Cagibi

06/05/2021

* Deadline Extended until June 15 *

Let's make this happen! The Cagibi Writing Retreat 2021 will take place in Provence France, from Sept 26 to Oct 3.

Seize the opportunity to go back to "normal": travel to beautiful Provence and rekindle your creativity. Meet fellow writers from all over the world while working on your current project or beginning a new one. Exquisite accommodations and food, and many daily activities are included. You will have the option to workshop in the morning, play or write in the afternoon, and socialize in the evening. Co-organized with Artecom, a Canadian company based in France. Click below for details:
https://www.artecom.ca/

* Deadline Extended until June 15 *

Let's make this happen! The Cagibi Writing Retreat 2021 will take place in Provence France, from Sept 26 to Oct 3.

Seize the opportunity to go back to "normal": travel to beautiful Provence and rekindle your creativity. Meet fellow writers from all over the world while working on your current project or beginning a new one. Exquisite accommodations and food, and many daily activities are included. You will have the option to workshop in the morning, play or write in the afternoon, and socialize in the evening. Co-organized with Artecom, a Canadian company based in France. Click below for details:
https://www.artecom.ca/

06/03/2021

Postcard from Big Bear Lake - Cagibi

A short prose piece for your reading pleasure today — by Catherine Irene. "Every evening we watch the sun slowly slide down behind the San Bernardino mountains which then cools the air cool by about 20 degrees. ... " Read at
https://cagibilit.com/postcard-from-big-bear-lake/

by Catherine Irene

06/03/2021

A postcard for your reading pleasure today! By Catherine Irene. At cagibilit.com.
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#postcard #amreading #writingcommunity

A postcard for your reading pleasure today! By Catherine Irene. At cagibilit.com.
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#postcard #amreading #writingcommunity

05/21/2021

Book Passage: Elisabeth Sheffield - Cagibi

An exclusive essay from Elisabeth Sheffield on her new novel IRE LAND — read at https://cagibilit.com/book-passage-elisabeth-sheffield/

by Elisabeth Sheffield

05/20/2021

The Mouse Races - Cagibi

May is Short Story Month! Here is one from our current issue.

"She lost the children almost as soon as they got there."

A short story by Aefa Mulholland.
Image Callie Art

by Aefa Mulholland

05/19/2021

Writing retreat France | Artecom

https://www.artecom.ca/

It's official! Europe WILL allow vaccinated Americans to travel...Provence is waiting for us!

Artecom's original and awesome retreat in Provence (France) for authors and writers who want to develop their skills. Led by Cagibi.

05/10/2021

UPDATE: The headline we've been waiting for!

"Europe agrees to reopen to vaccinated visitors"

We are going to Provence in the fall! The retreat originally planned for 2020 has been rescheduled. The new dates are Sept 26 - Oct 3, 2021. See link in the comment for more details and view the beautiful Provencal domain where we will gather. A great opportunity to reconnect with your writing, travel, and people!

UPDATE: The headline we've been waiting for!

"Europe agrees to reopen to vaccinated visitors"

We are going to Provence in the fall! The retreat originally planned for 2020 has been rescheduled. The new dates are Sept 26 - Oct 3, 2021. See link in the comment for more details and view the beautiful Provencal domain where we will gather. A great opportunity to reconnect with your writing, travel, and people!

05/06/2021

Fall of 2021. A week in Provence. Let's make this possible!
https://cagibilit.com/retreats/

Fall of 2021. A week in Provence. Let's make this possible!
https://cagibilit.com/retreats/

04/30/2021

6 hours left! At cagibilit.com #amwriting #writingcommunity #writefest #poetry #poetrycommunity #fictionwriter #stories #essays #memoir #nonfiction #writersofinstagram #writersroutine

6 hours left! At cagibilit.com #amwriting #writingcommunity #writefest #poetry #poetrycommunity #fictionwriter #stories #essays #memoir #nonfiction #writersofinstagram #writersroutine

04/30/2021

Cagibi Submission Guidelines

WRITERS: 6 hours left! https://cagibilit.com/submission-guidelines/. .

Cagibi accepts and reads submissions year round.

04/21/2021

Issue 13: April 2021 - Cagibi

New issue just out! Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and an interview with Maria Tumarkin.
Cover image by Olga Breydo.

Welcome to Cagibi Issue 13.

04/19/2021

What a joy, to find our poetry editor Jeanne-Marie Osterman's book "Shellback" on the poetry reading list of The Academy of American Poets.

The Academy of American Poets' Reading List for the 25th Anniversary of #NationalPoetryMonth includes SHELLBACK.
https://palomapress.net/tag/shellback/ Jeanne-Marie Osterman

04/16/2021

Issue 13: In flight! Landing Tuesday April 20 - Cagibi

Issue 13 on Tuesday! Cagibi's quarterly online journal of poetry & prose, and works in translation.
https://cagibilit.com/issue-13-in-flight-landing-tuesday-april-20/

Cagibi Issue 13 Works And Contributions By: Aefa MulhollandAmaranta Caballero PradoArden LevineBarry PearceBen PowellBrian YapkoCB BradyCharles GroselCharles HoldeferClare […]

04/05/2021

Senbazuru - Cagibi

From issue 12, this poem...

by James Ellenberger

03/30/2021

How I Met Your Father - Cagibi

"Like sparrows on a line when the train comes through, the group went still at the noise we made. All 30 of them. All shapes and sizes, teens to middle-aged, in sweats and jeans, mainly, and mostly men. Many were disfigured."

Flash memoir piece from our current issue by Mickey Greaves.

by Mickey Greaves

03/25/2021

It’s the Middle of the Night - Cagibi

"The dog knows better
which way in the darkness to go"

Click to read the full poem by Christine Jones.
Image Stéphane Cocke

by Christine Jones

03/21/2021

Marriage As Hoover Dam - Cagibi

Sunday poem by Kathleen Loe.
Image Nadia Belalia

by Kathleen Loe

03/12/2021

Cagibi Submission Guidelines

THE ESSENTIALS: There is still time to submit! Send us your work for our print issue 2021, to be published later this year! We are now accepting submissions — please spread the word!
Visual artists: there is also a photography and artwork category!
https://cagibilit.com/submission-guidelines/

Cagibi accepts and reads submissions year round.

03/11/2021

Moths to the Flame - Cagibi

"I woke to a faint aroma of cinnamon that hung in the air.

The pungent bark helped my mother’s chronic abdominal pain. When she drank tea she added a sliver of cinnamon bark to help settle her stomach. The backdoor was left open and it was gray outside. In the pale light of dawn I saw her pick peppercorns that came down in deep green jade from a vine around the trunk of an areca.

I didn’t feel like getting up, but I knew I had to get going to catch Chim’s boat."
Continue reading below, a short story by Khanh Ha.
Image Olga Breydo

by Khanh Ha

03/02/2021

Linger Here: Postcard from Boulder, Colorado - Cagibi

A postcard from Colorado by Marlie McGovern for your reading pleasure this morning:
"When I think of you, alone and together meld like molten gold. I write to you on a golden morning just beyond the summer solstice, this late June light is an immersion into liquid gold..."
https://cagibilit.com/linger-here-postcard-from-boulder-colorado/

by Marlie McGovern

02/23/2021

Beard - Cagibi

Tuesday reading: from issue 12, this short story by Carla Miriam Levy.

"When he was finished he tapped the shaver against the sink to knock the hairs out of it. He set it back in its case, lying open on the shelf above the sink, and ruffled Carter’s hair on his way out.

She was alone with the shaver, and she gazed at it like it was a holy relic. She reached for it and caressed its chrome body, still warm from her dad’s hand, like a living thing with a heartbeat inside of it."

by Carla Miriam Levy

02/12/2021

Cagibi Submission Guidelines

Submit now for our print issue 2021, to be published later this year! Our editors look forward to reading your work. We are now accepting submissions — please spread the word!
Visual artists: there is also a photography and artwork category!
https://cagibilit.com/submission-guidelines/

Cagibi accepts and reads submissions year round.

02/11/2021

Dragons and Dinosaurs - Cagibi

"Our children, at their respective ages of six and three, struggle daily to separate truth from the mires of myth, fantasy, and dream. My son dreams that his bed, of which he’s fond, spit at him. For two days afterwards tears spring to his eyes at the recollection of that dream. He just can’t figure out why his bed would do such a thing."

An essay on writing, memory, fantasy and truth, from our current issue.

by Elizabeth Templeman

01/27/2021

Issue 12: January 2021 - Cagibi

Issue 12! Contributors Beth Kephart // Boris Kokotov // Carla Miriam Levy // Christine Jones // Claudette Sherlock // Don Boes // Elizabeth Templeman // Gabriella Bedetti // George Franklin // Henri Meschonnic // James Ellenberger // Kathleen Loe // kerry rawlinson // Khanh Ha // Krijn Peter Hesselink // Larisse Mondok // Michael Hetherton // Mickey Greaves // Micki Blenkush // Mikhail Aizenberg // Suzanne Garcia Pino // Ximena Gómez

https://cagibilit.com/issue-12/

Welcome to Cagibi Issue 12.

01/25/2021

Issue 12: In flight! Landing Tuesday January 26 - Cagibi

That is tomorrow! Come back and check it out.

Beth KephartBoris KokotovCarla Miriam LevyChristine JonesClaudette SherlockDon BoesElizabeth TemplemanGabriella BedettiGeorge FranklinHenri MeschonnicJames EllenbergerKathleen Loekerry rawlinsonKhanh HaKrijn Peter HesselinkLarisse […]

01/15/2021

Two Poems by David Allen Sullivan - Cagibi

"Found in the Dictator's Desk" and "Calculations." Two poems by David Allen Sullivan. Or why poetry is always timely.

Found in the Dictator’s Desk // Calculations

01/14/2021

2K20 - Cagibi

"There’s a rebellious cornerstone you reach when you’re a kid on the Wirral, children from the new estates roaming dark streets, in a thrill because you know you should be home, but you share a buzz with the street lamps, like they’re trying to show you all the mad sh*t you overlook in daylight, and that if you go home now you might miss a smackhead running in circles, or a lost tenner blowing against a curb, or a game of Truth and Dare with girls who ignore curfews."

This personal essay by Edward Little is quite a ride to read. Hope you enjoy it as we do.
Image by Olga Breydo

by Edward Little

01/11/2021

Postcard from Oregon - Cagibi

Today's postcard is from Oregon, to the man wearing flip-flops at the protest, by Kira Smith.
"I didn’t have the courage to ask you when you reached down to help me to my feet after the die-in."

READ at https://cagibilit.com/postcard-from-oregon/

by Kira Smith

12/30/2020

Thank You, Karen Arnold - Cagibi

"... Dad seized every opportunity to instill Americana in me, especially when it came to TV, movies, and pop culture. However, he refused to abandon two sacred tenets from our Filipino roots: eating rice and respecting one’s elders. ..."

Today's entry in our On The Ground series of short nonfiction essays. Enjoy!

https://cagibilit.com/thank-you-karen-arnold/

by Kristen Gaerlan

12/09/2020

Event Program, Cagibi 2020 Print Issue Celebration - Cagibi

What a night! It was wonderful to be able to hold this first virtual event celebrating the Cagibi 2020 print issue. Such powerful readings by our contributors. Thank you so much everyone for making this happen.

If you've missed it, you can watch it by clicking on the Dec 8 link below. And while you are it, register to next week's event!
https://cagibilit.com/event-program-2020-print-issue-celebration/

by Cagibi

12/04/2020

Event Program, Cagibi 2020 Print Issue Celebration - Cagibi

Mark your calendars for this Tuesday's virtual reading, first of two Tuesdays to celebrate our 2020 print issue! The Event Program is now live on the Cagibi website — link below. Register in advance at the Crowdcast links provided there.
https://cagibilit.com/event-program-2020-print-issue-celebration/

by Cagibi

12/01/2020

Cagibi’s Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize - Cagibi

Cagibi’s nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize! Good luck to these writers—we hope to see their work win this prize and appear in the The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series.

Becca Carson
Hatcher Grey
Chris Stuck
Jared Green
Mathina Calliope
Ranbir Sidhu

https://cagibilit.com/cagibis-nominations-for-the-2021-pushcart-prize/

Join our editors in congratulating Cagibi’s nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize! Good luck to these writers—we hope to […]

11/20/2020

CLMP

We're proud too!

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—launching new issues in late October and November 2020, including Anomalous Press, Broken Pencil Magazine, Cagibi, Chestnut Review, The Common, Conjunctions & Friction!

11/18/2020

Return to Sender: Postcard from Tbilisi - Cagibi

Today, a postcard by Kyra Simone! "Return to Sender: Postcard from Tbilisi" —
"This place invokes no memory of childhood. If it does it is one that is buried or imagined—what I thought “far away” was when I lay in bed at night as a girl. ..."

Read at https://cagibilit.com/return-to-sender-postcard-from-tbilisi/

by Kyra Simone

11/15/2020

What We Found Inside the Whale - Cagibi

This story--you must read it in full.

"Magda inspects the carcass, the scars inscribed on its hull-shaped head like ancient writing. She runs her hands along the jagged saw of its open mouth. Her copper tendrils radiate in the rising sun and the crowd barely moves, knowing that they’re before something older than time, and stranger. We prepare to make the incision. The documentarians frame us in tight close-ups. We are serious and somber and I wonder if they can understand how much we are meant to be in love. I wonder if they know what it is they are seeing."

by Jared Green