SJVW Publications
2025 Anthology
The San Joaquin Valley Writers is pleased to announce the theme for its next anthology, to be published in the fall of 2025: Beginnings & Endings.
It is human nature to conceptualize the world consisting of beginnings and endings. This duality permeates almost everything we see, imagine, feel, and hope for. Beginnings and endings can be real and tangible such as birth and death, marriage and divorce, the first and last day of school. They can be metaphorical, perhaps not even visible, such as a thought that blinks into existence only to disappear just as quickly from someone’s mind, or a first impression of someone or something that changes over time. Beginnings and endings can be fast, sudden, or they can be slow, gradual. They can be far apart or blend into each other. Maybe a beginning is also an ending and vice versa. Send us your stories, memoirs, essays, or poetry in which a beginning and/or an ending takes center stage or is the background for something else. Show us the human experience through images, dialogue, verse, but no matter what, with beautiful words. And maybe, just maybe, show us a new take on beginnings and endings.
Submission information and guidelines can be found by clicking here.
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025.
Our 2023 anthology, Great Valley Stories, is available on Amazon. Just click on the book image or the Amazon button to purchase.
