The namesake for the online Mistake House Magazine is Principia’s Mistake House, a small structure on the Principia College campus that showcases the creative process of architect Bernard Maybeck. Built in 1931, this cottage allowed Maybeck to test the materials and methods he would later use throughout campus. Mistake House continues to inspire Mistake House Magazine, whose vision is to create a home for literature and art that values both the creative process and final design.

The new May 2026 issue opens with Soap Bubble Set, showcasing one visual artist and one writer, this month spotlighting writer Saúl Hernández and artist Ron Young. The issue continues with fiction by Nic Hinson, Javier Perez Rizo, Leah Johnson, Genevieve Owens, and Sage Kirkbride; poetry by Sophie Cornwell, Brianna King, Zack Carson, Zack Carson, Wyatt Vaughn, Erica Moore, Milagros Muschella, Madi Raleigh, Gracie Jones, Kate Shipp, and Phoebe Robbins. This issue includes Mistake House‘s sixth annual photography section, featuring five student photographers: Ena Castillo, Maryam Ghasempour siahgaldeh, Fatemeh Fani, Lamiya Terrell (Editor’s Prize for Photography), and Graham Littell.

Mistake House Magazine is an annual online literary journal of fiction, poetry, and photography by currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students. It is designed and edited by undergraduate students at Principia College. Each issue also includes the “Soap Bubble Set,” which features two professionals – a practicing visual artist and a writer whose work is highlighted alongside the magazine’s selection of student poetry, fiction, and photography. Mistake House seeks literary fiction and poetry that “provides a sense of insight, compassionate justice, a space of rest, and a sense of coming home, including poetry and fiction expressive of documentary poetics.” The current issue includes Fiction by R. Jade Sperr, Jia-An Lee, Max Hunt; Poetry by Sophia Alise, Madison Folsom, Nicole Knorr, Faith Earl, Tijana Zderic, Caitlin Huntly, Kirsten Meehan, Kristen Grace, R. Jade Sperr, Sarah Iqbal, Olivia Skinner, Jeniya Dabish, Jessie Taylor, Elisabeth Graham, Logan Funderburg, Danielle Horn, Emma Maxfield, Andi Moritz, Nate Zipp, Brianna Drahms, Kelly C. Flanagan, Kiersten Wright, Atlas Chambers, Timothy Batchelder, Katie Mihalek, and Kyrstyn Cieply; and Photography by Joselyn Flores, Isabella Guerrero, Camille Abadie, Jack Connors, Sakar Shrestha, Christopher Ajuoga, and Grace Pécheck. The Soap Bubble Set pairs visual artist Samira Yamin and poet Benjamin Garcia for an in-depth look at their work and processes.