Passages North
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A national literary magazine based at Northern Michigan University.
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Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display...
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Against Soulmates by David Eileen — Passages North
Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display. Nothing can separate us from its biblically accurate angel...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poetry editor Sarah Ristola Bass on today’s poem: “Against Soulmates” crowds close to the reader as it’s laid bare like a corpse on display...
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Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why.
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Self-Portrait as Love Island Closed Captions by Amanda Gaines — Passages North
Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why. In “Self-Portrait as Love Island...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Poetry intern Kailey Buettner on today’s bonus poem: Equal parts bloodbath and baby-blue bedsheets, this poem holds its inner angel hostage and dares you to ask why.
Read it now on our website!
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Read it now on our website!
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Hey you! You should go pre-order Anthony Thomas Lombardi's debut "murmurations"! Anthony was a contributor for our 43 issue.
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April 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hey you! You should go pre-order Anthony Thomas Lombardi's debut "murmurations"! Anthony was a contributor for our 43 issue.
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Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “'On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel' is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the genre so enticing."
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On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel by Justin Lacour — Passages North
Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “ On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel” is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the gen...
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April 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Associate Poetry Editor Carmen Ollila on today’s bonus poem: “'On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel' is a poem that captures the absurdist humor in the blend of personalities that makes the genre so enticing."
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Check it out below!
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Today's the day! I know you've been procrastinating on getting those poems/essays/short-shorts submission ready, but speak now or forever hold your peace!
April 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Today's the day! I know you've been procrastinating on getting those poems/essays/short-shorts submission ready, but speak now or forever hold your peace!
Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
April 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Submit now or forever hold your peace. Only 1 day left to submit to the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and the Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize!
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
Find submission guidelines and more at passagesnorth.com/contests
Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."
Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Fig Cartography by Jane Flett — Passages North
Associate Poetry Editor Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: Toeing an often unseen line between violence and romance, Jane Flett’s “Fig Cartography” is wonderfully bittersweet. Try as we might “not t...
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April 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Poetry Jenn McMahon on today’s bonus poem: "Exploring emotional entanglement further, in the final moments of the poem, Flett details the dance of attraction through the lens of complex bio mutualistic give and take."
Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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Read "Fig Cartography" by Jane Flett
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April 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Back by popular demand! Show off your exquisite taste in literary magazines this summer! Snag a Passages North t-shirt or baseball cap today!
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We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
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April 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Back by popular demand! Show off your exquisite taste in literary magazines this summer! Snag a Passages North t-shirt or baseball cap today!
We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
Check out the link in our bio to find the store!
We only have another week left for our fundraiser, so act fast!
Check out the link in our bio to find the store!
Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury.
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An Interview with Sarah Minor, Judge of the 2025 Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize — Passages North
Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist. She's the author of Carousel , forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026, Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press ...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Check out our interview with Sarah Minor, judge of this year's Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize, conudcted by CNF/Hybrids associate editor, Barbra Lounsbury.
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We are so thrilled to see contributor @erindorney.bsky.social new book "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" out in the world from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social !! Congrats, Erin!!!
March 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We are so thrilled to see contributor @erindorney.bsky.social new book "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" out in the world from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social !! Congrats, Erin!!!
We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North!
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
March 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We are still open for submission for our Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize judged by Diane Seuss! Enter your best poems for a chance to win some $$$ and publication in Passages North!
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
More info at passagesnorth.com/contests
Shorts team lead Jordan Vines on today’s short: "Apocalypse is a genre all too familiar. And yet, “The Movie Theater at the End of the World” invites us to experience the end like a good film: tinged with nostalgia; a blissful memory of how the world used to be."
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Check it out at passagesnorth.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Shorts team lead Jordan Vines on today’s short: "Apocalypse is a genre all too familiar. And yet, “The Movie Theater at the End of the World” invites us to experience the end like a good film: tinged with nostalgia; a blissful memory of how the world used to be."
Check it out at passagesnorth.com
Check it out at passagesnorth.com
Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15
February 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Do you have a visually-striking essay? Or a formally-inventive memoir? Or even just a darn-good piece on velociraptors? You should submit it to our CNF contest! Subs open now until April 15
Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen.
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Check out our interview with Diane Seuss, judge of the 2025 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, conducted by Alex Watanen.
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
Check out the interview, contest info, and more at passagesnorth.com
WE LOVE THIS SHORT-SHORT ABOUT DAD SHORTS!!!!
Have a flash piece in the new issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social alongside a bunch of amazing writers! Many thanks to the editors.
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Dads in Shorts by Michael Don — Passages North
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February 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
WE LOVE THIS SHORT-SHORT ABOUT DAD SHORTS!!!!
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Delighted to be in this issue with so many great writers!
Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
February 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Delighted to be in this issue with so many great writers!
Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Issue 46 of Passages North is now available!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
Featuring work from Nancy Nguyen, May-lee Chai (翟梅莉), Steve Gergley, Will Musgrove, Allison Field Bell, Areej Quraishi, Kenton K. Yee, Matthew Tuckner, Mike Nagel, Acie Clark, Sara Mae, and many, many more!
Get your copy today!
That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!
February 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
That’s right! Our poetry and nonfiction contests are NOW OPEN until April 15th!
Get your poems and essays ready! Passages North's CNF and poetry prizes open this weekend! Check out passagesnorth.com/contests for more info!
February 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Get your poems and essays ready! Passages North's CNF and poetry prizes open this weekend! Check out passagesnorth.com/contests for more info!
Poetry ed. Abby LaForest on today’s poem: “Milligrams” treads carefully through the necessary medications and the joyful harvests we dream of reaping, so long as the world is kind enough to lift its heavy hand.
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Milligrams by Sara Hovda — Passages North
Poetry editor Abby LaForest on today’s poem: Sara Hovda’s “Milligrams” tiptoes on the delicate balance between true living and essentials for survival. It treads carefully through the necessary medic...
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January 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Poetry ed. Abby LaForest on today’s poem: “Milligrams” treads carefully through the necessary medications and the joyful harvests we dream of reaping, so long as the world is kind enough to lift its heavy hand.
Read it here:
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Read it here:
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Managing Editor Andrew Walker on today’s bonus short: Like a trusty car with new wheels, this short travels far and wide in a space that feels all too familiar.
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Thinking Things Through At Les Schwab by Tess Kelly — Passages North
Managing Editor Andrew Walker on today’s bonus short: When stuck waiting at the mechanics, what else is there to do but contemplate one’s surroundings? Through straightforward, impactful prose, “Thin...
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January 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Managing Editor Andrew Walker on today’s bonus short: Like a trusty car with new wheels, this short travels far and wide in a space that feels all too familiar.
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Poetry Editor Abby LaForest on today’s poem: Rooting itself in one’s subconscious, where readers find themselves at the crossroads between the natural and the simulated, the intentionality of theme is accentuated through King’s vivid, narrative style.
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Man Robs Bank Disguised as Tree by James King — Passages North
Poetry Editor Abby LaForest on today’s poem: James King’s “Man Robs Bank Disguised as a Tree” is simultaneously a poignant retelling of James Coldwell’s 2007 robbery and an introspection on the justi...
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December 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Poetry Editor Abby LaForest on today’s poem: Rooting itself in one’s subconscious, where readers find themselves at the crossroads between the natural and the simulated, the intentionality of theme is accentuated through King’s vivid, narrative style.
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Really exciting to read this poem by a former student.
Poetry Ed. Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspective on what it means to be rational when the definition for rationality has been lost.
Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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Anniversary by Erik Moyer — Passages North
Poetry Editor Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: The weight of a laugh is heavy in “Anniversary” by Erik Moyer. By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspect...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Really exciting to read this poem by a former student.
Poetry Ed. Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspective on what it means to be rational when the definition for rationality has been lost.
Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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Anniversary by Erik Moyer — Passages North
Poetry Editor Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: The weight of a laugh is heavy in “Anniversary” by Erik Moyer. By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspect...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Poetry Ed. Nicolette Visciano on today’s poem: By confronting grief through the lens of absurd rituals, Moyer presents a new perspective on what it means to be rational when the definition for rationality has been lost.
Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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Read "Anniversary" by Erik Moyer
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