Call for submissions. A special issue of The Dodge magazine. Deadline July 31, 2025.
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land—A special teaching issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle (January 2026)
Introduction by Guest Editor Palestinian poet Sara Abou Rashed:
With over seventy-seven years of contestation, Palestine has turned global like never before—a cause of radical empathy, of impossible belonging and of forced disconnection from ancestral land and reckoning against an occupying power. For Palestinians, as well as any Indigenous peoples forcibly (re)moved, land is not merely territory—it is the vessel of generational memory, holistic connectedness in which the people and their earth are one and in the same, and collective, deeply rich and rooted identity. It is this immense and unmeasurable loss of stolen land that keeps generations grounded in their pursuit of justice, in their reclamation of a mystical inheritance.
This issue welcomes submissions exploring returns, roots, and land largely writ—be it physical, imagined, occupied, liberated or in any possible condition which art and literature may make possible. This is a teaching issue across genres and languages committed to creating conversations around the curated works to enliven their mediums, extend their afterlife as well as generate fruitful conversation toward solidarity.
Submissions open: June 1 – July 31, 2025. https://thedodge.submittable.com/submit (Please note that special issue submission buttons will not appear on our Submittable page until June 1.) We welcome submissions from Arab and Indigenous writers, artists, and educators in solidarity with Palestine in the following genres:
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Visual Art
Translation
Craft & Teaching Materials on Palestine and Indigenous Resistance
As a special teaching issue, please note that we’re encouraging writers to submit accompanying educational materials with their creative submissions. This could include a list of questions, a brief craft reflection, a prompt, or template. (Contributors from all backgrounds are welcome to submit to our Translations and Craft & Teaching Materials genres.) Please contact us with questions.
