This year’s Open Submissions Period for Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore closes today. All submissions made between April 15 and June 15, 2025 will receive a response in July. Accepted submissions will be published in August 2025. 

This was the fourth Open Submissions Period for Nobody’s Home. The project was founded in 2020, and four reading periods were held within a year’s time, from the latter half of 2020 through the first half of 2021. Subsequently, unsolicited submissions have been read during an Open Submissions Period in the spring, with accepted works published each summer. 

Today, Nobody’s Home features more than fifty essays that discuss a variety of beliefs, myths, and narratives that have affected or have arisen from Southern culture since 1970. In addition, the project offers secondary-education lesson plans for English and Social Studies classrooms, suggestions for documentaries about Southern culture, and Groundwork, the editor’s blog.