LandLocked

03/26/2022

Just a couple more hours to enter our raffles for our GIANT octopus, baby octopus, baby head planters, and embroidery. We will be drawing winners at 3:00, so enter now! If you’re at AWP, find us at table 1301!

06/20/2021

Our summer issue is finally here! Thank you to all our amazing contributors who energized this issue with rich surrealism, delicious language, and work that blurs the lines between fiction and reality (and much, much more). Check it out below!

https://landlockedmagazine.com/issue-3-2/

Summer 2021 View the full issue here Download the PDF here *Hard copies will be available for purchase shortly. Follow us on social media for updates or check back here soon. Contributors Poetry Ha…

03/17/2021

We're still looking for lyric, moving, experimental creative nonfiction for our spring issue! CNF writers we particularly love: Kiese Laymon, Maggie Nelson, Melissa Febos, Michelle Tea, Lily Hoang, Sarah Smarsh, the list goes on and on!

Find all details on submission here 👇
https://landlockedmagazine.com/

LandLocked is open for submissions September 16 - April 1. We seek to publish diverse voices, including works by writers who are people of color, q***r, transgender, disabled, indigenous, international, and/or underrepresented in literary magazines. We are interested in work that breaks the boundari...

01/15/2021

Check out issue 3.1 of LandLocked, now live! We have some truly stunning stories, artwork, and poems in this issue, so be sure to cozy up with a blanket and a hot cup of tea and give this one a look. Thank you so much to all of our amazing contributors!

Winter 2021 View the full issue here Download the PDF here Order a hard copy here* Contributors Poetry Nisha BolseyMark BolsoverCeridwen HallClarice HareChristina HarringtonHaley LaschéVirginia Lau…

11/10/2020

Just a couple weeks left to get submissions in for our Winter 2020 issue! We would love for you to send your fiction, CNF, poetry, and artwork our way before we stop reading for the current issue in December! You can find all the details in the flyer below. We can't wait to see what amazing things your brains have been cooking up!

08/25/2020

‪Get ready! LandLocked will be officially opening for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and art starting tomorrow!! Find us on Submittable. Send us all things mysterious, murky, and brackish. Send us the burnt ends of summer. https://landlockedmag.submittable.com/submit‬

06/03/2020

Reposting with a link to donations in the comments. Words are important, friends, but we need more.

We published this nonfiction piece, "How to Talk to the Cops," by T Guzman in our winter issue. This piece seems especially relevant now. We stand in solidarity with those who are hurting.

06/01/2020

We published this nonfiction piece, "How to Talk to the Cops," by T Guzman in our winter issue. This piece seems especially relevant now. We stand in solidarity with those who are hurting.

05/24/2020

An excerpt from "Weeping Madonna // Anatomical Venus," a poem by Charlotte Newbury in our latest issue. Read Newbury's full poem (and the rest of issue 2.2!) here: https://landlockedmagazine.com/issue-2-2/

05/23/2020

Check out this haunting image by Kelly Emmrich, featured in our latest issue: "Unity." Emmrich is an illustrator and animator, and currently works as a designer for beer labels! We feel lucky to have snagged this ☺️

05/20/2020

"Osseous Matter" by Julia Kooi Talen – a masterful short fiction piece! Read the full short in our latest issue, available here: landlockedmagazine.com/issue-2-2/

05/17/2020

An excerpt from Randi Clemens' beautiful poem, "The American Daughter in the Diorama." Clemens is working on her MFA in poetry at Northern Michigan University, and is also the Managing Editor of the lovely Passages North. It's an honor to be able to feature her work 😊

05/16/2020

Natascha Graham's short story, Gillian, is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Read the full piece in our latest issue!

05/13/2020

"Tormine," by Houston artist Alahna Alvé, from our latest issue. We are always so fortunate to publish such beautiful art! Follow Alvé on her Instagram:

05/07/2020

LandLocked Issue 2.2 is GO! Thank you so much to all of our wonderful contributors. You will find some truly incredible poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and hybrid works in this issue, so please give it a read!

                          View full issue here Download PDF here Want a hard copy? We can do that for you! We are small, but we are …

03/26/2020

We might not be together, but our editors and their pets are still having a blast reading your work. We close in just 5 days, so be sure to keep those submissions coming in!

Left to right: Poetry Editor Meagan Dermody, Zuko the dog helping Assistant Fiction Editor Annie Trinh, Co-Editor-In-Chief Lisa Favicchia, Design Editor Korbin Jones

03/21/2020

ICYMI: You can now access the chaplets that we made for AWP online :) Each chaplet features art and writing from issue 2.1, and are great ways to fill your time while practicing social isolation and distancing!

Chaplet 1: featuring artwork by Savannah and Evan D. Williams and nonfiction by T Guzman.

Chaplet 2: Featuring artwork by Jodie Filan and poetry by Roseanna Alice Boswell, Julia Aloi, and Alahnna Alvarado.

Chaplet 3: Featuring artwork by Britnie Walston, nonfiction by Katherine Suppa, and poetry by Hannah Cajandig-Taylor and Remi Recchia.

Chaplet 4: Featuring artwork by Guilherme Bergamini and poetry by Brendan Allen, Jacob Griffin Hall, and Hannah Cajandig-Taylor.

https://landlockedmagazine.com/chaplets-issue-2-1/

For AWP this year, we designed four chaplets featuring selections of artwork, poetry, and prose that we published in Issue 2.1. We’ve been really excited about the chaplets we made and wanted…

03/20/2020

Meet Daisy, our co-editor-in chief’s cute yet demonic cat. Here’s Daisy trying to help Lisa Favicchia update the LandLocked website.

03/06/2020

We’ve got one octopus left! Today is your chance to win this little buddy. With a goodwill donation of your choosing, enter our raffle before the end of the day today and we will draw a winner! Come see us at table 2171 for your chance to win.

03/05/2020

LandLocked staff are having a great time getting to meet all the lovely folks who made it out to this year. Come stop by our table (2171)!

02/21/2020

Psssst. Check out this sneak preview—come stop by our table at and you might win one of these snazzy galactic rainbow octopus T’s (many thanks to the incredible .emporium for her beautiful design)

02/04/2020

Ope, we're live! Check out Issue 2.1 now! Thank you so much to all of our incredible contributors!

View full issue Download PDF HERE POETRY Julia Aloi Alahnna Alvarado Tiffany Stachnick Remi Recchia Jacob Griffin Hall Alice Pettway Brendan Allen Hannah Cajandig-Taylor Roseanna Alice Boswell FICT…

09/15/2019

Spread the word! LandLocked is opening for submissions tomorrow (9/16)! We would love for you to send us your work. We’re interested in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that pushes the boundaries of tradition, genre, and form. We highly encourage work from underrepresented voices and submissions are free! Please check out our submission guidelines at landlockedmagazine.com.

08/30/2019

06/25/2019

Sarah Yun’s “Poses” appears in Issue One 💕

06/25/2019

an excerpt from Michelle Aucoin Wait’s “Lilith 19:1-26” 📚

06/24/2019

an excerpt from Chris Schacht’s “Dream of the Tako” in Issue One 🌊

06/21/2019

we very quickly fell in love with Jessica Poli’s “Birth” 🌵

06/20/2019

Fabrics Poussin’s “Solace” from Issue One 🌲

06/20/2019

Nick Knebel’s “beast” from Issue One 🔥

06/19/2019

Xek Noir’s “Noir Avenoir” from Issue One—there’s so much to see here, and we love it all

06/19/2019

Ariel Machell’s “Memory as Dissolution” 🌲

06/18/2019

Cheers to Nic Leland’s “Socks” from Issue One! Find the rest on our website 🧦

06/14/2019

An excerpt from Joshua Sassoon Orol’s “Little Sister Avraham” in Issue One ☀️

06/13/2019

We love a transformation story, and this is a good one. Shoutout to JP Kemmick’s “The Great Growing” from Issue One—find the rest on our website! 🌱

06/13/2019

‪Featured in the newest issue is one of Jen Karetnick’s found cookbook poems: “Examination Question 1: How May the Housewife Control the Costs of Her Foods?” We were particularly attracted to the thrashing line.‬