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Harvard's undergraduate literary magazine publishing art, fiction, poetry, criticism, and nonfiction features. www.theharvardadvocate.com

The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. Over its long history, it can count T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, and Norman Mailer among its members and e.e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Tom Wolfe as contributors to its pages. A quarterly magazine, its mission is to publish the best art, fiction, poetry, and prose that the Harvar

d undergraduate community offers. To submit to The Harvard Advocate: www.theharvardadvocate.com/submit

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06/19/2025

no deadlines, no due dates. send us your poetry, fiction, and art today at theharvardadvocate.com/submit - we are reviewing on a rolling basis!

06/06/2025

🪻🌷Our yearly reunion is tomorrow, June 7th, 3-5pm! Bring your family and classmates to reminisce in the Sanctum over drinks and refreshment. Meet the classes of ‘-0 and ‘-5, our current president and publisher, and trustee Julian Lucas ‘15!🪻🌷

05/24/2025

🏆🎉Congratulations to OGECHI OBI ‘26 for winning the 2025 Louis Begley Prize judged by Bryan Washington with a cash award of $1000!! Her story “The Matriarch” has “prose [that] demonstrates a depth that’s both precise and expansive; a narrative which sticks with its reader long after the conclusion.” 🎊🎉

05/02/2025

welcome to ma advo

04/16/2025

got a short story? want it to be read by Bryan Washington (author of Lot and Memorial)? eager to be a less starving artist?

the Advocate, the nation’s oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine, is calling for Harvard undergraduate submissions to the annual Louis Begley prize, judged by Bryan Washington. email your short fiction to [email protected] by May 2, 2025 for a chance at a $1,000 prize. see https://theharvardadvocate.com/begley for more information.

03/08/2025

Submit to The Harvard Advocate’s DIAGNOSIS issue! This semester the nations oldest continuously published literary magazine is investigating diagnosis as a mode of knowing and difference — tell it like it is.

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03/04/2025

Thank you Leslie Jamison for visiting our sanctum for tea today!

Leslie is the bestselling author of The Gin Closet, The Empathy Exams, Splinters, etc, and former Fiction Editor of the Advocate.

02/23/2025

“Then he’d fall and smash his knees and sometimes his hands and his face, and if he smashed them hard enough when he walked back the grass would turn white and the sky would fill with black explosions and still things would start to move.” - Molly Dektar, “Cuccaro,” Spring 2011 Issue

02/18/2025

The LAND ISSUE spotted at 👀👀 purchase or subscribe to get your copy now!

02/16/2025

come support black artists on campus and enjoy an open mic + gallery walk! black art night will be held on feb 21, 7:30 pm, at the advocate (21 south street).

ps: reach out to [email protected] if you have visual art you would like to display at the event!

02/11/2025

free books. need we say more? come fall in love with your next favorite read this valentine’s day from 3 to 5 pm at 21 south street!

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