Announcing the next issue of The Rebis
Call for submissions + our special guest editor ✨
Hello to subscribers old and new!
The Rebis is emerging from a season of creative rest after publishing the last issue — it’s time to get to work on the third anthology!
For folks new here, a quick summary: we’re a unique print publication dedicated to exploring the relationship between tarot and creativity through original art, essays, fiction, and poetry. Each issue brings a diverse group of artists and writers together to explore a single card. The first issue covers the Wheel of Fortune and the second explores The Chariot — there are still copies of both issues available (but we’re on our final ~25 copies of the Wheel and we likely won’t be doing a re-print, so get ‘em before they’re gone!). These are archival-quality anthologies exploring the psychology, mythology, spirituality, and artistic beauty of tarot. The Rebis is grounded in principles of art-making during times of crisis and redistributes profits to social justice orgs (to date, we’ve been able to donate $4800).
Submissions are open!
The next installment of The Rebis will focus on The Star (XVII), and submissions are currently open! Please read the full submission guidelines here. The deadline to pitch/propose your work is April 26.
We’re looking for original writing, artwork, and any other form of creative expression that you dream up inspired by the seventeenth card of the Major Arcana. Submissions do not have to specifically address or define the card, but should be inspired by your personal relationship to this archetype. We encourage you to take an imaginative, deconstructionist lens with your work. Our readers want to be delighted and surprised; they want to learn something new and discover diverse perspectives.
Some themes we’ve been contemplating include radical hope, faith, existential resilience, emergent thinking, restorative justice, world re-building, nonduality, spiritual ecology, cyborgs, futurism, ethical technology, and posthumanism. We also invite contributors to integrate symbolism from related cards, including (but not limited to) Strength, The Tower, and the other celestial bodies.
The Rebis is especially interested in experimental and genre-bending writing (creative non-fiction, short stories, or flash fiction) for this issue. Speculative fiction, personal memoirs, researched essays, and poetry are welcome, too. For artwork, anything suitable for print publication is welcome (photography, illustrations, paintings, comics/graphic stories, digital art, collage art, etc.) — but we also appreciate multimedia work that weaves print and digital into an immersive and/or interactive experience.
We’d love to see pitches incorporating multiple collaborators — art and writing that pair together, dual bylines, an epistolary project, etc. If you’re unsure whether your concept is right for The Rebis, email us with your ideas and we can try to bring them to life. We love to workshop with contributors!
This is a paid opportunity. Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested in contributing. New voices and underrepresented writers and artists are encouraged to get in touch.
Submissions are open until April 26, 2024. Contributor decisions will be made around the first week of May, and first drafts will be due the first week of June.
Meet our guest editor for The Star
We are beyond excited to announce that
will be joining as guest editor for this anthology. Charlie is a queer and trans-nonbinary writer and artist working at the intersection of tarot, spirituality, and queerness. They are the creator of the Fifth Spirit Tarot and the new Gay Marseille Tarot decks (highly recommend!!) and the author of Radical Tarot: Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future, an essential text for anyone interested in expanding their tarot practice.As guest editor, Charlie will support contributor selection and the editing process, helping to weave many different voices together within the tapestry of our anthology. While they’re working on this project, you can subscribe to their Substack or follow them on Instagram for updates on their work — Charlie’s second book, Queer Devotion: Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice, is forthcoming from Hay House in 2025!
On a personal note: I was deeply inspired by Charlie’s book, as well as their article “A Year of Strength, Hope, and Devotion,” which connects The Star (1+7) with our Strength year (2+0+2+4) numerologically. In it, they write, “The Star and Strength both model openness, radical acceptance, and courageous vulnerability.”
Openness, acceptance, and vulnerability: these are themes that have come up for me again and again and again over the last few years. Staying open, staying hopeful, as darkness descends, as dense clouds of uncertainty grow thick. Staying open, staying hopeful, despite witnessing the harrowing pain of multiple genocides overseas. As our reproductive rights get stripped away in our own country. As trans and nonbinary kids experience increasing violence. As social media becomes more sinister and extractive. As society fractures in devastating new ways.
In Radical Tarot, Charlie writes, “Hope is revealed through the ashes of experience. Hope is a seed that only germinates in fire. Hope is the defiant riot of life that grows in the ashes of destruction, that grows despite the knowledge that it may burn again — or that it must burn again, one day, inevitably, for the next world to sprout. And sprout it will, despite the sickle, despite the stomping feet, despite the drought and the flood. Hope is a rooted thing, and it grows towards the stars.”
This is the spirit of The Star. I can’t wait to see where it leads us.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Hannah
Editor-in-Chief, The Rebis
Oooh this is so exciting Hannah! I've just submitted my pitch ✨
Incredible! I've been guided by The Star through a medical issue all 2024. I can't wait to submit a pitch.