The MacGuffin

10/13/2025

If you're in or around Fort Collins this weekend, check out Lew Forester reading with Church of Beethoven live at Avogadro's Number on Sunday!

Church of Beethoven presents Barbara Thiem, Cello with violinist Erik Peterson Oct. 19, 3 pm at Avogadro's Number in Fort Collins

10/07/2025

Excited to finally congratulate poetry staffer Angie Minkin on winning Passager's 2025 Poetry Contest!! You can pick up a copy that includes an Angie feature here:

Passager Poet Angie Minkin & 43 Honorable Mentions I take dance classes two to three times a week through Rhythm & Motion at the ODC Studios and

09/23/2025

We're thrilled to announce the winners of this year's POET HUNT, selected by guest judge Darrel Alejandro Holnes!! The grand prize-winning poem and two honorable mention selections will appear in vol. 41.2, due out early next year. Congrats also to our finalists and semifinalists who made it into the final round of judging!!!

If you entered POET HUNT 30, you'll receive a free copy of vol. 41.2.

Keep an eye out for news about POET HUNT 31 around the end of the year.

09/16/2025

For our locals: Come hang with author, former Prose Staffer, and friend of the mag Jared M. Bentley this Saturday at the Ypsi Public Library's Michigan Ave. location for a reading from his new collection, "Robots, Please."

09/10/2025

MacGuffin West Bureau Chief KATHLEEN McCLUNG has a new poetry collection out from , and it's all about the movies!! Pull out the popcorn and pick up your copy right here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/climbing-the-fire-escape-flipping-the-raft-poems-on-women-in-movies-by-kathleen-mcclung 🍿

09/08/2025

In case you missed it, we got a shoutout in last week's !! Thanks to Becky, Jessica, and the rest of the team. ❤️

"... focusing on university-based literary journals."

07/24/2025

Reviewing the proofs for 40.3 and something here looks...uhhh...different. 👀 Guess we'll see how this turns out in a few weeks. Available at the office and at SchoolcraftBooks.com in August!!

07/01/2025

Happy July!! And happy day 1 of vacation to our reading staff!! Submissions are closed until September, but our office will remain (mostly) open. Enjoy this picture of these ducks at Schoolcraft’s Trinity Elite Sports Dome Retention Pond (c) happily swimming off into summer break, a metaphor if I’ve ever seen one. 🦆

06/15/2025

POET HUNT 30 ends today (with a six-hour grace period into tomorrow for my fellow procrastinators)!!! Send us your fave 5 (unpublished) poems (that you authored) for $15, and we'll even send you a copy of the mag post-contest!!! https://themacguffin.submittable.com/submit/323562/poet-hunt-30

06/10/2025

Just a little under a week left to get your entry in for POET HUNT 30!! We've discontinued email submissions this year, but you can learn about entering via post or Submittable right here: https://themacguffin.submittable.com/submit/323562/poet-hunt-30

05/10/2025

We are not turning into a meme account, but as a CMOS fanboy this is too good not to share.

05/01/2025

Our buds over at the DIA dropped off some new art at the office!!! 💪