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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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  • Craft - Weekly Features

    You Are Worthy

    16 February 2025

    Elaine Nadal — Excerpt: A writer must also find adventures in the real world.

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  • Craft - Weekly Features

    I wish to write a poem

    16 February 2025

    Sarang Bhand — Excerpt: It cleared something for me and mulling restlessly overnight, I had this whim and urge to write and so ended up writing this.

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  • Craft - Culture - Literature - Sports - Weekly Features

    The Sports Writing Voice That Has Stuck with Me the Most: Maya Angelou’s “Champion of the World”

    29 December 2024

    Matthew Johnson — Excerpt: Angelou is not just telling the play-by-play of an ordinary sporting event; she invites her readers to experience it.

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  • Craft - Weekly Features

    Writing through Disenfranchised Grief

    1 December 2024

    Marie Cloutier — Excerpt: I purchased a notebook and a pen and thought how I might fill the book.

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this week

Titilayo Matiku chronicles mechanical and organic slitherers of Lagos, and Nenad Pavlovic plays accidental agent of chaos across realms.

‘Danfo’ and ‘Ode to a Scaly Skin’ by Titilayo Matiku

The curious case of Tim Cranshaw and all the people that were hurt, maimed, or mildly inconvenienced by it by Nenad Pavlovic

What’s hot

Issue 4 (April 2025)

Best Small Fiction 2025 Nominations

Murals, guest-edited by François Bereaud

Best Microfiction 2025 Nominations

The Pushcart Prize 2025 Nominations

Best Spiritual Literature 2025 Nominations

Best of the Net 2025 Nominations

current submission calls

Weekly Features — Free, Fast, Rolling

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Special Issue & Wee Hooghly submission call

upcoming weekly features

Anna Nguyen, Culture/Humour, Apr 27
Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, Apr 27

Zary Fekete, Humour, May 4
Muheez Olawale, Humour, May 4

Sourav Chatterjee, Culture/Satire, May 11
R Karthik, Culture Essay, May 11

Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos, Humour, May 18
Garrett Berberich, Humour, May 18

Anthony Kane Evans, Humour, May 25
Sherry Morris, Humour, May 25

Mark Daniel Taylor, Humour, June 1
Candice Kelsey, Humour, June 1

Brian Christopher Giddens, Humour, June 8
Gary Finnegan, Culture/Humour, June 8

Roger Chapman, Humour, June 15
Bhartrihari, translated by Louis Hunt, Translation, June 15

Jacelyn Yap, Photo Essay, June 22
Bidisha Satpathy, Humour, June 22

Maureen Tai, Culture/Humour, June 29
Saraswati Nagpal, Humour, June 29

James Sennott and Alba Blanco, Humour, July 6
Amita Basu, Humour, July 6

Dustin Vann, Culture Essay, July 13
Mark McConville, Culture Essay / Music Review, July 13

Barnali Ray Shukla, Humour, July 20
Zoé Mahfouz, Humour, July 20

Elizabeth Barton, Humour, July 27
Chayanika Saikia, Photo Essay, July 27

Susnata Karmakar, Photo Essay, Aug 3
Panna Naik and Rohee Dholakia, Translation, Aug 3

D.C. Nobes, Humour, Aug 10
Samiksha Ransom, Humour, Aug 10

Z. M. Asafzah, Culture/Music/Mythology/Review, Aug 17
Jer Hayes, Culture Essay, Aug 17

Kira Córdova, Culture/Humour, Aug 24
Jim Hohenbary, Culture/Science, Aug 24

Rafaela Kottou, Culture/Travel/Food, Aug 31
Raka Banerjee, Culture/Travel, Aug 31

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