This series makes room for drafts, excerpts, process notes, images, reflections, and creative questions that deserve a place to land.

Selected contributors will be invited to share their work alongside a short interview focused on their artistic process: how the work began, what shaped it, and what it means to hold something while it is still unfinished.

While Shared Drafts issues primarily focus on writing, The Draft Drawer is about process in many forms.

You can submit a photograph that feels imperfect, a piece of art you’ve been working on for months, a few lines of writing you haven’t finished yet, a notebook page, a sketch, a voice note, or a short video reflecting on your creative process and what you wish others understood about it.

This space is meant to hold the work that is still becoming — the fragments, experiments, questions, attempts, and unfinished pieces that may not fit neatly into a formal issue.

The Draft Drawer exists as a reminder that the process is the point.

Submissions to The Draft Drawer are periodic, which means the form will not always be open. It will reopen during select windows throughout the year, creating seasonal opportunities to share work that is still becoming.

When the submission period is open, you can submit using the button on this page.

Please note that because this is a small seasonal series, not every submission will be featured. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and selected works may be shared on Shared Drafts’ Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, newsletter, or website with credit.