CALYX, Inc. is a non-profit publisher of art and literature by women founded in 1976 based in Corvallis, Oregon.
CALYX Journal usually receives 1,000 submissions annually from women across the United States and internationally during their reading period, October 1-December 31.
The CALYX mission statement is to introduce a wide audience to high quality literature and art by women, provide a forum for diversity and underrepresented writers and viewpoints, discover and publish emerging and developing writers, and preserve publications for future audiences.
CALYX has published many important women authors first or early in their careers including Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Chitra Divakaruni, Molly Gloss, Linda Hogan, Natalie Goldberg, Barbara Kingsolver, Colleen McElroy, Sharon Olds, Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska (the first English translations in the U.S.A.), and Eleanor Wilner, among others.
CALYX Journal was also the first U.S. publisher of color art reproductions of the work of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.