The Journal
@OSUtheJOURNAL
The literary magazine of the MFA program of The Ohio State University, since 1973. Read Issue 47.4, out now!
Our latest issue 48.1 is out and available at thejournalmag.org !!! Featuring work by @AFB16 , @robcolgate , @josiahhnelson , & more!
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
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!
Deadline extended ‘til Sunday for this anthology, curated by a previous managing editor!!
Just under one week to get your submissions in for @isaiahbackgaal's Community Anthology, "On Queer Family." 🙌 Read Isaiah's call in full here theseventhwave.org/on-queer-famil… & send us your work by 7/18!
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 ✨🪩
"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…
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!
Hello friends, submit to one of our favorite journals out there!
SUBMISSIONS OPEN for our themed issue until 5/31! This issue explores the body as a site of memory. We are interested in how, over time, our flesh becomes a recollection of triumph and trauma. Submit at thejournal.submittable.com/submit or follow the link in our bio.
.@OSUtheJOURNAL is one of my favorite journals ever~ this is such a great theme. Submit your work!
SUBMISSIONS OPEN for our themed issue until 5/31! This issue explores the body as a site of memory. We are interested in how, over time, our flesh becomes a recollection of triumph and trauma. Submit at thejournal.submittable.com/submit or follow the link in our bio.