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Calls for Submission: Debut Fiction by November 6, Reviews & Interviews through April

Our Debut Fiction Issue, guested edited by Cleyvis Natera, will feature short stories by unpublished writers and excerpts from debut novels. We’re also looking for book reviews and interviews!

Books We Love 2023

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (August 1, 2023, Ecco Press) ““Family Lore is a deeply Dominican…

We Did It – Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter |August 2019

We’re thrilled to share the big news: Aster(ix) won a 2019 FIRECRACKER AWARD for best debut literary magazine from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses!

Sean Gandert: What does it mean to be a person while the world is burning?

Set in Albuquerque and steeped in magic and Catholicism, Sean Gandert’s novel American Saint uses…

Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter | June 2019

We are thrilled to announce that we are finalists for the CLMP Firecracker Award that honors those who “introduce important voices to readers far and wide.” Thank you to the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses for the recognition!

Aster(ix) Journal Newsletter | April 2019

This spring we’re challenging ourselves to find inspiration in all that is new. Keep reading for new pieces from Ruth Kocher, María del Socorro Límon, and newly released pieces from the Fall 2018 Edges issues including Olivia Walton, Shay Lawz and Malvinna Sammarone.

Malvina Sammarone: Communicating The Incommunicable

Malvina Sammarone uses both of her hands in her drawings, creating a reversed mirrored image.…

ASTER(IX) JOURNAL NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2018

In our Fall 2018 Edges anthology, writers, both established and emerging, offer prose and poetry that embrace the theme of edges. These works explore the edges of cultures and country, the edges of language, the edges of space, the edges of gender, of the mind and body. They allow us to consider both self-imposed limits and externally-imposed limitations.

Aster(ix) JOURNAL NEWSLETTER | OCTOBER 2018

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ASTER(IX) JOURNAL NEWSLETTER | MAY 2018

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