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Consequence Volume 17.1 Now Available

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In Consequence Volume 17.1, a theme emerges of how affecting a difference doesn’t only have to happen on a global scale—it can and should include the more local ones. This is maybe most conspicuously expressed in the essay “A Trip to Kosovo” where a doctor returns to the war-torn country to navigate its broken bureaucracy in hopes of getting his nephew immediate cancer treatment and ends on the line: If the world can be saved, it will be by small acts of kindness. View flyer for more information.

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Magazine Stand :: Posit – Issue 39

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Introducing readers to Posit Issue 39, the editors write, “Four months into the ever-more-alarming New World Disorder seems like as good a time as any to offer something other to contemplate…if not an antidote, then at least a respite, and perhaps a reminder of what else we humans can produce.” The works in this open-access online issue, note the editors, “we believe they can help. Help us see and feel more deeply. Help us confront where we are in these drastic and alarming times. And help us imagine going forward.”

Featured in Poist Issue 39 are poetry and prose by Joan Baranow, Daniel Biegelson, Charles Borkhuis, Julie Carr, Shou Jie Eng, MK Francisco, Shawnan Ge, Julie Hanson, Denise Newman, Randy Prunty, Elizabeth Robinson, and Dan Rosenberg; paintings and sculpture by Steve Greene, Elizabeth Hazan, and Sarah Peters; and text + image by Dale Going and Marie Carbone.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

New Lit on the Block :: Apotheca Journal

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If literary publications are concerned about their future, they might do well to assess what they are doing to fuel the creative interests of the next generation, as evidenced by Apotheca Journal, a monthly online publication showcasing poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, photography, artwork, and more by contributors aged 14-22.

Founder and Editor Ann Sproul explains how one experience encouraged her to launch a literary magazine, “When I was in seventh grade, I received my first writing award: publication and a $1,000 scholarship from Bluefire Journal. The whole experience really raised my confidence not only as a writer but as a person. Ever since then, I have wanted to edit for a magazine. The world needs young writers and artists who realize that their voice is valuable. Those are the people who are going to grow up and be unapologetic for what they have to say. It can be difficult for young writers and artists since the majority of magazines are for adults. Through Apotheca, I am hoping to afford other young writers and artists the same confidence I felt when I was first published.”

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Sponsored :: Magazine Stand :: Walloon Writers Review – Ninth Edition

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Walloon Writers Review Ninth Edition is a collection of short stories, poetry, and nature photography inspired by northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula’s natural beauty. More than sixty contributors pack this year’s edition with reflections, adventures, memories, and discoveries. Suitable for general audiences, readers in Michigan can pick up a copy while they’re exploring “up north” (see the list of booksellers and shops the magazine’s website under the “Where to Find Walloon Writers Review” tab) or armchair explore and order a copy online from most independent bookstores in Michigan, BarnesandNoble.com, Bookshop.com, or Amazon.com.

Magazine Stand :: Red Tree Review

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Red Tree Review Issue Five online is a stellar collection of fine poetry from many talented voices, some seasoned and some emerging: Ron Riekki, Martha Zweig, Robert S. King, Glen Armstrong, Dan Sicoli, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Kenton K. Yee, Kimberly White, Jason Fraley, Dan Raphael, Lynn Domina, Austin Allen James, Peter Mladinic, Jacqueline H. Harris, and Elizabeth Girdharry. As always, the selected works deliver moments of surprise, harrowing urgency, and sheer awe that brings us, if only for a second, outside of our small selves.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Common – Issue 29

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This newest issue of The Common features a special portfolio highlighting photography and translated prose from Amman, Jordan; short stories from Hawai‘i, Kenya, Baton Rouge, and an Austin boxing gym; an essay on ritual and clothmaking in Cameroon; and poems by Erica Dawson, Rick Barot, Mary Jo Salter, John Kinsella, Julia Kolchinsky, and more. The Common is available for purchase in print as well as in Kindle, PDF, or e-book format.

TEACHERS: see Teach the Common. The editors will help with selecting the best issues for your curriculum, scheduling a classroom visit with Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Acker who answers students’ questions and provides a look into the publishing process, and providing resources, like sample lesson plans, complementary readings, audio, and interviews tailored to your chosen issues to enhance student engagement.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Lake – June 2025

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The June 2025 issue of The Lake online journal of poetry and poetics is now available and features works by Ian Clarke, Barbara Daniels, Lyudmyla Diadchenko, PM Flynn, Gabrielle Meadows, Sreeja Naskar, Tony Press, Hannah Stone, Jeanine Walker, and Louise Worthington. Book reviews include Greg Rappleye’s Barley Child and John Gilham’s Footprints in the Mud. The Lake’s unique feature of One Poem Reviews spotlight one poem from a recently published collection, with June shining a light on works by Whitney Coy, Dagne Forrest, John Savoie, and Elaine Sexton.

Readers can also find Editor John Murphy’s new book, Notes, on The Lake‘s SHOP page.
The subject for these poems are artists and producers in the music industry, covering all major genres: rock, jazz and blues, and some of the artists included are Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Cleo Laine, Chuck Berry, Brian Wilson , Buddy Holly, and Jimi Hendrix.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: New Letters – Winter/Spring 2025

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The Winter/Spring issue of New Letters features winners of their 2024 Award Series. Congratulations to Sébastien Luc Butler, winner of the Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry; Tanya Pengelly, winner of the Robert Day Award for Fiction; Elisabetta La Cava, winner of the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction; and Laura Newbern, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award, Essay.

Readers will also find plenty of new fiction by Amy Day Wilkinson, Andrew Bertaina, Joe De Quattro; essays by Fox Rinne, Jacob Aiello, Courtney Kersten, Adam O. Davis, Amy Rowland, Heather Sellers; poetry by Leonore Hildebrandt, Lance Larsen, Lisa Lewis, Kara Lewis, Mary B. Moore, Katie Erbs, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, and Daniel Donaghy.

The hauntingly compelling artwork of Nicholas Erker is featured on the cover as well as with a full-color portfolio and introduction inside the issue. Grab your copy today!

New Lit on the Block :: KUDU

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Despite what can feel like global doom and gloom on the daily, the literary world still finds much to inspire its community to create, share, and engage. While seemingly small, KUDU: A Journal Of South African Writing is a free, professionally designed online publication of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, and visual art by both new and well-known names with a growing reputation. Twice a year, readers can enjoy reading online or downloading a printable PDF.

While the name may seem unique to those of us on this continent, KUDU is a Khoikhoi term chosen to honor the Khoisan peoples, the first indigenous peoples of South Africa. “It goes back to thousands of years ago,” Founder and Editor Claudio Perinot explains, “to the first recorded inhabitants of South Africa, the Khoisans.”

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Magazine Stand :: Consequence – 17.1

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Consequence Volume 17.1 is full of prose, poetry, and visual art addressing the consequences of war and geopolitical violence. In this issue, a theme emerged of how affecting a difference doesn’t only have to happen on a global scale — it can and should include the more local ones.

This is expressed in “A Trip to Kosovo” where a doctor returns to the war-torn country to navigate its broken bureaucracy in hopes of getting his nephew immediate cancer treatment (a piece that pointedly ends with: If the world can be saved, it will be by small acts of kindness). It appears in “Withdrawal” with the narrator always answering his phone in case it’s a fellow soldier or a refugee in dire need. It’s there in “The Lucky Ones” as a director for an adoption agency in Korea reveals to women the tricks necessary to help their babies find safe homes.

Maybe the most conspicuous example of this theme, though, is in the Translations Feature, which consists of works written in Arabic and centering on the Palestinian experience. Translations Editors Parisa Saranj and Fathima M. frame all ten pieces of the feature by stating, What else can we do but bear witness to the pain of our fellow human beings? Literature has been the first recordkeeper of what humans are capable of doing to and for each other.

Magazine Stand :: Southern Humanities Review – 58.1

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The newest issue of Southern Humanities Review is introduced by Guest Poetry Editor Jeremy Paden, “On Appalachian Roots,” which opens:

“Who gets to speak for a region? What voices, stories, and accents get to represent a place? And when the place is as vast as Appalachia, one that spans thirteen states and is divided into five subregions? [. . . ] Once J.D. Vance was picked as the vice presidential running mate for the Republican ticket in the summer of 2024, his 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy, returned to bestseller lists and the national conversation. As a result, I was asked to curate a selection of poems on Appalachia by Appalachians. After all, whatever people think of his memoir, it is not about Appalachia.”

Those poets featured here include Willie Carver, Bernard Clay, Dorian Hairston, Pauletta Hansel, Marc Harshman, Jane Hicks, Silas House, Lisa J. Parker, Randi Ward, William Woolfitt, and Marianne Worthington. The issue also includes nonfiction by Joanna Acevedo and Madeline Jones, and fiction by Sara Levine, Sumita Mukherji, Enyinna Nnabuihe, and Cotton O’Connell. Cover art by Frederic Edwin Church, Storm in the Mountains, 1847, oil on canvas.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Valley Voices – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of Valley Voices is a special issue themed “River and Land: The Mississippi Delta” and is dedicated to Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (July 31, 1943 — February 8, 2025) “respectful board member, scholar, and friend.”

In celebration of Dr. Jerry W. Ward’s legacy is an interview with Dr. Ward, poetry, literary theorist, editor, professor, and cultural activist, conducted by C Liegh McInnis on July 18, 2007, Charlie Braxton’s poem, “Doc,” and the essay “This is Not a Poem #1 (For Doc Ward)” by McInnis.

Opening the themed content “River and Land: The Mississippi Delta” are “Prim Notes” and “Hurricane Isabel 2003: True Story” by Hermine Pinson and “The Geography of Self: An Interview with Hermine Pinson” by Editor John Zheng. Also featured are poems by Claude Wilkinson, Sterling D. Plumpp, Larry D. Thomas, George Drew, Philip C. Kolin, CT Salazar, C Liegh McInnis, and Michelle McMillan-Holifield; art/photography by Claude Wilkinson (including cover art) and J. Guaner; fiction/nonfiction by Jack Crocker and Dick Daniels.

Criticism pieces include “From Trauma to Triumph: Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir” by John J. Han, and “Mississippi Masochism: Agentic Pain in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds and Claude Wilkinson’s World Without End” by Allison Wiltshire.

Magazine Stand :: South Dakota Review – 59.2

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Published quarterly at the University of South Dakota through the Department of English and under the sponsorship of the College of Arts and Sciences, this newest issue of South Dakota Review has much to offer readers, beginning with the captivating cover photo by Editor-in-Chief Lee Ann Roripaugh, expressing the disjointedness so many of us are feeling as of late.

In response, the content holds a salve for our weary selves: poetry by Mrityunjay Mohan, Tami Haaland, Grace Bauer, Francine Witte, Ellen June Wright, Isabelle Ylo, Josephine Gawtry, William Trowbridge, Brandon Krieg, Amorak Huey, Kalpita Pathak, Sarah Barber, Carl Watts, Judith Harris, Remi Recchia, and Jim Peterson; short stories by Tina Tocco, Michael Caleb Tasker, Alexandria Peary, Luke Rolfes, nat čermák, and Reuben Sanchez; essays by Gary Finke and Ellie Gomero, with a hybrid excerpt from Sutured Memorī, by Michelle Naka Pierce.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Midwest Quarterly – Spring 2025

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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Spring 2025 theme is “Library Issue(s)” with Guest Editor Sara DeCaro and includes the articles “The Options when DEI Initiatives in Libraries are Not Working or Nonexistent” by Casey Phillips, “Digital Commons and Accessibility” by Madison Price, “Mathematical Marvels in a Midwestern Library” by Cynthia Huffman, “The Rise and Fall of Wine Gardens in Kansas City 1880-1920” by Sara DeCaro, “From TV Screen to Family Scene: Bluey and the Art of Invitational Rhetoric” by Blayne Thorton, and “Unreconciled Visions of War: Japan and America in World War II (A Literature Review)” by David F. DiMeo, as well as a selection of new poems.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Main Street Rag – Spring 2025

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The Main Street Rag Spring 2025 issue opens with an interview with Anna Pauscher Morawitz by Jessica K. Hylton, who recently moved Salina, Kansas, and ventured out to a showcase of the arts at a local theatre where the two met. Morawitz is a “triple threat,” a visual artist who works with the Salina Arts and Humanities Department and also plays with the band Enna and the Snapdragons.

This issue also includes ‘Stories & Such’ by David Bradley, Robert Earle, Tim Keppel, Mary Lewis, Robert Page, Joe Taylor, and R. Craig Sautter, as well as loads of new poetry by Bonnie Bishop, Jane Blanchard, Cameron Bushnell, Jim Carpenter, Ricks Carson, Alan Harawitz, Jim Daniels, Rupert Fike, Pamela Brothers Denyes, Alfred Fournier, Rachel Greenberg, Cleo Griffith, Leonore Hildebrandt, PMF Johnson, Jasmine Kumalah, Elizabeth Libbey, Joseph McGreevy, Michael Milburn, Frank C. Modica, Baruch November, Madeline Cohen Oakley, Marjorie Power, Phyllis Price, Patrick T. Reardon, David Sapp, Hannah Ringler, Mary Rohrer-Dun, Cecil Sayre, Susan Shea, Carol Shillibeer, Beate Sigriddaughter, Phillip Sterling, Diane Stone, L. Sweeney, Moira Walsh, Michael Demetria Tsouris, Richard Weaver, Warren Woessner, and Robert Wooten.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Greensboro Review – Spring 2025

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If evil is the “absence of empathy,” as defined by G. M. Gilbert, the American psychologist known for his observational commentary during the Nuremberg trials, then Editor Terry L. Kennedy offers an antidote in the Spring 2025 Editor’s Note of The Greensboro Review when he writes that the “magic of literature” is “its ability to dissolve the boundaries that separate us, revealing the common threads of fear, hope, and longing that connects us all.”

This newest issue features much to help us connect, including the Robert Watson Literary Prize winners: Jeni O’Neal’s “Loving a Man and His Kids and His House” in poetry and Emily Harper Ellis’s “The Fairy Swap” in fiction, as well as new work by Miriam Akervall, Megan Blankenship, Alex Bullock, Flora Field, Abigail Ham, Max Kruger-Dull, Seth Leeper, Angela Ma, Elisabeth Murawski, Michael O’Ryan, Leslie Pietrzyk, Caroline Porter, Lindsay Stewart, Zach Swiss, David Thoreen, Amber Train, and Andy Young.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: The Malahat Review – 230

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The Malahat Review 230 features winners of the 2025 Open Season Awards as well as interviews with the authors. Creative Nonfiction Winner: “Singularity Packet” by Tanis MacDonald; Poetry Winner: “Anxiety Attack” by Georgio Russell; Fiction Winner “Bubble Bath and the Ecstasy of Diminishing” by Catherine St. Denis.

Also included in this issue is new poetry by Lucas Crawford, Jannie Stafford Edwards, Jonathan Focht, Michael Goodfellow, Grace, Patrick Grace, Umma Habiba, Danielle Hubbard, PW Jarungpiterah, Barbara Bruhin Kenney, Timothy Liu, Rebecca Lawrence Lynch, Sadie McCarney, Gerald Arthur Moore, Jonathan Moskaluk, Maureen Paxton, Hannah Polinski, Emily Riddle, Jay Ritchie, Spenser Smith, Gordon Taylor, Claudia Yang; fiction by H Felix Chau Bradley, Olga Campofreda, K. S. M.; and creative nonfiction by Alana Friend Lettner, and Sina Queyras.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: AGNI – 101

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AGNI 101 is inhabited by gravity and grace in counterpoise, from the cover and art feature by Palestinian painter Malak Mattar to the essays, poems, and stories, the inescapable world finds its match in soaring gestures of imagination. In fiction, the characters of Silja Liv Kelleris, Alp Türkol, and Haytham el-Wardany (trans. Katharine Halls) give terrible circumstances a powerful second shape. Speakers in poems by Kazim Ali, CooXooEii Black, Amy Beeder, Hera Naguib, and Robert Pinsky gaze unflinchingly to counter the sturdiest myths. And in essays, Graison Gill, Brandi Bird, and Angela Pelster — among many others — invite readers into truths more complicated than the surface suggests. Available for purchase in single issue and subscription, AGNI also publishes unique online content readers can access for free.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of Baltimore Review is now available online for readers to enjoy, with creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry by Hannah Keziah Agustin, Stephanie J. Andersen, Nicholas Barnes, Merrill Oliver Douglas, Jake Bienvenue, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, Erik Harper Klass, Andrea Lewis, Ron MacLean, Hila Ratzabi, Jemma Leigh Roe, Daniel J. Rortvedt, L. Soviero, Kelly Terwilliger, and Qiwen Xiao.

Published since 1996 as print journal and re-launched as an online, quarterly journal in 2012, work accepted for online publication in Baltimore Review is also collected for annual print issues. The journal features the work of Baltimore-area writers, as well as writers from around the world.

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – May 2025

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The May 2025 issue of The Lake, journal of poetry and poetics, is now online featuring Aman Alam, Nick Allen, Emma Atkins, Melanie Branton, Marianne Brems, C. B. Crenshaw, Craig Dobson, Kaily Dorfman, Sameen Ejaz, Annette Gagliardi, Judith Taylor, Kim Waters. Readers can also dig into Charles Rammelkamp’s review of Helen Ivory’s new full-length poetry collection, Constructing a Witch, and a review of J. R. Solonche’s Old by David Mark Williams. The Lake also has the unique feature “One Poem Reviews,” in which authors share a poem from a recently published collection. The May 2025 feature spotlights works by Alex Barr, Dennis Maulsby, and M. Kelly Peach.

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Wordrunner eChapbook – Issue 54

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Announcing Wordrunner eChapbooks‘ 15th anniversary issue: Disturbances is available to read online or as a downloadable printable PDF. Wordrunner eChapbooks is a hybrid of online literary journal and chapbook collections. Their 2025 anthology and 54th issue issue marks the 15th anniversary of their opening this journal to public submission. Although no theme was announced for this anthology, many of the stories and poems are connected by disturbances small and large — whether endured by troubled adolescents, bereaved mourners, day laborers, boxers or struggling writers (including Mary Shelley).

Wordrunner eChapbook’s Editor’s Choice for this issue is “Minder Root” by Stan Kempton, a haunting tale set in a timeless rural South. Other contributors include fiction by Jim Beane, Ed Davis, Frank Diamond, Stan Kempton, Joseph Kierland and Don J Taylor; nonfiction by Jane Boch, Ann Calandro, David Hawdbawnik and Melanie S. Smith; and poetry by GTimothy Gordon, Peter Grieco, Ted Morrissey and Pamela Wynn.

Last year, Wordrunner eChapbook’s began publishing micro fiction and creative nonfiction. Their Micro Issue 2 went online January 2025. Submissions open again September 2025.

Magazine Stand :: Sky Island Journal – Spring 2025

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Sky Island Journal’s stunning 31st issue features poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction from contributors around the globe. Accomplished, well-established authors are published — side by side — with fresh, emerging voices. Readers are provided with a powerful, focused literary experience that transports them: one that challenges them intellectually and moves them emotionally. Always free to access, and always free from advertising, discover what over 150,000 readers in 150 countries, and over 1,000 contributors from 54 countries, already know; the finest new writing can be found where the desert meets the mountains.

Magazine Stand :: The MacGuffin – April 2025

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The MacGuffin April 2025 issue sold out at the 2025 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (!) but is now available again for individual purchase — whew! This hot issue features winners of Poet Hunt 29 with commentary by Judge Michael Meyerhofer as well as a look ahead to this year’s Poet Hunt 30 including a mini-feature of poems by Judge Darrel Alejandro Holnes. The issue rounds out with a quadruplet of short memoirs; fiction selections including Margaret Willey’s family drama — as turbulent as the lake it’s set on, and Angela Townsend’s “Present Lives,” whose main character invites readers to ‘tune in, turn on,’ referencing enhanced spirituality. All of this wrapped neatly within Jennifer Rodrigues’s compelling cover art, “Switch Plate.”

Discover loads more great lit mags with our Guide to Literary Magazines, Big List of Literary Magazines, and Big List of Alternative Magazines. If you are a publication looking to be listed in our monthly roundup or featured on our blog and social media, please contact us.

Magazine Stand :: Sheila-Na-Gig – Spring 2025

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Curated by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions author Simona Carini, Sheila-Na-Gig online’s spring 2025 issue is now available. This volume contains work by Editors’ Choice Award winner Vincent Caseragola along with 44 other new and returning contributors.

Started in 1990, Sheila-Na-Gig continues its mission, “to support the work of both established and emerging writers in a crisp, uncluttered space online and through the publication of individual collections and anthologies from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.”

Sheila-Na-Gig currently has an open call for submissions until May 31, 2025, for AMPLIFY: An Anthology by Black Poets, Indigenous Poets, and Other Poets of Color to be edited by Sandra Rivers-Gill.

Magazine Stand :: The Missouri Review – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of The Missouri Review (Sprint 2025) is themed “Outsiders” and includes the winners of the 2024 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, plus debut fiction by Jeffery Brady, new fiction by Phuong Anh Le, William Torrey, Drew Calvert, and Mark Labowskie. New poetry from Rebe Huntman, Liane Strauss, and Amanda Gunn, and new essays by Sarah Mullens and Justin Thurman. Also, an art feature on James Ensore, and a new “Curio Cabinet” on Theda Bara, and a omnibus review of four novels about becoming a mother by Cynthia Miller Coffel.

This is also the first issue that will be available worldwide on Project MUSE via Open Access here.

New Lit on the Block :: Tween Magazine

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In a world that can feel overrun with digital content, print still holds its own and can, in fact, provide some much-needed relief from tech fatigue. This can be especially important for young people, which is where Tween Magazine shines like a beacon in the night. “As parents learn the negative effects of social media and devices, they are returning to more traditional media,” says Founding Editor and Creative Director Mary Flenner. “Tween Magazine offers girls a screen-free chance to engage, learn life skills, build confidence, and find inspiration.”

Tween girls are those in that “in between” stage of life, the preteen years where they are leaving childhood and entering adolescence. “We aim to fill the content void for young girls 8 to 12 who have outgrown children’s magazines but aren’t ready for the mature content in teen magazines,” explains Flenner.

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New Lit on the Block :: Silly Goose Press

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A name like Silly Goose Press can’t help but attract such comments as “Have you seen that egg?!” or “What a honking good time they are to be around!” which the editors would take as high praise, along with recognition for knowing how to use an Oxford comma. Puns (mostly) aside, Silly Goose Press is a new, online magazine publishing poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, art, and photography roughly every four months. Readers can enjoy accessing each piece individually online or via PDF which can be downloaded – all for free.

Silly Goose Press was inspired when the editors attended their first AWP conference. “We are best friends who love flocking together,” says Editor-in-Chief Rhiannon Fisher, “just a group of silly geese and always have been. The publication name is an inside joke amongst writing friends that has evolved into something magical.” After the conference, Fisher says, “We challenged ourselves to expand our knowledge of and place in the literary world. We wanted to be a part of something bigger than our individual literary careers, make friends, and build community. Also, now we are legally bound to maintain a friendship.”

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Magazine Stand :: Thema – Spring 2025

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Inspired by a post-dinner conversation in 1988, Thema offers writers a target theme to inspire poetry, stories, art, and photography. While the premise does not have to be a central element, it also cannot be “merely incidental.” Walking that fine line in this newest Spring 2025 issue with the theme “My Favorite Bookmark” are contributors Tytti Heikkinen, Cheryl Matthis, Casey Lawrence, Judy Penz Sheluk, Cezanne Waid, Sunayna Pal, Jill Munro, Elizabeth Raum, Pamela Hobart Clark, Lynda Fox, Tom Schmidt, Linda Berry, Matthew J. Spireng, Lynda Fox, Frank Markover, Allan Lake, Orman Day, James B. Nicola, Stacey Alderman, and Kathleen Gunton, with cover artwork by Aria Marotta.

Forthcoming themes include “I Wish I’d Said That,” “Today’s Onerous Task,” and “While the Snowstorm Was Raging…” Visit Thema‘s website for submission information and deadlines. Thema does accept previous published works that fit the theme.

Sponsored :: Thorn & Bloom: A Bold New Literary Magazine Cultivating Self-Care as Resistance

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Thorn & Bloom: A Bold New Literary Magazine Cultivating Self-Care as Resistance
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Thorn & Bloom is a quarterly literary magazine that reimagines self-care as an act of resistance, reclamation, and radical honesty. Through a curated collection of essays, poetry, fiction, and expert insight, the magazine explores personal healing as a catalyst for collective liberation.

Launched last month, the debut issue features a diverse range of emerging and established voices who offer grounded self-care practices, challenge internalized narratives, and illuminate the social conditioning that distances us from our authentic selves. Thorn & Bloom brings a fresh voice to the literary landscape—one that dares to treat self-care not as luxury or aesthetic, but as essential, intentional, and deeply political. The magazine is rooted in a commitment to inclusivity, empowerment, and truth-telling, offering a platform for stories that are both tender and transformative; inviting readers to embrace storytelling as a healing practice and self-care as a radical path to liberation.

Magazine Stand :: Plume – #164

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The April 2025 issue of Plume (164) features works by Tiana Nobile, Marilyn A. Johnson, Olga Maslova, Jen Karetnick, Dai Weina, Phillis Levin, Harry Martinson, Daniel Tobin, Doug Anderson, Carol Muske-Dukes, and Jean Nordhaus, a conversation with Phillis Levin by Frances Richey, a review of Virginia Konchan’s Requiem by Heather Treseler, and commentary from this issue’s contributors.

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Magazine Stand :: Blue Collar Review – Winter 2024-25

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The Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature, Blue Collar Review Winter 2024-25 opens with an editorial documenting the political state of our country in the context of a global history of dictatorships. Writing as witness, this issue documents the role of creative expression, “We know they are coming for us and we are as enraged as we are frightened. In typesetting this issue, we note a proliferation of expletives. Working class writing often evokes our class mood and these poets are pissed!”

Joining the paper protest in this issue are poets Dave Roskos, Dan Grote, Robert Cooperman, G.C. Compton, Darrell Petska, Cathy Porter, Fred Voss (R.I.P), Thot King, Andrew Slipp, Gregg Shotwell, Christopher Buckley, Gregg Shotwell, Dan Grote, Bill Mohr, R.M. Yager, Chris Butters, Manry Franke, Shirley Adelman (R.I.P.), Al Markowitz, Angelo Mesisco, Steweart Acuff, many more.

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Magazine Stand :: Bellevue Literary Review – 48

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Assistant Fiction Editor Lauralee Leonard opens Bellevue Literary Review Issue 48 with reflective inquiry for readers and writers alike, “Where does a story bring us? Where do we get when we read a poem to its end for the first time, the second time, the third time? How is it that a person we are likely never to meet, through only words arranged on a page, can enter our consciousness so fully? And how does it happen that we surrender so completely to a created place that we are jolted, at the end, to find ourselves still in our own chair, suspended momentarily between worlds?”

Offering readers the opportunity for further contemplation, this issue offers fiction by Fiona Ennis (Winner of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction), Chinaecherem Obor (Honorable Mention), Nandini Bhattacharya, Ronald Niezen, Yuya Hattori, Michael Welch, Marcia Walker, TW Dalton, Sabrina D. Wang; nonfiction by Pia Jee-Hae Baur (Winner of the Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction), Liesel Hamilton (Honorable Mention), Carlos Rafael Gómez, Veronica Cano, Diane Zinna; and poetry by Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador (Winner of the John and Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry), Cedric Rudolph (Honorable Mention), Laura E. Garrard, Karen Zheng, Maya Klauber, Laurie Sansom, Michael Montlack, Christopher Stewart, Timothy Kelly, Won Lee, Brett Warren, Kelly Grace Thomas, Bridget Bell, Cecil Morris, Wendy Wisner, Becky Nicole James, Xinyue Huang, Joseph Radke, Judith Fox, Alexandra Ozols, and Rob Macaisa Colgate.

Cover art by Aliza Nisenbaum.

Magazine Stand :: Apple Valley Review – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of the Apple Valley Review features flash fiction by Madison Ellingsworth and Luke Rolfes; short stories by Peter Newall, Zehra Habib, and Tony Rauch; and poetry by Miriam Van hee (translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson), Athena Kildegaard, Mark Lilley, Mickie Kennedy, and David Armand. The cover artwork is by painter John Singer Sargent. An international literary journal, Apple Valley Review publishes short fiction, poetry, personal essays, and translations in online open access, semiannual issues. The journal was founded in 2005 by its current editor, Leah Browning, and welcomes submission year-round.

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Magazine Stand :: Broadsided – Spring 2025

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Broadsided Spring 2025 celebrates National Poetry Month with a folio of eight new broadsides — eight new original collaborations between writers and artists for readers to enjoy online or download and print to hang up and share in their communities. Together, the words and images of each broadside combine to a unique expression, a dance of meaning and significance between artists and mediums.

Poets in this issue are Livia Meneghin, Amanda Quaid, Lex Runciman, Amílcar Santanan, Emily Light, Isabel Acevedo, Jennifer K. Sweeney, and Katharine Whitcomb. Artists in this issue are Michele L’Heureux, Bailey Bob Bailey, Sandra Vega, Daniel Esquivia Zapata, JoAnne McFarland, Stacy Isenbarger, Janice Redman, and Jennifer Moses.

Broadsided Press also shares “Collaborators’ Q&A” for each broadside, in which artist and writer share responses to each other’s work and the process of bringing them together, books and art that have recently inspired them, responses to the folio as a whole, creative prompts, and more.

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Magazine Stand :: The Lake – April 2025

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The April 2025 issue of The Lake, an online journal of poetry and poetics, is now online featuring Gareth Adams, Jean Atkin, Deborah H. Doolittle, Neil Elder, Sharif Gemi, Norton Hodges, Mike O’brien, Audell Shellburn, J. R. Solonche, Yucheng Tao, Bhuwan Thapaliya, Lori Zavada.

David Mark Williams reviews I Sing to the Greenhearts by Maggie Harris, and Charles Rammelkamp reviews Sonnets for My Mother as Lear by Martin Malone and Still Motion by Jianqing Zheng and Leo Touchet.

“One Poem Reviews” give authors the opportunity to share a poem from a recently published collection. This month’s contributors are Mark Belair, Daniel Hinds, K. S. Moore, Annie Stenzel, and Sue Wallace-Shaddad.

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Magazine Stand :: Jewish Fiction – Issue 39

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Do you love great stories? If so, you’ll be delighted by the 15 terrific ones in the new issue of Jewish Fiction! Issue 39 contains 15 fabulous stories originally written in Italian, Polish, Hebrew, and English. Contributors Shulim Vogelmann, Sagit Emet, Yuval Yavneh, Mikołaj Łoziński, Anna Rosner, Richard E. Marshall, Jaime Levy Pessin, Warren Hoffman, Maya Ben Yair, Adolf Rudnicki, Aaron Goodman, Karen Zlotnick, Shelly Sanders, Hannah Glickstein, Jill Siebers invite readers to feast on their works and enjoy!

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Magazine Stand :: South Dakota Review – 59.1

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South Dakota Review continues their commitment to cultural and aesthetic diversity, publishing exciting and compelling work that reflects the full spectrum of the contemporary literary arts. This newest issue (59.1) features poetry, short stories, and essays by Stella Wong, Mackenzie Carignan, Anthony D’Aries, Michael Leal Garcia, Michael Meyerhofer, Vivek Sharma, Andy Bodinger, Camille Carter, DS Levy, Sappho Stanley, Tiffany Graham Charkosky, Bernadette Geyer, Susan L. Leary, Brooke Sahni, Emily Seibert, Josiah Nelson, Teresa Milbrodt, Joel Fishbane, and a review of Sarah Ghazal Ali’s Theophanies by Joanna Acevedo.

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Magazine Stand :: New England Review – 46.1

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Opening issue 46.1 of New England Review, Editor Carolyn Kuebler writes about ecosystems and survival, commenting on the proliferation of literary publications, “. . . if you see magazine publications as an artistic practice that contributes to the literary ecosystem, and if you see them as part of a community rather than as random and unrelated, they look more like a sign of vitality than of diffusion.”

Contributing to the vibrancy of our literary landscape, the newest New England Review invites readers to enjoy engrossing prose by Nilou Panahpour, Tom DeBeauchamp, and Julie Marie Wade; poetry by Cathy Linh Che, Derrick Austin, and Amy Dougher-Solórzano; translations from the Portugese and Spanish; and much more, wrapped in captivating cover art by Brian Flinn.

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Magazine Stand :: Alaska Quarterly Review – Winter/Spring 2025

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The Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review is now available in print for readers to enjoy stories, essays, poetry, and a novella. Online, readers can access over forty years of Alaska Quarterly Review in their archive with the content of the most recent twenty years available with no paywall.

Alaska Quarterly Review has launched a YouTube Channel, with recent videos featuring craft conversations with Jane Hirshfield and Dorianne Laux, and readings with Jason Brown, Jessi Lewis, Joan Murray, Maura Stanton, Doug Ramspeck, and more.

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Magazine Stand :: Salamander – 59

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Housed in and published from Suffolk’s English Department, Salamander is biannual print magazine of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation. Founded in 1992, Salamander aims to publish work by writers deserving of a wider audience at any stage in their careers as well as to focus intentionally on inclusivity and outreach to marginalized writers.

This newest issue features an Art Portfolio (including the cover image) by sculptor Dale Rogers; Creative Nonfiction Andrew Bertaina; Fiction by R. S. Powers, Caroline Fleischauer, Michael Welch, Danny Lang-Perez, Gillon Crichton, Taylor Melia Elyse Mahone; Poetry by Marcy Rae Henry, Sharon Lin, Despy Boutris, Cynthia Atkins, James Davis, Cecelia Hagen, John A. Nieves, Jane Newkirk, Justin Groppuso-Clark, Benjamin Paloff, Alexandra Malouf, Lindsay Clark, Kate Hubbard, Susannah Sheffer, Donna Vorreyer, Moriah Cohen, Alice White, Sara Watson, Lisa Summe, John Gallaher, Jason Fraley, Amy Roa, Leah Umansky, Lindsay Younce Tsohantaridis, Julie Danho, Anthony DiPietro, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Mary Rose Manspeaker, Katrina Madarang, and A. Molotkov.

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Magazine Stand :: The Shore – Issue 25

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The Shore Issue 25 stares down the springtime of our discontent with poetry that refuses to flinch. It features sharp new work by Dana Wall, Doug Ramspeck, Sarah Carson, Jaiden Geolingo, Rachel Nelson, Mary Paterson, Beth Oast Williams, Sally Rosen Kindred, Anthony Frame, Michele Santamaria, Susan L Leary, ND Allison, Stuart Greenhouse, Nicole Callihan, Helen Gu, Rucha Virmani, Ellis Purdie, Caron Wolfe, Caroline Cahill, Christopher Locke, Disha Trivedi, V Joshua Adams, Radian Hong, Le Wang, Nadine Hitchiner, Lara Chamoun, Bex Hainsworth, Elizabeth Wing, Ann Haven McDonnell, Lee Potts, Alastair Morrison, Tom Blake, John Bradley, Minnie Wu, Shannon Hardwick, M Cynthia Cheung, Binoy Zuzarte, Jeremiah Moriarty, Michael Lauchlan, Kate Kobosko, and Sharon Denmark. It also features art that bursts off the screen by Jennifer A Howard.

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Magazine Stand :: Tint Journal – Spring 2025

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The Spring 2025 issue of Tint Journal, the magazine for English as a Second Language (ESL) writers, includes 24 new poems, short stories and nonfiction essays by writers identifying with just as many different nationalities and speaking 17 different first languages. The texts represent a travel across time and space: imaginary dreamlands, alien scapes, and hopeful wishes go side by side with anecdotes of festivities, radio shows, and seaside travels. All texts are available to read free online.

Contributors include Selene Lacayo, Stefan Sofiski, Wera Lou Gmeiner, Christian Lesmes, Bianca-Olivia Nita, Tanya Ng Cheong, March Abuyuan-Llanes, Madina Tuhbatullina, Ibrahim Oladeji Tijani, Marlena Maduro Baraf, Nazia Kamali, Olga Zilberbourg, Vincent Ternida, Nawel Abdallah, Diana Kussainova, Lars Love Philipson, Mariana Serapicos, Caroline Siebbeles, Ludivine Massin, Anke Laufer, Jesimiel Williams, Elodie A. Roy, Lara Della Gaspera, and Shrutidhora P Mohor.

Artwork: Vanesa Erjavec (@creativityvexus)

Magazine Stand :: Blink-Ink – #59

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Holding firm to publishing in print since 2009, Blink-Ink is a tenacious quarterly of the best fiction of (approximately) 50 words or less. The theme of Issue #59 is “Bad Science,” with writing that challenges our beliefs. “People believe humans can’t move a big rock without a big machine or supernatural powers” the editors explain. “People believe ‘to evolve’ always means, ‘to get better.’ And those are just some harmless ones. Science works to correct itself; technology has overrun us, and most people believe the same pernicious nonsense people believed two hundred years ago.”

Contributors to Blink-Ink #59 sharing what they know about Bad Science include Carolyn R. Russell, Norbert Kovacs, Z.J. Lee, Katie Keridan, Clodagh O’Connor, Dart Humeston, Catfish McDaris, Sally Reno, Daryl Scroggins, Joe Hillard, Collen Addison, and many more.

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Magazine Stand :: Colorado Review – Spring 2025

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In her introduction to this Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review, Editor-in-Chief Stephanie G’Schwind writes, “Control may be an illusion, but we can always find ways—even small ones—to help, protect, and heal. And when ‘the world is too much with us,’ we can also retreat for a bit, construct a place for sanctuary, whatever that may look like for each of us: real, imagined, or remembered. May the work in this issue offer you a bit of respite.”

Offering respite for the world weary, readers will recharge with fiction by Rebecca Turkewitz, Ji Hyun Joo, Becky Hagenston, Leanne Ma; nonfiction by Jamie Cattanach, Calla Jacobson, Sarah Carvill; poetry by Sarah Kathryn Moore, Amit Majmudar, Triin Paja, Ira Sadoff , Susan M. SchultzTor Strand, John Allen Taylor, Xiaoqiu Qiu, Edwin Torres, Eric Pankey, Mackenzie Kozak, Maxine Chernoff, Kristin George Bagdanov, Brittany Cavallaro, Jonathan Aprea, Adam Ray Wagner, Miriam Akervall.

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Cutthroat 20th Anniversary Edition

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Enjoy 350+ pages of work in CUTTHROAT’s 20th anniversary edition: Taking Liberties, a joint project with The Black Earth Institute. See flyer for more information about this issue and a link to our website.

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Magazine Stand :: The Tiger Moth Review – Issue 13

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The Tiger Moth Review is an online art and literature journal publishing poetry, prose, art, and photography engaging with nature, culture, the environment and ecology. In her Editor’s Preface, Esther Vincent Xueming comments on the meaning of sounds and silences, a thread that runs through Issue 13, including man-made disasters, food choices, flowering and decaying in nature, consciousnesses in body and memory, and playful mark making in forests.

The Tiger Moth Review champions minority, marginalize, and underrepresented voices, and publishes works in translation, with this newest issue feature works by Su Thar Nyein, Madeline Newell-Wilson, George M Jacobs, Andrea Ferrari Kristeller, Özge Lena, Tonia Leon, AnnaLeah Lacoss, Jerome Masamaka, Raka Banerjee, Shalome Lateef, Kimberly White, Shilong Tao, Michelle Pietrzak-Wegner, Kathy Pon, Jiang Pu, Nazia Kamali, William Summay, Eóin Flannery, Sadie Rittman, Matt Carrano, Tom Laughlin, and December Ellis.

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Magazine Stand :: Under the Gum Tree – Winter 2025

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Under the Gum Tree is a gorgeous print quarterly literary arts micro-magazine that “strives for authentic connections through vulnerability” by publishing creative nonfiction and visual art. The Winter 2025 issue features works by Jenny Bartoy, Meg Ritter, Gillian Dockins, Shawna Ervin, Zoë Christopher, Rita Malenczyk, and Cori Matusow, with a photo essay by Anna Omni and artwork by Mihone Forsyth.

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Magazine Stand :: Cholla Needles – 100

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Established in 2016 in Joshua Tree, CA by r soos, Cholla Needles celebrates its 100th Issue Anniversary this March 2025. Cholla Needles selects ten to twelve writers for each monthly issue to give the reader a full taste of each writer. In addition to these monthly issues, Cholla Needles publishes two youth (K-12) issues per year. Contributors come from around the globe and regularly include works in translations.

Opening this celebratory issue, Editor r soos comments, “I am often asked how I keep the pace up. The people you read in this issue supply several answers. First, of course, is because I love poets and poetry. But that alone does not answer the question. So, the very same writers you are reading in this issue supply the answer. I cannot, all by my lonesome, keep up the pace. The ten writers in this issue have all edited issues of Cholla Needles on a voluntary basis, and some of them two and three times. They offer me the break I need to take a breath and find time away from the desk. I thank them all for the opportunity AND I thank them all for their professionalism in keeping our literary standards high.”

The editors/writers featured in this issue include Cynthia Anderson, David Chorlton, Tobi Alfier, Juan Delgado, Miriam Sagan, Michael Dwayne Smith, Romaine Washington, John Brantingham, Cati Porter, and Bonnie Bostrom.

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Magazine Stand :: Story Monsters Ink – February 2025

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Story Monsters Ink is a monthly literary resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and young readers featuring interviews, book reviews, and articles of interest about the YA literary. The February 2025 issue includes interviews with Amanda Gorman, David Shannon, Megan McDonald, Martellus Bennett, Andrea Beatriz Arango, Kaitlyn Sage Patterson, Nikki Shannon Smith, Terry Pierce and Nadja Sarell. Enjoy regular columns, like Conrad’s Classroom: Falling Rocks from Outer Space, Live on Life: Toxic Beauty Standards, Judy Newman talking about the power of stuffies, and Nick Spake’s movie review of Paddington in Peru.

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Magazine Stand :: The 2River View – Winter 2025

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There’s still time to catch the Winter 2025 issue of The 2River View, published by 2River, which also publishes individual authors in the 2River Chapbook Series. All their publications are available to read free online as well as download in printable formats. The Winter 2025 issue features new poems by Kristin Lueke, Lindsey Brown, Jenny Burkholder, Andrew Cox, Leila Farjami, Rae Flores, Sarah Jefferis, January Pearson, Daye Phillippo, Adam Tavel, Diana Woodcock, and artwork by Rae Flores.

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