Phoebe Journal

Phoebe Journal We're GMU's general interest literary journal and we're looking for your submissions! http://phoebe.

Phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. We choose our writers because we believe their work succeeds at its goals, whether its goals are to uphold or challenge literary tradition. We insist on openness, which means we welcome both experimental and conv

entional prose and poetry, and we insist on being entertained, which means the work must capture and hold our attention, whether it be the potent language of a poem or the narrative mechanics of a short story. Phoebe: Journal of Literature and Art, publishing original work since 1971.

Wondering who our poetry judge is for phoebe's spring contest? None other than Tyler Mills!About our judge: Tyler Mills ...
01/30/2023

Wondering who our poetry judge is for phoebe's spring contest? None other than Tyler Mills!

About our judge: Tyler Mills (she/her) is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her memoir, The Bomb Cloud, received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC and is forthcoming from Unbound Edition Press. A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and lives in Brooklyn.


https://tylermills.com/

Meet our nonfiction judge, Lacy Crawford! We're excited to have her on board this year's Spring Contest!More about our j...
01/26/2023

Meet our nonfiction judge, Lacy Crawford! We're excited to have her on board this year's Spring Contest!

More about our judge: Lacy Crawford is the author of fiction and nonfiction, including the satire Early Decision (Morrow 2013) and the memoir Notes on a Silencing (Little Brown 2020). Notes on a Silencing was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book, as well as a Best Book of 2020 by Time, People, NPR, BookPage, Library Journal and LitHub. Lacy’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Narrative, LitHub, and Vanity Fair and her literary journalism includes interviews and profiles of Frank Conroy, Reynolds Price, Geoffrey Wolff, and Shirley Hazzard. She lives in California with her husband and three children.

https://lacycrawford.com/

We are excited to have Jamil Jan Kochai as our fiction judge for phoebe's 52.2 Spring Contest!A little bit about our jud...
01/23/2023

We are excited to have Jamil Jan Kochai as our fiction judge for phoebe's 52.2 Spring Contest!

A little bit about our judge: Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award, and 99 Nights in Logar, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories.

https://www.jamiljankochai.com/

Do you love words, especially your own? Do you have the insatiable artist impulse to create? Do you want to make your pa...
01/21/2023
Submissions - phoebe

Do you love words, especially your own? Do you have the insatiable artist impulse to create? Do you want to make your parents wonder where they went wrong? Send us your work!

phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Above all, we seek to publish quality work. Please review our website, especially our latest online issue, for an idea of the caliber of writing we publish. We produce a print issue in fall/winter and an online issue in spring/summer. We'...

Spring submissions for phoebe are OPEN! Submit before our March 15th deadline!
01/15/2023

Spring submissions for phoebe are OPEN! Submit before our March 15th deadline!

Happy holidays from phoebe!
12/21/2022

Happy holidays from phoebe!

Congrats to this year’s Pushcart nominees!
12/10/2022

Congrats to this year’s Pushcart nominees!

Our submissions close TOMORROW!
10/21/2022
Submissions - phoebe

Our submissions close TOMORROW!

phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Above all, we seek to publish quality work. Please review our website, especially our latest online issue, for an idea of the caliber of writing we publish. We produce a print issue in fall/winter and an online issue in spring/summer. We'...

Come join us in the JC Bistro for our Submit-a-Thon with So To Speak!
10/21/2022

Come join us in the JC Bistro for our Submit-a-Thon with So To Speak!

Do you plan to submit work to lit mags but have trouble getting around to it? Do you like snacks? Will you be around cam...
10/17/2022

Do you plan to submit work to lit mags but have trouble getting around to it? Do you like snacks? Will you be around campus this Friday? If so, join our Submit-A-Thon, hosted by phoebe and So To Speak!

10/17/2022

Only 5 days left to send us your art, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! Send us things to love, things to hate but grudgingly admire, things to fight over, things to make us cry. The point: send us things! Time is running out!

October Checklist:- Ghost Photoshoot- (Attempt) a homemade pumpkin pie... - Submit your work! Phoebe's submissions are o...
10/16/2022

October Checklist:

- Ghost Photoshoot
- (Attempt) a homemade pumpkin pie...
- Submit your work!

Phoebe's submissions are open until October 22nd! For more talk about our submission process follow this link: http://phoebejournal.com/submissions/

We're open for submissions for our winter issue! Send us your work!https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit
08/17/2022
Phoebe Journal Submission Manager

We're open for submissions for our winter issue! Send us your work!

https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit

phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. We choose our writers because we believe their work succeeds at its goals, whether its goals are to uphold or ch...

🎉Issue 51.2 is finally here! We've got an incredible selection of work to show you, so click the link to see it! http://...
05/16/2022
51.2 - phoebe

🎉Issue 51.2 is finally here! We've got an incredible selection of work to show you, so click the link to see it! http://phoebejournal.com/51-2/

2022 Spring Fiction Contest Winner A Bed Filled with Birds by Faith Shearin 2022 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner Ariel by Lucien Darjeun Meadows 2022 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest Winner New Theories About (Our Obsession With) the Moon by Katherine Huang Fiction The Lost Girls of Lupine Cabin by Anna...

Come check us out at AWP!
03/24/2022

Come check us out at AWP!

🚨Only five days left to submit our 2022 contests! See our website for more information on the contest judges and submiss...
03/11/2022
Contests - phoebe

🚨Only five days left to submit our 2022 contests! See our website for more information on the contest judges and submission guidelines: http://phoebejournal.com/contests/

Every spring, phoebe hosts contests in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, each with a $500 prize. Submissions for the 2022 contest issue are now open. Send submissions through our Submittable page, and find out more about our judges and past contests below. See More Past Announcements 2021 Contest Win...

Check out this fantastic interview with Camilla Taylor, live on our website: http://phoebejournal.com/the-interior-desig...
02/22/2022
The Interior Design of Art: An Interview with Camilla Taylor - phoebe

Check out this fantastic interview with Camilla Taylor, live on our website: http://phoebejournal.com/the-interior-design-of-art-an-interview-with-camilla-taylor/

KS Keeney While phoebe is primarily a journal for literature, over the years we have had the chance to feature some phenomenal visual art, and none more so in my tenure than the work of Camilla Taylor, which I was immediately captivated by. With its chiaroscuro color palette and entrancing textures,...

Check out Leah Sumrall's review of "Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts" by Matt Bell fo...
02/18/2022
Review of Matt Bell’s “Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts” - phoebe

Check out Leah Sumrall's review of "Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts" by Matt Bell for a guide to your next book: http://phoebejournal.com/review-of-matt-bells-refuse-to-be-done-how-to-write-and-rewrite-a-novel-in-three-drafts/

Leah Sumrall I love craft books. It isn’t so much that I read them hoping to learn something new (though I almost always do), but that I enjoy finding new perspectives on what I already know about writing. I especially love reading about process and craft from writers I admire, which is why my MFA...

Today is the last day to submit Spring Contest submissions at half price!
01/23/2022

Today is the last day to submit Spring Contest submissions at half price!

Submissions are open for issue 51.2! We are excited to announce Laura Kasischke, Emily Wilson, and Jami Attenberg as our...
01/22/2022
Submissions - phoebe

Submissions are open for issue 51.2! We are excited to announce Laura Kasischke, Emily Wilson, and Jami Attenberg as our 2022 Spring contest judges! Submit at http://phoebejournal.com/submissions/

phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Above all, we seek to publish quality work. Please review our website, especially our latest online issue, for an idea of the caliber of writing we publish. We produce a print issue in fall/winter and an online issue in spring/summer. We'...

Join us for the first-ever phoebe/So To Speak collaborative reading on November 12th!
11/03/2021

Join us for the first-ever phoebe/So To Speak collaborative reading on November 12th!

We are proud to announce that phoebe is collaborating with So To Speak for our first-ever partner reading! Join us in-pe...
10/26/2021

We are proud to announce that phoebe is collaborating with So To Speak for our first-ever partner reading! Join us in-person or virtually to hear some amazing readers (and maybe win a prize).

Send us your art! Phoebe is accepting art submissions for our winter issue. Check out submission guidelines here: http:/...
09/20/2021
Submissions

Send us your art! Phoebe is accepting art submissions for our winter issue. Check out submission guidelines here: http://phoebejournal.com/submissions/

phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Above all, we seek to publish quality work. Please review our website, especially our latest online issue, for an idea of the caliber o…

We are excited to announce that nonfiction and poetry submissions are FREE today! Head over to our website and submit yo...
09/15/2021

We are excited to announce that nonfiction and poetry submissions are FREE today! Head over to our website and submit your work by midnight to skip the submission fee!

We are open for   starting today! Send us your  ,  ,  , and   at phoebejournal.com. https://phoebe.submittable.com/submi...
08/15/2021
Phoebe Journal Submission Manager

We are open for starting today!

Send us your , , , and at phoebejournal.com.

https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit

phoebe prides itself on supporting up-and-coming writers, whose style, form, voice, and subject matter demonstrate a vigorous appeal to the senses, intellect, and emotions of our readers. We choose our writers because we believe their work succeeds at its goals, whether its goals are to uphold or ch...

"When I translate, my two languages are on equal footing. They don’t need to fight each other for dominance. Instead, th...
05/25/2021
Traversing Languages, Genres, Cultures: An Interview with Ye Chun

"When I translate, my two languages are on equal footing. They don’t need to fight each other for dominance. Instead, they are invited to harmonize with each other. "

Be sure to check out Ana Putgach's interview with Ye Chun on the site today!

And don't miss Ye Chun's new short story collection Hao-- coming soon from Catapult!

http://phoebejournal.com/interview-with-ye-chun/

Ana Pugatch Ye Chun is a bilingual Chinese American author and translator. Her stunning poetry and prose meditate on the power of language, the dichotomy of othering/loneliness, and navigating two …

Issue 50.2 is LIVE!We are so so proud to share our fiftieth contest issue with you and so grateful to our contributors w...
05/14/2021
50.2

Issue 50.2 is LIVE!

We are so so proud to share our fiftieth contest issue with you and so grateful to our contributors who have made this amazing issue possible. We love you all. Happy reading 💕

http://phoebejournal.com/50-2/

2021 Spring Fiction Contest Winner The Light. Breathing by Gregg Maxwell Parker   2021 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner Welcome to Bad Mom Club by Marne Litfin   2021 Greg Grummer Poetry …

"I started writing these thinking I wanted to talk with those people I cannot be or am not in conversation with—but they...
04/22/2021
playing with boxes: an interview with Irene Cooper about spare change

"I started writing these thinking I wanted to talk with those people I cannot be or am not in conversation with—but they couldn’t take the form of a letter, which has too much agency, is too heavy with intent. Other poems outside that sequence didn’t survive or refused to put up with the sonnet form, even broken. But they carry traces of having been in that box."

Don't miss Poetry Ed Millie Tullis' interview with Irene Cooper about her new collection spare change (Finishing Line Press) on the blog today 💚

http://phoebejournal.com/irene-cooper-spare-change/

Millie Tullis Irene Cooper’s spare change (Finishing Line Press)  is a collection composed of small poems that constantly surprise through line, image, and charged, simple language. The poems …

Drum roll please...Announcing the winners of our 50th anniversary issue! (And even a sneak peak of the new phoebe cover....
04/20/2021

Drum roll please...

Announcing the winners of our 50th anniversary issue! (And even a sneak peak of the new phoebe cover...) Congratulations to all of our winners, finalists, and a huge thank you to everyone who has read and submitted to phoebe.

POETRY:

Sabrina Orah Mark on Rock's winning poem, "Tire Chains":

"This small gigantic poem is one of the most beautiful descriptions I've ever read of how we carry our mothers around like the heaviest stones, and like the lightest feathers."

And on the runner up:

"'The Twins' by Benjamin Niespodziany feels like it bloomed out of the seeds of 100 fairytales. It is as much poem as it is a heartbreaking thicket that tells a story about the endlessness of hunger."

NONFICTION:

Lilly Dancyger on Litfin's winning essay, "Welcome to Bad Mom Club":

"The complexity of the situation and all of Marne's conflicting feelings were so well rendered—I could feel the love and the anger and the desire and the guilt all at once."

Runners Up:

Jessica Rapisarda "Another Word for Gone"

Megan Falley "Memories of Ace, in Reverse Chronological Order"

We can't wait to share this amazing work with you next month!

FICTION:

Danielle Evans on Gregg Maxwell Parker's "The Light. Breathing":

"The drama of this story is quiet, but I found myself riveted by it, equally compelled by the anxious sense that anything was possible and the heartbreaking sense that maybe nothing was possible. The author paints a full picture of the interior and exterior world, and just when I thought I had caught up to the story and was seeing this world clearly, the ending came along, honest and surprising and delightful, and made me look again."

Today we’re rereading Carolyn Oliver’s poem, “April 18, five inches of snow”What is the weather like where you are today...
04/18/2021
April 18, five inches of snow

Today we’re rereading Carolyn Oliver’s poem, “April 18, five inches of snow”

What is the weather like where you are today?

http://phoebejournal.com/april-18-five-inches-of-snow/

Carolyn Oliver And the world’s the same, lessa few smashed tulips.The melting comes beforethe hyacinths I cut yesterdaybell open.The fleshiness of the flowers!As if they relish the endthe stems spi…

"Kaneko’s latest, 'This is How the Bone Sings,' still confronts the past that surrounds him, but does so through the myt...
04/15/2021
Correlatives: A Review of W. Todd Kaneko’s This is How the Bone Sings

"Kaneko’s latest, 'This is How the Bone Sings,' still confronts the past that surrounds him, but does so through the myth of America and the generational trauma that comes with it. These poems gesture at once, in past and present, to the speaker, his loved ones, and to the lives they’re entangled with. They are memories embodied and show us what a shared history is by way of their music."

Don't miss Poetry Assistant Editor Christian Stanzione's review of W Todd Kaneko's 'This is How the Bone Sings' out from Black Lawrence Press:

http://phoebejournal.com/correlatives-a-review-of-w-todd-kanekos-this-is-how-the-bone-sings/

Christian Stanzione I was a natural reader for W. Todd Kaneko’s The Dead Wrestler Elegies, a book that examines the pageantries of professional wrestling to access and discuss his relationship with…

"Bradley Bazzle describes his new fiction collection, 'Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science,' as an 'alchemical mixt...
04/08/2021
Bradley Bazzle Writes Unique Fiction With Familiar Skin in New Collection

"Bradley Bazzle describes his new fiction collection, 'Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science,' as an 'alchemical mixture of realism and complete bu****it.' As I read it, I decided I wouldn’t be able to come up with a more apt description than that.

Don't miss managing editor Tim Johnson's review of Bazzle's new short story collection on the blog!

http://phoebejournal.com/bradley-bazzle-new-collection/

Tim Johnson Bradley Bazzle describes his new fiction collection, Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science, as an “alchemical mixture of realism and complete bu****it.” As I read it, I decided I wou…

"I along with many writers from marginalized backgrounds and living in marginalized bodies are used to wielding language...
03/17/2021
Writing from the Body: Felicia Rose Chavez’s’ The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop

"I along with many writers from marginalized backgrounds and living in marginalized bodies are used to wielding language in negotiation and for survival. There is no privileged permeability between our inner worlds of experience and the outer world we aspire to. We have often assumed that if our language is not enough, it is because we are not enough."

Don't miss Shabrayle Setliff's review of Felicia Rose Chavez's "The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom" on the blog today:

http://phoebejournal.com/felicia-rose-chavezs-the-anti-racist-writing-workshop/

Shabrayle Setliff The statement that everyone writes from the body could serve as a litmus test: if such a statement seems untrue or if it is, perhaps, unfelt, it may very well indicate a person’s …

Today's the day! 🎉Our 50th anniversary     close at midnight EST tonight.  your story, essay, and poetry for the chance ...
03/15/2021
Contests

Today's the day! 🎉

Our 50th anniversary close at midnight EST tonight.

your story, essay, and poetry for the chance to win $500 and publication in issue 50.2!

http://phoebejournal.com/contests/

Submit to Our 2021 Contest Issue Every spring, phoebe hosts contests in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, each with a $500 prize. Submissions are now open on Submittable. Find more information on ou…

Only FIVE DAYS LEFT to submit your       and   to our fiftieth anniversary contest! 🎂http://phoebejournal.com/submission...
03/10/2021
Submissions

Only FIVE DAYS LEFT to submit your and to our fiftieth anniversary contest! 🎂

http://phoebejournal.com/submissions/

phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Above all, we seek to publish quality work. Please review our website, especially our latest online issue, for an idea of the caliber o…

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“Fantastic . . . An indispensable reference and guide . . . Yes, Bell packs his book with practicable tips and tricks, but it is the manner in which he does this that is so truly remarkable. With an authentic tone of encouragement and a rampantly infectious enthusiasm, the book highlights Bell’s passion for teaching and his genuine respect for all writers.”
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Today is Website Wednesday! The website that we will be highlighting is Phoebe Journal! They have recently published their 51st publication. The publication includes fiction, 2 art galleries, nonfiction, and poetry. Here is the link: http://phoebejournal.com/ So do check it out!
Congratulations to our nonfiction editor, Harrison Cook, whose essay "Atlas," first published in Phoebe Journal, was a "notable essay of 2020" per Best American Essays 2021! 🌺 A huge accomplishment!
Issue 26 of Ginosko Literary Journal now online, GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com. Accepting submissions for issue 27.
Sponsored > Poet Megan Falley is kicking free of stanzas and running wild in the meadows of prose. Her first nonfiction piece was the runner-up for Phoebe Journal's 50th Anniversary Prize. It's a story written backwards, and you can read it here. https://phoebejournal.com/memories-of-ace-in-reverse-chronological-order/
here’s the link to my first published creative nonfiction/memoir excerpt (and a runner up for Phoebe Journal’s 50th anniversary prize!)
A wonderful review of Bradley Bazzle's story collection "Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science," up at Phoebe Journal! Thanks to the author of the review and the editors for publishing. Come on over to the C&R Press site to grab a copy! https://www.crpress.org/shop/fathers-of-cambodian-time-travel-science/
Nonfiction writers! Polish up that piece you've been working on because Phoebe Journal's nonfiction contest is open, and it's being judged by Lilly Dancyger who's upcoming memoir NEGATIVE SPACE will be released this May!

Contests: https://buff.ly/3cptfJj
Negative Space: https://buff.ly/2GMb43a
Looking to submit your nonfiction piece? The Phoebe Journal is currently accepting submissions for their nonfiction contest, and Lilly Dancyger, author of the upcoming memoir Negative Space, is this year's judge!

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Beyond impressive that Phoebe Journal is 50 years old. It's a real honor to be included in their 50th anniversary issue with a non-fiction piece, The Lost Coast (which doesn't concern the geographic Lost Coast--the nearly roadless k**b up north, King Range etc.--as you might expect, but losses a little farther south). Congratulations and happy birthday Phoebe Journal!
https://phoebejournal.com/50-1/
"In a good year, the winter solstice is as much about celebrating new life as it is honoring death." Leah Sumrall (MFA '22) discusses winter and grief, via Phoebe Journal:

http://phoebejournal.com/what-it-means-to-write-through-grief/
Issue 25 of Ginosko Literary Journal now online, GinoskoLiteraryJournal.com.
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