Call for submissions: Love Loves Our Loving

March 5, 2025

Revolutionary love is required in times of deep war. This can be an act of resistance and surrender.

Deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

The League invites submissions of poetry that reflect the theme “Love Loves Our Loving” for publication in a forthcoming chapbook, edited by Tawhida Tanya Evanson.

Send us your poems of radical love, longing, mystical union, ecstatic connection, friendship, faith, flesh, romance and the beauty of the oceanic heart. Remind us that love is a transformer.

Submission guidelines

  • Submissions are open to members and non-members of the League
  • Submissions may consist of one to three poems in any style (including prose poems)
  • Poems must be previously unpublished (print or online)
  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if the piece gets accepted elsewhere
  • Poems may be in English or French; submissions in other languages are welcome, although we may reach out for translation help
  • Length is flexible, though poems longer than 2 pages will be considered only if they are of exceptional quality; poems longer than 4 pages cannot be considered
  • Selected poets will receive a $25 honorarium per selected poem
  • Deadline: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Submit to Love Loves Our Loving

About Tawhida Tanya Evanson


Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet, novelist, artist and Ashiq known for her work blending poetry, orality, music and multimedia. Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, she performs internationally, has produced five audio recordings, six short films and the award-winning Afrofuturist concert film CYANO SUN SUITE, which premiered in 2024. Evanson has two published poetry collections and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Prize. Her French autotranslation Livre des ailes was published in 2023. Evanson’s work explores themes of African diasporic identity and Sufi spirituality, and she has received acclaim at home and abroad for her captivating performances and unique approach to poetry. She produces multimedia events as Mother Tongue Media, is recognized for her role as director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word program and is current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.