Announcements
Not renewal. Not rebirth. After.
Sunday Service is will be accepting submissions for its debut issue. We are interested in work that remains with what comes after. After the season. After the end. After leaving. After staying.
“After” is not the event itself, but the condition left behind. We are drawn to work set once something has already happened and cannot be undone. After disclosure. After departure. After damage. After a choice that reorganized life. The work may take place directly following or long after the fact.
We are not looking for affirmative work or writing that smooths over what happened. Work that accepts consequence without resolution.
Submissions open February 1, 2026 and close March 31, 2026.
We’re opening submissions soon.
Before we do, here’s what we can promise. This will be our first issue. We have a plan. We also know the plan will be tested once the work starts coming in. We’re committing to that window. We’re committing to reading what arrives during that time. We’re committing to choosing the work we take and publishing it. We don’t yet know how many pieces we’ll publish. We don’t know what the issue will look like until it exists. We do know what holds our attention. We know when something doesn’t. This is the first pass. It won’t be perfect. We’ll learn by doing.
Sunday Service is preparing a debut issue scheduled for May 2026.
The submission window will open February 1 and close March 31, 2026.
You can read our submission guidelines on our submissions page.
The website is live. Sunday Service is open. The work is here now. It isn’t finished. It isn’t cleaned up. It doesn’t resolve
We're here to document trauma. Some of it comes out of church. Some of it comes out of family. Some of it comes out of places where nothing dramatic happened except that it did. Sometimes it’s a body. Sometimes it’s a house. Sometimes it’s what was said once and never taken back.
Place sits underneath all of it. The rules. The pressure. The quiet way things are handled. What gets named. What doesn’t. What follows you even when you leave.
What you’ll find here is writing that stays on the surface. It doesn’t explain itself. It doesn’t work toward redemption. It doesn’t promise meaning where there wasn’t any. It records what happened and stops.
Sunday Service gathers the things that don’t resolve. Confession without forgiveness. Communion without permission. No doctrine. No absolution. No demand that the damage add up to something useful.
This isn’t your papa’s church. It’s just a place to tell it straight.