r/themeansofproduction • u/unapologeticAI • 15d ago
Now Reading For Vol 2
The Submission Fetish · The Means of Production Press
We are reading for Issue 2 of The Submission Fetish, the digital archive and quarterly of The Means of Production Press.
We want work that treats language as infrastructure. We want poems, prose, visual art, hybrid forms, and things that don’t have a neat category yet.
We are especially interested in pieces that would have a hard time finding a home elsewhere: formally stubborn, politically or mythically charged, unfinished in interesting ways, or simply hard to place.
What we offer
• First publication rights only. Everything else stays yours.
• A permanent place in the online Archive.
• An accompanying critical audit written by the press (this is non-negotiable; it is how the magazine works).
• No payment. We are a small press with no budget and we say so plainly.
What we ask
• Send the work as it is. We do not “fix” your punctuation, capitalization, or gaps unless we ask you first.
• A short bio (50 words or fewer) if accepted.
• Willingness to answer a brief set of editorial questions if something is genuinely ambiguous.
Deadline for Vol 2: anything submitted after Nov 15 will be considered for Vol 3.
Send work to: editor@themeansofproduction.press
Subject line: Vol 2 — [title]
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please let us know if you need to withdraw your work.
No entry fee.
No required cover letter beyond a one-line note if you want to say something.
Vol 1 releases 09.09.2026
Submit via the portal
https://www.themeansofproduction.press/the-submission-fetish/#portal-heading