Tie Your Roots To Mine, an AAPI Adoptee Anthology
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Black Lawrence Press Open Call: AAPI Adoptee Poetry Anthology!
We’re seeking work from AAPI Adoptee Poets for a collection of poems featuring emerging + established poets across the US.
Tie Your Roots To Mine, an AAPI Adoptee Anthology will gather contemporary voices of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Adoptee Poetry to explore identity, ancestry, and the complexities of adoption. This collection offers a rare and necessary perspective on diaspora, family, and culture. Highlighting both established and emerging writers, we aim to create a space where grief, resilience, love, and transformation coexist. We are searching for poetry that bends form, breaks structure, and moves around the page.
We invite you to submit 2-3 poems, with no page or word limit, as well as a short statement (300-500 words) about your experience being an adoptee, your perspective of adoption, or your relationship to an AAPI identity. Both items will be featured in the publication!
We are accepting submissions until June 1st, 2026 with planned publication in May, 2028.
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Editors: Ani Jones, Nina Smilow
Ani Jones is a poet, editor, and workshop host in the Midwest. They hold a BA from the University of Cincinnati, and their first chapbook, Iris, debuted in October, 2023. They are a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee, and their poems can be seen inTiny Spoon Magazine and Auskleiden Magazine, among others.
Nina Smilow received an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA in Theatre from NYU Tisch. She is a writer of all genres and her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction can be seen in Literary Mama, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Porridge, and Pacifica Literary Review. She splits her time between New York and Portland, OR.
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Note: Should you be interested in reading work from AAPI authors in the BLP catalogue, select titles will be available for purchase at the end of this form. All available titles are discounted and come with free domestic shipping. Purchasing one ore more titles is optional.