Meet our ’25–’26 editorial team—Editor in Chief Raquel Gordon and Managing Editor Megan Poe ⭐️ These ladies keep the publication running—from designing the journal to managing contracts and everything in between. fuguejournal.com

There's a beautiful new poetry piece on the Fugue website! Go check out "Stars of Heaven" by Chelsea Guo: fuguejournal.com/starsofheave... Chelsea Guo is an emerging poet and writer from Lexington, Massachusetts.

Meet out '25-'26 admin team, Juliet Wenzel and Kasey Kirchner ⭐️ In their words: "We love being a part of such a fun, supportive group of art-makers and art-lovers, and we love spreading the word about our incredible team and all the hard work they do." fuguejournal.com

There are two new Art & Hybrid pieces on the Fugue website, "In Mourning for Bam," and "From Simile to Metaphor" by Ali Asadollahi, a poet, songwriter, and translator based in Tehran, Iran. Check them out! fuguejournal.com/fromsimileto...

We have extended our submission deadline for the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, art & hybrid, and interviews & reviews. Submissions are now open until December 1, 2025. Yay! We can't wait to read your work. fuguejournal.com/

New fiction publication alert! 🎉 "Aunty Dolly Won't Die" by Renesha Dhanraj is up on the Fugue website. fuguejournal.com/auntydollywo...

New Art & Hybrid piece up on the website! This stunning collage, "Windstruck," by JC Alfier. JC Alfier’s (they/them) most recent book of poetry, "The Shadow Field," was published in 2020. Check out the website to learn more. fuguejournal.com/windstruckalfiers Submit your work at fuguejournal.com

Meet out '25-'26 poetry editors, Kyle Singleton and Cash Robinson ⭐️ In their words: "Here in poetry, we don't believe in the word 'slush.' It's a delight to get to read everything, whether we publish it or not, and to be surrounded by a team of avid readers and poetry lovers."

Last spring's Prose contest winner, "Tilapia" by Satori Good, is up on the Fugue website! 🐟 Check it out: fuguejournal.com/tilapiasator... Happy Halloween, and happy reading!

Meet our '25-'26 art & hybrid editor, Jonah Radeke ⭐️ In his own words: "We have a small but awesome team of readers for Art & Hybrid. For all of us, making creative work plays a big part in our own lives, which helps when it comes to talking about submissions and makes collaborating easy and fun."

General submissions close on November 15th! Submit your work before then! We're accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art & hybrid pieces, as well as reviews and interviews. Check out our website to learn more and submit. fuguejournal.com

Meet out '25-'26 fiction editors, Jasmine Jones & Rya Sheppard ⭐️ In their own words: "We crave stories that stick with us, stories that we can’t stop reading—whether that’s because of their lyrical prose or dynamic characters. Put us in the world from the start! Make it weird (but with a purpose)!"

Last spring's poetry contest runner up, “Glittery Strap-On" by Jeni Prater, is up on the Fugue website! fuguejournal.com/poetryandprose Happy reading!

Meet our '25-'26 nonfiction editors, Annie Sheneman and Gracie Gurr ⭐️ In their own words: "It’s so exciting to see what’s out there in the realm of nonfiction. We’re so honored to know that people trust us with their work, and are willing to grant us a glimpse into their worlds and their minds."

Does your artwork do backflips through genres? Does it echo, resonate, breathe, or bend? Submit it to Fugue! fugue.submittable.com/submit

Last spring's poetry contest winner, "The Velvet Ant" by Ira Goga, is up on the Fugue website! Go read it! fuguejournal.com/velvet-ant-i...

Is your poetry curious about the world? Does it push the boundaries of form and the limits of language? Submit your poems to fugue! fugue.submittable.com/submit

Attn: Fiction makers! We're looking for stories that move—stories that echo after we finish reading them, so even if we cannot define what the echoed voice is saying, it haunts us with its sound, emotion, and humanity. Submit today at fuguejournal.com/general-subm...

Huzzah! General submissions are officially open! 🎉 Submit your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art & hybrid forms, reviews, and interviews at fugue.submittable.com Submission guidelines can be found at fuguejournal.com

General submissions open September 1st! Give us your words and your art! The beautiful, strange, grounded, imaginative, embodied, and beyond. We want it all. Find submission guidelines and past issues on our website, fuguejournal.com

Order Issue 65 now!! Cover art by Alana Solin. ✨ Thank you to all our wonderful contributors. fugue.submittable.com/submit

Here are our finalists for the 2025 Writing Contest! 🎉 Congratulations to all these wonderful poets and writers. Stay tuned for results from our judges. :)

Hey! We've got new visual poetry by Sarah J. Sloat up on our website ✨ (Sarah J. Sloat’s "Launch" featured in this graphic!) fuguejournal.com/two-poems-sa...

TODAY is the last day to submit to our contest! 🚨 Send us your words: fuguejournal.com/contest

Don’t miss our newest interview! ✨ Go read "What Do You Do When You Give Yourself the Freedom?: An Interview with Camille Roy", interview by Alex Connors. fuguejournal.com/camille-roy-...

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve got a new Conditional Essay up! ✨ Be sure to read associate reviews & interviews editor Dylan Bourne's "Slow Canoe at Sunset" a conditional essay on Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72. fuguejournal.com/slow-canoe-a...

Yay! We’ve got new poems from Olivia Muenz. ✨ Read "Down the Hatch" and "Poem" on our website now. (Graphic caption taken from Muenz’s "Poem") fuguejournal.com/two-poems-mu...

Our 2025 Writing Contest is now open! Send us your prose and poetry ✨ Winners in each genre will receive $1000. Winners and runners up will be published online and in Issue 66. Submissions are subject to a $20 fee. Send your words in now! 🎉 fugue.submittable.com/submit

Another Conditional Essay is up on our website (and this one is written by our EIC @magglerock.bsky.social)! Read "'Some Hot Nite,' or, On Diaries", a conditional essay on Kathryn Scanlan’s book Aug 9—Fog. ✨

Read Teresa Carmody’s short story "Work Friends, or The Elements of Fiction Make a Story Go-Go"✨ (p.s. this was the runner-up in our writing contest last year! Be sure to submit to this year’s contest!) fuguejournal.com/work-friends...

Hey! In case you missed it, we’ve got another Conditional Essay. Read associate fiction editor Annie Burky’s "In Defense of Quiet Stories", a conditional essay on Yoko Ogawa’s story "The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in Quiet Rain" and novel Mina’s Matchbox. fuguejournal.com/defense-of-q...

Read the latest review on our website "Words Rising: Sculpting Poetry Off the Page" by Camille LeFevre. ✨ fuguejournal.com/reviews-inte...

It’s Conditional Essay season again! Check out our associate nonfiction editor Annie Sheneman’s "Jasmine and Zip Ties and Ocean Waves", a conditional essay on Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto. fuguejournal.com/jasmine-and-...

New poetry up now! ✨ Read "Reimagining of the Self" by Hollie Dugas on our website. (And don’t forget to submit to our contest!) fuguejournal.com/reimagining-...

Our 2025 Writing Contest is now open! Send us your prose and poetry ✨ Winners in each genre will receive $1000. Winners and runners up will be published online and in Issue 66. Submissions are subject to a $20 fee. Send your words in now! 🎉 fugue.submittable.com/submit

It’s almost contest time!! 🎉 We open for submissions this Saturday. And we are SO excited to introduce our 2025 judges Donika Kelly (poetry) and Jess Arndt (prose). The winner and runner-up in each category will be published online and in Issue 66! Winners also receive $1000. ✨

Hey! We’ve got new nonfiction! ✨ Go read "Footnotes to Mark Rothko’s Black on Grey, 1969" by Brooke Middlebrook. fuguejournal.com/footnotes-ro...

New fiction up on our website! ✨ Read "A Reproductive Strategy" by Roy Lowenstein. fuguejournal.com/reproductive...

Our Pushcart nominations for this year! ✨🎉 Thanks to all our contributors for trusting us with your work.

New art & hybrid piece online! ✨🎨 Don’t miss Two Collages by Brett Stout. Brett Stout’s Hybrid Collage "i Slowly Deteriorate" featured in the graphic below. fuguejournal.com/two-collages...

Got art? 🎨 Or a hybrid piece that tells a story outside of traditional genre conventions? Send them to us! ✨ We’re accepting Visual Art & Other Hybrid Forms submissions until December 15! ✨ fuguejournal.com/general-subm...

New fiction up online! ✨ Read Anna Schachner’s "The Gun at the End of the Story." fuguejournal.com/gun-end-stor...

Today is the last day to submit!! Don’t forget to send us your wonderful nonfiction, poetry, art and hybrid pieces!

New poetry up online! ✨ Don’t miss Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal’s poem: דור ‬ [DOR — DOYRES]‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ n. masc. (yiddish) generation, age fuguejournal.com/dor-doyres-b...

We’ve reopened Poetry, Nonfiction, and Art/Hybrid submissions!! 🚨 Submit your work by Dec 1. fuguejournal.com/general-subm...

Today is the last day to submit your wonderful poetry, prose and art!! ✨ fuguejournal.com/general-subm...