VOICES is a yearly anthology produced by Cold River Press. Launched in 2013 as Sacramento Voices, an anthology that featured only Sacramento regional writers, it soon grew to encompass an international community of writers, changing its name to VOICES in 2020.
 

VOICES 2025

VOICES 2025 is open for submissions. Send in your poetry, prose, essay,
short fiction, flash fiction, photographs, artwork, and collage for our next
issue of collective Zeitgeist and Creativity.

This year's theme, MYSTICISM, PROPHECIES & MARIGOLDS is sure to
inspire a unique take on how we view our world, our times, and our place in
history; nationally, worldly, and cosmic, not forgetting, of course, our place
in the afterlife found in the myths, and religions, throughout time.

Marigolds have long been known as the "herb of the sun" and are believed to
have spiritual significance in providing protection against negative energies.
Symbolizing purity, divinity, and the connection between life and death,
they are often used in death rituals in many cultures throughout the world.

Size of the publication is 8.5" x 8.5"