The Argyle Literary Magazine

Fiction subs for Issue #6 are currently CLOSED!!! So many quality subs!

Still accepting subs for POETRY, CNF, and DIGITAL ART, so keep 'em coming!!!

Due to an OVERWHELMING response of amazing poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art, subs for THEME 05: "GHOSTS" are now CLOSED.

While the submission window has breathed its last breath, "Ghosts" will be coming back for you on 12/15.

Might be our BIGGEST theme page yet!!!

Three Poems — The Argyle Literary Magazine by David Harrison Horton “There are workers up and down / the block again. / Construction never ceases / in this city.”

I've got three odes up in the @theargylelitmag.bsky.social latest realease: www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/hor...

Ten Cents Cheaper than Spam — The Argyle Literary Magazine Creative Nonfiction by Kevin Brown “Treet was difficult to describe. Canned meat, sure, but also my 70s suburban satisfaction. Satiation, even.”

I missed it when it first came out, but I have a flash essay at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social (published 9/15/25); while the title is about Spam, it's actually about Treet (and more, of course): www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...

Four Poems — The Argyle Literary Magazine by John Jeffire “Vulture breeze, numb in the wreckage, stripped to bone…”

"She regifted all, a painless sloughing of skin. Vulture breeze, numb in the wreckage, stripped to bone, oblivious of the price tag dancing from his sleeve."

Read IALA member @jeffire.bsky.social's four poems published in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social! ✍ ✨

Find them here: bit.ly/3JtLZu8

Deadline is Dec 15/25.
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FYI: Blood + Honey Submittable porthole is ready to roll for Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground. @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
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Congrats to our 2026 Best of the Net nominees!!!!

General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!

BIG thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social for accepting my two micros, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost"!!! 🐂

Vicious Fishes — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Daniel Ruefman “Two days after Dovishaw went missing, Tony Banister’s third grade class lined up on the bridge over the spillway along the southern shore of Lake Guyasuta.”

If you’d like to read my new flash fiction story, check it out in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social issue 5!

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Snapshots from my life in Hungary. You can read the entire piece in the latest issue of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social

@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social with 5 food poems in her particular, startling vernacular “collateral scattered as cumin seeds/for flatbread.”
“its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased”
“You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god”
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If you have done youth work... you have met someone like Adrian. You agonize and you love them. Thank you so much @theargylelitmag.bsky.social ! You can read the entire piece in the latest issue. #WritingCommunity

forgot to share yesterday but I'm excited to have 3 artwork pieces in this issue 🖤

Intersections — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Elizabeth Murphy “… their relationship one of convenience, he merely the provider, up until now, bankrupt in all the ways that matter, the damage done, the only hope that at least his lover Carte...

Happy to see my story Intersections in issue 5 of
@theargylelitmag.bsky.social
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The Things My Father Used to Eat — The Argyle Literary Magazine Fiction by Andrew Careaga “And now, I think, perhaps that was why he ate those strange organs with such vigor. Perhaps they were some curandero’s remedy, some potion, some magic to inoculate him fro...

Hey, #writingcommunity. A couple of short stories by me made their way into @theargylelitmag.bsky.social’s recent “Gastronomy” issue. Check out “The Things My Father Used to Eat” and “The Things Our Mother Made Us Eat.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...

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Subs open Oct. 1
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Special Velvet Underground Issue! Excited to be Guest Editor alongside Blood + Honey Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Tell us how the never-ending drone of an electric viola warms your heart🎵🎵🎵🎻

Junkie Horror Story — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Amanda Izzo “As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”

Featured CNF "Junkie Horror Story" by Amanda Izzo

“As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”

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Cleaning Other People’s Houses — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Kelly R. Samuels “I could try and find those houses, now, but I think I would fail. It’s not their exteriors that I remember. Just their rooms, before, and then after—the stillness and shine.”

New prose at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social Thank you to David for selecting “Cleaning Other People’s Houses,” a piece about my mother.

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Heart Less — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Jessie Atkin “All that is required is a retina scan and a thumb print and a, “please have a seat in the waiting room,” message flashes across the screen along with a registration number.”

New fiction, "Heart Less," out in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social

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A picture of a slice of pie, above text reading: Two Poems, Poetry by Hannah Flynn, "You took me to your nan's house once. / She made us apple crumble and butter pie. / She was horrified I didn't want custard.

The latest issue of the @theargylelitmag.bsky.social is about one of my favourite topics: Food!

It features two of my #poems, "Butter" and "Lasagne": a gastronomic exploration of my experiences of 'dinner party' politics in the north and south of England.

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Life Is Art Is Life — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Margaret Cahill “Not everyone can paint,” he said, “but everyone has the potential to be a performance artist.”

Inspired by artist Maurice Fitzgibbon, Seamus Ó Flúileachán Chief Executive of (the fictitious) Dublin Municipal Council, has the solution to homelessness - performance art.

My very tongue in cheek story features in Issue 5 of
@theargylelitmag.bsky.social.

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I have 5 food themed poems in this issue of The Argyle!

Mine are here www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas... but there’s so much good stuff in this issue, check it out!

Crowds — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Chris Scott “There are other videos from other people -- copycats, some call them -- in similar circumstances. In locations that should be humming with crowds, but are suddenly completely, weirdl...

Hello! Some new spooky speculative flash from me in the new issue of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social out today!

The whole issue looks rad. Thanks to The Argyle for including me!

Goodbyes Are Often Hard to Swallow — The Argyle Literary Magazine Micro-Fiction by Traci Adams “My stomach packed her bags, and we didn’t even have a chance to talk about it. I don’t blame her. I would run away too if I had suffered that kind of neglect. “It was a...

I've got a speculative CNF piece in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social Gastronomy Issue today. I wrote this in an @avitusbcarle.bsky.social workshop. Thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social friend @lmbayley.bsky.social for feedback.. Check out the whole delicious issue!

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Versions of My Mother — The Argyle Literary Magazine by Kathi Crawford “I don’t need to grieve the mother I wish you could be. I am with you in the hospital when you die, and you want me to be there because you love me.”

Excited to be in this issue: www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-3...

Homemade — The Argyle Literary Magazine Flash Fiction by Joanna Theiss “This is an experiment of people who forgot the love of meal-making, taking a shy step towards re-making home.”

I've got a new story up at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social in Issue 4: Gastronomy! This started in a @francinewitte.bsky.social class, so many thanks to her for making me think about food 🍝🍲🥗

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The Argyle Literary Magazine The Argyle seeks to blur the lines between genres and strips the labels off your “little darlings,” offering an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and distur...

Surprise! Issue #5 of The Argyle just dropped!!! Many thanks to all our amazing contributors, especially digital artist Paul Warren for yet another awesome cover.

Enjoy!

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