Monthly Roundup: January
Find Solum at the Cultivate Retreat in Greenville, SC
Welcome to the January installment of Solum’s Monthly Roundup, where you receive worthy updates on current publications and announcements from within Solum’s scope and surrounding circles. We hope to keep these installments brief, relevant, and curious for your mid-week review.
Monthly Book Giveaway
Every month, Solum will be giving away a reader-selected book or journal to one of our paid subscribers. For the month of January, Not My Real Name Either is the winner of a free Solum publication. Congratulations! Please check your email for more information about your new Solum book.
New Patronage Opportunities
Besides the Monthly Book Giveaways, paid subscriptions also get you access to Featured Guest Essays and Paid Subscriber Workshops. Consider upgrading your subscription today to help continue the work of Solum Press!
Find Solum at the 2026 Cultivate Retreat with The Way Back to Ourselves!
We are thrilled to announce that our Solum masthead will be hosting a publishing workshop at the upcoming Cultivate 2026 Retreat, from June 19th-21st in Greenville, SC. This retreat will be a wonderful opportunity to fellowship with other writers and gain valuable insights into the publishing process. Not only that, but our dear friends from The Clayjar Review will be hosting a workshop as well! We would love to see you all there. Thank you so much to Kimberly Phinney for this lovely opportunity!
Are you or your literary organization attending as well? Let us know in the comments below! We would love to meet as many people from our Solum community as possible.
Keep Watch for Solum’s 2026 Publications!
We have a sneaky suspicion that 2026 is going to be a heavy hitting year for Solum. The books we have slotted for this year venture into new and established genres for us, and feature authors we are very proud to be affiliated with. Keep watch for these incredible titles, coming to your own libraries soon.
Solum Monthly Feature
Sadly, we don’t have a Solum Monthly Feature to share with you this month. Take this as a prompting to polish off some of your pieces to be featured in February!
Submit to the Next Solum Monthly Feature
Solum is always accepting submissions for our future Solum Monthly Feature posts, such as the one you’re reading here. Each month there will be a new opportunity for one of your poems, short stories, essays, homilies, or visual art to be featured. Your piece will be followed by an artist statement, and if applicable, your Substack page will be invited to collaborate on the post.
The submission guidelines follow the same parameters as listed on our website here.
To be considered, please email emma.winchell@solumpress.com with your selected pieces, and include Solum Monthly Feature [Month] as the title of the email. We look forward to sharing your craft with our community!
That is so exciting about your participation with Clayjar at the Cultivate retreat!