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We're a little cracked, and we like it that way. Louis. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reviews, and visual art.

The Spectacle is an online literary magazine run by graduate students and faculty at Washington University in St. We like scholars who write great poetry, poets who write incisive monographs, credulous skeptics, wary believers, hidebound experimentalists, radical realists, mystical engineers, analytical mystics, catholic snobs, and modish antiquarians. We have a soft spot for keen amateurs and sin

cere dilettantes. In short, we’re searching for a variety of disturbances, as long as they arrive on time and with style.

06/12/2025

Thank you to each and every one of you who submitted work to us this fall. We are hard at work reading your wonderful writing!
Hang in there- we’ll get back to you with final decisions as soon as we can.
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📸: MockoFun

15/11/2025

Only 12 hours left! We close tonight at 11:59pm CST.
Fiction submission have reached their cap.
📸: Gateway Arch Foundation

08/11/2025

ONLY ONE WEEK REMAINS TO SUBMIT TO THE SPECTACLE! Subs close November 15!

23/10/2025

It was an Autumn I’d never, ever forget.
24 DAYS LEFT
Submit your nonfiction, poetry, and fiction by November 15.
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20/03/2025

At long last, Issue 16 is live! This 10th anniversary issue features an interview from one of our founding editors, Cass Donish, and an excerpt from their recent book, as well as a splendid assortment of poetry, nonfiction, and art. You can read all of it at: https://thespectacle.wustl.edu/

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We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal. We value and emphasize relationships between the literary and visual arts, pairing the majority of the pieces we publish with original work from a variety of contributing visual artists.

Based out of the English, Creative Writing, and Visual Art departments at Washington University in St. Louis, The Spectacle is committed to publishing work from under-represented voices, including people of color, women, people from LGBTQIA+ communities, and people who have disabilities.