Saint Paul Almanac

Saint Paul Almanac Saint Paul Almanac is a literary arts organization. We tell and share stories across cultures.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!The Saint Paul Almanac Anthology Volume 15 is open for submissions! We want work that is fresh and ...
09/03/2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

The Saint Paul Almanac Anthology Volume 15 is open for submissions! We want work that is fresh and dynamic, and work that offers a unique perspective on our lives, our communities, and the richness of our many cultures and connections in the Twin Cities and around Minnesota.

Saint Paul Almanac wants to amplify YOUR voice! We welcome a wide range of topics in the form of fiction, personal essays, short memoir, and poems that are told from the slant of your own experience. We welcome a range of emotions, from humor to outrage and from sorrow to celebration, and themes that vary from struggle to triumph. Our group of community editors look for work that makes us think, moves us, or surprises us, and we're especially interested in those voices that are often missing.

We're seeking work from YOU, those who are living in the Twin Cities and around Minnesota from the following communities and movements: BIPOC writers across generations, disabled writers, trans writers, social justice activists/writers, writers engaged in social movements, writers experiencing homelessness, writers encountering food insecurity, writers who are immigrants, writers who are refugees, writers from marginalized groups, and visionary writers who can articulate how disparate communities can work together to create harmony and unity in a discordant world.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
We accept only blind submissions so please read the guidelines carefully.
We recommend that you check out the digital magazine to see what types of stories we have published: Saint Paul Almanac-The Magazine | literary arts magazine https://www.saintpaulalmanac-themagazine.org
or access work on our website: https://saintpaulalmanac.org

You may submit one work of prose and up to three poems, but only the best piece will be accepted for publication. Therefore, we will accept only one poem or one prose piece per writer.

All submissions must be previously unpublished and not created by using AI. Any work created by using AI will be disqualified and removed.

For full guidelines, go to: https://saintpaulalmanac.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS to THE MAGAZINE—FALL 2026, Issue 3! AMERICAN DREAM(ING). What is your reality? We are look...
09/01/2026

CALL FOR ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS to THE MAGAZINE—FALL 2026, Issue 3!

AMERICAN DREAM(ING). What is your reality?

We are looking for artwork to illustrate our call for meditations, stories and poems. Be a witness for change by offering your artwork to accompany the written work. This unprecedented time must be documented. Let’s gather our collective voice so we can connect and sustain our unique, diverse, and vibrant communities.
The phrase "the American Dream" means the core belief that any person, no matter where they start in life, can achieve success, safety, and a better future through hard work and fairness. It is rooted in the idea of basic rights like freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

Do you believe you have achieved the dream? Are you optimistic that you will? Or, has this dream been “deferred?” Is it a positive force that inspires hope or is it a negative force that promotes systemic failures and extreme materialism?

This is the call:
We want to see artwork from YOU, from those living in the Twin Cities and around Minnesota, as we respond to what American Dream(ing) means to you today.

Submit 1 or 2 works of art. These can be drawings, paintings, photographs, or collages that are previously unpublished in any medium, including social media, and have not been exhibited for the public. Please include the name of the artwork submitted. All submissions must be not created by using AI. IMPORTANT:

Submission format should be JPEG or PNG at 300 dpi and no larger than 3-5 inches.

SEND YOUR ART SUBMISSIONS TO:
[email protected]

JOIN US!Saint Paul Almanac (SPA) is seeking apprentices for its notable Community Editor Apprenticeship. This apprentice...
08/27/2026

JOIN US!

Saint Paul Almanac (SPA) is seeking apprentices for its notable Community Editor Apprenticeship. This apprenticeship is the only project in Minnesota that is designed to teach an equity-focused, democratic editorial process. Our editorial process offers an opportunity for apprentices to acquire professional editing skills by learning to evaluate submissions and to edit manuscripts selected for publication in the SPA Almanac anthology. SPA’s community editor apprentices come from wide-ranging backgrounds, spanning age, ethnicity, language, gender identity, and socio-economic status. Our editorial process offers experiential learning to apprentices who want to learn editing and want to pursue a publishing career. After participating in our project, several community editor apprentices gained entry-level positions and served as fellows in Twin Cities’ publishing houses.

Apprenticeship Timeline
Eight in-person sessions will occur on Saturdays, September 26 – November 14, 2026 from 1:00 -4:00 p.m.

Apprentices who successfully undertake the project will earn $1,000.00 and a certificate of satisfactory completion at the end of the project for their active involvement in the group editorial process.

APPLY NOW!
Applications open on August 13 and close on September 10, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

For project details and application: https://saintpaulalmanac.org/projects/community-editor-apprenticeship/

DEBRA FRASIER is the author and illustrator of many award-winning picture books including On the Day You Were Born and M...
08/27/2026

DEBRA FRASIER is the author and illustrator of many award-winning picture books including On the Day You Were Born and Miss Alaineus, A Vocabulary Disaster. In addition to her well- known talks on creative process, Debra’s innovative “Book Events” build a community’s creativity through projects that start with a story. Learn how a parade of words can make you laugh, how the alphabet can transform a school carnival into a Word Event, or how a talking dog can make your heart swell and teach first-person writing at the same time! “I collected pictures of the alphabet letters found on signs at the Minnesota State Fair. One day I was looking at my giant collection and said, “Wow. These letters are beautiful. Could I turn them into a book?” That’s now the book, A Fabulous Fair Alphabet.”

A Minnesota author and illustrator, she is the founder of the Alpha¬bet Forest, the only permanent literacy activity area at state fairs in the United States.

Support our writers! Purchase our books at: https://saintpaulalmanac.org/store/

KAO KALIA YANG is a Hmong American teacher, speaker, and writer. Her work crosses audiences and genres. She is the award...
08/25/2026

KAO KALIA YANG is a Hmong American teacher, speaker, and writer. Her work crosses audiences and genres. She is the award-winning author of the memoirs, The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, Somewhere in the Unknown World, and Where Rivers Part. Yang co-edited the groundbreaking book, What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. She is a librettist for The Song Poet Opera (commissioned by Minnesota Opera).

Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA literary awards, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, as Notable Books by the American Library Association, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and garnered seven Minnesota Book Awards.

She is the Star Tribune’s 2024 Artist of the Year. She holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Carleton College and is a McKnight, Soros, and Guggenheim fellow.

Support our writers! Purchase our books at: https://saintpaulalmanac.org/store/

TODAY'S THE DAY!Make plans to be at the Midwest Black Book Fair!This inaugural fair will be happening at the University ...
08/22/2026

TODAY'S THE DAY!
Make plans to be at the Midwest Black Book Fair!

This inaugural fair will be happening at the University of Minnesota Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) at 2001 Plymouth Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411.

Join us in celebrating this noteworthy event that will showcase a vast literary landscape consisting of Minnesota's Black writers, illustrators, publishers, readers, librarians, literary-centered organizations and more.

Proudly Saint Paul Almanac works hand-in-hand with a grand host of colleagues and friends who gladly serve a gifted and talented literary community.

SEE YOU THERE!

TOMORROW’S THE DAY!The inaugural Midwest Black Book Fair will be at the University of Minnesota Research and Outreach-En...
08/21/2026

TOMORROW’S THE DAY!

The inaugural Midwest Black Book Fair will be at the University of Minnesota Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC), 2001 Plymouth Avenue, North, Minneapolis, MN 55411.

Join Saint Paul Almanac in celebrating this noteworthy event that will showcase a vast literary landscape consisting of Minnesota’s Black writers, illustrators, publishers, readers, librarians, literary-centered organizations, etc.

Since 2027, Arcata Press | Saint Paul Almanac has championed the works of Black poets, writers, illustrators, and oral historians, particularly those of the Rondo community: Debra Stone; Tish Jones; Donte Collins; Dr. Margaret Lovejoy; Robin Hickman; Ta-coumba Aiken; Dr. Mahmoud Kati; Anura Si-Asar; former St. Paul Police Chief Bill “Corky” Finney; and world renown author, pioneering photojournalist, and photographer Gordon Parks (11/30/1912 – 3/7/2006), among many other voices that are often diminished, unrecognized, or unknown.

Proudly, Saint Paul Almanac works hand and hand with a grand host of colleagues and friends who gladly serve a gifted and talented literary community!

We will see you there on Saturday!

On Saturday, August 22, 2026, 12 – 5 PM, the inaugural Midwest Black Book Fair will occur at the University of Minnesota...
08/20/2026

On Saturday, August 22, 2026, 12 – 5 PM, the inaugural Midwest Black Book Fair will occur at the University of Minnesota Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC), 2001 Plymouth Avenue, North, Minneapolis, MN 55411.

At 1:00 PM, Debra Stone, a Saint Paul Almanac published writer, will discuss her notable debut middle-grade historical novel, The House on Rondo with author, composer, and musician Davu Seru, the Curator of the Givens Collection of American Literature.

Join Saint Paul Almanac at this historic event!
See you there!

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