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Does your artwork do backflips through genres? Does it echo, resonate, breathe, or bend? Submit it to Fugue!

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Last spring's poetry contest winner, "The Velvet Ant" by Ira Goga, is up on the Fugue website! Go read it!

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

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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.

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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.

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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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")

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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! 🎉

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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!)

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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.

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Read the latest review on our website "Words Rising: Sculpting Poetry Off the Page" by Camille LeFevre. ✨

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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.

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New poetry up now! ✨

Read "Reimagining of the Self" by Hollie Dugas on our website. (And don’t forget to submit to our contest!)

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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.

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

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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.

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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! ✨

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New fiction up online! ✨ Read Anna Schachner’s "The Gun at the End of the Story."

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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

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