Adi Magazine

10/09/2024

FROM THE ARCHIVE: We're spotlighting Meena Kandasamy's "A Poem on Not Writing Poems" today. This poem wrestles with state violence, with helplessness, with making art while the world is in crisis. Adi published this piece in 2020, and it continues to speak to our current moment.

Read the full piece: https://adimagazine.com/articles/rape-nation-two-poems/

05/09/2024

Thank you CLMP for including two of Adi's pieces on the 2024 National Translation Month round-up! Adi is so proud to be publish international writers like featured authors Min San Wai and Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, and many, many others!

You can check out CLMP's full list here:

For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.   Poetry   With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth by Marie-Claire Bancquart Translated from the Fr...

03/09/2024

For National Translation Month, observed annually during the month of September, we asked our member magazines and presses to share some of the literature they have published in translation.   Poetry   With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth by Marie-Claire Bancquart Translated from the Fr...

27/08/2024

Did you know that August is Women in Translation Month? We're taking a moment to spotlight a few of the incredible authors and translators that we've published at Adi over the years. You can check out these and other translated pieces at https://adimagazine.com/article-tags/translation/

21/08/2024

A belated post highlighting a few of the many bookstores, community centers, little free libraries, coffeeshops, and more that Adi's Palestinian Perspectives issue travelled to, thanks to our followers. We sent chapbooks all over North America, and a few packages were shipped internationally as well—we had to do a whole extra printing because of the overwhelming support.

Thank you to each person who distributed our chapbooks, and helped to spread these important words to a wider network. For a free Palestine ✊

10/08/2024

Who are you listening to? Who has been allowed to speak? We are choosing to listen to Palestinian people.

Over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since last October. The Biden-Harris administration continues to greenlight billions to Israel for weapons. Israel has just bombed al-Tabin school in Gaza City, massacring more than 100 praying women, children and men.

Art by . Words by , , , and Bader Alzaharna.

09/07/2024

"We fall in love with each other and when we don’t have to steal, we grow okra in the
yard and stew it with the tomatoes we grew in the yard."

Amina Kayani's "Hard Work" is a vital read, refusing to believe that life that is confined to late-stage capitalism. Read at the link below!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/hard-work/

05/07/2024

Have you read Lindsay Sproul's gripping short story, "The Legend of Patty Healy" yet? If not, check out this excerpt and then head to the link below to read the full story!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-legend-of-patty-healy/

28/06/2024

Have you read "Danfo Driver" by Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim? If not, check out this new piece from Adi's DISOBEDIENCES issue to find out how this traffic accident results in disobedient behavior!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/danfo-driver/

25/06/2024

"On the night I am born: a crack of thunder, the burst of a sewage pipe below our flat, shopfront shutters rattling in alarm..."

Read Isha Karki ()'s "In Case of Fire," one of Adi's newest pieces from our DISOBEDIENCES issue!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/in-case-of-fire/

18/06/2024

Have you read "Trust Exercise" by Lucy Zhang yet? In this dystopian world, each person must jump off a ledge into unknown danger every year to ensure their reprogramming is still working, and they can continue to be productive citizens.

To find out what happens to Yue, the lone person afraid the the Trust Exercise, keep reading on Adi's website!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/trust-exercise/

14/06/2024

Check out Amina Kayani's "Hard Work," from Adi Magazine's DISOBEDIENCES issue, where we encounter a protagonist who refuses to be defeated by their experience of disenfranchisement and exclusion from compulsory “ghoulish” capitalism. Read on to see how they disobey the system!

READ: https://adimagazine.com/articles/hard-work/

11/06/2024

"It would be the summer that Patty Healy and Bridget Murphy would do everything they did for the fallen tanager. They would make a list and everything on the list had to be worth doing and they would complete all of it, including figuring out how to find the fallen tanager’s family and learning how to speak bird."

Our next featured piece from our Disobediences issue is "The Legend of Patty Healy" by Lindsay Sproul!

Read the entire short story on Adi's website:
https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-legend-of-patty-healy/

07/06/2024

In "Last Days of Du Bois" by Jamie McGhee, the air quality is ruined, and Du Bois has rebelled and annexed itself from the United States of America. Two parents approach the American embassy in a last effort to guarantee their daughter's safety, with unexpected results.

Read the full story at https://adimagazine.com/articles/last-days-of-du-bois/.

04/06/2024

"Anyway, here I was. First accident in seven years, but an alarm was already going off in my head, as though the SUV was a person and I had taken its life. Drivers and passengers from other cars already had their heads out of their windows, pointing and cursing. My passengers were all out of the bus, asking for their money back. And not even a mosquito’s singing could be more irritating than Sunny’s incessant nags in my ears..."

Check out "Danfo Driver" by Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, one of Adi's new pieces from our DISOBEDIENCES issue!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/danfo-driver/

31/05/2024

In Isha Karki's "In Case of Fire," a daughter is born into a legacy of explosions and must battle the volatile interior and exterior landscapes.

Read the full piece on Adi Magazine's website.

https://adimagazine.com/articles/in-case-of-fire/

28/05/2024

Imagine a dystopian state where citizens have been genetically modified to follow the National People’s Council’s every directive, including jumping into an abyss on a yearly basis...

Then head to Adi Magazine's website to read "Trust Exercise" by Lucy Zhang to find out how this story examines the relationship between disobedience and the will to live.

https://adimagazine.com/articles/trust-exercise/

23/05/2024

Great news! After a longer than expected delay, reprints of our Palestinian Perspectives chapbook are finally here! If you ordered copies for distribution, they'll be on their way to you soon. Don't forget to email us pictures when you drop them off.

No rest until Palestine is free.

20/05/2024

DISOBEDIENCES, Adi's new issue, is live! We have six short fiction pieces featuring dystopian worlds, childhood misadventures, a pivotal traffic accident, and more.

Work by Isha Karki, Lucy Zhang, Lindsay Sproul, Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, Jamie McGhee & Amina Kayani.

READ: https://adimagazine.com/issues/19

16/05/2024

Dropping this Monday, May 20, Adi's newest issue: DISOBEDIENCES!

Featuring fiction by Lucy Zhang, Lindsay Sproul, Jamie McGhe, Amina Kayani, Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim, and Isha Karki, paired with stunning art by Larissa Ribeiro.

07/05/2024

The newest issue of Adi Magazine is forthcoming on May 20th! Get ready for seven new short stories, all about disobedience, with art by Larissa Ribeiro.

03/05/2024

Amplifying this letter from Adi contributor China Miéville to DAAD rescinding his residency acceptance in protest of their acts of censorship against those to call for an end to genocide.

Free free Palestine.

I had hoped to take part under the DAAD’s aegis not only in the cultural life of Berlin, a city I love, but in its political life too. But everyone has their red lines.

26/04/2024

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, two recent poetry collections by Adi contributors Hala Alyan and Fady Joudah that are essential reading.

Plus, a reminder to share and/or support another Adi contributor, Yousef Abu-Salah's GoFundMe for his family in Gaza (linked in our bio).

Eyes and hearts on Palestine.

22/04/2024

‼️ GoFundMe to Support Adi Contributor Yousef Abu-Salah's family in Gaza ‼️

Yousef contributed to Adi's Palestinian Perspectives issue in winter 2023 with a moving essay about his upbringing in Gaza and his relationship with his aunt Hana, who lives still in Gaza. We are sharing Yousef's GoFundMe, funds from which will go to support his aunt Hana and their extended family. In Yousef's words:

"This GoFundMe will never cover the full extent of what’s necessary; there’s too many family members back home to get them all out. Rather, it’s an investment in the future that they do survive; a miraculous hope that, despite bombings close enough for their eardrums to shatter, they find a way to keep living.

Please help us prepare for a reality where they live. Please help us pick up the pieces of the life they once had. Please help us feel a little less useless in the most difficult periods in our lives.

Even if you cannot donate, sharing this fundraiser and bringing more attention to it would be a monumental help."

Please share widely and donate if you can.

16/04/2024

Have you check out Adi's Spirits & Specters issue yet? Here's the full line-up of pieces for you - happy reading!

Featuring pieces by Nay Saysourinho, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Sandra Okopu-Jackson, Nimmi Gowrinathan, and an interview with China Miéville!

READ HERE: https://adimagazine.com/issues/spirits-specters/

10/04/2024

MICRO INTERVIEW with , the incredible illustrator for Adi's "Mothers in our Own Light" and "Spirits & Specters" issues! Read below and check out all of Candice's stellar artwork for Adi on our website!
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ADI: What is your process for creating art that is linked to and in conversation with literature?

CANDICE: My process starts with a close reading of the text. This gives me the opportunity to look up things I may be unfamiliar with or information about the writer. Then I step back and think about where and how this image will physically (or digitally) sit beside the text. From there, I am looking to set a tone for the written work to unfold for the reader.

ADI: Your work—for Adi and in general—uses multiple layers, collage, abstract and textured shapes, and bright colors. What draws you to these expressions?
Abstraction allows me to hold space for the reader and author to interact while avoiding overdetermining what someone’s written work means, particularly with literary work.

CANDICE: Each of the pieces that Adi publishes is rich in context and individual memory. One way to demonstrate this is through bringing pieces of varying origins to echo that texture, complexity, and contrast.

ADI: What is one thing that you want to share with the people who engage with your art, or one thing you most want people to take away from an encounter with your art?

CANDICE: I hope the reader leaves with a stronger sense of how the subject lives within and around them.

ADI: Who are your artistic forebears? What artists or artworks have inspired you lately?

CANDICE: Forbearers: Lorna Simpson and Alvin Lustig. Recent inspiration: and .

05/04/2024

"Who / doesn’t now feel the perpetual heartbreak of clouds: all / that view and only vanishing to look forward to? I can barely / hold the language of my hands..."

From Adi's new issue, Spirits & Specters: "At the Cliffs of Moher, I Asked for a Future" by Cynthia Dewi Oka!

https://adimagazine.com/articles/at-the-cliffs-of-moher-i-asked-for-a-future/

02/04/2024

"It was the first dance performance I had watched in nearly two decades. In the gap between young training and grown resistance, I had collapsed culture into its confinement: stories spun to immobilize."

Check out "Objects of Discipline: Finding the Fighter" by Nimmi Gowrinathan, an essay from Adi's latest issue Spirits & Specters on Bharatanatyam dance, the female fighters of Sri Lanka, Tamil diaspora, and more.

Fresh flower, you were torn to shreds We wipe our tears and strengthen our resolve - Captain Vanathi (Tigers) Warrior When I first met the guerilla women of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka they controll

29/03/2024

Update on Adi Magazine's Call to Action for distributing Palestinian Perspectives chapbooks:

We are happy to report that we have had an OVERWHELMING response for our call to distribute chapbooks. We have distributed ALL the copies we had and are working on reprinting. If you signed up, please be patient and keep an eye on your email for updates. We are working on as fast as we can!

With thanks, and in solidarity,
The Adi Team