Open Submissions Season
We are now taking regular submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and artwork. See our Submittable page for full details.
Our current issue is #48, Summer 2024, and features Afua Ansong, McCullough Blessing, Eliot Cardinaux, Patrick Clement James, Katie Edkins Milligan, Coby-Dillon English, Stacey Forbes, Robert Gibb, Marina Greenfeld, William Hawkins, Aiden Heung, Darren Higgins, Jessica Holmes, Kaley Hutter, Natalie Keener, Hope Kelham, Jessie Kraemer, Paul Linczak, Michael Malan, Susan Mersereau, Nicholas Montemarano, Amy Moore, Bennett Nieberg, John A. Nieves, Cathlin Noonan, Martha Paz-Soldan, Aaron Rabinowitz, Johann Sarna, Raisa Tolchinsky, G.C. Waldrep, Jacob Walhout, Raziya Wang, Christian Wessels, Adele Williams, Heath J Wooten, Ronnie Yates, Jane Zwart
Marrow Song
The wind through the cornfield is teaching it how to die.
The dry leaves keen like paper wind chimes, the rattle ...
Butterfly Sister
by Hanna HendersonButterflies only live for a week, Bobby.
That’s what Mama told me when ...
Spiraling Down: On Katabasis and Stepping into Fear
Raisa Tolchinksky speaks with Meridian Editor-in-Chief Coby-Dillon English about her new poetry collection.
The Air in the Air Behind It by Brandon Rushton
Brandon Rushton’s first book, The Air in the Air Behind It, is filled with poems that show us new ways to see ...
Glass Jaw by Raisa Tolchinsky
Not much is sacred these days. Glass Jaw, the first collection by poet Raisa Tolchinsky, deftly articulates questions of devotion amidst physical and emotional strain.
Nefando by Mónica Ojeda
If you think fiction about online subcultures is doomed to quaintness, and that publishing internet discourse in a tangible book inherently renders that discourse obsolete ...