Bellezine 2026 is now open for submissions!
Bellezine 2026 is open for submissions from BELLEVUE COLLEGE STUDENTS & ALUMNI ONLY in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Thank you for your patience while our small staff carefully considers each submission.
Past issues of Belletrist are available for purchase below.
Three cards on the table.
One story unfolding.
One card looks back, another reflects the present, the third imagines the future.
A tarot card deck is a set of 78 cards used for fortune-telling, divination, entertainment, reflection, and storytelling. The Fool begins. The Lovers choose. Death ends something so something else can begin.
For this issue of Bellezine, we are looking for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art inspired by the tarot framework of past, present, and future. Your work might resonate to a specific card or simply use tarot as a metaphor for time, memory, fate, or change.
The Past: What histories follow you? What lessons, myths, or wounds shaped the person you became?
The Present: What moment are you living inside right now?
The Future: What possibilities feel inevitable, uncertain, or desired?
We accept work in all genres and all languages. (Our most recent issue has creative work in Chinese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Thai, and Vietnamese—we aim to publish work that reflects the diverse body of multilingual students at Bellevue College.)
Submission deadline: March 31, 2026
Belletrist 6 features poetry and prose arrayed across a gorgeous full-color 36" X 54" calligram. Comes in a 40" mailing tube.
Price of $24 includes tax and cost of shipping.
Featuring new work from Hattie Jean Hayes, K-Ming Chang, Rachel Karyo, Samantha Mueller, Jhanvi Ramaiya, Robert Boucheron, and Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, this issue measures 7 inches tall by 33 feet long, with each piece published on a single line! Ships in an 8.5-inch tube.
Price of $21 includes tax and cost of shipping.