The Museum of Americana - The Food Court

The Food Court, a special section we’re including in our fall Issue 31, will interrogate American traditions around food—its consumption as well as cultural and regional experience.  If you would like to submit, please use “Food Court” in the subject line of your submission.

Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, humor writing, poetry, and art will be read in the months of April, August, and December. Submissions in prose and poetry will be considered for both our regular issues and Americana Stories, featured weekly on our News & Features page. Submissions sent at any time other than April, August, and December will be deleted unread. Reviews, interviews, and music for American Songbook will be considered all year round.

The museum will not consider previously declined work or duplicate submissions to multiple departments.

the museum of americana is committed to diversity and inclusion. We strive to actively support marginalized writers and artists. We will not publish work that contains offensive language or images, and we will not consider pieces that contain misogyny, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, xenophobia, or bigotry of any kind. Work that promotes harmful stereotypes or viewpoints has no place at the museum.

the museum of americana accepts previously unpublished submissions of original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book/chapbook reviews, writer interviews, music, and art. We seek work that showcases, examines, or repurposes historical American culture. This is, of course, an enormous and diverse tub of spare parts, and we want to see what you can create. Give us fiction that dramatizes weird old folk songs or steals their characters. Give us love poetry that mixes language cribbed from The Federalist Papers with language from WWII propaganda posters. We want aspects of Americana we may not have even heard of yet.

Issues are scheduled to appear in February, June, and October.

To submit to the museum of americana, please include your last name, first name, and genre of submission in the subject of your email and send to the appropriate address.

Note that art submissions will be not be accepted by email, but through this form.

Editorial Inquiries: exec.ed.americana (at) gmail.com Fiction and Nonfiction: proseamericana (at) gmail.com Poetry: poetryamericana (at) gmail.com Humor: humoramericana (at) gmail.com American Songbook: music.themuseum (at) gmail.com Art: art.themuseum (at) gmail.com Interviews and Reviews: reviewsamericana (at) gmail.com