Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators Do you have a lit journal issue, chapbook, book, or other work that’s about to be published? Email us at vagabondcityliterary@gmail.com to be added to our Books Available to Review list and/or featured on an upcoming Now Read This list.
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Multiple Deadlines in February: The Hooghly Review is accepting CNF, fiction, play, and visual art submissions for an upcoming issue. 2/10: Game Over Books is accepting previously unpublished essay, poetry, and visual art submissions from Queer religious school alums for an upcoming anthology called Uncommon: An Anthology of Art and Writing by Queer Religious School […]
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Love, I amkintsugi, shards and lacquer, I repairmyself in gold. I am a mosaic Vesuvius cannot erase. You willexcavate memories like fragments preserved in ash. I am Michelangelo, I make stone flow into silk. Cut me away and I become a monument. So hide from this collapse. Love, I am Chauvet Cave, full of art. You will miss the way I bent […]
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Back then, a few bodies ago, you knew how to get your dreams delivered. You would sleep in the shape of a question mark and the empty side of the bed would be the silent answer. Now the silence is broken by you answering the door late, groggy. Now dreams are strangers’ hands, with covered […]
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Addison Branson (she/they) is a poet, data analyst, and anthropologist from Winston-Salem, NC. As a queer writer, they explore themes of identity, broken connection, and the disaster of human experience. When she isn’t working, Addison can often be found at a local bar enjoying a white negroni, engrossed in a book, and enthusiastically playing cards, […]
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Jacob Burgess Rollo (he/him) is a poet from Dorset, England. He has a BA in English Literature from Durham University and is currently studying for a master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge. His work is published or forthcoming in The Pomegranate London, From the Lighthouse and Ink Sweat and Tears.
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Cavar’s dystopian novel Failure to Comply, like all great science fiction novels, is a cautionary tale about the present cloaked in a story about the future. Despite its bleak setting of oppression and control by a corporation state, RSCH, Cavar’s novel might as well be taking place in Texas, Florida or Tennessee in the midst […]
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Taking notice of the “small, in-between moments often overlooked in our daily lives,” Frances Jane’s drawings feature dappled light and dramatic shadows cast upon bold, architectural line work. The distinctive use of ink and careful rendering of textures reflects a diligent attention to detail and a reverence for “people and places that mainstream forces don’t […]
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“Despite what he had written in his letter, Noel’s separation from his family would always be geographical. He spent the remainder of his wealthy life dining alone.” The back cover folded over the final page and turned the work into a solid, white brick. An item for production. A large wet stamp was stomped on […]
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“She dresses up like that to go out for noodles?” —an off-screen character in In the Mood for Love As we passed all of the extravagant wallpaper designs, including an art deco print of cheetahs, a not so subtle homage to the dim sum lounge’s name, the host grandly gestured to the booth and chair-table […]
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