SHOTGUN GRIOT

Literary Magazine

Spring 2025

Submissions Open!

Shotgun Griot Literary Magazine is an emerging New Orleans publication featuring the work of local creatives. Each edition includes poetry, essays, interviews, photography, and visual art.

Submissions will close at 11:59pm CST on December 1, 2024.

HOME IS A PLACE, Spring 2025

For this initial publication, we welcome submissions that explore the meaning of home, particularly as it relates to our relationships to land, land displacement, and land reclamation. In solidarity with the many peoples being forcibly displaced by genocidal violence and climate catastrophe around the world, this issue seeks to connect understandings of home in New Orleans to the meanings of home everywhere.