Submissions are open January 18-February 17, 2026.

The fifth anthology of The Rebis will focus on The Moon (XVIII), and we are open for submissions from January 18-February 17 at 12pm PT.  

As with previous issues, the work should be deeply intimate. We are looking for original writing, artwork, and any other form of creative expression that you dream up inspired by the 18th card of the Major Arcana. Send us work that is subversive, provocative, erotic, and deliciously alive.

We are interested in exploring: 

• nonlinear time, ancestral time, dream time
• ancestry, inherited memory & collective grief
• disorientation & bewilderment 
• resistance to Western logics of coherence
• diverse cultural understandings of the Moon
• tidal intelligence & water stories (Tidalectics, flood states, brackish zones, amniotic memory)
• lunar states beyond Full/New Moon (progressed lunations, eclipses)
• subcultural spaces & underground worlds 
• nonhuman consciousness, shapeshifting, anti-anthropomorphism, biodiversity
• themes inspired by Borderlands/La Frontera (Gloria Anzaldúa) 
• protection magic
• decolonial, Black, feminist, and mythic frameworks
  
• work inspired by thinkers such as David Abram, Bayo Akomolafe, Octavia Butler, Gloria Anzaldúa, Edouard Glissant, Hélène Cixous, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Toni Morrison, Rebecca Solnit, Christina Sharpe, Simone Weil, Francis Weller

The ideas shared here are simply thought-starters. We encourage you to take an imaginative, deconstructionist lens. We are looking for diversity and originality in both creative techniques, artistic formats, and concepts explored.

To submit, please fill out this form.

Writing: We are especially interested in publishing experimental and genre-bending work (creative non-fiction, short stories, flash fiction). Personal memoirs, researched articles, interviews, and poetry are all welcome, too. For full guidelines, please refer to the submissions form. 

Artwork: Photography, illustrations, paintings, comics/graphic stories, digital art, and collage art are all welcome. Multimedia work that weaves print + digital into an immersive and/or interactive experience is always fun. Artwork needs to fit into our vertical magazine orientation. For full guidelines, please refer to the submissions form. 

Collaborative work: We enjoy seeing work incorporating multiple collaborators—art and writing that pair together, dual bylines, an epistolary project, etc. If you are submitting as a collaborative project, please submit one time only, but include the names, bios, and links to examples of work for all people involved.  

Only submit unpublished work: Please submit previously unpublished work. By "unpublished" we mean that it hasn’t appeared in any print or digital publications beyond your own social channels or website.

To submit: Please fill out this form by 12pm PT February 17, 2026. Contributor decisions will be made in February, and complete/final work will be due in mid-April. 

Questions: If you have any questions about the submissions process, please email submissions@therebis.com. We love workshopping ideas and helping you bring your concepts to life.

AI policy: We do not accept AI-generated content or artwork. 

Payment: The Rebis believes in compensating writers and artists for their work. Right now, we can afford to pay each contributor $200 for longer-form essays or short stories, and two pages of poetry or artwork. We pay $100 for pieces of flash fiction, single page poems, and one page of artwork.

Disclaimer: By submitting your work to The Rebis, you agree to grant our publication first serial rights as well as electronic archival rights. If your submission is accepted, you’ll grant The Rebis a license to use the submission on all its assets; however, you’ll retain ownership. By submitting your work, you confirm that your work is original and does not violate copyright laws. Full terms will be sent out in a Contributor Agreement.