✨ Call for Submissions:
“Voices for the Voiceless” & “The Joy They Cannot Erase”
Two powerful, community-centered creative projects are now open for submissions.
📣 VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS
🗓️ Deadline: December 12th, 2025
📬 Email: poeaxtry@gmail.com
📌 Submit up to:
10 poems 2 essays Unlimited artwork (Per person)
This anthology exists to document the shift and response of marginalized people through art, especially since the second Trump election. We welcome voices from all marginalized backgrounds, and allies too.
Whether you’re personally affected, witnessing oppression in your community, or standing beside those impacted, your voice belongs here. We are actively seeking poetry, prose, essays, and visual artwork that address identity, injustice, resilience, and hope.
🌍 International submissions welcome. This isn’t just an American issue. If you’re creating work about the ongoing changes in the world, your voice matters here.
🖋️ Open to anyone 18+
📖 All submitters who meet the theme will have at least one piece included.
💸 This is currently an unpaid project, but we are seeking grants and if none are secured, it will still be published on free platforms for maximum accessibility. Each contributor will be credited, and optional bios or links will be included.
🌀 THE JOY THEY CANNOT ERASE
📬 Email: poeaxtry@gmail.com
🗓️ No current deadline – submissions open more concrete deadline coming
This anthology is now open to all transgender and gender nonconforming individuals, not just men and mascs that identify outside of the term man as originally intended.
We are collecting poetry, prose, essays, and visual art that explores both the pain and the joy of trans existence. The heartbreak and the gender euphoria, the grief and the pride. You are welcome to go as deep and dark as needed, but we also invite work that celebrates the other side, the light, the community, the wins, and the moments that made you feel real.
💬 The original focus on “the boys, for the boys” has grown into something larger. Think an archive of trans truth, in all forms, from all experiences.
🖋️ Open to all trans and GNC folks 18+
🧷 No deadline set yet ; look for one eventually
📖 Will be published digitally, free to access, with contributor credit and optional bio or link
🪞 Closing Words
Art is a living record. These collections are not only a safe haven, they are a call to witness, a call to remember, a call to feel. We’re building legacy through community.
Please feel free to share widely. Submissions and questions can be sent to poeaxtry@gmail.com
Much Love,
Axton N. O. Mitchell
@poeaxtry_
Whisper to the void it might whisper back