Subtropics seeks to publish the best literary fiction, essays, and poetry being written today, both by established and emerging authors.
A digital version of issue 25 is now available for $6.99! Includes Weike Wang (PEN/Hemingway winner), Sheila Kohler (O. Henry Prize(s) winner), Edward Gauvin (Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize finalist), Peter Cole (MacArthur winner), and more!
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"I talk to my mother for the first time since her death. She is listening. I am listening. That makes a change. I tell her I am writing a novel about a mother and daughter. There is a long silence. How are you, mother of mine, wherever you are? I hope there are owls close by. You always loved owls. Do you know that a few days after your death, when I was browsing in a department store on Oxford Street, I saw a pair of owl earrings with green glass eyes. I was suddenly flooded with inexplicable happiness. I’ll buy these earrings for my mother."
From Deborah Levy's memoir piece "The Milky Way" in our latest issue.
Read it here: https://bit.ly/2H3o1Q8.
Deborah Levy The Milky Way I talk to my mother for the first time since her death. She is listening. I am listening. That makes a change. I tell her I am writing a novel about a mother and daughter....
"Even the skinny kid,
his arm around his girl,
walking the back lane
in this forsaken town,
thinks his pounding heart
the drumbeat of this world."
Alice Firman's "When did we first" from ST #20/21.
Christian Wiman on the topic of joy (from ST #24):
"For a lot of people (myself included, actually) the word joy is sentimental from the get-go. One thinks of toothpaste commercials. I had to find some way of working against that while preserving the very real and necessary meaning of the word in our daily lives. People seem to have been appreciative so far, but then I don’t hear from the haters. Perhaps I will do a companion book called Woe."
https://bit.ly/2rK9Iu6
Interviews Christian Wiman Interviewed by Forester McClatchey Last year you published an anthology called Joy, which gathers poems that seem to “undergo” that emotion. You wrote in the introduction that different people had very different reactions to the project. Some...
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New issue: Subtropics 24 Fall/Winter 2017
Issue 24: fall/winter 2017 Fiction Cameron Stewart Kingfisher Reed Grachev (translated by Sabrina Jaszi) A Debate on Happiness | No Voice Brad Eddy What Doesn’t Kill You Will Build Toward a Testimony Stacy Mitchell Allen Little Punk Daphne Kalotay Oeuf en Gelée...
New issue: Subtropics 23 Spring/Summer 2017
Issue 23: spring/summer 2017 Fiction George Singleton Eclipse Zehra Nabi Stoners Patrick May The Japanese Couch Timothy Schirmer Swimming Pool Michael Deagler Southwark Hennie Aucamp (translated by Ian Ferguson) The Wardrobe Nini Bernt Fondly Nonfiction Anis Shivani Notes on the Ascendancy of...
Our current reading period for fiction and non-fiction submissions is open. We will begin reading poetry on February 15th.
seeks to publish the best literary fiction, essays, and poetry being written today, both by established and emerging authors. We will consider works of fiction of any length, from short shorts to novellas and self-contained novel excerpts. We give the same latitude to essays. We appreciate work in t...
An interview with contributor Jon Loomis, author of poems "Lucky Me (A Love Song)" and "Legoland," featured in our latest issue.
INTERVIEW WITH JON LOOMIS Interviewed by Jackson Sabbagh The quickie that the speaker suggests to his beloved in “Lucky Me” seems to be a way to stop dwelling on growing older, a way of having fun right now. Is one method more valuable than the other? Can we have one without the other? At my age the...
Click below to read "A poem for Sally," one of the wonderful contributions to our Spring/Summer issue, by Alan Michael Parker.
Alan Michael Parker | Poetry A poem for Sally He thought he might swallow whole his youngest daughter, if she didn’t stop hurting herself. She would complain, of course, carry on inside his big dad-belly, but she would be safe there until she was ready to come back. He would swallow the moon to keep...
"Two Bananas" by Thomas Pierce is up on our site, along with an interview with the author.
INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS PIERCE Interviewed by Patrick May The banana is arguably one of the funniest of fruits. Why did you decide to center your story “Two Bananas” around it and not something else, like an apple? Bananas are without a doubt the funniest of the fruits. Including even litchi and star…
Click below to read an interview with Subtropics 20/21 contributor Ryan Ruff Smith. His story, "New Neighbors," is also available to read on our website.
INTERVIEW WITH RYAN RUFF SMITH Interviewed by David Leavitt You’re principally a fiction writer. How did you find the transition from writing about (and from the point of view of) people who were not yourself to writing as yourself? Reluctantly. Until very near the end of the revision process, I was...
Subtropics 20/21 (Spring/Summer 2016) has been published! Visit our website to see a list of contributors and read some of the stories and poems featured in this issue.
LATEST ISSUE 20/21: SPRING/SUMMER 2016 FICTION Jamie Fisher, Christopher Merkner, Youmi Park, Thomas Pierce, Amy Scharmann ESSAY Mary Blume MEMOIR Ryan Ruff Smith, Emma Smith-Stevens POETRY Brian Barker, Judy Brackett, Laura Bylenok, Brittany Cavallaro, Susan Comninos, Luke Daly, Alice Friman, Andre...
Please see an important notice about fall submissions at our site.
To close out the summer, Subtropics is happy to host a number of wonderful stories and poems from Subtropics 19 up on our site!
Fiction
“The Sew Man” by Amie Barrodale
“Francique” by Gabriel Louis
Poetry
“What are the Words for This?” by Christine Poreba
“Cyst” by Claudia Emerson
“Long-Tailed Blue Bird Flying Over Azalea Blossoms” by Paula Bohince
“Medical History” by Eleanor Stanford:
“Moon Spills on River” and “Who Mutters in the Night” by Daniel Wolff
LATEST ISSUE 19 SPRING/SUMMER 2015 FICTION Amie Barrodale, Sebastian Boensch, Caleb Crain, Gabriel Louis, Owen King, Emma Smith-Stevens ESSAY Ed Allen POETRY John Wall Barger, Paula Bohince, Darin Ciccottelli, Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, Claudia Emerson, John Estes, V. Hansmann, Chad Hanson…
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