Ninth Letter is honored to feature Amanda Borquaye's essay “Wayward,” which is the Disquiet International Literary Award’s Nonfiction Prize winner for 2026. Check it out at ninthletter.com. Link in bio!

Introducing the 2026 Literary Awards Creative Nonfiction Judge: Angela Pelster 🏆 Submit your best work for a chance at $1000 prize. Link in bio! Plus: 📗 One-year print subscription included. 🖋 All submissions considered for publication.

Introducing the 2026 Literary Awards Poetry Judge: Steven Espada Dawson 🏆 Submit your best work for a chance at $1000 prize. Link in bio! Plus: 📗 One-year print subscription included. 🖋 All submissions considered for publication.

Submit by May 1! $1000 prize in each genre. All domestic entrants get a one-year print subscription. All work considered for publication. To submit + full details find the link in our bio.

Introducing the 2026 Literary Awards Fiction Judge: Dantiel W. Moniz 🏆 Submit your best work for a chance at $1000 prize. Link in bio! Plus: 📗 One-year print subscription included. 🖋 All submissions considered for publication.

Ninth Letter is proud to present the latest web edition: Performance. 🎭 Featuring the work of 15 amazing writers, this issue asks what it means to perform? How do we do it, why do we do it, and for whom? 🎭 Read it for free at ninthletter.com! 🎭 Link in bio.

TJ Price (@eerieyore.bsky.social) unnerves readers (and writers) with a story that questions the future of AI and what may happen when that intelligence is fed and grows in power. Read “THE GLORIOUS” at ninthletter.com. Link in bio.

Submit your best work for a chance at $1000 in poetry, fiction, and cnf. Plus: Free one-year print subscription to 9L included ✅ All submissions considered for pub ✅ Open until April 30 ✅ Waiting on a response from us for another submission? You're still eligible for the contest!

Ninth Letter is heading to Baltimore for #AWP26! Come visit us at BOOTH 1270 for a good hang.

Ninth Letter reviews the exciting new collection LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR (Sarabande 2026) by Lesyk Panasiuk trans. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter is pleased to present an excerpt from RANGE OF MOTION (@acrebooks.bsky.social) by former 9L contributor Brian Trapp (@btrapperkeeper@bsky.social)! Plus, 9L staffer Nathan Metz chats with the author for an exclusive interview. Check it out on our website. Link in bio.

Ellie Black's "S L A S H E R" in @ninthletter.bsky.social

Ninth Letter’s latest feature is from Maternal Mitochondria, the mother-daughter duo of Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan. Their collaborative piece is a ghostly tale of a deserted house that may or not be haunted, a story that may or not be true. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter is pleased to present Anne Menasché's poem "My Father Cooks My Mother Breakfast," the 2024 Regeneration Honorable Mention selected by Stephanie Anderson. Read it now at ninthletter.com. Link in bio.

New poem out from the wonderful @ninthletter.bsky.social! It's from my WIP dealing with my time in the scouts. Read the whole thing at ninthletter.com/2025/11/25/j...

Volume 22, Issue 1 is in PRINT! ✨ Featuring work from 23 writers, this is an issue you want on your book shelf. Check out the contents list on our website, and order your copy today! Link in bio 💚 . . . . . . . #litmag #poetry #creativenonfiction #shortstory #creativewriting #literaryjournal

Web Edition: Reversal is now live at ninthletter.com! Featuring work from 13 writers, you can read the entire issue for free today. Link in bio!

Submissions are FREE until we hit our cap of 300 per genre! Submit now for print consideration. See full guidelines on our website or submittable. Link in bio.

We're open for print AND web submissions & eager to read your work! No theme for the print edition. "Performance" theme for web edition. Link in bio for guidelines & details! #creativewriting #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction #litmag

Day 25: “The Other Things We Swallow” by Natalia Martinez in @ninthletter.bsky.social. I’ve never read an abecedarian quite like this. ninthletter.com/2025/02/28/n...

Ninth Letter is excited to present the poem “The Masks above the Proscenium" by Richard Hoffman as our August feature. Read it on the website for free! Link in bio.

🥁Drumroll, please...🥁 We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2025 Ninth Letter Literary Awards. Thank you to all submitters for trusting us with your words. And much gratitude to our contest editorial staff and our fabulous guest judges for their hard work! ✨

Check out "Sundogs" by Meghan E. O'Toole live on our website. Meghan was the 2024 Regeneration Contest winner as chosen by Stephanie Anderson, and this story originally appeared in print Vol. 21.2. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter is honored to feature Tylea Richard’s essay “Caribbean Gothic,” which is the Disquiet International Literary Award’s Nonfiction Prize winner for 2025. Read it for free at ninthletter.com. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter, in partnership with I-Regen, is accepting submissions to the 2025 Regeneration Literary Awards. The great Scott Chaskey serves as our guest judge. Submit work that explores the “regeneration" as it relates to food and food systems. Link in bio! #regenerativeagriculture #writingcontest

We’re back to share more incredible writing! Don’t miss Anne Pritikin’s short story “Hold Hands, Children,” which received an honorable mention for fiction in our 2024 Literary Awards chosen by Lena Valencia. Live now on our website. Link in bio.

We're thrilled to feature the work of Daniel Uncapher, whose three collage essays won the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction selected by Kristen Millares Young. Check out this genre-bending work live on our website and coming soon in print in Vol. 21.2. Link in bio!

"Three Plagues" up on @ninthletter.bsky.social now is so great and such a wonderful example of how real, immersive world-building is inseparable from line and tone. @ivygrimes.bsky.social sepia old-testament voice makes big, weird things look easy. ninthletter.com/feature/ivy-...

We’re proud to share this fantastic poem by Michelle Phương Hồ which will appear in print in Volume 21, Issue 02. Check out “Facing It,” and stay tuned all week for more work from out 2024 contest winners. Link in bio.