**To participate in OF ZOOS Issue 15, check in with the hammerhead shark in 2027/2028.**
THE HERON DELIVERS ISSUE 14 — NO THANKS BUT THANKS, MAY 2026
Welcoming OF ZOOS Issue14 — NO THANKS BUT THANKS, the “dustbin” issue of rejects that looks for writing that doesn’t behave: the misfit, the over-sharer, the try-hard, the draft that spiraled, the reject-rebel, the bad bitch, the thing that was too weird / too soft / too honest / too hard to explain. In a literary ecosystem where work is often subject to institutitional (and individual) evaluation and sorting, we were humbled to be able to consider and publish some of your most vulnerable works: a contact page with a mind of its own, an obsession with gummy worms, a biopoetic experiment of 262,144 texts put to chess, and other raw-and-smelly adventures.
Thank you, contributors, for generously collaborating with us, and for sustaining and inspiring us for more than a decade. We appreciate you all dearly. Announcement: we will be taking a little break next year and hope to return in 2027 (or 2028) with our next call for submissions, so stay tuned!