Please submit visual art here for No Common Water anthology. 

We accept 3 pieces of artwork of all forms and styles. Please include an artist's statement detailing how your work fits with No Common Water's theme. You should also explain the process, meaning, and/or philosophy of the pieces you submit.

Please note that this submission form is for visual art only. All fiction, nonfiction, and poetry should be submitted through the No Common Water submission portal.

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"The ultimate realm has one thousand kinds and ten thousand ways. When we think about the meaning of this, it seems that there is water for various beings but there is no original water—there is no water common to all types of beings."  Zen Master Dōgen, Mountains and Rivers Sutra

How can we indulge ourselves in the ecological? What ecological pleasures can we embrace amidst trends of inhibition and moderation? What does indulgence mean to you, and what does it mean to other creatures? What combinations of settings, styles, and subjects seem delicious? What stories do you have that are arranged like three-course meals? What is succulent, intoxicating, sexy, refreshing like sour lemonade, relaxing? Following Zen master Dōgen, how can we embrace the proliferation of perspectives, sensations, and delights of the more-than-human world---of an anglerfish fluorescing in the dark, a pinecone breaking open to seed in the midst of burning, a fire ant biting down?

In No Common Water, a collaborative anthology between the tiny journal and Electric Phoenix Press, we seek stories, essays, and poems that reify one thousand kinds and ten thousand ways of being. We invite writers to abandon restraint and write towards abundance in a time of ecological scarcity. We want to devour flavors, choreographies, flirtations, delicacies, flora and fauna, desire and satiation in the widest and wildest terms. We are interested in what ecological familiarities romance gray whales and house Haleakalā silverswords. Take your time, relish, and tangle with the sublime of speculation.

We welcome works that experiment with form and scale: works that luxuriate, overindulge, or dissolve. We prefer literary works but are open to stories that are genre-connecting or -bending if it helps engage indulgence. We are not interested in works that have gratuitous violence, sex, or offensive language if it is not serving the purpose of the piece. Write toward pleasure without apology, toward ecological worlds that are imperiled, and also irresistibly alive in the face of it all. Let abundance answer catastrophe.

• Visual Art: up to 3 pieces of visual art. Any form.
• Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know as soon as possible if your work has been accepted elsewhere. 
• Reprints of published works are allowed if author retains rights for print, e-book, and audio, but original works are preferred.
• Absolutely no generative-AI in any capacity. We hate it.
• Contributors whose work is accepted receive one author's copy. We also nominate for Pushcart Prizes.