4 days left to submit to phoebe journal! Our submissions close on October 15th.

Our fee-free week for historically marginalized writers is still happening — it goes until Oct. 3rd, so go submit now!

phoebe journal’s fee-free week for marginalized writers starts tomorrow, September 27th to October 3rd!

“Slavery colors my skin and the history of this island. I know…I am a descendant of both the slave and the slave master, the person who was taken from their home…and the person who decided they were…at their disposal. I choose to only claim one side.” Read my cohort-mate & friend Denise’s essay!

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Denise Magloire The sound of drops crashing against the window fills the room until they are masked by the cries of a newborn. His lungs fill up with air, his fists tightly clenched, and his eyes clos...

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Meet phoebe’s nonfiction team: David and Kelsey! Do you have anything in common with our nonfiction editors? ✍️

This weekend, submissions to phoebe will be free!

Meet phoebe’s fiction team: Griffin, Austin, and Ezra! Do you have any shared common interests? 🤔

Meet phoebe’s poetry team: McKinley and Rowan! Do you have anything in common with our wonderful poetry editors? ✍️

Meet phoebe’s editor-in-chief and managing editor: Lee and Noa! Do you have anything in common with them? ✨

I came home from university early too, so this piece by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @phoebejournal.bsky.social really hits. Thankfully, I didn't disappear. #FlashInTheFeed phoebejournal.com/fourteen-to-...

Fourteen to Twenty-Nine - phoebe

Dawn Miller Jack arrives home from university even though it’s not yet spring break. He’s thinner than before he left, his elbows pointed like the sharp angles of the engineering caliper he carries ev...

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Submissions open for issue 56.1! Head to our Submittable to submit today 🐟

Phoebe’s fall issue submissions open THIS Saturday, on August 15th! We will be looking for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. 🐦‍⬛

Kinda chic to read issues from your favorite literary journals ✨ phoebejournal.com/55-2/

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2026 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Your Mouth Gets Well by Lane Michael Stanley 2026 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner Yellow by T.C. Martin 2026 Spring Poetry Contest Winner Ignite by Daniel Lurie Rea...

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Thank you so much for this shoutout! 💕

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“my grandmother says no man ever lived there. ghosts aren’t real.” Read Port Angeles, Summer, 2009 by Carson Sandell in phoebe’s 55.2 online issue! This piece was a nonfiction runner-up in the spring 2026 contest. The link is in our bio to read both this piece and the rest of the issue!

My poem "Contentment" is also live in the new issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social, sharing space with @adamg.bsky.social, @rosswhite.com & others. You can read at the link (the artwork paired with it is fantastic) or here. phoebejournal.com/contentment/

I have a new visual poem published in the most recent issue of Phoebe Journal @phoebejournal.bsky.social Read the full issue at the link/ the 2026 Spring Contest issue. #vispo #glitch #visualpoetry phoebejournal.com/robert-kenter/

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"Blather"digital photo collage Robert Frede Kenter is the author of Father Tectonic (Ethel Zine, 2025) & other book works. A writer, visual artist, editor & book designer (finalist, Da Vinci Eye/Hoffe...

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Review of Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey by our incoming fiction editor Griffin Hamstead out now! Read it by clicking on the link below. ⬇️ phoebejournal.com/gilded-machi...

Gilded Machismo: Performed and Punctured Masculinity in Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey - phoebe

Alex Espinoza’s The Sons of El Rey captures the generational aspirations and labors of the Vega family, and its men, bringing forward into the light what is confined to the shadows—shadows of the soul...

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Issue 55.2 is now LIVE online! 🎉 Read it on phoebe’s website - the link is in our bio. Our contributors did a wonderful job, go check it out! #PhoebeJournal #LiteraryJournal

The Incarcerated Writers Project has started a blog! Read using the link below ⬇️ phoebejournal.com/blog/

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When the Chickens Get Big By Jeshua D. Noel In middle school, I would sneak out of my bedroom window, like in the movies. I would take the screen out to do it until the screen broke and then when it b...

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phoebe journal’s 2026 SPRING CONTEST winners! 🎉

Check out the publication from our former contributor Chanlee Luu, who was in phoebe Issue 53.2! Congrats on the publication! ✨ chanleeluu.weebly.com

Check out our former contributor Sneha Subramanian Kanta’s pamphlet! Sneha was featured in Issue 50.1 of phoebe. Congrats on the publication! 🎉 @snehaskanta.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Are you a former phoebe contributor? Have you published a book, poetry collection, memoir, etc. recently? Head to our Linktree in our bio to submit to the Google Form & fill out the info! Your work will be shared on our socials. ✨ We would love to support our contributors!

Today is the LAST DAY to submit for our web issue 55.2! Get your pieces in - we are still accepting VISUAL ART, POETRY, and CNF through 11:59pm tonight! 🙂‍↕️

Come visit phoebe on the last day of AWP for: - 20% off all issues - a LIMITED EDITION tote bag if you purchase an issue - free bookmarks! By visiting us, you can: - sign up for our newsletter - chat with an editor! - learn about the INCARCERATED WRITERS PROJECT (IWP)

🗣️🗣️ Calling all fiction writers! If you were planning on submitting, NOW is your time! Submit TODAY for fiction, before our fiction subs close!

Come say hi at TABLE 1055 at AWP! So To Speak will be offering free subs with an issue purchase, and we will be selling some fun merch! 🫶

Honored to have a story in this beautiful issue of @phoebejournal.bsky.social! You can read my monstrous little story here: phoebejournal.com/cryptids-of-...

Cryptids of Ohio - phoebe

Sydney Koeplin “I think we should have claws.” “Pinchers.” “Fangs!” “Fur.” We threw our ingredients into the twenty-gallon plastic tub we’d stolen from the Galliones’ backyard and dragged into the woo...

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phoebe journal@phoebejournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Issue 55.1 is now LIVE online! Go check out this wonderful issue by going to phoebe’s website. 🥳

phoebe wants your VISUAL ART! 🧑‍🎨 Submit to phoebe through Submittable today through March 8th!