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Submissions are official open for short fiction at Adi Magazine! Send us your work on the theme of "alternative politica...
04/04/2025

Submissions are official open for short fiction at Adi Magazine! Send us your work on the theme of "alternative political visions!" Submissions are FREE and we always pay our contributors!

And don't worry, poets, we'll open for poetry on the same theme next month!

Learn more and submit here: https://adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

03/04/2025

For National Arab American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of April, we asked our member magazines and presses to share with us some of the work by Arab American writers that they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry   Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam Nightboat Books | 2021 IS...

Short fiction submissions open TOMORROW! We're thrilled to be opening our Submittable on 4/4/25 for short fiction submis...
03/04/2025

Short fiction submissions open TOMORROW!

We're thrilled to be opening our Submittable on 4/4/25 for short fiction submissions on the theme of "alternative political visions" — we need them now more than ever. We can't wait to read your work!

Go to Adi's submission page to read the full prompt, mark your calendars, share far and wide, and don't forget to follow us for reminders!

➡ adimagazine.com/submissions/

Adi is pleased to share Esther Lin's poem, "Done Right" as a continuation of our Into the Blank issue. This poem is from...
01/04/2025

Adi is pleased to share Esther Lin's poem, "Done Right" as a continuation of our Into the Blank issue. This poem is from Esther's new collection, COLD THIEF PLACE, out now from Alice James Books.

Check out this poem at the link in our bio!

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets...
21/03/2025

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to."

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Check out this interview with activist and educator Mariame Kaba and Eve L. Ewing: "Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People."

Read here:
https://adimagazine.com/articles/mariame-kaba-everything-worthwhile-is-done-with-other-people/

"What fungus shapes here, what / ever-widening lesion plants / into shapeless nights..."We are thrilled to share a new p...
18/03/2025

"What fungus shapes here, what / ever-widening lesion plants / into shapeless nights..."

We are thrilled to share a new poem, "Impulse Control" by Jessica Q. Stark, as an extension of our Into the Blank issue. We loved the issue so much, we decided to keep it going!

Read the full poem below, and keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks for more new pieces!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/impulse-control/

FROM THE ADI ARCHIVE: "Why do we always feel like we’re getting away with something when this is Indian land? Government...
21/02/2025

FROM THE ADI ARCHIVE: "Why do we always feel like we’re getting away with something when this is Indian land? Government offices make me feel like I’m trying to scam them, because of their genuine suspicion of me any time I try to receive benefits or assistance."

Today's highlight from the archives is "A Person on Paper" by Terese Mailhot, from Adi's first issue. Mailhot writes about growing up on Seabird Island Indian Band in BC, Canada and the struggles of straddling the US-Canada border as a Native person.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/an-indigenous-person-on-paper/

We're pleased to share a MICRO INTERVIEW with KAYA JOAN (), illustrator for INTO THE BLANK:ADI: What is your process for...
14/02/2025

We're pleased to share a MICRO INTERVIEW with KAYA JOAN (), illustrator for INTO THE BLANK:

ADI: What is your process for creating art that is linked to and in conversation with literature?

KJ: I have always been a very visual person, so as I am reading a piece of literature, many images are coming into mind. I take written and illustrated notes, focusing on what stands out to me from the piece, often key words/phrases, descriptive language and repeating themes. From there, I construct a few rough sketches, which develop into the final piece.

ADI: Your work—for Adi and in general—has motifs of hands, stars, flora, creatures, and bodies. What draws you to these images?

KJ: These are images that a mentor of mine, Tannis Neilson, would call my "visual lexicon". I return to these images because they can represent a multitude of things, and expressing multiplicity is important to me. Although my illustrations are 2D and static, I try to evoke life and movement by including natural elements like flora, bodies, creatures, and stars-which could also be expressed as world-building.

ADI:What is one thing that you want to share with the people who engage with your art, or one thing you most want people to take away from an encounter with your art?

KJ: I hope people feel something when they encounter my art. It is no longer mine once it is shared with others, so I hope people are able to cast themselves into the worlds I create and find something that resonates.

ADI: Who are your artistic forebears? What artists or artworks have inspired you lately? (Feel free to include tags on socials!)

KJ: There are too many to include in one answer, but to mention some who I am always inspired by are , , , ...the list truly goes on and on.

FROM THE ADI ARCHIVE: "The difference is much like reading redacted documents; it is a matter of reading past or through...
11/02/2025

FROM THE ADI ARCHIVE: "The difference is much like reading redacted documents; it is a matter of reading past or through the mysteries, on deciding which way to cast our gaze."

Today we are rereading a piece from Adi's first issue, "Hand of Terror" by Michelle García. Read the whole piece: https://adimagazine.com/articles/hand-of-terror/

04/02/2025

For Black History Month, observed annually during the month of February, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry The Limitless Heart by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor Haymarket ...

"Close your eyes / in a dark room / and choose / which dark to fear." We've been ruminating on this stunning poem, "to ...
28/01/2025

"Close your eyes / in a dark room / and choose / which dark to fear."

We've been ruminating on this stunning poem, "to birth laws of relational dark" by Leslie McIntosh () ever since it was submitted, and it inspired the name of our issue!

Read the whole poem here:
https://adimagazine.com/articles/to-birth-laws-of-relational-dark/

"I am still trying to learn from the ways in which this history is a part of how I will always be in relation to others ...
21/01/2025

"I am still trying to learn from the ways in which this history is a part of how I will always be in relation to others without letting it overbear. Not everything has to sit in the long shadow of the past..."

Read the interview "Tracing the Revolution: Yasmin El-Rifae on the Radius and the Afterlives of Political Action" with Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan, where they discuss El-Rifae's book RADIUS: A STORY OF FEMINIST REVOLUTION (Verso Books, October 2022), feminist resistance in Egypt through Opantish in 2011, and the years that have followed.

https://adimagazine.com/articles/interview-with-yasmin/

"Art and activism for me are inseparable through the work that we do at ArtLords. Art is the medium and activism is the ...
14/01/2025

"Art and activism for me are inseparable through the work that we do at ArtLords. Art is the medium and activism is the message. Simple as that."

We're continuing to highlight pieces from Adi's Into the Blank issue, and today we're looking at this interview with Omaid Sharifi and Farah Abdessamad.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/interview-with-omaid-sharifi/

"As a child growing up in Caracas, I had to sing to the big flag in the schoolyard each morning at 7 a.m., but I didn’t ...
07/01/2025

"As a child growing up in Caracas, I had to sing to the big flag in the schoolyard each morning at 7 a.m., but I didn’t understand or care much about the lyrics to our patria‘s anthem."

In Ruxandra Guidi's "Fatherland," the author grapples with her troubled relationship with her father, as well as her fatherland of Venezuela. Read at the link below!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/fatherland/

"Inside the clinic’s exam room, I think about my birth country as the midwife moves the fetal doppler across my pelvis. ...
28/12/2024

"Inside the clinic’s exam room, I think about my birth country as the midwife moves the fetal doppler across my pelvis. I try to imagine birthing at the end of the world."

In "First Country," Sarah Lubala writes about necropolitics and exploitation, the state of pregnancy and birthing in the Congo, and the impacts of environment on the unborn, all while pregnant herself.

Read here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/first-country/

“'You eat to live, you don’t live to eat,' my dad would bark at me. Why did he say that? I honestly don’t remember my pa...
22/12/2024

“'You eat to live, you don’t live to eat,' my dad would bark at me. Why did he say that? I honestly don’t remember my part of the conversation, the whole scene, I just remember his disgust, as if I had said food was all I wanted out of life."

Marie Vibbert's "Live to Eat" imagines the psychological and familial impacts of a surgical procedure that allows you to forgo eating.

Read more here: https://adimagazine.com/articles/live-to-eat/

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Today we're featuring an excerpt from @marievibbert's short story, "Live to Eat," from Adi's Into the Blank issue. Listen here, then check out the full piece by heading to the link in our bio! #AdiMagazine #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #ShortFiction #ShortStory

Have you read Adi's "Into the Blank" issue yet? Featuring nine writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, with illustrations by @kayajoan, this issue explores experiences of exile and diaspora. With the coming of the new year, we invite you to read and imagine for yourself the possiblities of the blank, with the future still waiting to be written. Tell us which piece you're reading first in the comments! #AdiMagazine #IntoTheBlank #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #InternationalLiterature

Check out this reading by author Jamie McGhee (@j.me.mcghee) from "Last Days of Du Bois," a dystopian short story set in Du Bois, a fictionalized territory annexed from America. Read the full story at the link in bio! #AdiMagazine #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #InternationalLiterature #ShortFiction #Fiction #ShortStory #Disobediences

"We will keep you alive in our longing, in our breath." A clip from our night of solidarity for Palestine last month with @wearepurposeful_org, "Towards Our Liberation." This poem by Lisa Suhair Majaj, "For the Dead Among Us," was published in Adi's Palestinian Perspectives issue last fall. 💔🇵🇸 #adimagazine #LitMag #LiteraryMagazine #InternationalLiterature #palestinianperspectives #LisaSuhairMajaj #palestine #FreePalestine #palestinianwriters

On Wednesday in NYC, Adi was so proud to participate in a beautiful night of music and power and to distribute many of our Palestinian Perspectices chapbooks. We gathered in solidarity with many wonderful Palestinian folks, activists from all over the world, community members, feminists, allies and it was a night of grief and joy and a renewal and strengthening of our resolve: Ceasefire Now. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea. 🇵🇸 With thanks to @wearepurposeful_org for organizing the event and the folks at @peoplesforumnyc for the gorgeous space for us to gather in, and to all the speakers, artists, and contributors whose work we were given permission to showcase. Art featured in the reel by Adi contributors: @fadiajawdat, @dahliatuffaha, @tatreezfalasteen, @bint.bandora, @dana_barqawi, @rania.lardjane and @mariam_darraj0629 #AdiMagazine #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #InternationalLiterature #Essay #Poetry #PalestinianPerspectives #PalestinianArtists #PalestinianWriters #Palestine #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine

SOUND ON: Sharing this video of Adi contributor Suzana Sallak (@suzana2220) reading her piece, "Hell in My Home." Written in October 2023, it is still unbelievably relevant. All eyes on Rafah. Free Palestine. #AdiMagazine #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #InternationalLiterature #Essay #VideoEssay #PalestinianPerspectives #PalestinianArtists #PalestinianWriters #Palestine #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #Rafah #FreePalestine

LISTEN UP, AWP! 📣📣📣 #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #Ceasefire #Palestine #awp24

@michaelmjabareen reads from the artist statement that accompanies his digital artwork, "Timekeeper." A detail of Timekeeper serves as a background for the video, and the entire piece can be seen on Adi's website. Michael will be presenting his art tomorrow at our virtual event - free registry is still open at the link in our bio! Join us!

@mommainthefog reads her poem "Grant Proposal for Your Emergency," part of Adi's Palestinian Perspectives issue. ❤️🇵🇸 Priscilla will be reading at our free virtual event on 2/2/24 at 7 PM - register at the link in our bio to join us and let us know in the comments if you're attending! #AdiMagazine #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #InternationalLiterature #Poetry #PalestinianPerspectives #PalestinianArtists #PalestinianWriters #Palestine #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow

A message from our EIC Cynthia Dewi Oka - Join us for Palestinian Perspectives: A Free Virtual Reading on Feb. 2 at 7PM EST! RSVP via the link in our bio. Feat.Yousef Abu-Salah, Hasheemah Afaneh (@itshashie), Liane Al Ghusain (@lianeya), Summer Awad (@summerawadwrites), Michael Jabareen (@michaelmjabareen), Priscilla Wathington (@mommainthefog), and Alia Yunis (@alia__yunis). #AdiMagazine #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #InternationalLiterature #Essay #Poetry #PalestinianPerspectives #PalestinianArtists #PalestinianWriters #Palestine #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #Reading #VirtualEvent

Meet the contributors of Adi's #PalestinianPerspectives issue 🇵🇸 We're honored to publish the work of these stellar writers and artists, and look forward to featuring more of the work from the issue in the next few weeks. Read the full issue at the link in our bio. Ft. work by @fadiajawdat, @farahahhhaha, @lianeya, @mommainthefog, @bayandahdah, @kat.d.abdallah, @ehlerstration, @s.t.a.t.e.l.e.s.s, @aiyasakr, @alia__yunis, @mayspaintbrush, @yaraghabayen, @cityofasylumdetroit, @namaa_qudah, @michaelmjabareen, @suzana2220, @dinafawakhiri, @dana_barqawi, @jodeemeskeena, @tatreezfalasteen, @bint.bandora, @better_yet_poet, @bassam_jamel, @rania.lardjane, @mariam_darraj0629, @out_there_communication, @daliatuffaha, @itshashie, and others. #AdiMagazine #LiteraryMagazine #LitMag #InternationalLiterature #Essay #Poetry #PalestinianArtists #PalestinianWriters #Palestine #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow

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