About

What: Founded in 2005 with the mission of putting literature and art on the streets, Broadsided publishes visual-literary collaborations as free posters for anyone to download and print. Special features punctuate the regular publications.

From 2005 – 2023, we published monthly.  In 2023, we moved to biannual folios of 6 – 10 broadsides published in Spring and Fall.  Each collaboration is accompanied by a Q&A with the writer and artist, allowing them to talk about art, inspiration, and how this experience has impacted them (they also give recommendations for books, art, and sometimes creative prompts!).

How: Writing is chosen from open submissions.  Art is created by a pool of contributing artists who “dibs” selected writing and create a visual response.  Distribution is managed by you, the grass-roots “Vectors” who print the letter-sized pdfs and post them in your neighborhoods.

Why: We want to foster creative connection between the arts and help you put words and art on the streets of your communities.

Submit/Contact/Support

We’d love to consider your writing.  Please see our Submission Guidelines.

We are on social media (Instagram: @broadsidedpress, Facebook: @broadsided) of course, and we’d love to hear from you.  You can also email us at broadsided@gmail.com

Broadsided Press is classified as a public charity with tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). By donating to Broadsided Press you are making a charitable contribution tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Broadsided Press EIN: 87-3187430

Donate now using the form on our Support page or through the Broadsided Press Give Lively donation page.

Here. Now.

Broadsided is equal parts traditional literary journal (seeking the best submissions of short work), ekphrastic without-a-net innovation (neither artist nor writer have input on the final product), and grassroots guerilla activism (you get the work out on the streets).

• Through the “Collaborators’ Q&A” we lift the curtain on the creative process behind each publication and offer artist and writer a chance to respond to their experience (this is the first time they are in touch).
• At “Broadsided Responds” we offer a space where artists are featured as first responders to questions or issues of our moment.
• Our “Teach” section offers inspiration and practical nuts-and-bolts lesson plans for any who wish to use our (free!) publications in the classroom.
• “Reviews/Broadsides to Books” brings you reviews of books by writers we’ve published.
• “News” collects all calls for submission, folio announcements, and, well, news!

History

Before paperbacks and pocket books, before blogs, there were broadsides.

Every day, we walk past billboards for shops and car dealers, for churches and insurance, but our streets, our daily lives among each other, are missing something. They’re missing thought. Dialogue. Opinion. Ideas.

Loosely defined as single sheets of paper printed on one side, broadsides were the most diverse form of brief, single-occasion publishing before the Civil War. Although broadsides were first introduced in England, they became a prime means of communication in the United States.

Announcements, advertisements, song lyrics, commentaries, cartoons, and poems were printed and posted in towns across the nation. Later, Harlem Renaissance, Concrete, and Beat writers claimed the broadside as a below-the-radar way to get their words out onto the streets. We want to continue the tradition.

Editors/Masthead

Elizabeth Bradfield, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, is the author of SOFAR (forthcoming, August 2025), Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, Approaching Ice, and Interpretive Work and co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry. She also collaborated with the artist Antonia Contro to create Theorem. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Sun, and elsewhere (www.ebradfield.com). Liz, who lives on Cape Cod, divides her time between work as a naturalist and teaching Creative Writing at Brandeis University. Why Broadsided? Well, the idea of literary/visual collaboration has always fired her up. Also, it was pretty hard to put your hands on a literary journal in Anchorage, where she was living when she dreamed up the project. She wants poems out in the world, escaping their perfect-bound covers.

Alexandra Teague, Senior Editor, is the author of the novel The Principles Behind Flotation, the essay collection Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir, and four books of poetry—[ominous music intensifying], Or What We’ll Call Desire, The Wise and Foolish Builders, and Mortal Geography, winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and 2010 California Book Award. She is also co-editor, with Brian Clements and Dean Rader, of the  anthology Bullets into Bells:  Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence in the U.S. The recipient of a Stegner Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Alexandra is a Professor in the MFA program at University of Idaho.  Alexandra joined the Broadsided editorial team in 2010.

Millian Giang Pham, Arts Editor, is an artist and educator based in Alabama. She works with text, images, objects, installations, and performances. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in Canada, Pakistan, Korea, and across the United States. She holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Florida. She currently teaches foundations art as an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Auburn University.  Millian joined Broadsided as an artist in 2018 and became Arts Editor in 2022.

Miller Oberman, Editor, is the author of The Unstill Ones and Impossible Things. He completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Connecticut in 2017, where he studied trans-temporal poetics, translation theory, and Old English poetry. Miller teaches writing at Eugene Lang College in New York City, and his poems and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Poetry, the Boston Review, and Tin House. Miller teaches poetry workshops with Brooklyn Poets, and lives in upstate New York with his wife, rock singer Louisa Solomon of The Shondes. Miller joined the editorial team in 2018.

Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of five books of poetry that have been awarded gold in Forward Indies and Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His other honors include being finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature. His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. Currently he teaches poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Rajiv joined the editorial team in 2023.

Michelle Moncayo is a Dominican/Ecuadorian poet in New Jersey. Her work explores diaspora, queer identity, and mental/physical illness. Her chapbook, Here on this 76L is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. She graduated with her MFA from Randolph College in 2024. She is the recipient of a 2020 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She has received fellowships from SPACE at Ryder Farm, Vermont Studio Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and CantoMundo. Her poetry has appeared in Até Mais: An Anthology of Latinx Futurisms, Bodega Magazine, Broadsided Press, Palette Poetry, Ninth Letter, and Acentos Review. Michele joined the editorial team in 2022.

John A. Nieves, “Teach” Editor, has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: North American Review, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, Harvard Review and Massachusetts Review. He won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry. He received his M.A. from University of South Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. John joined the Broadsided editorial team in 2022.

Megan Tan, Design Team, is a junior at Brandeis University studying film and creative writing and hopes to one day work in TV/Film development. During her spare time, she works at her college radio station, WBRS, as the business director while also hosting her own music show. She is eternally grateful for the support of her parents and dog who currently live in Ohio.  Megan joined the Broadsided editorial team in 2023.

Autumn Bellan, Communications/Outreach.  Autumn is a poet and visual artist working in public relations, communications, and media in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the recipient of the 2023 Ramon Feliciano Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has been published by the Academy of American Poets and Laurel Moon Magazine. Autumn joined the Broadsided editorial team in 2023.