Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers and artists who identify as women.

About Yellow Arrow Journal

Submissions for Yellow Arrow Journal’s Vol. X, No. 2 issue (fall 2025) on KAIROS are open from now until August 31. Please show some love to the guest editor of KAIROS Darah Schillinger (she/her). Here from Darah herself about her focus for this issue.

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Darah Schillinger is a writer based in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in AVATAR Literary Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Maryland Bards Poetry Review, Empyrean Magazine, Grub Street Magazine, and The Eunoia Review and on the Spillwords Press website. In October 2024, her poem, An elegy for the Pompeii woman the Internet wants to fuck, was named a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her first poetry chapbook, when the daffodils die, was released in July 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her second collection, Still Warm, is a work in progress.

For more information about the theme and how to submit to this issue, visit our submissions page.

The Yellow Arrow Journal issue UNFURL, Vol. X, No. 1 (spring 2025), is available in the Yellow Arrow bookstore and most other distributors, in Baltimore and beyond, along with past issues.

Support the journal by reserving a discounted bundle of the 2025 (Vol. X: UNFURL and TBD) issues, for yourself, for your office, or as a gift. Bundles of volumes VIII (2023 KINDLING and EMBLAZON) and IX (2024 ELEVATE and kitalo) are also available. Learn more about our bundles at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-bundle.

Meet the Guest Editors

Editorial statement

At Yellow Arrow Publishing, we pride ourselves on nontraditional publishing methods that align with our nontraditional publishing company. We seek to uplift underrepresented voices and to allow women-identifying writers to exist and be heard exactly as they are.

We believe that publishing is a vehicle for storytelling and that each storyteller should have the freedom to tell the truest version of their story. This means that we don’t focus on common style guides and norms and that we don’t change our authors’ voices into something they are not.

While we provide a basic copyedit of each journal issue, manuscript, and chapbook that we publish, we prioritize maintaining the unique voice and style of each of our authors. Instead of fixating on grammar perfection (though we will fix errant commas), we focus on the heart of each piece: we want the ideas, themes, and styles of our writers to shine.

We believe that every writer has a story to tell and that every story is worth telling.

We want every writer we publish to come out of the process feeling heard, valued, and needed.

We believe that your story matters. That you matter.

And we want you to be heard.

Kapua Iao, Editor-in-Chief

JOURNAL ISSUES: FROM JOURNEY (VOL. I) TO UNFURL (VOL. X)