All the Lives We Ever Lived Anthology 2025-2026 | Vol 7
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Any participants who have taken Lighthouse classes in any of our adult community engagement programming (either in-house, online, or off-site) from August 2025 through August 14, 2026 are welcome to submit one piece of prose or a set of poems up to five pages for the sixth installment of our annual anthology, All the Lives We Ever Lived. Please ensure that your submission to the Anthology meets the following guidelines:
- Font: EB Garamond (Normal text, not bolded)
- Text Size: 12 point
- Line Spacing: 1.3
- Page Margins: 1 inch all around
- Page Size: 5.5 inch (width) x 8.5 inch (height) Please submit as a .doc or .docx (to make in-document commenting easier).
- Make sure your name is on the document and that the document has page numbers.
Contributors are also welcome to make a copy of and use this template for their submission which will help our editors ensure submitted pieces maintain their original line breaks and structure. If you do not use this template or follow the required format listed above, we cannot guarantee that your piece will look as originally intended.
If you took a Lighthouse class in any of the following programming, please continue on to submit a piece for publication:
- Hard Times (any location)
- Writing in Color Meetup
- 2026 Writing in Color Fest
- Queer Creatives Meetup
- 2025 Queer Creatives Fest
- Writing with Cancer (at Lighthouse and/or UCHealth)
- Rocky Mountain Regional VA Veterans Workshops
- Writing with Cancer
- Writing for Wellness Series (multi-week and/or one-day classes)
- Write to Connect
- Spanish Creative Writing Workshops with the Denver Public Library
- Member Last Look and Writing Workshop at the Clyfford Still Museum
- Drop-In Writing at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center
- Berthoud Literary Festival Writing Workshop with Lighthouse
Work must have been written or started in one of the Lighthouse Community Engagement workshops listed above, between August 2025 and August 14, 2026. If you're unsure about your eligibility to submit, please contact info@lighthousewriters.org and we'll be happy to assist you.
We will not accept submissions that discriminate against others, contain gratuitous violence, or plagiarize existing pieces. We also ask that writers include content warnings on their pieces, which can be indicated in our submission portal.
Please note, we will only be accepting one submission per person. We cannot guarantee that all submitted pieces will be included in the final anthology.
You can expect to hear back from a Lighthouse staff member within one month after the submission deadline to confirm receipt and next steps. Please email info@lighthousewriters.org with any questions.
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