com](http://tablesaltpress.com)  

Chill Subs listing: [https://chillsubs.com/magazine/table-salt-press](https://chillsubs.com/magazine/table-salt-press)  

  
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Call for Submissions: Table Salt Press