Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose

Read the full story of Frank Demma’s Car-Hopping in our Summer Issue☀️⛱️ available now!
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The new month is bringing with it a brand new piece of fiction~ Check out this short story by writer and illustrator Charli Andrews on our website now!
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Today’s #SummerIssueHighlights author is poet and essayist, Dana Stamps II🪻Find the rest of his piece, My Self-Hurt Book, on the website now🪻
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‘Motherhood is Monstrous’ and we talked to Jacqueline Holland all about it! A new author interview is up NOW>> link in bio
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Now introducing our ✨Summer Issue Highlights series✨where we’ll be showcasing a different writer featured in the Summer issue of Allium each week!

Today we’re sharing a poetry excerpt from Derek Thomas Dew! Head to our website to read more~

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A very big thank you to all of our contributors! Check out the #AlliumSummerIssue online now!

Stop by the New Work tab on the website for our most recent interview with poet Chen Chen!
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🪻Happy Launch Day🪻 Our 2025 Summer issue is available now! Check it out at www.allium.colum.edu

On top of our Summer, Fall, and Spring issues, we post work 🪻every Friday🪻There’s a new interview with author Zibby Owens ready to read on our website now!
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A new issue of Allium is officially ONE WEEK AWAY!!

available online Tuesday July 15th☀️⛱️
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Start your 4th of July weekend off right with a new Allium read: interview with Patricia Ann McNair is available now!

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Spend your end of June with us at Allium and check out the last #NewWorkFriday of the month~ Aiden Fijal’s interview with author Andrew Joesph White is up now!
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Check out our newest interview with Chicago journalist and nonfiction author Josh Noel!

Link in bio to read~
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📢BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📢 The 2025 Summer Issue of Allium is coming soon!! Mark your calendars for July 15th and stay tuned☀️⛱️
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✨New interview is up✨Join Wren Sager in his recent conversation with author Lindsay Hunter!

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"The wild rabbits were never there when we came to visit the next day."
It's the start of the month but the end of the week, so there's new work posted on our website! Check out recent CCC grad, Vincent Zabierowski's nonfiction comic!
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Happy New Work Friday! Today’s feature is the last of the month, a novel review by Ashlee Huizinga.

more new work to come next week🪻
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With only a few days left of May and one more #newworkfriday this month, now is the time to catch up on anything you might have missed!

Check out new work from 💐May💐 on our website!

🪻It’s New Work Friday🪻This week features nonfiction by Chicago writer and filmmaker Amelia Estelle Dellos! Link in bio to read, then tell us what you thought!

New work is posted every Friday, so be sure to come back for more next week🗓️

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Hello, hello - we've completed reading your submissions! Keep an eye👀out if you sent us work!

Also, Manifest is swiftly approaching! Be sure to come on down to Columbia College Chicago to see the best🤩our students have to offer!

Richard Siken — Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose Review of Richard Siken’s ambitious, secretive Crush .

Spring🍃semester☀️may be over, but we're going to keep the work coming! This week, settle in with Aiden Fijal's review of Richard Siken's poetry collection, Crush!

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My friends, it's another blustery Chicago week and that means we have some beautiful new work for you! Head on over to the site to read "Sweet Maddy," a fiction piece by Matthew Hernandez!

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Today, today, today! Tired of gray skies and wind? Come inside for some fine, fine reading from some of our writers!

Kao Kalia Yang — Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose Interview with the author of the memoir Where Rivers Part.

My friends, there's a steady stream of new work to read at the Allium site! Come and read Grace Anderson's interview with Kao Kalia Yang where they touch on what's heavy but necessary, education of the self, and the drive to keep dreaming!

Check it out at: allium.colum.edu/new-work-1/k...

It's a☁️gloomy☁️day in Chicago, and we're spending it inside reading your submissions! What are you reading on days like these?

A flyer for the Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series * celebrating the Allium Print Issue Release Party on Thursday, April 17 at 3:30pm at the Conaway Center in Chicago. *with readyings from Lisa Fishman & other Spring 2025 contributors. On a floral background showcasing the Allium cover.

What a time to be alive - the sun☀️ is shining (sometimes), the birds🐦 are singing (on occasion) and we're having our print issue🕮 release party (reliably)! Come on through to the Conaway Center on April 17 at 3:30pm for readings from Lisa Fishman and other Spring 2025 contributors!

Hello friends - we're having a lovely time reading your work, but we're a little confused...did none of you read the submission guidelines?

We were specifically looking for entries in the "No E In Allium" issue...so far, it looks like it'll be a thin issue. Feel free to resubmit without the Es!

Bora Chung — Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose Book review by Val Rendel.

It ain't no joke - we're back from a chilly❄️spring break with Val Rendel's review of Bora Chung's 2017 short story collection, Cursed Bunny - a 2023 finalist for the National Book Award! Check it out here:
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Let's try it without the URL?

Well, well, well, it's Friday and that means we have some excellent new work for y'all: When the Heart Doesn't Want to Restart, three poems in text📝 and image📷 from Meghan Arenz - check it out on our site!

...you might have to try a link from a previous post (sorry!)

What's something you DON'T want to read? For us here at Allium, it's "Internal server error" on Bluesky :-(