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River Styx Magazine
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River Styx, now in its 50th year, is a non-profit, multicultural literary and visual arts magazine based in St. Louis.

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A powerful documentary play created from letters by imprisoned people in Appalachia, revealing the humanity, isolation, and resilience of life behind bars.

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Dark Shadows by Mark Brazaitis — River Styx Magazine
A powerful documentary play created from letters by imprisoned people in Appalachia, revealing the humanity, isolation, and resilience of life behind bars.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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In a dystopian world where history is rewritten by an oppressive government, a calligrapher struggles to embed defiance and the memory of her freedom-loving father into her mandated texts, finding solace and truth in her secret love, Jimmy, and the symbolic power of unpredictable clouds.
"The Art of History and the Interpretation of Clouds" by Jeff Burt — River Styx Magazine
A calligrapher struggles against an oppressive government.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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My husband stumbled across this this morning. He's bringing them home for me to read.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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River Styx 110: Plum is available for preorder. Featuring new writing and art by Maryn Blanco, Noor Jafari, Marc McKee, Hantian Zhang, Allison Field Bell, and more.
August 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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We’ve extended the deadline for The River Styx Contest to September 1, 2025. (Announcement date is still January 1.) Enter your fiction or poetry. See our website for complete rules. www.riverstyx.org/the-river-st...
July 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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We interviewed Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao and director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, on literary forms, longing, and being a Midwesterner.

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Lan Samantha Chang: The River Styx Interview — River Styx Magazine
An interview with Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao and Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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In Mary Troy’s story, “Don’t Take This the Wrong Way,” a woman with a complicated family history and a troubled marriage experiences a sense of liberation when her husband leaves and her half-brother, a repeat offender, moves in. @marytroy.bsky.social

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"Don't Take This the Wrong Way" by Mary Troy — River Styx Magazine
A short story about marriage and theft.
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May 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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In Elzbieta Zdunek’s series SOMETHING HUMAN, the artist “explores the way we are perceived from the outside…the weight of external judgement: how labels define or dismiss us, and the impossible, often conflicting expectations placed upon us.”

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Something Human by Elzbieta Zdunek — River Styx Magazine
A Berlin-based collagist takes on the subject of perception.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Very much enjoyed this back-and-forth with Bryan Castille for River Styx magazine.
May 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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We caught up with Joseph O’Neill, author of GODWIN and NETHERLAND.

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Joseph O'Neill: The River Styx Interview — River Styx Magazine
River Styx Managing Editor Bryan Castille interviews Joseph O'Neill, author of Godwin, Netherland, and Blood-Dark Track.
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May 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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New poems this week by Rebecca Boyle. Read now for free.
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"Little T Saw God at George's" and Other Poems by Rebecca Boyle — River Styx Magazine
Poems by Rebecca Boyle.
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May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Our contest in fiction and poetry is open until August 1.

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2026 River Styx Contest — River Styx Magazine
The 2026 River Styx Contest in fiction and poetry is judged by Lisa Olstein and Bennett Sims. Enter today and win $1000 plus publication online and in print.
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May 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Come hear Knar Gavin, Lars Chinburg, and Lindsey Webb read for our Summer Reading Series! It’s free.

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Summer Reading Series — River Styx Magazine
The River Styx Summer Readings Series features Knar Gavin, Lars Chinburg, and Lindsey Webb. Register for free on Eventbrite.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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We’ve been quietly working on a little project for the past year to celebrate our 50th anniversary:

— River Styx: 50 Years of Poetry & Prose —

An anthology of some of the best writing from a half-century of the magazine.

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River Styx: 50 Years of Poetry & Prose — River Styx Magazine
A retrospective anthology featuring some of the best writing from the past 50 years of River Styx Magazine. Including Margaret Atwood, Claudia Rankine, Rajiv Mohabir, Jane Wong, Pamela Hadas, and many...
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May 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Please join us for a special virtual event with Deborah Taffa, author Whiskey Tender! April 30 @ 8pm (CST).

Register for free here:

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River Styx: Indigenous Writers Series with Deborah Taffa
Eventbrite - River Styx Magazine presents River Styx: Indigenous Writers Series with Deborah Taffa - Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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We’re running a promo! Buy a copy of River Styx 109 print edition and get a copy of River Styx 108 free. Shipping applies. For a limited time. Promo code: BOGO
April 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Lars Chinburg’s “Along the River” brings wildfire to a Montana valley where a solitary shepherd’s actions have dire consequences for a nearby family.

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"Along the River" by Lars Chinburg — River Styx Magazine
A short story by Lars Chinburg from River Styx 109: Posthuman.
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April 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Excited to get home and see this poem in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social — thanks to @micahbateman.bsky.social for sheparding it into good hands!
April 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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six drawings featured in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social "Posthuman" issue 🤖❤️ #art #drawing #posthuman

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River Styx 109: Posthuman — River Styx Magazine
Order ships March 31. At 330 pages, this is our longest issue ever! Preview the issue. In his treatise on the interconnectedness of all things, The Ecological Thought , Timothy Morton writes, “B...
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April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Please join us for a soecial virtual event with Deborah Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender. April 30, 8pm CST. Register for free.

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April 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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New poetry for spring 2025. Featuring CMarie Fuhrman, Cary Stough, Hannah Bonner, Lauren Haldeman, Knar Gavin, Harris Wheless, David Dodd Lee, Jan Garden Castro, and Alicia Wright.

Read now for free.

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The Latest — River Styx Magazine
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April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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We must cancel our spring issue virtual event for March 27. It turns out AWP INC is a force not to be contended with. We’ll reschedule!
March 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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real glad to have a set of poems up at @riverstyxmag.bsky.social ! i'll drop the smol one here, & u can hop to the link for the other (spoiler/lure: it involves the Hershman-Leeson filmTEKNOLUST!) www.riverstyx.org/proof-blog/k...
March 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Submit to River Styx 111: Mitsake by September 1, 2025.

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March 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I have a new story in @riverstyxmag.bsky.social called “Death and the Bachelor,” and it’s for all the Old Hollywood obsessives, queer cinephiles, romantics and existentialists out there. 🤍✨
Death and the Bachelor — River Styx Magazine
“His kiss was mist off a waterfall.”
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March 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM