On August 19th, during the literary journal HAD’s fifth anniversary submission call, the editors announced: “If anyone guesses the exact number of submissions we’ll get, we’ll let you guest edit a call.”

Tanya Žilinskas and I both guessed 537, the closest guess of anyone by a long shot, thereby winning the prize of co-hosting a submission call.

We consider that lucky! So the call theme is “LUCK.”

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of “prose” and 77 works of “poetry”.

• POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don’t go over this cap.
• PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece.
• Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under.
• Tanya Žilinskas will curate the “prose” submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the “poetry”.

All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

We expect submissions to reach capacity very quickly, and as such we suggest you set your alarms for 7pm (Eastern Time) this coming Tuesday.

Set your alarm clocks for 7pm Tuesday, then navigate here to throw your figurative hats in the metaphorical ring: https://havehashad.submittable.com/submit