We are happy to announce our 2024 Best Small Fictions nominees, @addisoncs.bsky.social, @aerynrudel.bsky.social, @poetsaggio.bsky.social, Will McMahon, and A. Reid Johnson.

Looking forward to when the finalists are announced next year via @altcurrent.bsky.social

Read our latest interview with poet @poetsaggio.bsky.social.

Brian chats about his poetry style, latest chapbook releases, gives advice for young poets, and explains how Benito Mussolini (yep that one) was his socialist grandfather's first editor.

Read now: radonjournal.com/interviews

I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

Issue 5 is live! Read for free at radonjournal.com We invite you to be blown away by 11 talented #scifi poets and 9 short story authors that will recontextualize your existence in the cosmos. #WritingCommunity

a substitute algebra teacher with a penchant for poetry, flickers of alternate consciousnesses glitter like discarded soda bottles, from Shop-Rite to Sicily and around again. These conjured tiny poems solve for the problem of surviving. ~Amy Goldmacher, Winner of the 2022 AWP Kurt Brown Prize

Lit journals here so far (all .bsky.social):

barrelhouse
cincinnatireview
cottonxenomorph
dreampop
epochliterary
havehadhas
icefloepress
louisianalit
okaydonkey
pinkplastichouse
psalteryandlyre
rustandmoth
smokelong
stonecirclereview
tbq
theoffingmag
therumpus
thebaffler
uncannymagazine
zyzzyva