A future imagined from the ground — through land, labor, memory, and forms of life thought to be past.
— rooted, speculative, alive —
Peasant Futurism is a way of imagining and making futures from the ground: through land, labor, memory, and forms of life often dismissed as past.
It begins from a simple but radical realignment: the peasant is not obsolete. Peasant lifeways carry knowledge about how to live with land, with limits, with others — human and nonhuman.
“What happens when those ways of knowing are taken seriously as sites of futurity?”
Although peasants are often relegated to the past, today more than 2 billion peasants, small-scale farmers, and rural workers sustain the world's food systems — a reality affirmed by global movements such as La Vía Campesina.
This anthology gathers writing and art that engage Peasant Futurism as a living, evolving field of practice.
Short stories and longer narratives that imagine, distort, or insist.
In any tradition or form — translations welcomed and paid.
Essay, memoir, lyric reportage, field notes from a future.
Photography, drawing, painting, mixed media — in print and online.
Forms that don't fit. We are particularly drawn to the strange.
Submissions may be speculative or grounded, narrative or fragmentary. Imagine futures, or reveal the ones already unfolding.
Submissions don't need to engage all of these — even one is enough. They are not categories, only directions of attention.
We read submissions from any country and welcome originals in any language alongside English translations. Translators paid the same rates.
we read everything.
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Literary writer, poet, playwright, and author of book chapters and online courses on Peasant Futurism. This anthology gathers works that extend, inhabit, and challenge the field's emerging possibilities.
Published as a print book and accompanied by an online platform featuring curated images, video, and digital art.