When to Submit:Our submission dates for Issue 58 (publication in 2026) are: Fiction: Saturday, August 23 – Sunday, November 23, 2025Nonfiction: Saturday, August 23 – Sunday, December 13, 2025Fiction c...

The very first story collection from the critically acclaimed, visionary author of the novels Lakewood, The Women Could Fly, and Meet Me at the CrossroadsOver three genre-busting novels, Megan Gidding...

An amateur herpetologist gets swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards, a dental hygienist takes a doomed trip to see a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk, a gruesome gag gift...

He’s not so talkative, but the stars are out: there’s the Milky Way, there’s Venus! Not sure what that is, but it’s fucking beautiful, you say, pointing to the east, your voice ringing out like a bell...

He’s not so talkative, but the stars are out: there’s the Milky Way, there’s Venus! Not sure what that is, but it’s fucking beautiful, you say, pointing to the east, your voice ringing out like a bell...

When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed som...

He’s not so talkative, but the stars are out: there’s the Milky Way, there’s Venus! Not sure what that is, but it’s fucking beautiful, you say, pointing to the east, your voice ringing out like a bell...

We asked writers to imagine what comes next. What’s the story after the story? Or the sequel no one asked for? How do we keep going, or revive ourselves, in the new normal?

I had to rethink my relationship to attention

Books, magazines, workshops, and our famous shirts.

Books, magazines, workshops, and our famous shirts.