FATHOMBOOKS is a micropress interested in Neo-Gnostic writing and image.
The FATHOMSCHOOL teaches and immerses in this style through workshops, with topics like 'Limpidity & Flux,' 'Writing the Body,' and 'Learning from Women.'
Neo-Gnostic texts are fit to meet——or be——the Gorgon. As Antigone to Ismene: Your wisdom appealed to one world——mine, another. As Ishamael Reed: i left some curses in d cash / box so youll know its me.
FATHOMBOOKS publishes standalone volumes of Neo-Gnostic writing and the SHARKPACK Occasional, collecting several authors we admire.
We accept about 1% of all submissions we review for publication——mostly because submitters aren't sending work that aligns with our interests. Take note, please: verse published and celebrated by the 'well-regarded' magazines would rarely receive a second glance from us. Please look over our library, purchase a book, or review previous online issues of the SHARKPACK Occasional before paying the fee to submit.
The Occasional will accept submissions through July,2025.
All love to you in yr pursuits, khed.
A few notes for SHARKPACK Occasional #8:
0: Ours is a print zine, with some online content; all work accepted will go to print. The poems the editor thinks best receive The Prospero Prize, including a $150 honorarium.
1. Most work in contemporary vogue is of no interest to us. We want the literature that remains frightfully alive, substantive, electric, forceful, abstruse. Neo-Gnostic texts. Submit accordingly.
2. Please limit your submission to no more than three (3) poems, or five (5) pages.
3. Please do not include a cover letter——your writing will live or die to us regardless of recommendation.
4. Please assure your contact information on submittable.com is accurate, and that some part of it (e-mail, telephone) will remain so for the next year.
5. Please send us a few of your best pieces; we promise to review them with great attention.
6. Do not feel bound by genre. Any experiment is heeded in this house.
We aim to reply within 30 days of this call's close——or August 1, 2025. Likely it'll be much quicker. Thank you kindly for your submission.