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Islandia is a (sub)tropical journal based in Miami. We publish poetry, prose, and visual art pertain

02/03/2026

MIAMI. SEE IT LIKE AN INVASIVE.

The Islandia Journal X Underwater Publishing
Issue 12 Launch

Please join us and at on Feb 8 4-6 pm to celebrate Issue 12-Invasive Miami

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Spins by
Flyer by .info

We present:
Speculative visions of Miami laid out by University of Miami architecture students
Vernacular illustrations
An essay drawing lines between Black Seminoles and Haitian Refugee detention
Thoughts on Alligator Alcatraz
Machete poems, snake plants, and peacocks!

Contributors:
.usa .brujita .shadows .usa .beans and more...

Grab a copy, grab a sticker, and grab a beer before

11/03/2025

ISSUE 12: THE INVASIVE ONE

Yes, friends, you might recall our infamous MIAMI, SEE IT LIKE AN INVASIVE bumper sticker from Issue 3. It’s been a few years but the ripple effect of that is being felt here and now.

In partnership with we present to you an issue which answers questions about invasion, and asks them too. We present:

Speculative visions of Miami laid out by University of Miami architecture students.

Vernacular illustrations

An essay drawing lines between Black Seminoles and Haitian Refugee detention

Thoughts on Alligator Alcatraz

Machete poems, snake plants, and peacocks!

Contributors include .brujita .shadows .beans and more…

05/21/2025

Islandia’s X Overhead Studio

“Invasive species are the subset of established non-native alien or naturalized species that are a threat to currently native species. In our next issue, we invite you to stretch the moral fabric interwoven with the concept of the invasive. We love Miami’s mangroves (native), but also its roosters (invasive). We love Miami’s coconut palms, oolite, parrots, guava pastries, flamingos, glistening white sand, manatees, Florida orange juice, royal poincianas, and coral reefs. Only three of the aforementioned are native; three and a half if you’re feeling generous.

Miami has continually been branded a place where people kind of just “end up.” The same can be said for the boa constrictors out in the everglades. If they could speak, they might plead: “Have mercy on us, we didn’t ask to end up snout to snout with the alligators.”

We welcome any and all essays, drawings, photos, journal entries, and poems. Come join us! Invade us with your ideas. If you don’t fit in, you’ll fit right in.”

-Overhead Studio

Islandia X Overhead Studio

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Submit at islandiajournal.submittable.com by 6/1

05/14/2025

🦀𝐆𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐁🦀

Read more about it at islandia.substack.com but here’s the short version:

In 1981, a film called Island Claws premiered on television for the first time. It was directed by Hernan Cardenas, who funded the project with cash he was washing for his brother-in-law, a leader of the Medellin drug cartel: Jorge Ochoa.

Despite its $4M budget, the film never hit theaters. Why? It wasn’t very good and the Cardenas brothers weren’t very good at making films. Some of their expenses?

1) Ricou Browning who played the Creature From the Black Lagoon to write script
2) $1.2M giant animatronic crab which barely appears in the film constructed by Glen Robinson who also built King Kong
3) An offer of $1/land crab to any Miami locals who would sell them

The plot was loose but roughly followed a nuclear power plant leak, rising ocean temperatures, and plans to farm crabs as a food source.

The movie was filmed mostly at Jimbo’s and at the marine lab on Virginia Key. After production was over, Miami-Dade County purchased the structures back from the Cardenas brothers for $1 so they could offer it up as a filming location to future productions, which would include:

Miami Vice, Ace Ventura, Dexter, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and more…

05/08/2025

📺 80s ‘TV Dinner’ Party! 📺
UNDRBELLY X ISLANDIA

Can you feel it coming in the air?

Hello citizens of Islandia & Undrbellies 🍸

Join X at . Friday 5/16 7-10 pm as we celebrate Islandia Issue 11 and Undrbelly Issue 6.

Spins by .antonela &

Miami Vice “Brother’s Keeper” screening All Night Long🎵

Super Special Menu by .
Flyer by staff 👑

04/18/2025

Islandia X Overhead Studio

“Invasive species are the subset of established non-native alien or naturalized species that are a threat to currently native species. In our next issue, we invite you to stretch the moral fabric interwoven with the concept of the invasive. We love Miami’s mangroves (native), but also its roosters (invasive). We love Miami’s coconut palms, oolite, parrots, guava pastries, flamingos, glistening white sand, manatees, Florida orange juice, royal poincianas, and coral reefs. Only three of the aforementioned are native; three and a half if you’re feeling generous.

Miami has continually been branded a place where people kind of just “end up.” The same can be said for the boa constrictors out in the everglades. If they could speak, they might plead: “Have mercy on us, we didn’t ask to end up snout to snout with the alligators.”

We welcome any and all essays, drawings, photos, journal entries, and poems. Come join us! Invade us with your ideas. If you don’t fit in, you’ll fit right in.”

-Overhead Studio

Islandia X Overhead Studio

Submit at islandiajournal.submittable.com by June 1

04/17/2025

🍾𝐼𝒮𝐿𝒜𝒩𝒟𝐼𝒜 🕶️𝒱𝐼𝒞𝐸🪩 is finally here.

Issue 11 of our printed periodical is the BIGGEST one yet. 60 pages featuring the work of dozens of incredible contributors who all share an affinity for Miami Vice.

We’ve got art, poems, essays, and more.

First copies available this weekend and then in the weeks to come.

Words and art by .beans .santiago6 .art

Big love to and for bringing it to life through the strife.

02/15/2025

Presented by Masisi & The Islandia Journal

We’re coming together to honor a Florida grown literary giant; Zora Neale Hurston!
A trip to pay our respect to an ancestor whose life work was dedicated to expanding and understanding the perspectives of Black life here in Florida and throughout the diaspora. We celebrate all her contributions from Florida folktales to her writing on her travels throughout Ayiti/ Hispaniola.
We organized this collective field trip to give flowers (literally) and share our own literary works that resonate and connect us with our kin this beautiful, Black History Month. On the trip we will be visiting her grave at Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery in Fort Pierce and NuNu’s Sweet Soul Food Restaurant before we return home.

Meet at Bakehouse Art Complex at 10 AM

Destination:
Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery- Avenue S & 17th Street
Followed by a meal at Nunu’s Sweet Soul Food Restaurant

Transportation & $25 meal stipend will be provided for 10 Black Folks
First come, First Serve

All are welcome to join

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01/27/2025

Florida writers, novelists, poets, and dramatists (1977)

Let’s update this! List your favorites in the comments…

We’ll start.

Everybody who’s ever written for Islandia 😜

01/03/2025

TEN MIAMI NICKNAMES

Which ones are missing??🕵

Lifted from various brochures and marketing materials in the digital archives, these branded, tourist-friendly names span mostly the 20th century.

In order of appearance (and with date of publication)

1️⃣ Sunshrine of America (1929)

2️⃣ Lugar sin igual (1974)

3️⃣ City of Neighborhoods (1988)

4️⃣ Playground of the World (1964)

5️⃣ Convention Wonderland (1950s)

6️⃣ Cruise Capital of the World (1980s)

7️⃣ Seaport to Adventure (1960s)

8️⃣ Outdoor Sports Capital (1933)

9️⃣ The Hub of the Hemisphere (1973)

🔟 The Magic City (1920s)

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