Sinking City

Sinking City An online literary magazine produced by the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami.

Sinking City is based out of Miami, where rising sea levels threaten the future of a diverse, multicultural community. We are looking for fiction, poetry, and art from emerging and established artists. Our online literary journal is published semi-annually by MFA students at the University of Miami.

Is it still possible to find beauty in the mundane? Read Juanita Rey’s “THAT MUSICIAN IN THE SUBWAY” to hear how it can ...
03/06/2026

Is it still possible to find beauty in the mundane? Read Juanita Rey’s “THAT MUSICIAN IN THE SUBWAY” to hear how it can still be all around us from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Juanita Rey is a Dominican poet, US resident. Her work has been published in Mixed Mag, The Mantle, The Lincoln Review, Lion and Lilac amongst others.

Can classic narratives be reimagined? Read Wendy BooydeGraaff’s “Back to Genesis” to experience her take on love and Ede...
03/04/2026

Can classic narratives be reimagined? Read Wendy BooydeGraaff’s “Back to Genesis” to experience her take on love and Eden from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Wendy BooydeGraaff’s poems have been included in Cutleaf, Barzakh, About Place Journal, Dunes Review, and anthologized in Under Her Eye (Blackspot Books), Midwest Futures: Poems & Micro-Stories from Tomorrow’s Heartland (forthcoming from Middle West Press, March 2025), and Not Very Quiet (Recent Works Press). Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, she now lives in Michigan, United States.

Have you ever thought about who might be living in your old house? Follow alongside Samantha Sapp as she wrestles with t...
03/02/2026

Have you ever thought about who might be living in your old house? Follow alongside Samantha Sapp as she wrestles with the concept of belonging and a bittersweet longing for a home that is out of reach in “Epistolary Fragments for Florida” from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Samantha Sapp is a writer and school teacher. Though she is originally from the Florida Panhandle, she now lives in the icy Midwest. Her prose has appeared or is forthcoming in several journals, including Sinister Wisdom and MoonPark Review. You can find her on Bluesky or lost in the woods.

Can Google Maps help you navigate through time and memory? Read Zebulon Huset’s journey across the mental (and digital) ...
02/27/2026

Can Google Maps help you navigate through time and memory? Read Zebulon Huset’s journey across the mental (and digital) expanse of loss, life, and hope in “Streetviewing Up the 65” from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio! 

Zebulon Huset is a high school teacher, writer and photographer. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest and his writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Atlanta Review, Meridian, North American Review, The Southern Review, Fence and many others. His short prose chapbook Between Even Rows of Trees is forthcoming from Bottlecap Editions.

Sinking City is now accepting submissions for Issue 18! To learn more about submission guidelines or to submit your piec...
02/18/2026

Sinking City is now accepting submissions for Issue 18! To learn more about submission guidelines or to submit your piece, check out the link in our bio.

We’re excited to see what you have to say!

Would you continue making art even if nobody else understood it? Read Anthony Alas’ “Ketchup Rain” interrogation of what...
02/11/2026

Would you continue making art even if nobody else understood it? Read Anthony Alas’ “Ketchup Rain” interrogation of what so called “good art” is in our latest issue of Sinking City! Link in Bio.

Anthony Alas is a published author and English professor. His works have appeared in Drunk Monkeys, Scribble Lit, Quibble Lit, Azahares Magazine, Twisted Vine, Defunkt Magazine, In Parentheses, and elsewhere. After many years in New York City and California’s Inland Empire, Mr. Alas now calls Dallas, TX home. https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/anthony_alas

What makes life worth living? This is the question that a cyclist must answer after discovering what looks like a cancer...
01/26/2026

What makes life worth living? This is the question that a cyclist must answer after discovering what looks like a cancerous mole. Read Kevin Finnerty’s “The Mole” in our newest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Kevin Finnerty earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. His stories have appeared in Eclectica Magazine, Mulberry Literary, The Muleskinner Journal, Variety Pack, and elsewhere. He is the proud Dog Dad of a pug named Shakespeare. He can be found on Bluesky .bsky.social.

What happens when dreams become nightmares and nightmares become reality? Explore the boundaries of reality, identity, a...
01/14/2026

What happens when dreams become nightmares and nightmares become reality? Explore the boundaries of reality, identity, and gender in “Metamorphosis in Rawalpindi” by Areej Kiani in our newest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Areej Kiani is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. Her fiction often explores life in her home country, Pakistan. Her work has appeared in The Aleph Review and Mekong Review.

What happens when dreams become nightmares and nightmares become reality... Explore the boundaries of reality, identity,...
01/14/2026

What happens when dreams become nightmares and nightmares become reality... Explore the boundaries of reality, identity, and gender in “Metamorphosis in Rawalpindi” by Areej Kiani in our newest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Areej Kiani is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. Her fiction often explores life in her home country, Pakistan. Her work has appeared in The Aleph Review and Mekong Review.

What does love, shoveling cat s**t, a long term relationship, and break-up all have in common? They’re all wrapped up in...
01/14/2026

What does love, shoveling cat s**t, a long term relationship, and break-up all have in common? They’re all wrapped up in this letter to an ex. Read Sheena Holt’s “Alex and Holly Send Their Love” in our most recent issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Sheena Holt is a writer in Louisiana and an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans, where she is a managing editor for Bayou Magazine. You can find her creative nonfiction in Collision Literary magazine and her coverage of the dating industry at DatingNews.com. In her fiction, she writes about religion and womanhood.

At long, long last, we are pleased to announce we released the Issue 17 of Sinking City on December 30th! Thank you all ...
01/03/2026

At long, long last, we are pleased to announce we released the Issue 17 of Sinking City on December 30th! Thank you all so much for your labor, your trust, and your words- all of which have nourished us here in our sinking city. We’ve had to navigate a plethora of bureaucratic and I.T. related obstacles, but we have surmounted them all. Over the course of taking over the magazine, I’ve found myself repeating the phrase,

“The price of community is inconvenience.”

And in Florida we skip rope with inconvenience.

Congratulations to Sinking City for being listed as an award-winning resource for writers and artists. Also, be sure to...
08/14/2021

Congratulations to Sinking City for being listed as an award-winning resource for writers and artists.
Also, be sure to check out Decompress’s (.care ) interview highlighting the former editor’s perspective on Sinking City and their mission relating to water and mental wellness!

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