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We currently welcome submissions of poems, reviews, and multimedia art. Please send only one submission at a time.

We do not consider previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please reach out if your work has been picked up elsewhere. Work that has used AI will not be considered.

We welcome and encourage writers of all backgrounds to submit. Antechamber has a hardline policy against exploitative work, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination of all forms.

We aim to respond in 6-8 weeks, though time frames may vary due to the number of submissions.

We want work that has a cutting edge, which invites us to pass from one room into another. We admire writers who advance their own theory and practice of poetics, who do not shy away from the difficult or uncertain.

Be risky. Be ambitious. Be excellent.

Email submissions of no more than 5 pages to antechamber.inquiry@gmail.com

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Temperance Aghamohammadi is an Acolyte of the Exquisite. A trans Iranian-American poet, medium, and critic, she is the author of BATTALION SHAPED GIRL and Behnt, selected by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of The New Delta Review Chapbook Prize. Her work appears in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. Hailing from the Northeast, she currently haunts the Midwest. 

temperanceaghamohammadi.com

Co-Editor In Chief

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Robin Seiler lives in Chicago and attends Northwestern University’s MFA + MA program. Her poetry and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in RHINO Magazine, Allium, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Her poem “What It Is” was a finalist for the 2026 RHINO Founders' Prize.

Co-Editor In Chief

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