by Paris Jessie Jessie’s poetry moves through the world with hunger and tooth, examines how the breeze moves through the body, conforms to ie, how memory imprints, how to call fire, how to howl, to r...

by Emily F. Kerlin 24 pages open edition

What Are the Hugo Awards and Who Can Participate?

issue no. 009 of Sugared Water lit mag, published in spring 2025.

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by Esinam Bediako Bediako’s sharp, image rich language combines essay and poems to lyrically paint the portrait of becoming oneself. Layering memory and experience from childhood on, her work weaves ...

Love Me, Love My Belly is a half-size zine composed of art, creative nonfiction, & poetry—an annual print zine dedicated to the acceptance of self and imperfection as beauty. It’s about the space...

by Billie R. Tadros Billie R. Tadros’  inter: burial places  is at once like a confession and a chant, carrying us through a narrative of seeking, something lost, desire, full of language like “your…

We ask you to step into the dark forest with us, with these women and girls in poem—their sharp knives, those long fangs may protect you. Reach out—take the hand of the one beside you. Don’t worry if…

Work in response to a call for the intimate & specific, letters full of evocative language, short, funny notes, or passionate remembrances, fictional or poetic, unsent or scrawled on a postcard. 60…

by Jordan McNeil McNeil’s chapbook of linked micro fictions is alluring in its call to step into the woods, coaxing the reader off the path, enchanting in its call to cross the threshold. (Porkbelly…

by Amorak Huey Huey’s A MAP OF THE FARM THREE MILES FROM THE END OF HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD investigates place and the things that memory and reflection have made of it. Poems are titled after locations…

by Adrie Rose Rose’s poetry leads us on a journey through vulnerable, distilled moments spun with steel underpinnings. These poems persist through flashes of deep shadow and heartache, reaching for…

by Kristi Carter Carter’s work investigates the intersection of intergenerational trauma, survival, feminism, and power. Body-heavy and image-rich, these poems evoke a landscape of the scars and…

by Colleen S. Harris-Keith Some Assembly Required is a sampling of Colleen S. Harris-Keith’s poetry dealing with motherhood, marriage, and a life shared. From reading in bed through rickety crib…

An anthology of work rooted in the imagery & language of haunting, incorporating all manner of them: ghosts, people, places—things persistently present, things that occupy the mind and refuse to let…

A chapbook of creative nonfiction by Sayuri Ayers.

Porkbelly Press is an independent chapbook press based in Cincinnati, Ohio (where pigs fly). We print chapbooks, micro chapbooks, anthologies, zines (such as the body image zine Love Me, Love My Belly...

by Susan Milchman Milchman borrows 80s song lyrics to transform them (via the golden shovel form) into long-lined poems tied together with fearless wit, rhythm, and sharp-tongued agency: “the dreams a...