We're open for print AND web submissions & eager to read your work! No theme for the print edition. "Performance" theme for web edition. Link in bio for guidelines & details! #creativewriting #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction #litmag

Day 25: “The Other Things We Swallow” by Natalia Martinez in @ninthletter.bsky.social. I’ve never read an abecedarian quite like this. ninthletter.com/2025/02/28/n...

Ninth Letter is excited to present the poem “The Masks above the Proscenium" by Richard Hoffman as our August feature. Read it on the website for free! Link in bio.

🥁Drumroll, please...🥁 We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2025 Ninth Letter Literary Awards. Thank you to all submitters for trusting us with your words. And much gratitude to our contest editorial staff and our fabulous guest judges for their hard work! ✨

Check out "Sundogs" by Meghan E. O'Toole live on our website. Meghan was the 2024 Regeneration Contest winner as chosen by Stephanie Anderson, and this story originally appeared in print Vol. 21.2. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter is honored to feature Tylea Richard’s essay “Caribbean Gothic,” which is the Disquiet International Literary Award’s Nonfiction Prize winner for 2025. Read it for free at ninthletter.com. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter, in partnership with I-Regen, is accepting submissions to the 2025 Regeneration Literary Awards. The great Scott Chaskey serves as our guest judge. Submit work that explores the “regeneration" as it relates to food and food systems. Link in bio! #regenerativeagriculture #writingcontest

We’re back to share more incredible writing! Don’t miss Anne Pritikin’s short story “Hold Hands, Children,” which received an honorable mention for fiction in our 2024 Literary Awards chosen by Lena Valencia. Live now on our website. Link in bio.

We're thrilled to feature the work of Daniel Uncapher, whose three collage essays won the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction selected by Kristen Millares Young. Check out this genre-bending work live on our website and coming soon in print in Vol. 21.2. Link in bio!

"Three Plagues" up on @ninthletter.bsky.social now is so great and such a wonderful example of how real, immersive world-building is inseparable from line and tone. @ivygrimes.bsky.social sepia old-testament voice makes big, weird things look easy. ninthletter.com/feature/ivy-...

We’re proud to share this fantastic poem by Michelle Phương Hồ which will appear in print in Volume 21, Issue 02. Check out “Facing It,” and stay tuned all week for more work from out 2024 contest winners. Link in bio.

Loved this - classic Grimes.

(23 of you) asked, we listened! The 2025 9L Literary Awards deadlines is extended until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Last chance to win 1 of 3 $1000 prizes + publication. Stay tuned as we drop free web access to 2024 winners all week. We can't wait to read your work!

It’s National Short Story Month and I’ll try to recommend at least one a day. First up is Three Plagues by @ivygrimes.bsky.social in @ninthletter.bsky.social. Mother on the roof, grandmother somewhere. A mystery man. Loved it. ninthletter.com/feature/ivy-...

New story just dropped! Read "Three Plagues" by @ivygrimes.bsky.social for free on our website. Link in bio!

Today's the day! Send in your last minute submissions for a chance at $1,000. ✨ Link in bio ✨

Only one week left to submit! Send us your work by April 30th 💌 First prize is $1,000 for each genre, print and web publication, and bragging rights! Every U.S. entrant receives a free, one-year print subscription per submission. Full guidelines on our website + link in bio ✨

We're fundraising for our award-winning literary journal, Ninth Letter, and the challenge ends tonight! Please consider donating!

📣 Announcing our annual Literary Awards and this year’s fantastic judges 📣 Send us your unpublished work and get a free 1-year subscription to Ninth Letter—oh and the chance to win $1,000! Deadline: Midnight, April 30th. For more information, link in bio ✨

“It’s the not knowing that kills us. / The thought that a (worse/better) world could exist / where we (turn into butterflies/get eaten by a flycatcher). / A world where we die alone. / A world where everything is perfect.” Thanks to @ninthletter.bsky.social for publishing one of my favorites

I am so excited to have a new poem in Ninth Letter's "de/composition" web feature! ninthletter.com/2025/02/28/a...

So incredibly excited to have work in this issue from Ninth Letter online and to dive into the rest of the gross stuff here!

We are proud to announce the Winter 2025 web edition of Ninth Letter, "de/composition," is now live on our website. A huge thank you to our contributors for trusting us with their work and to our editorial team for their efforts. Always free, always fantastic, give it a read today. Link in bio!

Did someone say free submissions? We are now accepting subs for a "Reversal" themed web edition of Ninth Letter. Send us work that portrays reversal in form or content (or both)! Submissions will close when we hit our cap of 325 subs per genre. Link in bio for full guidelines.

I suppose I'm a bit behind here, but I just read and really enjoyed "The Story of Art" by @katieburgess.bsky.social in @ninthletter.bsky.social and now I think you should read it, too!

This is your sign to submit to Ninth Letter's print issue! Subs are open until the end of February, and we pay our contributors. No theme for print submissions. Link in bio to submit + more info. Your work is ready. We're ready. We can't wait to read your work. #litmag

NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social's poem "Water wants"—in part responding to Sally Hayden's "My Fourth Time, We Drowned"—was published in @ninthletter.bsky.social's folio of new writing from 2024 Elizabeth Kostova Foundation fellows:

"Who wouldn’t / wish we could / say, nobody dies any more at sea / the way they did / in the past, lives" Thank you to @ninthletter.bsky.social for including my poem, "Water wants," as part of a special web feature. ninthletter.com/2025/01/07/s...

Check out the new feature live on ninthletter.com feature poems from the eight poetry fellows of Elizabeth Kostova Foundation's 2024 Koprivshtitsa Poetry Conference in Bulgaria. Thank you to the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the poets for allowing us to run this international feature!

Wow! We’ve already hit our extended cap for poetry and fiction. Thank you for the support! CNF subs are still free!

We <3 our submitters. We’ve opened for 100 more FREE submissions. Please only submit ONCE per category. When we hit our cap, submissions will be open with our regular $3 fee. Thank you for all your support and love! Link in bio or visit our website for guidelines.

Submit to our print edition for FREE this December or until we reach our cap! Send your lovelies and your daring darlings. Full submission guidelines on our website and Submittable. Link in bio!

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

Happy pub day to Stephanie Anderson for her new book FROM THE GROUND UP (The New Press 2024)! Check out an exclusive excerpt + interview with the author about regenerative agriculture, food systems, and writing literary nonfiction. Live now at ninthletter.com. Link in bio. Photo: NKB Photo

Shoutout to @ebrockwayink.bsky.social for creating this lit mag starter pack and including us!

We’re open for submissions and ready to read your work! Send us your poems, short stories, and cnf for consideration for our print magazine. Link in bio for full guidelines and at ninthletter.com. #literarymagazine #callforsubmissions

7 more days left to submit!!!! . . . . . . . #creativewriting #writingcontest #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine #literaryawards

Send these amazing judges your work!! Deadline is approaching April 30th!!

Don’t forget to enter the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Awards! Contest will be open until April 30. Full guidelines on our website + link in bio. . . . . #creativewriting #writingcontest #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine

In case you needed a reason to submit to the Ninth Letter contest here are 5! Deadline April 30th 😏 • • • • • • • #literaryjournal #poetry #cnf #fiction #creativewriting #NinthLetter #Literaryawards #callforsubmissions

Introducing our amazing fiction judge for the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Awards, Lena Valencia (MYSTERY LIGHTS,Tin House Books 2024). Submit today for a chance at $1000! Link in bio. #fictionprize #literaryawards #ninthletter #callforsubmissions

Introducing our fantastic poetry judge for the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Awards, Sara Borjas (HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF, Noemi Press 2019). Submit today for a chance at $1000! Link in bio. #poetryprize #literaryawards #ninthletter #callforsubmissions

2024 Ninth Letter Literary Awards contest will be open March 1 - April 30. We accept previously unpublished poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction. One winner in each genre will receive $1000, print and online publication, and bragging rights! Guidelines in the link in our bio!

Our new Fall/Winter 2023-2024 print issue(originally $14.95 + S&H)will be on sale at 1205 for a discounted price of $13! Come save a buck and say hi!!!

Come visit us at booth 1205! First come, first served! Get a copy of this limited edition broadside of Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “Strong Men, Riding Horses.” This edition is printed by consent of Brooks permissions.

Join us on Sat, Feb 10 for an offsite #AWP24 reading at The Ship with this dope lineup! Below is a round up of other can’t miss offsites we are excited about!

9L is proud to feature an interview with Margot Livesey & an excerpt from her new novel THE ROAD FROM BELHAVEN about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland + an excerpt from the book. Link in bio!

We’re thrilled to be featured in 20 Years of Literary Magazines: CLMP Showcase, from @CLMPorg & @exacteditions! Through the end of the year, you can read a sample issue of Ninth Letter here: exacted.me/CLMP

New content is up on the 9L website! Link in bio. Read “Disturbance” by Stephanie Anderson. It’s a must read and the winner of our 2022 Regeneration Contest chosen by Deb Marquart, editor of Flyaway Journal & Sponsored by I-Regen @sustainillinois

New issue alert! We are thrilled to share our latest web edition at ninthletter.com. For this issue, we invited our writers to praise their beasts, and they delivered. Give it a read! #litmag #poetry #fiction #CNF