Joyland

03/10/2022

New on Joyland: Beth & Henry, two friends circling around the
possibility of becoming more, come together at Henry's family home, where they are compelled and shaken by the heavy presence of Henry's dead sister in "Love Song" by Melissa Ximena Golebiowski. Link in bio.

Art credit: “Bridget’s Bed” by Jim McKenzie

28/09/2022

Desperate for her husband's forgiveness, Isabel must consider one last measure—old-fashioned, extravagant, and cruel. "Rescue Strategy" by Elizabeth Fergason is available today on Joyland. Link in bio.

27/09/2022

Today on Joyland: a punk Christian youth group, Y2K hysteria, and
teenage debauchery in 'Youth Group' by Christian Winn. Link in bio.

16/09/2022

Today on Joyland: Allie Rowbottom's "Last Of The Long Hot Days," a breathtaking meditation on motherhood, grief, art, and the act of creation. Link in bio.

02/09/2022

A casual London romance comes to a head in Imogen Usherwood's "Date Night," out today on Joyland. Link in bio.

01/09/2022

“He did not feel particularly talented when it came to love. In fact, Henry’s aptitude for anything, including studies at his college, showed little promise either." — from 'Vermillion' by Haolun Xu, link in bio

23/08/2022

Today on Joyland: "Eat The Rich" by Taylor Grieshober. Link in bio. 🔹

19/08/2022

Start your weekend off by reading “Blunt Force” by Lynn Steger Strong. Link in bio.

18/08/2022

Today on Joyland: a hilarious and insightful story by Sam Eichner. Link in bio to "This Again."

03/08/2022

Overnight, Safiya goes from a struggling refugee to a live-in nurse at a lavish Gambari residence. But what secret motives are powering her new employment? Read "Lazarus Woman" by Tega Oghenechovwen today on Joyland Northeast. Link in bio.

26/07/2022

Some tales are simple yet spear the heart, staying with you even after you've finished reading them. Read one such timeless story by Iain Rowan about a father and son. Link in bio.

19/07/2022

Today on Joyland: new work by Mila Jaroniec. Link in bio. 🔹

21/08/2020

“The Whipping" by Christine Kwon follows young Connie on her wandering, meandering journey through Budapest. Kwon writes with a confidence and fearlessness needed for this bold story about a single woman's sexual exploits abroad. https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/the-whipping/

30/07/2020

Nicola Maye Goldberg's "The Virgin" both stands on its own as an achingly familiar story about gender, erasure, and complicity and communes with the events chronicled in her literary thriller NOTHING CAN HURT YOU, out now from Bloomsbury, about the murder of a college student in 1997 and the people it has haunted for decades.

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/the-virgin/

21/07/2020

Today on Joyland: 'A Bedtime Story' by Gideon Jacobs, a hilarious and entrancing look at insomnia, social media, and our relationship to celebrity.

We can confidently say that this is the first piece of literature to feature a Cameo from Bam Margera. https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/a-bedtime-story/

16/07/2020

Today on Joyland: 'Marlon' by Madeleine Crum, a sharp story about the gig economy, ambition, the jagged edges of female friendships, and romantic relationships falling apart.

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/marlon/

14/07/2020

Now on Joyland: 'Agape' by Hunter Braithwaite, a funny and insightful flash fiction story about destructive impulses and Craiglists casual encounters.

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/agape/

10/07/2020

"Mark is on the living room floor and his wife Sheila, she’s walking all over him. It’s like he’s one of those sushi platters at Sexy Tokyo, but instead of tuna, uni, live conch, he’s a platter for her feet, which are kneading him, hard, because Sheila is bigger than her profile picture lets on." —'Agape' by Hunter Braithwaite

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/agape/

08/07/2020

Today on Joyland: 'Elias' by Rebekah Frumkin

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/elias/

06/07/2020

"Gene’s mother told him her story about the tree in her childhood backyard every time she ate persimmons. Gene nodded along every time, listening as if it were the first telling...Now Gene painted the persimmons around his mother in her room, flaming orange, glowing pumpkin, sunset bright, finally blood red. They were floating pillows; they were blooming flowers. His mother was surrounded by the fruit of her youth, her eyes hooded and aged, nothing more wrong with her than having weathered the passage of time."
–– A new story by Elaine H. Kim up on Joyland New York today about family, obligation, and the heaviness of the unknown future.

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/gene/

03/07/2020

What would you do to win $50,000? https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/the-contest/

02/07/2020

New fiction Rion Amilcar Scott that will make your skin itch:

https://joylandmagazine.com/fiction/infestation/

01/07/2020

Welcome to the new Joyland. https://joylandmagazine.com/

28/06/2020

A new era for Joyland Magazine is coming.

26/06/2020

"The toddler seeped in under the kitchen door one evening like a sweaty fog while I was microwaving a chicken pot pie."

Joyland Magazine is thrilled to present "Chloe" by Ambika Thompson

http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/canada/chloe

It started the day I got my negative pap results back. Slowly. At first it was just one, a toddler. ...

22/06/2020

Joyland is thrilled to present this beautifully written story by Sanchari Sur "In the Face of the Beloved":

Richard was not the jealous type. Jealousy, he believed, was best left to those still struggling to come of age. At thirty-three, he liked to think of himself as evolved, his concerns lying with the effortless comfort that came with a long-term relationship. Yet one dreary afternoon in February, not long after Naveen had returned from Dubai, Richard couldn’t shake off the feeling that something had changed.

Read more:

http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/canada/face-beloved

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.But I was filled up also, with too much world, and, drinking, I myself ran over. ...

17/06/2020

Please check out this brilliant new story by Michael V. Smith on Joyland Canada!

I met him on my first morning at a new job at Lichtman’s bookstore in Toronto. My boss, Lynn, warned me to have Mr. Weinmeier’s Sunday NY Times stored close to the door, because he didn’t like to wait. He was rich, which, apparently, made him important. Lynn walked me through how she packaged it up and wrote his name across the top of the plastic bag with a Sharpie: Weinmeier. All she told me about him was that he was a difficult, special client.

Read more:

http://www.joylandmagazine.com/regions/canada/weinmeier

I met him on my first morning at a new job at Lichtman’s bookstore in Toronto. My boss, Lynn, warned ...

16/05/2020

Terrific reading list curated by Kevin Hardcastle for CBC Books which includes 13 stories frim Joyland!

https://www.cbc.ca/books/need-something-to-read-while-you-isolate-here-are-72-canadian-short-stories-available-free-online-1.5558146

May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by reading a great Canadian short story. This list was curated by writer Kevin Hardcastle.

30/04/2020

"He looked different in real life. Younger, which was a relief. I’d told him I was 18."

A precocious London teen tests the limits in Ashani Lewis' "Close Up," new on Consulate.

When I was 15, I lied to everybody except for my mother. “I’m going on a date,” I told her. ...

10/04/2020

"I am easily distracted; I just need to check something. An ongoing stream reminds me of lives I have lived and lives I could live, instead of the one I am living."

This meditation on living online, by Gina Nutt, is live now on Joyland New York!

I look up online inventory for a record shop three minutes from my front door, a bar and Bad Religion. ...