Issue #55 – Call for Submissions

Not just dirt as mess, but dirt as method, material, and metaphor.

March 5, 2026

We are looking for short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, and photography that explore all the dirty things we’re told to scrub away… and what happens when they stick around.…

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Featured Poetry

The Art of Reconstruction

samantha woods |

February 25, 2025

I say my grandmother smoked until the day she died, 
but that’s not really true.
The truth is
something in her...

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Featured Poetry

Notes To My Creative Writing Professor

(alternatively titled: Why I’ll Never Write a Book)

samantha woods |

February 24, 2025

I understand what you’re
trying to have me do.…