SUBMISSIONS OPEN for our themed issue until 5/31! This issue explores the body as a site of memory. We are interested in how, over time, our flesh becomes a recollection of triumph and trauma. Submit at thejournal.submittable.com/submit or follow the link in our bio.

Need trans people to submit!!!❤️❤️ I always find it funny when there’s no trans poets in “body” issues!!

.The Journal is one of my favorite journals ever~ this is such a great theme. Submit your work!

This is the theme I need right now 🥹

Hello friends, submit to one of our favorite journals out there!

Jenn R-J I don't know what you write, but I personally bookmarked this today as something to look into. x.com/osuthejournal/…

From past contributor Brent Ameneyro "A Face out of Clay" is out this June!! Pre-order with the below discount code and check out Brent's poem in issue 45.2 of The Journal

"Wo’s is a drag poetics, intentionally unearthing all the unexamined bits of personhood, nature, and language itself in a sizzling burst of sequins." Isaiah on Wo Chan clereviewofbooks.com/writing/wo-cha…

I got to write about one of my favorite poetry collections and what it’s meant for me as a bby drag queen in an increasingly hostile state. Much thanks to the fabulous editors and to taylor dorrell for the advice ✨🪩

Issue 47.3 is out now 🏙️ featuring amazing poetry by miriam!!, Ava Winter, Dr. Raye 🎓(( preorder WHAT GOOD IS HEAVEN now! )) , prose by Kellene O'Hara, Nikki Barnhart, art by Erica Trabold, and so much more.

—What struck me first were the ways of exiting-via bird, via memory, via magic. Brent Ameneyro's speakers are all knowing and all nostalgia. Producing not the sheen of romantic recall but the cleverness of reconstruction— Skyler Arden of the Journal on Brent Ameneyro’s new poetry

FROM THE ARCHIVE: the hunger palace, Kristen Bowen In ‘the hunger palace’, published in our 2019 summer issue, Bowen explores the relationship between motherhood, the soul, and the self. Look out for our upcoming issue 47.4, “Body of Work”, featuring other body work👂🫁🦷

Deadline extended ‘til Sunday for this anthology, curated by a previous managing editor!!

We are ecstatic to announce that the winner of the 2024 Non/Fiction Collection Prize judged by @thao_writes is Tyler McAndrew! (Tyler McAndrew) My Prisoner & Other Stories will be published by Mad Creek Books from The Ohio State University Press in 2025!

Congratulations to all of our finalists and semi-finalists as well! To everyone who submitted and trusted us with your work, we thank you—it was our sincere pleasure to read so many remarkable manuscripts!

Poets! The Journal’s Wheeler Poetry prize is open for submissions NOW! September 1st! In addition to $2500, one winner will receive a full-length poetry collection published through The Ohio State University Press !!! Judged by OSU's very own Marcus Jackson !!! Submit until October 7th 📖✍️

We are open for submissions Sep 2 — Dec 2 !!! We're looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews & reviews, and ART. Get your submissions ready! *Poetry submissions capped at 300; will reopen at the beginning of each month! visit : thejournal.submittable.com