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It's that time of year again!
Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more!
ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.
Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more!
ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.
Antae Third Issue // Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/they) is the author of Through the Lens of Time (2026), a fiction collection with Thirty West Publishing, and These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things (2022), a book of poetry from Really Serious Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in [...]
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Antae Third Issue // Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/they) is the author of Through the Lens of Time (2026), a fiction collection with Thirty West Publishing, and These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things (2022), a book of poetry from Really Serious Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in [...]
Antae Writing Advice// W.B Yeats on Writing
W.B Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright widely considered one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, whose early work was deeply influenced by Irish myths and folklore. [...]
W.B Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright widely considered one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, whose early work was deeply influenced by Irish myths and folklore. [...]
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Antae Writing Advice// W.B Yeats on Writing
W.B Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright widely considered one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, whose early work was deeply influenced by Irish myths and folklore. [...]
W.B Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright widely considered one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, whose early work was deeply influenced by Irish myths and folklore. [...]
Antae Third Issue // Roshni Marath Jairaj is a Non-Resident Indian poet and writer currently based in the UK. Her work reflects her experiences growing up in Dubai, Singapore, and Kerala, exploring themes of identity, family, and belonging. She is a PhD student at the University of Leeds, [...]
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Antae Third Issue // Roshni Marath Jairaj is a Non-Resident Indian poet and writer currently based in the UK. Her work reflects her experiences growing up in Dubai, Singapore, and Kerala, exploring themes of identity, family, and belonging. She is a PhD student at the University of Leeds, [...]
Antae Third Issue // Steven Fortune is a resident of Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) and a graduate of Acadia University (English Literature/History). He has released five poetry collections to date, edited several works for others, and has also appeared on CBC Radio, [...]
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Antae Third Issue // Steven Fortune is a resident of Sydney, Nova Scotia (Canada) and a graduate of Acadia University (English Literature/History). He has released five poetry collections to date, edited several works for others, and has also appeared on CBC Radio, [...]
Antae Writing Advice// Junot Diaz on Becoming a Writer
Junot Diaz is a critically acclaimed Dominican-American author. Known for his fiction that explores the immigrant experience, identity, and diaspora, his major works include the short story collection 'Drown' and [...]
Junot Diaz is a critically acclaimed Dominican-American author. Known for his fiction that explores the immigrant experience, identity, and diaspora, his major works include the short story collection 'Drown' and [...]
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Antae Writing Advice// Junot Diaz on Becoming a Writer
Junot Diaz is a critically acclaimed Dominican-American author. Known for his fiction that explores the immigrant experience, identity, and diaspora, his major works include the short story collection 'Drown' and [...]
Junot Diaz is a critically acclaimed Dominican-American author. Known for his fiction that explores the immigrant experience, identity, and diaspora, his major works include the short story collection 'Drown' and [...]
Antae Third Issue // Srinjay Chakravarti is a writer, editor, and translator based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. He was educated at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and at universities based in Calcutta and New Delhi. University degrees: BSc (Economics honours) and MA (English). A former [...]
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Antae Third Issue // Srinjay Chakravarti is a writer, editor, and translator based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. He was educated at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and at universities based in Calcutta and New Delhi. University degrees: BSc (Economics honours) and MA (English). A former [...]
Antae Third Issue // Crafting short fiction that moves the reader is Rory Doherty’s passion. In addition to being a writer, Rory is and has been many things: son, brother, student, athlete, soldier, bartender, teacher, husband, father, business owner, pet lover, etc.
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Antae Third Issue // Crafting short fiction that moves the reader is Rory Doherty’s passion. In addition to being a writer, Rory is and has been many things: son, brother, student, athlete, soldier, bartender, teacher, husband, father, business owner, pet lover, etc.
It's that time of year again!
Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more!
ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.
Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more!
ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.
October 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's that time of year again!
Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more!
ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.
Vol. 9, Issue 1 is out now, with poetry, prose, a special guest editorial on "relatability" in writing, and more!
ANTAE is completely free to browse, so, like those biscuits they give you at cafés, our featured pieces match excellently with a cup of afternoon coffee.
Antae Third Issue // Susana H Case
Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love (Broadstone Books) and co editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press). The first of her five [...]
Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love (Broadstone Books) and co editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press). The first of her five [...]
October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Antae Third Issue // Susana H Case
Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love (Broadstone Books) and co editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press). The first of her five [...]
Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love (Broadstone Books) and co editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe (Milk & Cake Press). The first of her five [...]
Antae Third Issue // Claudia Wysocky, a Polish writer and poet based in New York, is known for her diverse literary creations, including fiction and poetry. Her poems, such as ‘Stargazing Love’ and ‘Heaven and Hell’, reflect her ability to capture the beauty of life through rich descriptions. [...]
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Antae Third Issue // Claudia Wysocky, a Polish writer and poet based in New York, is known for her diverse literary creations, including fiction and poetry. Her poems, such as ‘Stargazing Love’ and ‘Heaven and Hell’, reflect her ability to capture the beauty of life through rich descriptions. [...]
Antae Third Issue // Jennifer Choi is a passionate high school student. Her love for poetry began at an early age, and she finds inspiration in exploring themes of identity, love, and the complexities of the human experience through her writing.
October 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Antae Third Issue // Jennifer Choi is a passionate high school student. Her love for poetry began at an early age, and she finds inspiration in exploring themes of identity, love, and the complexities of the human experience through her writing.
Antae Third Issue // Iliria Osum is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works on unceded Kumeyaay land in Southern California. Prose and poetry have most recently been published in Glint, Welter, and OFIC, while dramatic and interactive work has been produced in La Jolla, [...]
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Antae Third Issue // Iliria Osum is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works on unceded Kumeyaay land in Southern California. Prose and poetry have most recently been published in Glint, Welter, and OFIC, while dramatic and interactive work has been produced in La Jolla, [...]
Antae Third Issue // Abdullahi Buba was born in Hambagda, Gwoza, Borno State, Nigeria. He has a B.A English Language from University of Maiduguri. He lectures in the Department of Remedial and General Studies, Mohammed Goni College of Legal Islamic and Educational Studies. He resides in Maiduguri.
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Antae Third Issue // Abdullahi Buba was born in Hambagda, Gwoza, Borno State, Nigeria. He has a B.A English Language from University of Maiduguri. He lectures in the Department of Remedial and General Studies, Mohammed Goni College of Legal Islamic and Educational Studies. He resides in Maiduguri.
Antae Third Issue // Roger B. Rueda moves with ease between the rigor of grammar and the lyricism of poetry. His books, A Plain & Practically Lucid English Grammar and Vines and Verges: Short Stories, reflect his fascination with language—its rhythms, its subtleties, its power. [...]
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Antae Third Issue // Roger B. Rueda moves with ease between the rigor of grammar and the lyricism of poetry. His books, A Plain & Practically Lucid English Grammar and Vines and Verges: Short Stories, reflect his fascination with language—its rhythms, its subtleties, its power. [...]
Antae Third Issue // Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. He has received recognition in [...]
October 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Antae Third Issue // Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania works as a financial director for a non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. He has received recognition in [...]
Antae Third Issue // HR Harper is a writer living in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, California. A student of meditation and the emptying traditions, he writes to understand the nature of human consciousness in a natural world humans seem to be destroying. He began to publish in 2021.
October 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Antae Third Issue // HR Harper is a writer living in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, California. A student of meditation and the emptying traditions, he writes to understand the nature of human consciousness in a natural world humans seem to be destroying. He began to publish in 2021.
Our submission window is now open! We look forward to receiving your flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and more over on antae@um.edu.mt. Submission guidelines are available over on website.
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our submission window is now open! We look forward to receiving your flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and more over on antae@um.edu.mt. Submission guidelines are available over on website.
Antae Third Issue // Giles Goodland's books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022.
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Antae Third Issue // Giles Goodland's books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022.
Antae Third Issue // Marcon De Giorgio is a Maltese writer whose love for language led her to pursue a study in English. Although she loves most genres, she mainly enjoys writing fantasy stories. Her love for myth and monsters has moved with her since her youth, but only recently has she [...]
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Antae Third Issue // Marcon De Giorgio is a Maltese writer whose love for language led her to pursue a study in English. Although she loves most genres, she mainly enjoys writing fantasy stories. Her love for myth and monsters has moved with her since her youth, but only recently has she [...]
Antae Third Issue // James "JT" Beatty is a double-major in Religious Studies and Journalism at Louisiana State University. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he drills in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and works at a children's museum.
September 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Antae Third Issue // James "JT" Beatty is a double-major in Religious Studies and Journalism at Louisiana State University. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he drills in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and works at a children's museum.
Antae Third Issue // Maria Grech Ganado (b.1943) has won National Book Prizes for four of her eight poetry collections in Maltese or English and co-organised an international seminar with LAF and Inizjamed in Malta in 2005. She has been translated into 12 other languages and published in many [...]
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Antae Third Issue // Maria Grech Ganado (b.1943) has won National Book Prizes for four of her eight poetry collections in Maltese or English and co-organised an international seminar with LAF and Inizjamed in Malta in 2005. She has been translated into 12 other languages and published in many [...]
Antae Third Issue // Grant Shimmin is a New Zealand writer and poet who grew up in South Africa and prizes humanity and the natural world as subjects. He is an editor for the US-based literary journal Does it Have Pockets? [...]
September 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Antae Third Issue // Grant Shimmin is a New Zealand writer and poet who grew up in South Africa and prizes humanity and the natural world as subjects. He is an editor for the US-based literary journal Does it Have Pockets? [...]
Antae Third Issue // Anita Howard is a writer, storyteller and actor living in Passage West, Co. Cork, Ireland. Her work features in many publications including HeadStuff, Poetica Review, the Querencia Press Autumn 22 Anthology, the December 2022 Mslexia Moth, Literature Today, [...]
September 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Antae Third Issue // Anita Howard is a writer, storyteller and actor living in Passage West, Co. Cork, Ireland. Her work features in many publications including HeadStuff, Poetica Review, the Querencia Press Autumn 22 Anthology, the December 2022 Mslexia Moth, Literature Today, [...]
Antae Third Issue // Paul Stephenson’s first collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in 2023. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Polari Book Prize. He published three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), [...]
September 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Antae Third Issue // Paul Stephenson’s first collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in 2023. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Polari Book Prize. He published three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), [...]
Antae Second Issue // Greg Roensch
Greg Roensch writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His writing has appeared in Dream Noir, 365 Tomorrows, Defiant Scribe, and elsewhere. [...]
Greg Roensch writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His writing has appeared in Dream Noir, 365 Tomorrows, Defiant Scribe, and elsewhere. [...]
August 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Antae Second Issue // Greg Roensch
Greg Roensch writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His writing has appeared in Dream Noir, 365 Tomorrows, Defiant Scribe, and elsewhere. [...]
Greg Roensch writes flash fiction and poetry, makes poetry-films, and writes and records original songs. His writing has appeared in Dream Noir, 365 Tomorrows, Defiant Scribe, and elsewhere. [...]