Aster(ix) Journal

We are back! Our summer hiatus was filled with writing, reading, exploring, and gathering. We are excited to get back into the work. We’d like to announce an open call for submissions for a special DEBUT FICTION ISSUE guest edited by @cleyvisnatera, author of Neruda on the Park.

We are seeking short stories from writers never published in-genre and standalone chapters from unpublished debut novels.  We hope for the intimate, the honest, and the beautiful.  Please follow the link for more details on the call and how to submit! asterixjournal.com/fall2024call/

We are back! Our summer hiatus was filled with writing, reading, exploring, and gathering. We are excited to get back into the work. We’d like to announce an open call for submissions for a special DEBUT FICTION ISSUE guest edited by @cleyvisnatera, author of Neruda on the Park.

@juliandlopera @drovarela @acruzwriter @caroderobertis @VChangPoet @amandajotien @zadri You can also order this beautiful issues in full color in print at a variety of vendors, including at @Bookshop_Org! bookshop.org/p/books/bendin…

The Spring 2024 issue of Aster(ix), BENDING, features work Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.

Our new issue, BENDING, is live! @acruzwriter solicited 12 writers to respond to artwork by Laylah Ali. They wrote back in micro-fictions, creative nonfiction, and poems. Drawings by Ali are interspersed throughout. Read for free at asterixjournal.com/bending-spring…

Our Spring 2024 issue, BENDING, is launching in a few weeks! If you're in Pittsburgh on April 10, please join us for a conversation @acruzwriter, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Laylah Ali. @PittWriters @CAAPPoetics @pittarts2pitt @pghwriterseries RSVP here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41…

Come say hi at Table T1430 at #awpwriter! Free Aster(ix) print issues and postcards, and free tote bags from @CAAPPoetics. Plus don't miss @steffantriplett's book signing tomorrow Friday Feb 9 at 1pm. Pictured: Steffan with @BlackAndOutside and @amandajotien.

Want a free print copy of Aster(ix)? Come by our Book Fair Table with @CAAPPoetics at #AWP24! Plus, catch @acruzwriter and @tashiraz on panels with @CleyvisNatera, @MitchSJackson, @NK_Adjei, @likaluca, @Maegan_Poland, @meadwriter, @yodelnyc, and @mpnye. See you in KC!

Our 10-Year Anniversary Issue: Fiction & Interviews is out now! Read free online or order in-print. Feat @IvelisseWrites, @katie_gutz, @KiannyNAntigua, @UtushimiTwandi, @nathaliephandal, @sejalshahwrites, @vikhinao, @yalitzawrites! Edited by @acruzwriter asterixjournal.com/10th-anniversa…

@amylizbishop We love you @amylizbishop!!! Honored to have been a part of the happy art cry <3

I actually cried at my desk this morning - so honored to have one of my college poems (!!) be included in @asterixjournal’s 10th anniversary issue & stunned to be included with these fierce, talented writers & thinkers 😭

Thank you to everyone who worked hard to make these issues (much less Aster(ix)!) a reality including but not limited to @acruzwriter, @zadri, @amandajotien, @tashiraz, @meganevalley, @SangiLama, @KiraWitkin, @paolawrites, @dawnlundy, @oinkness, @emilyraboteau and many more!

The issue features work by.... (We're going to hit the tag limit so fast with all these beautiful faces!) + @MarieMyungOkLee, @FluentMundo, @karenanhweilee, @shaylalawz, @lorgia_pena, @locasdelima, and many more not in the Twitterverse!

Popping in from our summer hiatus 🌴🌊✍️🏽📖 to share the digital version of our 10th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE PART I: POETRY & NONFICTION! (Yes, Aster(ix) was really founded in 2013, can you believe?) Edited by @acruzwriter & Marta Lucia Vargas. Read here: asterixjournal.com/10th-anniversa…

Mothers are powerful, and they're great writers. Publish more moms! Happy mother's day to all the moms (however you may be defined!) out there; thank you for your hard work. Check out our collection of writing for #MothersDay2023 here: asterixjournal.com/motherhood/

@AmarisCastillo @zafatista @poddar_namrata @AidaWrites Moms talk #climate 🌎 in our MOTHERS UNEARTHED ISSUE edited by @emilyraboteau & @tashiraz. Feat: @MarieMyungOkLee, @SujathaTF, @StacyLeMelle, @KiannyNAntigua, @nimmideviarchy, @Vanessa_LaLoba, @CarolynF21, @DeeshaPhilyaw and more: asterixjournal.com/mothers-uneart… #MothersDay2023

Celebrating mothers who write this #MothersDay2023! @Lupita_Reads starts us off with a short essay + a beautiful list of 5 novels by @CleyvisNatera, Jhumpa Lahiri, @melissa_rivero, our own @acruzwriter, and @ndennis_benn. See thread for more...🧵 asterixjournal.com/in-honor-of-mo…

New #shortstory, "How You Mourn Zara," by Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam @ChiomaIwunze_ on our digital journal! Read online now at: asterixjournal.com/how-you-mourn-…