The Spectacle

05/08/2024

Issue 15 has arrived! Check it out on our website: https://thespectacle.wustl.edu/

15/03/2024

Issue 14 is now live!! We have an amazing group of writers and artists in this issue, and we are thrilled to share their work with the world. Please check it out at the spectacle.wustl.edu.

12/10/2023

We're closing our submissions soon. Send us your work!

04/10/2023

The R***e is currently open for submissions. We are looking for "Encounter Fiction." Talk about what you did while Ken Burn's 1994 documentary "Baseball" was on. Encounter your childhood bedroom, an InkJoy Ballpoint Stylo-Billie pen (the purple one), or your ex-partner's parrot. Encounter all three in rapid succession. Encounter a chair in reality or in a dream. Anything goes, as long as your encounter sings. Keep it under 300 words.

24/09/2023

The Spectacle is holding a logo contest! We are looking for something witchy, chic, vibrant. Show us your skills!

21/09/2023

Subs are open! Due to overwhelming interest, we have updated our window so we can give your work the careful consideration it deserves. Send us your most alive, your most dynamic, your most pressing art and writing. We look forward to spending time with your work!

15/09/2023

We are opening for submissions tomorrow until 11/15. Send us your most alive, your most dynamic, your most pressing art and writing. We look forward to spending time with your work!

07/02/2023

The magical Eugenia Yoh , our former intern whom we miss ceaselessly, has published a book! And it has a launch party tonight! If you know people who like children’s books (children, former children, etc.), you should find THIS IS NOT MY HOME.

02/09/2022

You can submit your poems, stories, essays to us, and we can pay you a $50 honorarium for publication, but only can stop us from using this art every September to make this announcement. 🧡💛🤎Link to guidelines in bio.

05/04/2022

It’s coming, it’s coming… Issue 11 is arriving this week!

30/09/2021

Won’t you please float us your creative nonfiction, poetry, or short story? Our Submittable gates close tomorrow and it’s free! (Link in bio)

29/09/2021

On the occasion of Hanif Abdurraqib’s MacArthur award, we are not changing the bio link to the letters that and .ewing published in The Spectacle a few years back… b/c that link is for YOU to submit YOUR work. 💙 Deadline Oct 1!

27/09/2021

Our Submittable window, accepting your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with no fee, closes this Friday. Link in bio. (Art by Yu Xin Zheng)

20/09/2021

No fee to submit your creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry through Oct 1; $50 honorarium upon publication. Looking to amplify historically underrepresented voices since our first issue. https://thespectacle.submittable.com/submit

03/09/2021

In truth, submissions opened two days ago. But: reduce reuse recycle, yes? Especially with an image this glorious (by Eugenia Yoh). Link in bio.

09/06/2021

New poetry by Alicia Byrne Keane up today! (Art by .kimchi) Link in bio!

24/05/2021

Check out Issue 10, with inspired poetry, fiction, and nonfiction -- and gorgeous collages! https://thespectacle.wustl.edu/

A Magazine of Art, Poetry, and Prose from Washington University in St. Louis

24/05/2021

🌈 Issue 10 is here! 🌈 Link in bio.

17/05/2021

A long time coming... 💜💙💚💛

15/02/2021

Last chance! Is your writing what’s missing from our 10th issue? Submissions close tonight... Link in bio.

15/02/2021

Been waiting to post this lovely reminder and then nearly forgot: submissions close Feb.15! No fee, $50 honorarium. 💜💙💚💛🧡
https://thespectacle.wustl.edu/?page_id=119

09/02/2021

No fee to submit poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for our next issue. $50 honorarium. Committed since we started in 2015 to publishing historically underrepresented voices. https://thespectacle.wustl.edu/?page_id=119

28/01/2021

Accepting poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction via Submittable (no fee!). $50 honorarium. Committed to publishing historically underrepresented voices. https://thespectacle.wustl.edu/?page_id=119