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Welcome to Shadow's Call!

Shadow’s Call is our free digital quarterly featuring short stories, essays, poetry, art, press news, reviews, interviews, profiles, and more. Sign up to get Shadow’s Call delivered right to your inbox. Find every Shadow’s Call in the archive.

Writers & Poets—Submissions to Shadow's Call are always free.

(The optional tip jar helps us keep it that way.)

Submit your work to be featured in the next Shadow’s Call Digital Quarterly, on our website, and across social media, reaching an estimated 18-20k potential readers.

Next call window: NOON EST January 30th - March 31st

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Readers & Reviewers - Share your thoughts!

(Starting February 2026)

Send us your well-written and thoughtful reviews, critiques, literary opinions, or a letter to the editor to be featured in Shadow’s Call, on our website, and across social media.

Pitches

(Starting February 2026)

Article Pitches

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Spotlight/Interview Pitches

We publish interviews and spotlights of poets, writers, and indie authors. Send us your spotlight or interview pitch.

Collaborations

Bloggers—Let's work together.

Reach out to us at editors@shadowdogpress.com to be a guest writer, with cross-posting opportunities, or if you have availability to host Shadow Dog Press poets and authors on blog tour.

Shadow’s Call is a partial replacement for a retiring publication (The SDL Review) that has been split into separate projects, including Shadow’s Call and SDL Anthologies.

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