Contact: Connor Coyne
708.224.5297
connor@gothicfunkpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Writers from around the world have a new publication opportunity through the Michigan-based Gothic Funk Press. The second edition of our FLOOD anthology will be published in August 2025, and artists may register to submit to the collection.
The Fleet Ordinaries of the — (aka FLOOD 2025) is a literary sprint from conception to execution to publication. At midnight on June 1st, 2025 writers will be supplied with a list of prompts provided by guest judge Elisabeth Blair. Submitting artists will then have one week to complete their submissions.
A complete list of submission guidelines are available at https://www.gothicfunkpress.com/flood/. There is no fee to submit to FLOOD 2025; compensation includes a complimentary copy of the anthology and an invitation to share your work at our launch party in Flint, Michigan.
Guest judge Elisabeth Blair is a poet, editor, and workshop leader with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. Her publications include full-length collection because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press 2022), two chapbooks—We He She/It (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press 2020)—and inclusion in Biblioasis’ anthology, Best Canadian Poetry 2025. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including carte blanche, Harpur Palate, Feminist Studies, and Juked. She has been artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wildacres, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and ACRE, and has received several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her monthly newsletter, lullabies & alarms, explores the craft of poetry.
The Gothic Funk Press is a Flint, Michigan-based independent publisher with an emphasis upon “gothic funk” art: experimental work featuring degrees of romanticism, darkness, depth, and swagger. The Press has published works of Gothic Funk fiction and poetry and anthologies in support of Flint and Genesee County writers. The Press hosts a popular salon series that brings together writers from around the world, and has also coordinated community engagement events such as the Flint Order of Orpheus and the Flint Area Scavenger Hunt, as well as creative partnerships with local organizations such as the Gloria Coles Flint Public Library, Buckham Gallery, Comma Bookstore and Social Hub, and Queens’ Provisions.