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We are now CLOSED to submissions for our summer issue, which is TK.

Issue 6

FICTION
Magnolia Jenkins Cracks an Egg by Ruby Davis
Jury Duty by Ella Gray Hickman
TMTBTMIP by Selene Colburn

POETRY
Elephants and Love by Charlotte Steel
I’m Not Afraid of Wedding Cake I Find it Erotic
by Anna Rahkonen
Sisyphus reflects on his relationship with his boulder
by Anisha Tandon
Playing Wendy Peffercorn in Santa Fe, NM
by Jasmine Khaliq
Tivoli by Alexander Pham
Having Taken to my Bed by C. Francis Fisher
After Rain by Emma Aylor

GADABOUT TOWN: Ships in the Night

Issue 5: Dreams October 2025

FICTION:
Little Shames: A Cycle by Colleen Grablick
For Honor! by Ava MacBlane
Migration Season by Aoife Quinn
The Pessimist by Rhian Sasseen
Stem, Stone, Brine by Sarah Rose de Souza

NONFICTION:
Excerpt from The Princess of 72nd Street
by Elaine Kraf
Interview with Hilary Plum
Interview with Claire Horn

POETRY:
American III: Solitary Man by Heather Gluck
Real Time by Rachel Stone
Water, Wait by Maria Robins-Somerville

GADABOUT TOWN: What’s in a Dream?

Issue 4: Love February 2025

FICTION:
There Was an Old Man by Kanyin Ajayi
Laying the Burden Down by Garrett Biggs
Bearwife by Emma

NONFICTION:
Your Revolutionary Love by Katy Burnett
Interview with Phil Elverum by Frank Falisi

POETRY:
Love is an Ambivalence That Knows No Bounds
by Elisabeth Nicula
Losing the Band by Ashley D. Escobar
Nothing Holy Sits at the Other Side of Aloneness by Nora Rose Tomas

Issue 3

FICTION:
These are things I only tell myself
by Rosamaría Roffiel, tr. by Tricia Viveros
Floating Mass by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland
Rabbits by Sarah Edwards
Echo and Bubbles by Hayden Betts
Due Diligence by James Chrisman
There Seems to Be a Polyp on Your Uterine Wall by Brianna Di Monda
My Baby in the Sink by Jules Rivera

NONFICTION:
Subject-Viewer by Madison Jamar
Violets in the House of Ghosts
by Audrey Robinovitz
Spam Means I Love You by Leah Rae Hulgin
Interview with Tracy Rosenthal

POETRY:
Dog Sit by Alicia Mountain
Brood XIX by Ariela Gittlen
Hunter Gather by Serena Devi
Razbliuto by Mathias Rosenzweig
I Notice You Look Like Your Father by Kai-Lilly Karpman

GADABOUT TOWN: What’s in a Ghost Story?

Issue 2
FICTION:
Cultural Capital by Leah Abrams
Can You Hear Me? by Grace Byron
Red in the Face by Jay Graham
Boytoy by Brendon Holder
The Story-Teller by Hanna Johansson (translated by Kira Josefsson)
The Third Year by Corley Miller

NONFICTION:
Sepulcher: a Manifesto by Naomi Falk
Get it Hot by Jenna Mahale
Hunting and Fishing by Leah Mandel
Interview with Sophie Lewis

POETRY:
Two Poems by Jameson Fitzpatrick
thirty-one by Ceara Hennessey
A Lost Love Poem by Greta Knutson (translated by Noah Rawlings)
My Neighbor by Fran Matos
The Stars by Simone Weil (translated by Noah Rawlings)

GADABOUT TOWN: What’s in a Sex Scene?

Issue 1
FICTION:
Abu Ghraib by Aixa de la Cruz (translated by Jacob Rogers)
Cult Classic by Annabelle Johnston
Drinks on Wednesday Night by Greta Rainbow
Exposure to Light by Michelle Lyn King
Ornithology by Ali Rose Banach

NONFICTION:
Return to Desire by Gabrielle Sicam
What’s in a Bag? by Mána Taylor

POETRY:
After a Call with my Mother by Joana Urtasun
pitch to be your girl by Kameel Mir
Pure of Heart by Daisy Alioto

GADABOUT TOWN:
Inside Out: What’s in Your Bag?

Odds and ends

Labor Romance: on Sean Baker’s Anora by Marla Cruz
October is the cruelest month by Lubna Ahmad Abu Dahrouj
Cross my Heart: a crossword by Leonor Grave
Moonspotting: a Manifesto by Zainab Hussein
Tragedy of the Blue by Zainab Hussein
Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook: an excerpt

Gadabout Town: What’s On Your Bedside Table?