Introducing
Gimlet + Garret
Maroon Sky is pleased to announce the inaugural open call for submissions to Gimlet + Garret, a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to ambitious, interdisciplinary, creative nonfiction. Named for the attic space in which Harriet Jacobs absconded for years while orchestrating her abolition and the hand tool she used to drill a peephole to hope and joy, Gimlet + Garret aspires to provide a safe refuge for thinking and writing that helps us all get a little more free.
For our inaugural issue, “The Loophole of Retreat,” we seek rigorous, accessible, and imaginative work that engages the forces shaping contemporary life and which both afford and foreclose possible futures.
We invite scholars, curators, journalists, educators, researchers, critics, practitioners, and independent writers to submit original nonfiction manuscripts that explore art, culture, technology, education, society, history, and/or futurity across disciplines and modes of inquiry.
Submissions will be accepted from July 5 through August 31. We plan to publish in the last quarter of 2026.
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Gimlet + Garret
Editorial Vision
We established Gimlet + Garret to create space for serious nonfiction that resists disciplinary silos and speaks to the conditions of the present moment with depth, clarity, and imagination.
Named for simple tools and fugitive space with which Harriet Jacobs survived and escaped enslavement, Gimlet + Garret aspires to platform anything that helps us get a little more free.
We believe rigorous ideas should not be confined to the academy, and accessible writing should not be mistaken for simple thinking.
We are especially interested in courageous work that challenges dominant mores, expands public discourse, and contributes meaningfully to conversations about how people live, learn, love, build, remember, and imagine. This makes for a great latitude in the kinds of work we accept. Please feel free to contact us to discuss whether your work may be a fit, either in the current issue, or a future publication.
Loopholes of Retreat
We draw inspiration from ancestors and othermothers who wrote from and taught us about the Loophole of Retreat
What we're Looking For
We hope to feature products and manuscripts that:
- Encourage deep thinking
- Clarify nuanced topics
- Bridge academic and public-facing writing
- Counterstory and imagine otherwise
- Organize people
- Engage urgent social, cultural, or technological questions
- Combine intellectual rigor with stylistic clarity
- Invoke the past to evoke the future
- Draw connections across disciplines
- Humanize children
We welcome submissions from both emerging and established writers and artists.
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Areas of Interest
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Apocalypses
- Unbridled, ineffable joy
- Public and higher education and pedagogy
- Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
- Race, (dis)ability, sexuality, gender, and identity
- Digital culture and media
- Labor and economics
- Urbanism and infrastructure
- Climate and environmental futures
- Fabulations
- Public policy and civic life
- Philosophy and ethics
- Diaspora, migration, and globalization
- Community knowledge systems
- Archives, memory, and preservation
- Speculative or science-nonfiction
Trans and interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged.
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Submission Categories
Short Works
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Medium Length Works
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Frequently Asked Questions
The submission window is July 5-August 31 2026, with reviews conducted on a rolling basis.
Submissions should be double spaced, sized 12 font, .doc, .docx, jpg, .png, or .pdf files preferred (contact us for alternate submission).
Submissions should include the following content within the file:
- Manuscript title
- Abstract or brief synopsis (150–300 words)
- Completed manuscript
- Author bio(s) (50–150 words)
- References or works cited
Please follow the complete formatting guidelines provided on the Submission Guidelines linked below for best results.
All submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process to ensure quality and relevance.
Selected manuscripts will then proceed through a peer-review process designed to support rigorous and constructive engagement.
Our review model prioritizes:
- Intellectual integrity
- Editorial transparency
- Accessibility across disciplines
- Respectful and substantive critique
Because this is our inaugural issue, response times may vary depending on submission volume.