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.

Sinking City Issue 18 out now. Thank you tremendously to all the brilliant folks who helped make this issue come to life...
05/21/2026

Sinking City Issue 18 out now. Thank you tremendously to all the brilliant folks who helped make this issue come to life.

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Don’t forget: Sinking City is open to submissions for Issue 18! The deadline to submit is March 31st. For more informati...
03/25/2026

Don’t forget: Sinking City is open to submissions for Issue 18! The deadline to submit is March 31st. For more information, check out our website through the link in our bio.

Sinking City is welcoming submissions for Issue 18! The deadline to submit is March 31st. For more information, check ou...
03/19/2026

Sinking City is welcoming submissions for Issue 18! The deadline to submit is March 31st. For more information, check out our website through the link in our bio.

Can living in the city mess with your sense of self? Navigate this line of thinking with Tom Barlow in his poem “The Inv...
03/18/2026

Can living in the city mess with your sense of self? Navigate this line of thinking with Tom Barlow in his poem “The Invisible Woman” from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Tom Barlow is an American writer of novels, short stories and poetry, whose work has appeared in journals including Ekphrastic Review, Voicemail Poetry, Hobart, Tenemos, Redivider, The New York Quarterly, The Modern Poetry Quarterly, and many more. See tombarlowauthor.com.

Have you ever thought about the physics of life? Join Heikki Huotari in their piece “If We Call It Wrestling” as they pu...
03/17/2026

Have you ever thought about the physics of life? Join Heikki Huotari in their piece “If We Call It Wrestling” as they pull apart and examine the laws that construct our world from our latest issue of Sinking City. Link in Bio!

Heikki Huotari wrote their first poem the morning after the major died in the adjacent bed. Since retiring from academia/mathematics, they have published more than 500 poems in literary journals, including Pleiades, Florida Review and The Journal, and in six chapbooks and six collections. They have won one book prize (Star 82 Press) and two chapbook prizes (Gambling The Aisle and Survision Press). Their Erdős number is two.

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!

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