We are so thrilled that two contributors to Adi were named finalists for @sundresspub.bsky.social's 2026 Best of the Net anthology! Congratulations to Larissa Ribeiro and Jess Masi! You can check out the entire anthology here: bestofthenetanthology.com

"I walk the same route with one instruction: to notice, not judge." It's National Poetry Month in the US, and we're happy to be sharing a new poem today by Sanjani Bijlani entitled "Window!" READ: adimagazine.com/articles/win...

"The burial rituals that accompanied my father’s death have been systematically denied to the people of Gaza." "The Horizon Remains Out of Reach" by Bayan Haddad is out today on the Adi website, with by art by Larissa Ribeiro. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

“The way Yasmin stares at her toes breaks something she thought had long since healed. She knows how it feels to be that trapped, how few people believe you when you speak up.” @ruthjoffre.bsky.social in @adimagazine.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/los...

“There are those who, predictably, hate the woman state. Envy fevers the face. How they’re dying to taste the woman state.” —Tracy K. Smith in “The Woman State,” a poem in @adimagazine.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"What better sign is there that a book has penetrated your psyche than becoming an evangelist for its cause?" The latest installment in Adi's new column is here! Read "Again: Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Adi's fiction editor, @laylamohamed.bsky.social. adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

Just under a week left to submit to Adi's fiction open call! Submissions are free, and are open until March 31, 2026, so send your stories soon! We pay $500 per accepted short story. Read the guidelines and send us your work here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

"& it’s calling home / the cracked-open, the strays, / and showing them again the way back" New poem today by noori, accompanied by art by Candice Evers! READ HERE: adimagazine.com/articles/pla...

Khaddafina Mbabazi’s story “Evidence” in @adimagazine.bsky.social begins, “That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking.” From our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/evi...

Have you signed up for the next Again Book Club? We'll be reading WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by J. M. Coetzee, featuring essayist Anna Badkhen in conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owour! Free registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

"The reality on the ground is our political freedoms and civil liberties are dwindling, and our capacity for dissent and activism has been stifled." New today: "No Free Labor for Authoritarians: Censorship and Dissent in Singapore" by Kirsten Han (@kirstenhan.com) adimagazine.com/articles/no-...

"apologies for the start / that photoshops stillbirth to quiet death / apologies for the death / that comes to us as a generous villain" New poetry by Nwuguru, Chidiebere Sullivan is live today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/end...

ICYMI while Bluesky was down yesterday: I have a new story in @adimagazine.bsky.social! check it out if you like: portals, magical libraries, love stories between mortals and immortals, and people who try to make the world a better place

Adi Magazine events alerts! Tomorrow, 3/5, in Baltimore at #awp2026: our panel "Global Words in a Time of Crisis" w/ Guernica & @asterixjournal.bsky.social! And looking ahead, our online Again Book Club with Anna Badkhen on WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is on 4/7: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

new story out today! it’s about a magical library, an immortal librarian, and a social worker who uses the library’s magic portals to help a victim of domestic violence escape a bad situation. thank you for reading! libraries rock!

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

"In the dark, where no one can see what magic is at work, she slips behind a bookcase and through a portal to another world." "Lost and Found," new fiction by Ruth Joffre (@ruthjoffre.bsky.social), is up today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/los...

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Open call alert!! Adi is open for fiction submissions from 3/1 - 3/31! Submissions are free, and we pay $500 per story. Read the guidelines and submit here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

"The question is, how many daydreams do you get? / The question is, You ever heard your lungs crackle like foil before?" New poetry by Justin A. Davis is live today on the Adi website, with art by Larissa Ribeiro! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/afr...

"i didn’t know him. i thought i knew him. i never knew him before. i never knew him like this." New poem up today, "cento for all the things we said when they realized they should have believed us" by Deni Igusti, with art by Kaya Joan. Read: adimagazine.com/articles/cen...

Peruse poetry by Airea Dee Matthews and photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn in @adimagazine.bsky.social! Their ten-part series “weaves mythic portraiture and epic poetry to visit with the water spirits of the African diaspora and transmit their healing properties.” adimagazine.com/issues/16/

"That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking." A new short story, "Evidence" by Khaddafina Mbabazi, is up today on Adi's website, with artwork by Larissa Ribeiro! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/evi...

"When I say Yafa, a yacht sails between my fingers, and into my words a crescent moon falls." Three new poems by Heba Abunada, translated with commentary from Huda J. Fakhreddine, are live on the Adi site today! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...

"You don’t need to burn books when you can edit the metadata." There's a new essay up today on the Adi site by Jesús Jank Curbelo entitled "Almost Nothing I Wrote Exists." Curbelo writes about censorship in Cuba and the fragility of digital archives. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/alm...

Thanks to all who attended recent TO & online events for #TamilTerrains! An excerpt from Nedra Rodrigo's essay is up at @adimagazine.bsky.social & poems translated by Subhanya Sivajothy & Yalini Jothilingam are on @alllitupcanada.bsky.social poetry blog.

“Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention.” Read Ashia S. Ajani's essay “Islands in the Sky” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #BlackHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/isl...

Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators. Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!

New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...

The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

"...we lingered on those moments where the literary text acts as an archive of a cultural, historical, or artisanal experience. To translate them with a reverence for the archive seemed to be a form of resistance against the monolithic identities we are compelled to occupy in diaspora."

We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan! Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...

Two upcoming free events in the next weeks! Join us on Zoom for: ➡️ On the Politics of Translation: 1/20/26 @ 5 PM ET, ft. Chenxin Jiang, Alaa Alqaisi, Nedra Rodrigo, & Heather Cleary! ➡️ Again Book Club: The Wretched of the Earth: 2/3/26 @ 7 PM ET! REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/o/adi-magazi...

i suppose this is the aftershock, some things have always been / flammable

"Already, she was in a mood. The surly guard didn’t help. “You people are always late,” he barked. And you people are always rude, Marta thought, knowing better than to say it." New fiction by Sara Campos is out today! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/mar...

"grab your own hand for no reason at all / grab history by the collar, before it flushes down the toilet" A new poem by Shams Alkamil, "The Women's Anaphora" is live today on the Adi site! Art by Candice Evers READ: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

EVENT ALERT! We're thrilled to have a virtual panel, "On the Politics of Translation" upcoming on January 20, 2026, featuring Chenxin Jiang, Alaa Alqaisi, Nedra Rodrigo, and Heather Cleary! Join us on 1/20/26 at 5 PM ET! Free sign-ups: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-pol...

"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..." Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...

My last poem to share for 2025 is the first poem in "Beauty Talk" which comes out next fall with @noemipress.bsky.social! Thank you so much to Ladan Osman and Genevieve Hartman for including this poem in this month's curation!

I am the only person who can tell the story / of my departure

A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month. Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!

"This country / doesn't exist for me without the story / of how we come to it." We're so pleased to share our last piece of the year, Asa Drake (@asaldrake.bsky.social)'s gorgeous poem "What Migration Will Do to You!" Art by Jinhwa Jang. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/wha...

NEW COLUMN ALERT! The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth." READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow." There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...

among all of the beautiful debuts i had the pleasure of spending time with, I also had the privilege of talking to @leilachatti.bsky.social about her second full-length (and one of my favorite books of the year!) WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME, for @adimagazine.bsky.social

"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home." New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website! Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories." A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...

“The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards.” Read “Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost” by Jess Masi in @adimagazine.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! adimagazine.com/articles/daw...

"I resist the idea that writing about suffering and imagining new worlds are separate things. Often they happen together." New interview today with Abi Daré and Kehinde Adepetun on Daré's award-winning novel AND SO I ROAR! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/and...

"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask." Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...