The Journal

Our latest issue 48.1 is out and available at thejournalmag.org !!! Featuring work by @AFB16 , @robcolgate , @josiahhnelson , & more!

Huge props to these magnificent writers! Check out these Best of the Net nominations on thejournalmag.org

We are open for submissions Sep 2 — Dec 2 !!! We're looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews & reviews, and ART. Get your submissions ready! *Poetry submissions capped at 300; will reopen at the beginning of each month! visit : thejournal.submittable.com

Poets! The Journal’s Wheeler Poetry prize is open for submissions NOW! September 1st! In addition to $2500, one winner will receive a full-length poetry collection published through @ohiostatepress !!! Judged by OSU's very own Marcus Jackson !!! Submit until October 7th 📖✍️

Congratulations to all of our finalists and semi-finalists as well! To everyone who submitted and trusted us with your work, we thank you—it was our sincere pleasure to read so many remarkable manuscripts!

We are ecstatic to announce that the winner of the 2024 Non/Fiction Collection Prize judged by @thao_writes is Tyler McAndrew! (@tyler_tyler_tyl) My Prisoner & Other Stories will be published by Mad Creek Books from @ohiostatepress in 2025!

Read issue 47.4, “Body of Work”, today🫁 includes prose and poetry from Katherine Plumhoff, Martin Pinol, Lillian Emerick Valentine, and more find “Body of Work” at thejournalmag.org or using the link in our bio! Featured artwork is “Performance” by Mario Loprete

Deadline extended ‘til Sunday for this anthology, curated by a previous managing editor!!

FROM THE ARCHIVE: the hunger palace, Kristen Bowen In ‘the hunger palace’, published in our 2019 summer issue, Bowen explores the relationship between motherhood, the soul, and the self. Look out for our upcoming issue 47.4, “Body of Work”, featuring other body work👂🫁🦷

—What struck me first were the ways of exiting-via bird, via memory, via magic. Brent Ameneyro's speakers are all knowing and all nostalgia. Producing not the sheen of romantic recall but the cleverness of reconstruction— @skylerarden of the Journal on @BrentAmeneyro’s new poetry

Issue 47.3 is out now 🏙️ featuring amazing poetry by @miriamcore_, @AvaWinterPoet, @_rayehendrix , prose by @KelleneOHara, @nbarnhart20, art by @ericatrabold, and so much more.

"Wo’s is a drag poetics, intentionally unearthing all the unexamined bits of personhood, nature, and language itself in a sizzling burst of sequins." @isaiahbackgaal on Wo Chan clereviewofbooks.com/writing/wo-cha…

I got to write about one of my favorite poetry collections and what it’s meant for me as a bby drag queen in an increasingly hostile state. Much thanks to the fabulous editors and to @taylordorrell for the advice ✨🪩

From past contributor @BrentAmeneyro "A Face out of Clay" is out this June!! Pre-order with the below discount code and check out Brent's poem in issue 45.2 of The Journal

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER AVAILABLE!! A Face Out of Clay is being published by the Center for Literary Publishing in the Mountain/West Poetry Series. They only publish one book a year in this series, and they chose mine!

This is the theme I need right now 🥹

Need trans people to submit!!!❤️❤️ I always find it funny when there’s no trans poets in “body” issues!!

Hello friends, submit to one of our favorite journals out there!

.@OSUtheJOURNAL is one of my favorite journals ever~ this is such a great theme. Submit your work!