Noncompliance is crucial in fighting power. Someone with 0 legal authority making demands, ignore them.

And when that’s not possible, malicious compliance is also good. Can’t use certain words, make up new ones.

Our 2025 Writing Contest is now open! Send us your prose and poetry ✨ Winners in each genre will receive $1000. Winners and runners up will be published online and in Issue 66.

Submissions are subject to a $20 fee. Send your words in now! 🎉

fugue.submittable.com/submit

Yet another reading on the horizon! Mark your calendars for a poetry reading with Rosalie Moffett ✨

🗓️: Thursday, Feb. 20
⏰: 7 pm
📍: 1912 Center, Lecompte Auditorium

Don’t miss tonight’s Symposium reading! ✨

New fiction up on our website! ✨ Read "A Reproductive Strategy" by Roy Lowenstein.

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The last Symposium reading is one week from today! ✨ Join us to laugh (maybe) and cry (maybe) and think extensively about what it means to be human.

Mark your calendars for the last Symposium reading!

📍: The Pocket Playhouse (Shoup Hall)
🗓️: Wednesday, January 15
⏰: 7-9:30 pm

Our Pushcart nominations for this year! ✨🎉 Thanks to all our contributors for trusting us with your work.

Got art? 🎨 Or a hybrid piece that tells a story outside of traditional genre conventions? Send them to us!

✨ We’re accepting Visual Art & Other Hybrid Forms submissions until December 15! ✨

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New fiction up online! ✨ Read Anna Schachner’s "The Gun at the End of the Story."

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Mark your calendars for this Friday! ✨ MFA candidates Annie Burky, Raquel Gordon, and Katie Ludwig will read poetry and prose exploring themes of embodiment, movement, and place.

📍: One World Cafe
🗓️: Dec 6
⏰: 5 - 7:30 p.m.

Some shots from the northern lights last month near Moscow, ID