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Metachrosis Literary Magazine
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Irish literary magazine celebrating the arts, sciences, and the humanities. LGBT+ run
Issue 4 is out now!
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The letter is in the post so I can officially announce our Pushcart prize nominees! Congratuations to @scarletwitchy.bsky.social , @morganblackarts.bsky.social , Richard Oyama, BA Didcock, Andrew McKeown, and Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya. #litmag #pushcartprize
Our Pushcart Prize Nominees! Stephen Brown Morgan Black Wood Richard Oyama BA Didcock Andrew McKeown Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We're counting down the minutes until submission open for issue 6. Luckily there's still plenty of time for research and re-watching Twin Peaks. We've updated our submission portals so be sure to check them out and read one of our digital issue while you're there. #opencall #litmag #literarymagazine
Submissions open in 3 weeks! Metachrosis issue 6 15th Dec - 28th Feb We'll be accepting submissions of all forms of art and writing. Send your work via Duosoma and Curatorspace Check out our submission guidelines on our website. (A black and white image of a lobster) Metachrosis Magazine
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is יונה – Yonah by Jonah Corren! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
יונה – Yonah Jonah Corren From the Hebrew naming book, my parents chose 'dove of peace': the weightless white bird, clear in its purpose. But so too came the sulking prophet under his קיקיון, waiting for the damned city to buckle under its sin. קיקיון – kikayon (a large gourd) Metachrosis Magazine
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We're delighted to announce that Metachrosis Issue 5 will be included in Dublin Art book fair 2025 from 04–14 December 2025 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Guest curated by Dr. Selina Guinness! #litmag #literarymagazine #DABF25 @tbgands.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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We'll be opening for submissions of all forms of art and writing from 15th December 2025 - 28th February 2026. We'll be open for submissions via Duosoma and Curatorspace. Our submission guidelines and previous issue are on our website. 🐌🌌🌞 metachrosislitmag.com #litmag #literarymagazine #opencall
Submissions Open from 15th December / Metachrosis Issue 6 / We'll be accepting all forms of art and writing / send in your work vis Duosoma and Curatorspace / Check out our submission guidelines on our website! Metachrosis Magazine
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Spotted Hyena by Patrick Olo! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Spotted Hyena, Patrick Olo, Pen and Ink. Below is an image of a hyena's head. It is drawn in black ink with gestural marks. It is surrounded by two black rectangles that form a border. The mouth of the hyena is open as if it is panting; it faces the bottom right-hand corner. Metachrosis Magazine
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is The GLOAMING by Tallulah Howarth! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
The GLOAMING Tallulah Howarth I took one more wistful look as you turned the corner of day and could just make out the back of the sun's head shuffling towards the Abu Bakr supermarket. The moon is on a street corner a fair distance away smoking next to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Metachrosis Magazine
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Eye Test of a Tarsier After the Flash by Julia Jimenez! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry #visualpoetry
Eye Test of a Tarsier After the Flash Julia Jimenez. 20/200 T 1 20/100 OO 2 20/70 SMA 3 20/50 LLTO 4 20/40 CHOKE 5 20/30 THETOU 6 (A green line appears between these bars) 20/25 RISTSBU 7 20/20 TIHAVETH 8 (A red line appears between these bars) 20/15 ISTREETOM 9 20/13 AKEMYSKULL 10 20/10 SOFTASLIGHT 11
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Hyacinth by Fiona Young! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art #photography
Hyacinth Fiona Young, Digital Photograph. Below is a still-life photograph. It depicts four glass vases of varying sizes and visual complexity. Each vase houses a hyacinth bulb that hasn't yet come into bloom. They are standing on a wooden table with a grey-green backdrop. A section of wall visible along the left-hand side is a brighter green. Metachrosis Magazine
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Radar Man at the Black Hole Automat by Harrison Fisher! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
Radar Man at the Black Hole Automat Harrison Fisher Don’t eat no moon pie, and hands off the automat’s perpetual motion sliding doors, your eyes are bigger than your stomach—and beeping! Parti-colored units of Time and Space still buzz our dumbfounded temples— you go to the automat, you take your chances. Metachrosis Magazine
October 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Neurophilosophy 2 diptych by Sharon Reeber! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Neurophilosophy 2 diptych Sharon Reeber, Monotype on paper. Below are two images, placed one on top of the other. Both are abstract prints featuring repeating circular patterns layered over colours. The top image features a corridor of repeating spirals that move diagonally from right to left, with larger spirals running perpendicular to the central shape. The background is predominantly black with a cobalt blue square in the top-left-hand corner, a green web, and a hazy rectangle on the right-hand side. The bottom image shows a larger spiral shape placed in the center, with large spirals emanating outward from this central form. The Background is mostly black. A wide green line and peach haze occupy the bottom left-hand corner, and a cobalt blue and purple rectangle take up the right-hand side. Metachrosis Magazine
October 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Side Effects of Bipolar Radiofrequency Devices for Facial Skin Rejuvenation' by Danielle Altman! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
Side Effects of Bipolar Radiofrequency Devices for Facial Skin Rejuvenation Danielle Altman Modification in protocols have also improved patient comfort and rare events such as burns Metachrosis Magazine
October 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Turner Prints' by Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #nonfiction
Turner Prints Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya Atypical flamingos and egrets emerged in them (from them). Transparently dense landscapes, aquatic leaves, palm trees, flowerings revealed a succulent, elemental, oneiric nature. Elegance. Libido. Infinitude, a suggestion of flesh: the appearance of liquid, supraconscious lives, almost extinct. Metachrosis
September 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is Animalculum by @allgumsblazing.bsky.social ! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Animalculum, Alan Murphy, Digital Photograph. Below is an image of a gray surface with orange patterns that resemble stains. The orange pattern vary in size and shape, though all are circular. They splay out across the length of the image. On the right hand side is a small white rectangle. The rectangle is roughly half the width of the image and is in the mid-ground. In this white rectangle are horizontal lines that flow and diver in a number of different ways and are different colours, all the lines are thin. The image is surrounded by a thin black border. Metachrosis Magazine
September 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'A Winning Game', by Soledad Santana! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
A Winning Game Soledad Santana 2. Your humid eye observes me from the counter, stickied with ritual. 3. The fat green flies approach; You have no hands with which to swat them away. 4. The men take their seats at the table, their trouser hems stained with rooster blood, whiskey, and cum. 5. You’ll slosh in my uncle’s stomach, become the tissue lining his fat throat Metachrosis Magazine
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment from 'Convection (Victory) Columns', by Ross McDiarmid! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
Convection (Victory) Columns Ross McDiarmid Joys rebound as off glass; ceilins ay sheer aether keep them. Below – knee-deep – in thought, a figure gains weight fie graven mass. Gravity – What force! – burdens their mien. So fraught, Homo Spiritualis waits ’twixt, neither plume, nor swoon – for fate, like the stars, exceeds. Their prayers Alongside the verse in an arrow pointing down, indicating the order in which the words are read. Metachrosis Magazine
September 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Household Routine #16', by Vincent Louis Stokes! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Household Routine #16, Vincent Louis Stokes, Pencil on Paper. Below is a pencil drawing on undyed paper with large blank borders. The image depicts a man with slightly exaggerated features looking over his shoulder and making eye contact with the viewer. He is sitting on a chair and drawing an infant's face alongside some loose sketches. In the background is a clock and several photos hung on the wall above a desk. There is also a large whiteboard with children's drawings, a calendar, and a message that reads "Have A Lovely Time Vincent xxx". Metachrosis Magazine
September 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Just popped down to @salmonpoetry.bsky.social in Ennistymon to drop off some copies of metachrosis. Looking great amongst the tresure trove of poetry. #litmag #literarymagazine
September 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Dead Leaves 5', by Naoual Peleau! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Dead Leaves 5, Naoual Peleau, Anthotype on Linden Leaves. Beneath is an image composed of multiple dried leaves. There are four overlapping leaves of varying shades of brown, red, and green. The image of a nude figure is printed in the natural colours of the leaves. Metachrosis Magazine
September 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment of 'Mercury Dusk', by Maureen Alsop! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
Mercury Dusk Maureen Alsop I wade into Summer’s body — I wade into the river basin & broken bottles — my legs numb with sleep. We speak through tides into the sun’s hazard— Metachrosis Magazine
September 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'I Hear You Cindy (The Sherman) by Goran Tomic! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art #collage
I Hear You Cindy (The Sherman), Goran Tomic, Collage. Below is a collage image, which depicts figures and objects across a colourful, geometric composition. The layout resembles a series of windows. The collage is primarily made from vintage-style images. Metachrosis Magazine
August 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is a fragment of 'Bog (The Ending)', by Eden Chicken! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry
Bog (The Ending) Eden Chicken feel self absorb bog feel self sog feel self hair from skin sog nail from skin bog gnaw skin to fat all damp feel fat absorb bog all not bloat not burst but erode as soak as feel muscle drench as absorb bog drench until leak until bog feel wet feel bog as muscle to nerve no eye no spit no breath Metachrosis Magazine
August 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Confluence 1 Decline and Segments', by Fernanda Morales Tovar! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Confluence 1 Decline and Segments, Fernanda Morales Tovar, Oil on canvas. Below is a painting of eleven people, painted in greyscale against a brightly coloured landscape. They stand on a bank of industrial metal, working rods in a tumultuous pool of water. The metal walkway is depicted in hues of orange, while the water and embankment are shown in bright blue, green, and purple. Metachrosis Magazine
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Larking', by John Mackey! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also pre-order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #prose
Larking John Mackey The cautery of debauchery was enough to stop infection, but we never healed. We seldom talked about anything real. Suspended in surface level joyousness, we rarely drew breath and dove to any depth. Like children building a fort out of wooden crates, only to watch it rot in the weather. Metachrosis Magazine
August 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is ' Thief (Inspired by a Michał Grochowiak photograph)', by Linn Hansen! You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. You can also order a physical copy while you're there. #litmag #literarymagazine #art
Thief (Inspired by a Michał Grochowiak photograph), Linn Hansen, fineliner on watercolour paper. Beneath is a drawing of a fly under a glass, the drawing is done in black-and-white in a pointillist style. The fly and and glass are on a plain white table. Metachrosis Literary
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM