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

UNFURL, Yellow Arrow Journal Vol. X, No. 1 issue (spring 2025), guest edited by Sara J. Streeter, is now available as a paperback and a PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. You can also find UNFURL through most online distributors.

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The cover of UNFURL had its own journey to creation from choosing one to feature among the incredible submissions we received to unfortunately not hearing back from the artist, and finally and happily, to finding the perfect voice for the issue’s cover in Yellow Arrow’s Creative Director Alexa Laharty. According to Alexa, “My intention with the piece was to portray the joyous emotions that accompany a release from the constraints of worry and anxiety.” Sara adds, “Alexa brilliantly showcases the cover woman’s unfurling sense of joy and freedom through her expression and stance.” Thank you, Alexa and Sara, for your incredible vision.

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.

All past issues are available individually, as a paperback or a PDF, from the Yellow Arrow bookstore, on Amazon and through most online distributors, and in bookstores in Baltimore and beyond. For more information on how to submit to the next (fall) issue, visit our submissions page.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support. For an editorial statement from our Editor-in-Chief, see below.

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)