Good news! We're now open for submissions across all categories, including our Fall competition. If you need an extra incentive to toss your hat in the ring, our Fall 2025 issue will be the first to appear on our brand new web platform (currently under construction).

New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

We're thrilled to showcase the work of KIM CHINQUEE in Issue 24 of the journal: louisville.edu/miraclemonoc...

We can’t wait to see you! Logan Street Market at 5:30: get your book fair on!

I’m very proud of the new issue of Miracle Monocle. You’ll see why once you click through and start reading.

Yay!

for the New York Times, I wrote about AI invading the creative writing classroom (including students using ChatGPT for memoir assignments) and all the reasons we need to value the acts of writing and thinking on their own terms www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...

At a time when so many (loud) voices in the culture seem fully arrayed against the kind of work I do, it felt good to talk about the work of editing @miraclemonocle.bsky.social with Becky Tuch today: litmagnews.substack.com/p/bringing-s...

I'll be chatting live with Becky Tuch from Lit Mag News tomorrow about Miracle Monocle: litmagnews.substack.com

That’s right folks: we’re doing the Mini Book Fair again. Want to table? Read from your new book? It’s free! Message me for the link to the Google form.

Congrats to former Miracle Monocle staffer, Ashley Rutland, whose many recent writing successes have been celebrated with this article/interview: louisville.edu/artsandscien...

We are pleased to reveal the winner of our annual competition for young Black writers, Aaliyah Anderson. Read the winning poem when our Spring 2025 issue launches in April: 🏅

Miracle Monocle is pleased to announce the The Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers. The winner of the prize will receive a $200 award, publication in the journal, and a letterpress broadside of the winning work, as designed by Hot Brown Press. miraclemonocle.submittable.com/submit

We're close to hitting our caps, so submit now to catch this issue cycle!

We are extremely excited to reveal the theme for our next micro-anthology: A LITTLE SUGAR IN THE TANK. We are open for fee-free submissions across all categories. Send us your best! 🏳️‍🌈

We are extremely excited to reveal the theme for our next micro-anthology: A LITTLE SUGAR IN THE TANK. We are open for fee-free submissions across all categories. Send us your best! 🏳️‍🌈

If you've been waiting to submit, now is your chance to pounce. We're nearing our submission caps on our regular categories. #amsubmitting louisville.edu/miraclemonoc...

We're excited to unveil the concept for this year's annual Valentine's Day Open Mic: Love Sucks! We're thrilled to be partnering again with the good folks at the UofL Writing Center and are looking forward to seeing you at this one-of-a-kind campus event.

Hit us up while you still can: louisville.edu/miraclemonoc...

My father passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly while I was preparing to launch this issue and while he wasn’t a big literary journal guy, he always supported my creative endeavors. I’d like to think he’d be proud of me for pushing forward and getting this work into the world.

Rita is making sure everything is OK out there.

We are on the hunt for our next cover artist: miraclemonocle.submittable.com/submit

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #533,348!

I realize my reach here is limited, but I’ll be doing a reading online with WANA LIVE! tonight at 8 p.m. Join me?

A little note to say that we take great pride in pubbing work that challenges genre conventions and centers concept, but we also make space for work that refreshes traditional genres. Send us your best! 💕

I’m—just struggling a little to process this.

Issue 22 of @miraclemonocle.bsky.social has dropped and it’s scaldingly hot! louisville.edu/miraclemonocle

This is happening tomorrow and I can’t wait to learn from these four super-special panelists!

Today’s the day! Submit your work by 11:59 PM EST!

This is a fantastic opportunity. We hope you'll pass word along to the writers you know. Peep the full guidelines on our Submittable page: miraclemonocle.submittable.com/submit

What to read tonight: Not just any love poem but Diane Seuss’s “Love Poem” from a recent issue of River Mouth Review: rivermouthreview.com/issue-9-mess...

Tonight!

The perfect Valentine’s Day gift? 💝

I love making books! 🩷

Please join us in welcoming our Spring 2024 staff: Nicky Alexander, Jennings Collins, Jolie Finley Anita DeSeno-Tanguay, Keyona Hughes, Corey McQueen Caroline Dayon, Zyla Dortch (not pictured), Sam Ellsworth (not pictured), Teagan Fowlkes, Khloe Hatton, Natalie Mudd, Ashley Rutland, Collin White

Excited to lead this staff toward the realization of Issue 22 of @miraclemonocle.bsky.social

Did not anticipate the emergence of a secondary market for AWP cloth bags. #awp

The holidays would be 40% better if we never had to scrape a price tag off a thing again.

Few of my crafts work out (thinking of the great holiday beading disaster of 2005 here) but making candles in cute-as-shit thrifted vessels turned out to be a dope way to make little gifts (and decompress) and so I am touting my victory all over the socials.

Brand new issue! #literaryjournal

We always look forward to visits from @miraclemonocle.bsky.social. Here’s to keeping the literary arts alive and well in Louisville! ✨

What a treat to take the Miracle Monocle gang to visit with the good folks of @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Lives were changed, I tell you! Eyes were opened to the startling beauties of anti-capitalist art-book-making! 🌟

In just a few minutes, Miracle Monocle will begin taking part in UofL's annual #RaiseSomeL fundraising bonanza and we're hoping to raise enough funds to publish our next micro-anthology. www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

Confirmation that the “literary fiction” conundrum has reached an apex with the publishing oblivion introduced by Amazon—and also a little shout-out for the heroes at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/cult...

My kid is writing a letter to the President about Commander and is suggesting re-branding cats as a “deluxe Democrat” pet.

Unpopular opinion: the size of big box mums is getting unbearable.

I'm so very grateful for this generous and insightful review of INCENDIARY DEVICES from Amy Dotson in Blue Mesa Review. bmr.unm.edu/the-immense-...

We’re having a spooky open mic and you’re invited: 👻

I don’t like to complain about writers who submit to the journal, but I will say that I’m a little befuddled by the arrival of a full-length book that was published a decade ago in our submission queue for hybrids. What’s going on there?

Join us!