CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal | FALL 2026 ISSUE

'The Soliloquist Journal' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Fall 2026 issue Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com 

Issue Theme: The Anatomy of Forgetting

Deadline: October 20, 2026 

Publication: October 25, 2026

Forgetting is not empty space—it is an act, sometimes violent, sometimes merciful. It has its own anatomy: the nerve that still fires for a name you swore you'd erased, the scar tissue where a memory used to live, the phantom limb of a person no longer in your life.

For our Fall 2026 Issue, The Soliloquist Journal invites poets and writers to dissect the mechanics of memory loss—chosen and unchosen. What do you let go of on purpose? What slips away against your will? What do you misremember, and why does the misremembering feel like its own kind of truth?

We are looking for raw, vulnerable, and authentic poetry and soliloquies that trace the edges of what has been lost, blurred, or deliberately buried.

Subthemes to Inspire You

• Selective Erasure — The things we choose to forget on purpose: a face, a betrayal, a version of ourselves we've outgrown.
• Phantom Memory — The ache of a memory that lingers after the thing itself is gone—like sensation in a missing limb.
• The Unreliable Archive — Misremembering as its own act of creation: when the story we tell replaces the thing that actually happened.
• Inherited Forgetting — Family silences, generational gaps, and the things left unspoken until they simply cease to exist.
• The Slow Fade — The involuntary kind of forgetting: aging, illness, distance, and the quiet grief of watching a memory dissolve in real time.

Submission Guidelines

What to send: Up to 5 original, unpublished poems or soliloquies.  

Length: Maximum of 40 lines per poem. 

Bio: Include a 50–70 word author bio written in the third person. 

Where to send: Email your work as a single Word or PDF document to thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com. 

Subject Line: Fall 2026 Submission – [Your Name] 

Fast Turnaround: We value your time. Writers will receive a notification timeline within 1 to 2 weeks of submission.

Step into the quiet room of your mind, find what has faded there, and share your soliloquy with us.