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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.

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.

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.

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

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!!!!!!

18/06/2025

📣📣 New interview up on our blog Storyteller‘s Corner!!

Editors Rey M. Rodríguez and Tanya Tyler interviewed the legendary poet Kimberly Blaeser , and the interview is chock full of gems of wisdom and poignant clarity. The Institute of American Indian Arts is so blessed to have her as a teacher and a vocal supporter of the program. We hope that you feel the joy that we experienced interviewing her. Read it at the link in our bio.

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Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of works in several genres. Her six poetry collections include Ancient Light (2024), Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance (2020), and Copper Yearning (2019). Blaeser edited Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry, wrote the monograph Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition on the work of fellow White Earth writer, and served as contributing editor for When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). Her writing is included in over 100 anthologies and translated into multiple languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, and Hungarian. Her photographs, picto-poems, and ekphrastic pieces have appeared in exhibits such as “Visualizing Sovereignty” and “No More Stolen Sisters.”

An Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist, she is an enrolled member of White Earth Nation and grew up on the reservation. Blaeser’s honors include the 2025 Poets & Writers’ Writer for Writers Award, Zona Gale Short Fiction Award from the Council of Wisconsin Writers, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. She is a Professor Emerita at UW-Milwaukee and an MFA faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Recent projects include the curation of a “Water Portfolio” for Prairie Schooner and an “Indigenous through Poetry” project.

05/05/2025

The Bilingual Foundation of the Arts’ production of “Lorca y las Mujeres,” running from May 2 to 18 at the Margo Albert Theatre in Plaza de la Raza, is a stirring homage to Federico García Lorca’s profound exploration of women’s lives.

Adapted and directed by Denise Blasor, this performance intertwines four of Lorca’s seminal works—La Zapatera Prodigiosa, Yerma, Bodas de Sangre, and La Casa de Bernarda Alba—into a cohesive narrative that delves into themes of passion, repression, and defiance.

Presented in Spanish with English subtitles, the production offers a bilingual experience that resonates with a diverse audience. Blasor’s direction, complemented by Beatriz Eugenia Vasquez’s choreography, brings a dynamic and visceral energy to the stage, highlighting the emotional depth and societal constraints faced by Lorca’s female characters.

This performance is part of BFA’s initiative, “El Año de Las Mujeres” (The Year of Women), celebrating the influence and transformative power of women in art and society. Through “Lorca y las Mujeres,” the company not only honors Lorca’s legacy but also amplifies the voices of women, making their struggles and resilience palpable to contemporary audiences.

“Lorca y las Mujeres” is more than a theatrical production; it’s a poignant reflection on the enduring relevance of Lorca’s work and a testament to the strength and complexity of women’s experiences. This compelling tribute is a must-see for those who appreciate powerful storytelling and the rich tapestry of human emotion.

Check it out and support the arts. It is a powerful act of resistance at a moment when the arts are under attack.

Of Arts

01/05/2025

📣 📣 Chapter House Journal is now open for submissions for our Summer 2025 issue!! 🍓🎉

Submit your fiction, poetry, nonfiction or visual art between May 1 and June 30th through our Submittable page: https://chjournal.submittable.com/submit or visiting our website linked in our bio. Simultaneous submissions are welcome!

A bit about our journal:

Chapter House Journal (formerly Mud City Journal) is an online literary journal promoting the ideals and vision of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Low Residency MFA Program. We publish new work on a biannual basis.

While Chapter House is rooted in an Indigenous-centered program, we look to publish writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, experiences, styles, and aesthetics. We strongly encourage submissions from Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, q***r and non-binary people, neurodivergent individuals, individuals with disabilities, and all members of historically marginalized communities. We welcome submissions from both emerging and published writers.

We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and (sometimes) screenwriting and visual art. 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.

We aspire to be one of the primary literary outlets for Indigenous and marginalized communities in the world. We therefore warmly invite all creators with aligned interests and passions to come and contribute to this lively, dynamic and ever-changing landscape of art and literature.

29/04/2025

🎉🎉 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new INDIGENOUS FICTION PRIZE, judged by award-winning novelist DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING. 🎉🎉

Submissions for the prize open THIS THURSDAY, May 1 and close June 30th! There will be a $250 Cash Prize for the selected winner, and the winner as well as two runner up finalists will be published in our Summer 2025 issue.

We also hope to hold an Issue Launch reading with the winners and other published authors. Submissions should not exceed 5,000 words.

Check out www.chjournal.com for our submittable link and more details!

Please share with your friends and submit!!!! We cannot wait to read your work!! 🎉🎊

26/04/2025

We feel so lucky to have interviewed the incredible Debra Magpie Earling for our Storyteller’s Corner blog! Anyone who has read her work knows how courageous, powerful and boundary dissolving her work is. For those that haven’t read her - do it now!!! You will be forever changed.

Likewise this interview is full of wisdom and potency. Thanks you Debra for your generosity! We also have an upcoming special collaboration with Debra to be announced very soon!!!!
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Debra Magpie Earling is the award-winning author of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea and Perma Red. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Montana Book Award, and the American Book Award. She retired from the University of Montana, where she was named professor emeritus in 2021. She is Bitterroot Salish.

Interview conducted by editors Rey Rodríguez and Thomas Dayzie.

04/04/2025

WOW thank you to everyone who stopped by our table at AWP! We had a blast watching our friends, editors and IAIA students and mentors shine in their panels, lectures, events and readings, and are so grateful to have met so many amazing alumni and collaborators out in the writing world. The Chapter House and IAIA community are abundant in joy, brilliance, and solidarity. 🔥🔥

Stay tuned for our submissions to open soon!!!

27/03/2025

If you’re at AWP, come say hello to us at Booth #470 and write a line for our Reclamation Civic Poetry Project! We have candy too 💥🎉

26/03/2025

🎉💥 Enjoy another Storyteller’s Corner interview! This time it is with mentor and author Jaime Figueroa , who recently published, “Mother Island – A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico” a stunning memoir in essays put out by Patheon Books.

Myriam J. A. Chancy describes Figueroa’s memoir as “re-assemblage collage fragments of the author’s memories from childhood to the present to create a receptacle in which she can recollect, recognize, and claim what it means to be Boricua.”

Read more about Jamie and her work at the link in our bio! And don’t forget to come find us this week at AWP Booth #470!

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