2025 Calls for Submissions!
Celebrate DRP’s 5th year with exciting new opportunities for writers to submit their work!
Dandelion Revolution Press (DRP) is an independent publishing house founded by women writers from Pennsylvania whose mission celebrates and amplifies the female perspective. Since 2020, we have been committed to sharing female-forward stories with the world.
Celebrate five years of DRP by contributing to our 2025 Calls for Submissions!
WHAT WE’RE CREATING: A seasonal online literary journal that publishes short fiction, creative nonfiction, and personal essays centered around specific themes. Content and contributor information will be shared on our website, social media, and SubStack.
WHAT WE’D LIKE YOU TO CONTRIBUTE: We’re drawn to compelling women characters within a framework of excellent writing and storytelling. Send your short fiction, creative nonfiction, or personal essays related to the theme. All genres welcome. The intended audience will be 17+.
WHO WE’D LOVE TO HAVE SUBMIT: Writers of all identities, and we encourage voices from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We have a global audience and would love to see that reflected in the pieces we publish.
5th Anniversary Essay Theme:
“In Her Words: Celebrating Women in Literature”
Open: Now until December 31, 2025
Email: DandelionRevolutionPress@gmail.com
Subject line: In Her Words
Length: 500-1,500 words
For our ongoing essay series, we’re seeking personal essays recognizing women authors and/or characters that have impacted your life. We have all had a woman creator whose work has left a lasting impression on us or recall a woman character whose experience deeply resonated with our own. They may have shaped your creative journey, challenged your worldview, or simply created art that has echoed in your soul for years. We want to hear about it! Submit your personal essay to celebrate the legacy of women in the literary world and have it published on our SubStack as part of our fifth anniversary essay series.
Summer 2025 Theme: “Bloom”
Open: Now until April 30, 2025
Email: DandelionRevolutionPress@gmail.com
Subject line: Bloom
Length: 1,000-4,000 words
Whether it’s a personal evolution, overcoming obstacles, or embracing new beginnings, we want to showcase women characters who shine in all their complexities and strengths. We want to read about dynamic female protagonists who are bold, flawed, and unapologetically themselves. This is a space for the raw, real, and sometimes edgy side of growth. Submit your short fiction or creative non-fiction to be part of this collection of the power of blossoming in all its forms. Full issue will be published digitally on our website and SubStack.
Winter 2025 Theme: “Twisted Myths”
Open: August 1 - October 31, 2025
Email: DandelionRevolutionPress@gmail.com
Subject Line: Twisted Myths
Length: 1,000-5,000 words
Reimagine classic stories with a fresh, bold twist. Take a well-known myth, fable, or fairytale, and breathe new life into it—whether by exploring untold perspectives, shifting genres, or adding unexpected turns. We want to see familiar characters and plots through new eyes, or even a myth of your own invention. If you have a short story that creates or reinvents a timeless tale in a surprising way, or a creative nonfiction piece that draws compelling parallels to a traditional story, we want to read it! Full issue will be published digitally on our website and SubStack.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
This is an anonymous selection process, so submission pages should not have any identifying information (i.e., no name, email address, or any other personal information).
We accept .doc/.docx files.
In the body of your email, please include the title of your submission and the category for your submission (fiction, creative nonfiction, or personal essay).
No fee to submit.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please immediately advise us if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Multiple submissions are admissible, however, only one piece will be selected for publication per author in a category.
Only submissions related to the themes will be considered. Please email submissions with associated theme in the Subject line to DandelionRevolutionPress@gmail.com
If you’d like to get an idea of the stories we have published, please check out our Spring 2024 issue: Transitions and Winter 2024 issue: Cocoon.
Print and E-book versions are available on Amazon of our anthologies: Not Quite As You Were Told (2020), The Secrets We Keep (2021), and Every Breath Alight (2022).
For more information, you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and SubStack.
Questions? Comment below or email DandelionRevolutionPress@gmail.com. Happy writing!
Is this a paid thing?
This sounds intriguing indeed...I may have a creative non-fictional essay for you... :-)