Submissions now open!

Call for Submissions

In keeping with Night School Bar’s mission to create arts and humanities opportunities for all, we’re opening submissions for Adrift: Notes from Night School Bar. Adrift is a space for Night Schoolers to share work that’s in dialogue with thoughts and ideas encountered through Night School Bar. We’d love to see your favorite piece from one of our fiction workshops, a few hundred words reflecting on a concept from our classes, or an essay on some aspect of literature, politics, and culture you’re seeing in a new light because of NSB. Please note, contributors need to have studied with NSB or participated in NSB events in order to be accepted. 

Now more than ever, we believe that writing is a vital part of thinking together at Night School Bar. We welcome all experiences and levels of expertise; in fact, we need them for our work to be democratic, pluralistic, and meaningful. We hope Adrift will be a place where Night Schoolers can practice their craft, share ideas and arguments that matter to them, and learn as a community.

We’re looking for 500-3,000 words of…

  • Fiction (excerpts welcome!)

  • Essays 

  • Reviews of movies or books 

  • Transcripts of interviews on topics related to the arts and humanities

  • Standalone poems (double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman Font)

  • Reflections. Reflections can be a response to any Night School topic or course. Examples might be: “Why I’m Rethinking AI,” “The Problems with Romantic Love” or “My Experience With Relationship Anarchy.” Reflections can be academic or personal/experiential in nature.

We're seeking submissions as varied as the perspectives students bring to Night School Bar classes. If your work is a little longer or doesn't fit tidily into these categories, don't let that stop you from submitting. Please submit all work to editor.nightschoolbar@gmail.com as a pdf. Submissions should be in Times New Roman Font, size 12, double-spaced. Please include a header on your submission with your name, contact information, the category you’re submitting under (fiction, essay, poem, reflection), the NSB course or topic you’re responding to, and a title. Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis; all submissions received before midnight Nov. 22, 2025 will be prioritized for the first round of publication.

Here’s an example:

NAME: Michel Foucault

CONTACT INFO: michel.foucault@gmail.com

CATEGORY: Essay

Course or Topic: Liberation in the Age of Technocracy (specifically the idea of disciplinary surveillance)

TITLE: Emotional Surveillance in the Age of AI

Please email editor.nightschoolbar@gmail.com with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!