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Chapter House Journal is an online literary journal committed to empowering Indigenous writers We welcome submissions from both emerging and published writers.

Chapter House Journal is an online literary journal committed to empowering and uplifting Indigenous and marginalized stories, values, cultures, and art. We publish writers and artists from a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences, styles, and aesthetics whose work aligns with this mission. We strongly encourage submissions from Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous people, Black and Br

own people, le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, q***r and non-binary people, individuals with disabilities, and all members of historically marginalized communities. Housed within the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Low Residency MFA Program, we publish issues on a biannual basis. We accept submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. All submissions, including solicitations, are read by our dedicated editors, comprised of IAIA MFA students and faculty advisors. Our editors also manage publication decisions, website design, and blog content. We are committed to serving as a literary well for Indigenous and marginalized communities. We warmly invite all creators with aligned interests and passions to contribute to this powerful, dynamic, and ever-growing landscape of art and literature.

15/02/2026

✨ Our Winter Issue is here ✨

Our most robust edition yet, featuring a vast array of writers: Reflections on Gerald Vizenor’s career, an interview with Brandon Hobson on his new book, a review of Beverly Morris’s work on Unangan history, and more.

As we write, we also reflect. Memories, whether inherited or lived, explore relationships, encounters, and cultural ripples. Who do we see in the water’s reflection? Whose voices echo in the quiet moments? These writers meet their own gaze, asking us to do the same.

📬 Read the Winter Issue now. Link in (our Instagram) bio.

06/02/2026

❄️ Winter Issue 2026 is coming ❄️

Winter is a season of storytelling for many of our Indigenous communities. Our Winter 2026 issue turns with this (re)generative cycle of life from contributors of various backgrounds: decomposition, seed, and spurt. Each contribution asks what we are ready to release or break down, what we will tuck within our homes and hearts to keep for spring, and what we will plant for the coming year.

This issue gathers work that invites stillness and deep knowing, of where we have been, and where we must go. Get ready to sit by the fire with us on February 15th, 2026.

01/12/2025

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A small note carried on the wind: Chapter House Journal is being considered for the Best Lit Mags of 2025 by and the doors to voting have opened.

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And for the journals that rise to the top, a few gifts wait:
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🌐 a place among the Best Lit Mags of 2025

If Chapter House Journal has ever met you at the right time, held your work, or warmed your imagination, we’d be honored if you’d take a minute to vote.

👉 Vote: chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag-awards
(Link in bio.)

Thank you for being part of this strange, bright little house we’re building together. 📖✨

25/10/2025

🌨️ Call for Submissions: Poetry
Chapter House Journal 2025 Winter Issue: Release,
Submissions open Nov 1st, 2025 at link in bio 🪶

In many Indigenous communities, winter is a time for stories, spoken, remembered, sung.

We’re calling in poems that move with the season, the quiet, the break, the breath between.

What are you laying down?
What still speaks beneath the snow?
What do you carry into the dark, and what light do you return with?

We welcome work that honors cycles of grief and growth, silence and sound, poems that root, reckon, and rise.

🕯 Let your words sit with the fire.

24/10/2025

🌀 Call for Submissions: Creative Nonfiction
Chapter House Journal 2025 Winter Issue: Release, Reimagine, Re(Cycle)
Submissions open November 1st, 20256 via link in bio ❄️

Winter is a time of storytelling, of gathering, grieving, remembering, and imagining. In many Indigenous communities, it’s a season to sit with what has passed and what’s still becoming.

For this issue, we’re looking for creative nonfiction that moves with the cycles of life, rest, and renewal.

What are you shedding?
What memory keeps returning?
What stories live close to the fire, waiting to be told?

Send us work that honors grief, joy, kinship, ceremony, and change, work rooted in place, in ancestors, in truth-telling.

✨ Let your story warm the winter fire.

23/10/2025

🌌 Call for Submissions: Literary Fiction
Chapter House Journal 2025 Winter Issue
Submissions open November 1st, 2025 🕯️

As the cold settles in, stories rise up. In many Indigenous communities, winter is a time to gather, remember, and speak the truths that summer kept quiet.

We’re looking for fiction that leans into the hush of winter. Stories that hold complexity, that remember what’s been lost, and imagine what might come next. 🌾

Write into the dark.
Write what lingers.
Write what carries us through.

We welcome short fiction grounded in kinship, transformation, tension, and care, stories that stay with us like breath on cold glass.

🔥 Let the winter tell it through you.

22/10/2025

🌀 Call for Submissions: Visual Arts & Practices
Chapter House Journal 2025 Winter Issue: Release, Reimagine, Re(Cycle)
Submissions open November 1st, 2025 via link in bio ❄️

In many Indigenous communities, winter is a season of storytelling, a time to reflect, release, and remember. For our upcoming issue, we’re calling in visual works that speak to the cycles of life, loss, rest, and renewal. 🌱

What are you letting go of?
What are you carrying forward?
What seeds are you planting for the year to come?

We’re looking for art that honors this (re)generative season, work that roots us in stillness, memory, and movement.

✨ Let your practice speak to the winter fire.

01/10/2025

🌟 IN ONE HOUR at 6 PM MST on Zoom, we are thrilled to celebrate Jessica Doe, this year’s Indigenous Fiction Prize winner! 🌟

Jessica is an Aniyunwiya (Cherokee Nation) writer, artist, and scholar whose boundary-breaking, inter/multi/anti-disciplinary work centers Indigenization and place. Her creative practice spans writing, visual art, installation, and performance, with past work developed during her time as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in India and as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.

Jessica’s poetry and prose have received multiple awards, and her exhibitions have been shown internationally. Her forthcoming monograph explores poetry and eating disorders through Indigenous lenses, and her next book, sp[RED], an Indigenized tarot-inspired poetry collection, is set to release in 2026.

✨ Don’t miss this chance to hear from one of the most original and powerful Indigenous voices in contemporary literature.

📍 Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/5R0x6D79RHOPxN34RtoVLQ

01/10/2025

📣 Join us tonight at 6 PM MST via Zoom for a special evening of poetry!

We’re honored to welcome Indigenous Fiction Prize Finalist Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné (Navajo), as one of our featured readers. Tacey is Tsénahabiłnii (Sleep Rock People) and born for Ta'neeszahnii (Tangle People). She’s the author of Rain Scald and the recent [At] Wrist, winner of the Wisconsin Brittingham Prize for Poetry.

Her powerful work has appeared in POETRY, EPOCH, Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, and more. Tacey holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Beloit College.

✨ Don’t miss this opportunity to hear her read live and share space with an incredible voice in contemporary poetry.

📍 Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/5R0x6D79RHOPxN34RtoVLQ

01/10/2025

Join us tonight for an unforgettable reading with Lareina Abbott!

Lareina Abbott crafts Métis-themed speculative fiction, essays, and memoir that weave the spiritual, natural, and ancestral into every line. Her writing has been recognized with both the 2023 Alberta Literary Award for short story and the 2025 Alberta Literary Award for unpublished essay. An alumna of the Audible Indigenous Writers Circle, Lareina is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, with family roots in the Huppé, Desjarlais, and Cyr lines.

Originally from a cattle ranch in northern British Columbia, she now lives and writes in Calgary/Mohkinstsis on MNA District 5 and Treaty 7 territory. You can follow her work on Instagram at
Experience her powerful voice and celebrate Indigenous storytelling—RSVP now to attend: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83114104595?pwd=3Yenbn5HbFHDj0o1qnLbKFRjCjjx70.1

01/10/2025

Don't miss tonight's reading featuring the powerful voice of Selene Mary Hofstetter at 6pm MST, via Zoom!

Selene is a second-year graduate student in Colorado State University’s MFA poetry program. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. An enrolled Tribal Member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, she is also a lineal descendant of the Lummi Nation and Musqueam Indian Band. Selene currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she continues to hone her craft.

Come celebrate her work and be part of an inspiring night of poetry and community.

RSVP now to save your spot: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83114104595?pwd=3Yenbn5HbFHDj0o1qnLbKFRjCjjx70.1

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