Call for Submissions — Issue 2

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 — poems, prose, visual sequences, 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 Issue 2: rolling, but priority consideration for work received by 15 October 2026.

Send work to: editor@themeansofproduction.press
Subject line: Issue 2 — [title]

No simultaneous submissions limit. No entry fee. No required cover letter beyond a one-line note if you want to say something.

Previous issue releases 09.09.2026 — see the seal of Issue I.