Address Rants and Raves submissions to Editor Nabila Lovelace:



Send us what you are excited about. Rants & Raves is looking for critical & contextual works on books, just as we did before, but also we are expanding on that option! We are in search of pieces that meditate on works that bring out particular passions for you!



Is there a single poem that you would like to blare through a megaphone at all the strangers & loved ones in your community if given a chance? Is there a single song that you can’t get out your head & wish you could talk about with every car that speeds by? Is there a train that you hear daily & absolutely wish didn’t wake you up everyday? Is there a bird you witness in flight that transports you elsewhere? This is where those individual moments that move you shine.



We’re looking for (800 words or less) insights into moments that particularly move you. Is there one instance of an Allen Iverson crossover that you’re still hung up on? Which frame in the Rihanna “Work” video do you still have as a gif in your notes app? What about that one daffodil creeping into sprout on your sidewalk cracks? We’re open for you!

Honey Literary’s essay section strives to overcome white-centered essay innards and overhaul stuffy heteronormative infrastructure. Let us listen to intuitive knowledge held by QTPOC bodies and lavish in it, let us carve space for our joy.



Essays demand exploration and reevaluation both internally and externally: a rewriting of history, literary canon, anything awaiting reconciliation and reclamation. Honey is hungry for intimately researched essays that break stylistic boundaries, mix medias, and queer the rules. We crave essays with elements of the poetic and the vulnerable, with liminality and hybridity ready to be consumed. We want some campy queer aestheticism to shake us to the core.