Send us polished, insightful work that follows our guidelines, using our Submittable page. We value work that uses voices we haven't heard before or haven't heard from enough, work that asks tough questions about the world and about what it means to be human, and work that blurs the boundaries of genre. We accept work from writers with fancy MFA degrees and writers still in high school, writers from our home base in Arkansas to writers from the universe at large.

"Please send us your best stories. As a new market in a part of the world where none exists, where nobody expects us to publish, we cannot afford to compromise on quality.

The personal is always political. We seek to publish fiction, poetry and art that reveal, resist or address various forms of tyrannies."

Breathe Free Press seeks essays that allude, intimate, insinuate, attempt, analyze, critique, express, transform and transgress meta narratives of authority and power structures. We welcome, generous, graceful conscious writing. We are equally interested in hearing from emerging and established writers. Please include a cover letter to acquaint the editors with the author behind the work. We understand and encourage simultaneous submissions, but please share your good news of acceptance elsewhere.

We recommend that you look through our previous issues to get a sense of The Lark. Our guidelines are left intentionally expansive, but we take craft seriously and are drawn to work that feels honest in some way.

To get a feeling for the work we publish, we encourage you to consult the issues available on our website.  When you feel ready, please read our submission guidelines and then send us your best work, along with a third-person bio of 100 words or less.  

Our editors yearn to see something different, to learn from a piece of work, or to discover a new point of view. We are looking for young, honest voices daring enough to share those stories. How can a poem reveal an observation, emotion, or experience in a new or unique way? How can a story change a reader’s way of thinking? We want stories that open our minds to new possibilities.