Call for Submissions: Indelible Issue 10 — Fermentation

Call for Submissions: Indelible Issue — Fermentation

‘By my very presence I crystallise; I am a ferment,’ Carl Jung

For our next issue, Indelible invites writers, artists, and thinkers to explore the theme of Fermentation — not only as a biological or chemical process, but as a metaphor for alchemy, hibernation, and slow transformation.

Fermentation marks that mysterious in-between state — where decay becomes creation, where rest turns to ripening, where something hidden within stirs into new life. Whether in the bubbling vat, the wintering soul, or the silent vessel of thought, fermentation is the unseen labor of change.

We welcome works that engage with:

• Alchemy and metamorphosis — the transmutation of base into luminous.
• Hibernation, incubation, and gestation — slow awakenings, ripening ideas, and suspended time.
• Spiritual and psychological ferment — crises that catalyse insight or renewal.
• Cultural, ecological, or political transformation — fermentation as resistance, reimagining, or healing.
• Literal or sensory fermentations — the tang of sourdough, the fizz of kombucha, the poetry of process.

Send us your poems, short fiction, hybrid essays, visual art, or other experimental forms that dwell in the liminal — where stillness births movement, and decomposition becomes re-creation.

Let your work ferment — and show us what grows in the quiet.

Deadline: February 28, 2026