Send Micro-stories & Poems for “Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn," Volume 2!
Middle West Press LLC , an independent micro-publisher based in Central Iowa, has issued a call for human-generated poems and micro-prose (450 words max.) telling fantastic stories of monsters in a 21st century American Midwest. The full title of this project is Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters . This will be the second volume of an on-going series. Published in 2025, the first volume is available for sale via Amazon , Bookshop.org , Barnes & Noble , and other on-line and brick-and-mortar booksellers. Deadline for submissions is Jun. 2, 2026. This anthology will published in both print and Kindle e-book formats . Publication is projected for Fall 2026. Contributors will each receive one complimentary digital contributor’s copy. Submit via Submittable here at this link . This is explicitly a speculative poetry (and related micro-flash-prose) market. We welcome both established artists, and those experimenting with such genre narrati...