Featured piece
first place winner of
the Re:Build contest
“It’s in this moment that her own unwinding is set in motion: inner belts slacken, gears list out of mesh, a membrane of wordless fury slips between the cogs as she feels a primal ligature wrenched up from some deep hollow, like the cracked glyphs of an abandoned alphabet or cached seeds. Staring up at the zero-sum of him, she feels one of those seeds plant itself in the humus of her grief, unaware of how quickly that seed will sprout a fixation on the fugues of what it is to be made, unmade, and then made all over again, though never quite the same.”
new in contributor books
announcements
January 2024
We are so excited to announce that as of 2024, we will begin nominating contributors for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize.
On top of that, all literary publications going forward will be paid! We are offering $10 for poetry, $15 for fiction and nonfiction, and $20 for hybrid and experimental pieces. Since the very beginning, it has been a dream of ours to reach a point where we can financially compensate artists for their work. As an independent magazine operating solely from submission fees and donations for roughly eight years, we are proud to have reached this milestone and will continue to strive to support our incredible writers.