Announcing the Shortlist for the 2022 Magpie Award for Poetry!
A Sort of Homecoming Congratulations to the shortlisted poets for the 2022 Magpie Award for Poetry, each of whom sung us home in their own […]
‘Black Tortoise Kowtows’: New Cover Art by Herman Lau!
You Will Learn Step into spring — and find magic in the mud — with Black Tortoise Kowtows by Herman Lau, cover artist for Issue […]
‘Allaigna’s Song: Chorale’ ~ A New Novel by JM Landels!
Trust the Fates Through Overture and Aria and ‘Oburakor‘, you’ve journeyed with Allaigna on her exhilarating quests. And now it is time to join her […]
Throwback Thursday: ‘Stones’ by Genni Gunn
Held in the Hand In ‘Stones’ by Genni Gunn, a tourist confronts the demons that lurk in an ancient Cambodian temple — and in her […]
‘Sap & Seed’ by H Pueyo and Dante Luiz
Tell Me a Story H Pueyo and Dante Luiz are a creative duo and couple from southern Brazil. And we were delighted to publish their […]
Announcing the Longlist for the 2022 Magpie Award for Poetry!
(S)Woop (S)Woop! Magpie ‘swooping season’ (it’s a thing!) will arrive in the fall, right around the time our very own Magpies appear in Issue 36, […]
Contest News: the 2022 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize Is Now Open!
What Do We Want? Great stories! When Do We Want Them? Now! We are delighted to announce that the 2022 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize opens […]
‘Out in the Sticks’ by Kevin Sandefur
A Couple More Stops Ralph Waldo Emerson was certainly onto something when he said, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” But then again, in […]
Throwback Thursday: ‘Stella Ryman and the Case of the Fallen Crusader’ by Mel Anastasiou
A Woman on a Mission In ‘The Case of the Fallen Crusader’ by Mel Anastasiou, the machineries of Institution can’t handle the troubles that plague […]
‘The Art of Ironing’ by Natalie Harris-Spencer
This Daily Smushing The distance and distraction created by a never-ending pile of laundry become the means of connection and communication for a mother and […]