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“What she had gradually learned, over six months of increasingly stale companionship, was that the sadness she had seen in his eyes was actually nothing more than self-pity, bottomless self-pity.”
Paul Colby on the bitterness that lingers at love’s end: theastorian.net/articles/the-n…
We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming Winter 2026 publication!
Human writing, grounded in established forms with an eye to the traditional over the temporal. We pay our contributors, and a portion of proceeds supports Episcopal charities.
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Kierkegaard said that “people come to represent the different parts of speech.” Some are adjectives, others verbs.
Perhaps the same could be said of punctuation. In his essay, philosophy professor David Capps finds meaning in the rhythms of punctuation.
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“It's the way the whorl of your ovate
shell parts to an opening that from one angle seems closed, and linear, but from another, perfectly round.”
Read ovate by George W. Shuster Jr.: theastorian.net/articles/ovate…
A new literary journal with a proclivity for the old.
We’re seeking prose built to endure, poetry grounded in classical forms, and criticism attentive to lineage and judgement. We want pieces that converse with what has come before.
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“You get swallowed up by God and you’ll just keep on dying over and over as the mud and the bugs reclaim you and make you theirs.”
@momentofftruth on death and rebirth in the endless prairie will appear in The Astorian’s upcoming print publication.
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One week left to:
- Submit prose, poetry, and criticism for our summer print edition
- Submit for our nonfiction contest, prizes up to $150
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“If love was a gentle thing, you swore you never knew it. Magnolias grew slowly with their egg-shaped buds.”
@cool_hot_woman in The Astorian’s upcoming print edition: theastorian.net/articles/if-lo…
One more week to submit for inclusion in our first print edition this summer and am invitation to our soirée. We’re considering prose, poetry, and crit.
(A big thanks to dear friend Noelia Towers for the lovely cover art!)
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We are now open for submissions!
We seek prose, poetry, and essays built to last and grounded in structure and classical forms.
Accepted submissions for our digital and upcoming print publication will receive a stipend.
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“Withered leaf waiting within/ Waiting whisper’s wilting bloom”
Is April a harbinger of renewal, or only a mask of renewal that conceals decay? In his poem “April Fool”, Steve Bucher ponders the stubborn things that linger season after season.
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“We have always knelt, hoping our mutterings might be valid.”
Erika Takacs, an Episcopal priest, teacher, musician, and poet, weighs confession and absolution in her new poem expounding on T.S. Eliot’s homonymous 1927 meditation.
Read: theastorian.net/articles/ash-w…
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