New Feathers Anthology

Tomorrow (March 1) is the last day for submissions for the spring 2026 issue of New Feathers.

Sending copies around the world.

Shipping out to contributors, starting tonight. The 2025 New Feathers Anthology. Available now at our website, through order at your local bookstore, on Bookshop.org, and on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other questionable online vendors.

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Illusion of Dreams & Existence Illusion of Dreams & Existence Crisosto Apache ​Driving home, fearing the dream may happen again. A child crosses the road and stares at me. Looking at my own hands, trying not to look up. I do....

Congratulations to Crisosto Apache, Colorado's new poet laureate. We published their poem "Illusion of Dreams & Existence" in the winter 2023 issue of New Feathers.
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Coming (very) soon.

ash good

Today we are featuring Golden Twilight, by Alexander Limarev, and "we are just cutting through the cemetery," by ash good.

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Hope, A Haunting Hope, A Haunting Emily Graf I could tell you about the seedling ready to sprout, or the caterpillar who through dissolving is resurrected, winged.   But perhaps you, like me, tire of such wrung-out...

Today we are featuring "Feathery Flowers," by the artist Cathy Day, and "Hope, A Haunting, by the poet Emily Graf.

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New Feathers 6.3 Two Horses ​ art by Renee Williams The Song Thrush poetry by J. M. Summers Work poetry by Michael O'Connor Cacophony art by Ellen Harrold Elephant Testimony poetry by Cat Crochunis-Brown Love Is...

The winter 2025 issue of New Feathers is now available. Thank you to all the wonderful contributors, and to Brian Dickson, Caroline Chapman, and Dawn Spelke, who worked on this issue. www.newfeathersanthology.com/newfeathersu...

Tomorrow (November 1) is the last day for submissions.

Send us your work at newfeathersanthology.com.

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Artifact of Death, Artifact of Life Artifact of Death, Artifact of Life Miles Whitney ​Passover, 2025                   I’m at a seder, sharing the story of the Israelites’ flight from Egypt. My own flight is...

Today, we are featuring "Artifact of Death, Artifact of Life," by Miles Whitney

Miles Whitney is a queer, trans, Jewish attorney and writer living in Sacramento, California.

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ode to psych wards ode to psych wards Dara Goodale ​out there in the world I can’t seem to stop dying  but nothing hurts in this spaceship / inpatient        clean / clinical / cosmos   everything is...

Today we are featuring "ode to psych wards," by Dara Goodale.

Dara Goodale (they/she) is a Romanian-American lesbian, poet, and university student living in Lausanne, Switzerland. They write about mental health, grief, and identity.

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Sea Light Language Sea Light Language  Stephanie Jones A spider releases  its minnow. A world plunges  into aqua peach. Swirling  clouds of  marine salvation. She   flashes steel. Legs outstretched  submerging...

Today we are featuring "Sea Light Language," from the summer 2025 issue, by Stephanie Jones.

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New Feathers 6.2 These Times ​ art by Bunny Lang Only a Sparrow poetry by Bart Edelman Imprint art by Nadiia Rom Early Riser poetry by James King Point Reyes, Years After poetry by Nancy Cherry When at Sea art by...

The summer 2025 issue of New Feathers is now available. Thank you to all the wonderful contributors, and to the hard-working crew at New Feathers.

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Tomorrow, July 1, is the last day for submissions for the summer issue.

Dear friends and creative folk, we are open for submissions for our summer issue tomorrow, June 1. Please send your work at www.newfeathersanthology.com

I’m so glad you like it.

New Feathers 6.1 All You Can See ​ art by Anna Ursyn footnote 1. the verb poetry by Mara Lee Grayson Joanna art by Ezra Harker Shaw Irregular Verbs and Other Forms of Uncertainty poetry by Nadine Ellsworth-Moran...

The spring 2025 issue of New Feathers is now available. Thank you to all the wonderful writers and artists that contributed, and thank you to the New Feathers crew for all your work.

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Last day for submissions!

Now available to order through our website (newfeathersanthology.com), your local bookstore, bookshop.org, or through large and problematic retail outlets like Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Beginning shipping to contributors next week.

Dear friends of New Feathers, we open for submission for our spring issue tomorrow, February 1. Please send your work at www.newfeathersanthology.com

Dear friends of New Feathers,

Happy new year. We hope you all have a very good and creative 2025. We are pleased to announce the winner and runners up for the 2024 New Feathers Award.

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Haze Haze  Elizabeth Wilson Davies Knee deep we drift through flowering grasses foaming  over a path no one has walked for months, save us, silky clouds of pollen rise recklessly   heady perfumes...

Today, we are featuring two works from our winter 2023 issue: Sunset Tranquil, by Oh-Kyung Jang, and Haze, by Elizabeth Wilson Davies.

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New Feathers Award The New Feathers Award December 20, 2024 2024  New Feathers Award Nominees Each year, New Feathers gives an award to one artist whose work we would like to encourage and promote. Originally, the...

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Mothers and Widows Mothers and Widows Allen Kesten   ​            I lost three mothers by the time I was eighteen. The first vanished after placing me in a wine crate and delivering me to a firehouse: safe...

Today, we are featuring "Mothers and Widows," a story by Allen Kesten.

Allen Kesten (he/him) is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also works in the field of human services.
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And Magician's Assistant

New Feathers 5.3 All You Should See Is Blue poetry by Vikki C. A Woman Is Everyone poetry by Phyllis Koehler Mothers and Widows fiction by Allen Kesten Noise Control art by Anna Ursyn Back to School poetry by Erin...

We are proud to present the winter 2024 issue of New Feathers. Thank you to all the artists and our editors, John O'Leary, Caroline Chapman, Brian Dickson, Dawn Spelke, and Carol Covington.
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