Bracken Magazine

30/11/2025

Last call for poems and art! Bracken's submission window closes November 30th.

24/11/2025

Bracken is open one more week for submissions. Send us your best poetry and visual art by November 30!

22/11/2025

Just a reminder that Bracken is open for submissions through November 30! We look forward to reading your work. Link in bio.

05/11/2025

Bracken's Pushcart nominees! And here, links to the issues... https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/main https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/main

08/10/2025

Hello All! We'd like to pass along Bracken's fresh Best of the Net nominations! And here, for you convenience, also links to both Issues these works are in! https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/main https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/main

07/09/2025

It's early September, yes, but less than a month now from when, come October, Bracken opens again to submissions of poems and art. More soon in a newsletter, but for now, if your creative ventures enter the understory of our nature, consider sending us your well-wrought work.

01/07/2025

This is it, our thirteenth issue of Bracken! May it serve your spirit!

Yes, dear fellow quirky mortal peering into this humbly offered selection of words and pictures we’ll call Issue XIII of Bracken…

09/05/2025

Heart keeps starting off on the trail of Martha Silano's brilliant soul.... Here's her poem in Bracken X, January 2023...

The fog-tinged sky. The slatted sunporch floor. My mother’s brooch in the shape of a heart...

01/05/2025

Here, friends, from our Issue XII (while we're composing Issue XIII...), a poem of love and grief at the nexus of nature and human nature...

Sixteen, you say you’ll be a Piney. Live alone in a crude hut, hunt squirrel and possum, spit your to***co. Sure you could lose a lot of sins in a million acres of ugly Pygmy Pines...

19/04/2025

A meditative poem in Bracken Issue XII that seems to subtly suit these moments...

Tiny wings are helicoptering off the maples onto fresh mulch.