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Chapter House Journal Chapter House Journal is an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the Institute Blog contributors are solicited through our student body.

Chapter House is an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Low Residency MFA Program. We publish in January and July of each year to coincide with our biannual MFA residency that occurs on the IAIA campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While Mud City is rooted in an Indigenous centered program, we look to publish writers from a diverse ran

ge of backgrounds, experiences, styles, and aesthetics. Mud City publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting. All submissions, including solicitations, are read by a dedicated staff of IAIA MFA students and faculty advisors. The staff also manages submissions, solicitations, publication decisions, website design, and blog content. The reading period for the Winter edition will begin on August 1st, and continue through October 31st. The reading period for the Summer edition will begin on February 1st, and continue through May 30th. Through the MC Blog we publish original content including interviews, video footage of craft talks and readings from faculty members and visiting writers.

We gather in the hush between seasons, where story meets sky and voice becomes fire.Join us on October 1st, 2025, 6–7PM ...
26/09/2025

We gather in the hush between seasons, where story meets sky and voice becomes fire.

Join us on October 1st, 2025, 6–7PM MST (via Zoom) to welcome the Indigenous Fiction Prize winner and the launch of our 2025 Summer Reading Series.

🌾 Link in bio to sign up.

Inhale the weight of memory. Exhale what we’re still learning to live without.2025 Summer Issue is here, where breath me...
15/08/2025

Inhale the weight of memory. Exhale what we’re still learning to live without.

2025 Summer Issue is here, where breath meets grief and both find their way to the page. Link in bio.

Fragments of Joy: A Communal Meditation on Reclamation and JoyThis living poem began with a question: “What have you rec...
13/08/2025

Fragments of Joy: A Communal Meditation on Reclamation and Joy

This living poem began with a question: “What have you reclaimed that has brought you or your community joy?”

Contributors, many of whom shared their words during AWP 2025 in Los Angeles, others who joined us online, offered powerful phrases in response.

Each voice adds to this collective moment of reflection, resistance, and celebration.

Scroll to see the community behind the words and check out the rest of the poem at our link in bio.

“To make room for breath is to make room for the expansion of an existence once destroyed.” - Chapter House Journal Staf...
13/08/2025

“To make room for breath is to make room for the expansion of an existence once destroyed.” - Chapter House Journal Staff, Introduction

This is the marrow of our 2025 Summer Issue, Breathwork/Griefwork: The Rumbling Inside, The Ground Underneath. A theme born in the tremble and the tender. Coming this Friday, August 15.

Introducing Chapter House Journal’s 2025 Summer Issue Masthead: Hands are the oldest tools. These calloused, tender, rem...
07/08/2025

Introducing Chapter House Journal’s 2025 Summer Issue Masthead:

Hands are the oldest tools. These calloused, tender, remembering, have held the pulse of this issue, shaped its breath, and guided its becoming. We honor the ones who gathered here, who made a way with ink, with care, with love.

Gratitudes to our 2025 Summer Issue Masthead.

Let these names rise gently on your tongue—let them bloom in the soil of your own language.Here are the voices who shape...
04/08/2025

Let these names rise gently on your tongue—
let them bloom in the soil of your own language.
Here are the voices who shaped the Summer 2025 issue. Coming August 15th, 2025

We are honored to announce the winner of the Chapter House Journal Indigenous Fiction Prize, selected with care and insi...
31/07/2025

We are honored to announce the winner of the Chapter House Journal Indigenous Fiction Prize, selected with care and insight by the incomparable Debra Magpie Earling.

Congratulations, Jessica Doe, for your breathtaking story “Poached”, a piece that moves like deep water, quiet, powerful, unforgettable.

Finalists: Tacey M. Atsitty and Hilary Pohl, whose luminous works remind us of story as sustenance, like rain held in roots.

Honorable mentions to Jennifer Gouge, Samantha Gauer and Danielle Shaandiin Emerson.

To each of these writers, thank you. Your words are rivers, your voices are medicine. See their work in our upcoming 2025 Summer Issue on August 15th.

Our upcoming web issue holds powerful work from emerging Indigenous writers and kin. Voices that reach across land, time...
30/07/2025

Our upcoming web issue holds powerful work from emerging Indigenous writers and kin. Voices that reach across land, time, and experience. We’re honored to share what’s coming.

Stay close, stay open. Take this as an invitation, as medicine, as an opportunity to gather.

2025 Summer Issue launches August 15, 2025.

We are so honored to have interviewed Percival Everett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James, ...
21/07/2025

We are so honored to have interviewed Percival Everett, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James, for our Storyteller’s Corner.

In this wide-ranging interview, Everett talks about how he names his characters, Jane Fonda, his experiences with Indigenous people, how humor emerges in traumatic places, and many other topics and craft choices. Maybe most importantly we talk about how writing is always, and above all, “for yourself.” And how to stay true to your own vision, interests and the music that is “exactly what I want to hear”.

Don’t miss this one!!!!! Link in bio.

Interview by Chapter House editors: Rey Rodríguez , Kenneth Dyer-Redner, and Oona Narváez

‼️ LAST WEEK OF SUBMISSIONS!!! ‼️Submit to our new Indigenous Fiction Prize judged by the incredible, award-winning auth...
23/06/2025

‼️ LAST WEEK OF SUBMISSIONS!!! ‼️

Submit to our new Indigenous Fiction Prize judged by the incredible, award-winning author Debra Magpie Earling!! $250 CASH PRIZE for winner 🎊

And to our General Submissions pool open for poetry, visual art, fiction and nonfiction!!!!

WE WANT YOUR WRITING 🎉🎉

Submissions close June 30th. Find submissions guidelines for prize and general submissions at our website linked in bio.

Please share and spead widely!!!!!!

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