+5 Open Call Announcement + Our June Favorites
Open Call Announcement + Our June Favorites
New season, new submissions! To celebrate the summer solstice we’re opening submissions for all mediums under the theme Nautical:
We want all your work maritime, oceanic, and seafaring. We want to hear about marine life, the ancestry of sea navigation, the mythos of seagoing people and aquatic mysteries of the deep. We want your coastal lullabies and the art you’ve strung together from the treasures you picked along the seashore.
We accept poetry, creative writing, art, photography, columns, essays, music, and essentially any other form of human creativity. You can learn more & submit your work via the submissions form once the open call has begun on our Submissions page.
To kick off our open call, we thought we’d share a few of our nautical favorites to help you get inspired (including a few pieces published right here on The Hyacinth Review!)
Submissions will open for all mediums on June 21st and will close on July 1st. We look forward to seeing your amazing work!
P.S. – Our newsletter subscribers receive early access to submissions, so be sure to sign up!
Music
Film
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1960)
Titanic (1997)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Ponyo (2008)
From Up On Poppy Hill (2011)
Moana (2016)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Surf’s Up (2007)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Luca (2021)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Literature
[Titles denoted with an asterisk* lead to free public domain copies of the text.]
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Little Mermaid – Hans Christan Andersen *
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas *
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
Persuasion – Jane Austen *
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
The Young Woman and the Sea – Catherine Meurisse
Migrations – Charlotte McConaghy
The Girl in the Mirror – Rose Carlyle
The Light Between Oceans– M.L Stedman
The Last True Poets of the Sea– Julia Drake
House of Salt and Sorrows– Erin A. Craig
Skin of the Sea– Natasha Bowen
Poetry
Serenade by Oscar Wilde
By The Sea by Emily Dickinson
Song Of The Sea by Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnet. On The Sea by John Keats
A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
The Mermaid – Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Ocean– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Open Water– Ada Limón
The Ocean of Song– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Fisher’s Boy– Henry David Thoreau
The Sea– Pablo Neruda
From The Hyacinth Review
Christmas Aotearoa – Elizabeth Barton
Sea Grass Supplication – Katherine Quevedo
The Andrea Doria – Kathleen Aponick
Reflections On A Clear Night – Kris Spencer
Ode To The Light On The Sea At High Tide – Kris Spencer
Elements: Los Angeles – Lynda Skeen
