So to Speak
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Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.
Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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new on our blog: an interview with award-winning Optional Practical Training author, Shubha Sunder! Head to sotospeakjournal.org/blog to read about the unique perspective of the immigrant by choice, the role of observation in immigrant experiences, and the concept of home. 🖤
November 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
new on our blog: an interview with award-winning Optional Practical Training author, Shubha Sunder! Head to sotospeakjournal.org/blog to read about the unique perspective of the immigrant by choice, the role of observation in immigrant experiences, and the concept of home. 🖤
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
FEE FREE 48 HRS 🐑when you get a break from the severed floor, journey to submittable... sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
FEE FREE 48 HRS 🐑when you get a break from the severed floor, journey to submittable... sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
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October 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Prose? Prose? Prose? Prose? Prose? Prose? Prose? sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
Send us: collages; watercolors; sculptures; yarn dyed with menstrual blood; portraits of people who don't and have never existed. When they invent Smell-o-Vision for magazines we will make a submission category for that, but for now the eyes will have to do. sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
October 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Send us: collages; watercolors; sculptures; yarn dyed with menstrual blood; portraits of people who don't and have never existed. When they invent Smell-o-Vision for magazines we will make a submission category for that, but for now the eyes will have to do. sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
Maddie Ballard's debut memoir, Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social was released today!
So to Speak editor Matti Ben-Lev interviewed Maddie about the influence of feminism and culture on her work. Read the full interview on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog
So to Speak editor Matti Ben-Lev interviewed Maddie about the influence of feminism and culture on her work. Read the full interview on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog
October 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Maddie Ballard's debut memoir, Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social was released today!
So to Speak editor Matti Ben-Lev interviewed Maddie about the influence of feminism and culture on her work. Read the full interview on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog
So to Speak editor Matti Ben-Lev interviewed Maddie about the influence of feminism and culture on her work. Read the full interview on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog
Send us your truth & your lies. Submit to our print issue, tell yr friends: sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Send us your truth & your lies. Submit to our print issue, tell yr friends: sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
Litany for the Displaced is a winding journey through waiting rooms, fires raging through cracked windows, flowers blooming on long nights. Originally posted on the So to Speak blog on August 10th, 2019, reposted on October 9th, 2025. Read the full poem on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Litany for the Displaced is a winding journey through waiting rooms, fires raging through cracked windows, flowers blooming on long nights. Originally posted on the So to Speak blog on August 10th, 2019, reposted on October 9th, 2025. Read the full poem on our blog: sotospeakjournal.org/blog
Saying GOODBYE to our Summer Digital Issue with Danielle Emerson's trio of works, “Shí dóó shimá, shí dóó shítsilí, & shí cuzzins" www.sotospeakjournal.org/danielle-eme...
October 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Saying GOODBYE to our Summer Digital Issue with Danielle Emerson's trio of works, “Shí dóó shimá, shí dóó shítsilí, & shí cuzzins" www.sotospeakjournal.org/danielle-eme...
44 is a mud slide, a surgeon's needle, a ballerina's last triumphant turn and the effigy of a prior self on fire. The essay reads like a phoenix molting: death, fire, and release. Read it in our summer issue: www.sotospeakjournal.org/dani-putney-44
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
44 is a mud slide, a surgeon's needle, a ballerina's last triumphant turn and the effigy of a prior self on fire. The essay reads like a phoenix molting: death, fire, and release. Read it in our summer issue: www.sotospeakjournal.org/dani-putney-44
New FICTION – Victoria Hood’s “you want to feel special” is a meditation, a mantra, a hearty soup for the soul. It plays with form, and the form echoes in our bones. Read it in our Summer Digital Issue → → → www.sotospeakjournal.org/victoria-hoo...
September 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
New FICTION – Victoria Hood’s “you want to feel special” is a meditation, a mantra, a hearty soup for the soul. It plays with form, and the form echoes in our bones. Read it in our Summer Digital Issue → → → www.sotospeakjournal.org/victoria-hoo...
@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Boyfacts" is a random bruise you don't recall getting, the way you sweat in a humid summer, a no longer produced brand of gum you loved as a child. www.sotospeakjournal.org/debmalya-ban...
September 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
@halfmoonmocha.bsky.social's "Boyfacts" is a random bruise you don't recall getting, the way you sweat in a humid summer, a no longer produced brand of gum you loved as a child. www.sotospeakjournal.org/debmalya-ban...
Finding the right journals for your work. Writing a lit mag cover letter. Submitting to contests. Let's talk about it at Submit-a-Thon! Hosted by us and @phoebejournal.bsky.social, open to the GMU community. Sign up here: cglink.me/2d7/r2287792
September 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finding the right journals for your work. Writing a lit mag cover letter. Submitting to contests. Let's talk about it at Submit-a-Thon! Hosted by us and @phoebejournal.bsky.social, open to the GMU community. Sign up here: cglink.me/2d7/r2287792
@exquisite.bsky.social Exquisite Armantè’s “Stages” reminds us of the baby you find in king cake— it’s an overripe orange, a nipple barbell, an elevator to anywhere🍊
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/exquisite-ar...
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/exquisite-ar...
September 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@exquisite.bsky.social Exquisite Armantè’s “Stages” reminds us of the baby you find in king cake— it’s an overripe orange, a nipple barbell, an elevator to anywhere🍊
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/exquisite-ar...
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/exquisite-ar...
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September 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Irina Tall Novikova’s collage series, “Brown,” is lying in wait in the top bunk. It asks you to play tag in the dark woods behind your childhood home and stick your fingers through the holes of a rotting tree🏵️🐦⬛
View the series here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/irina-tall-b...
View the series here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/irina-tall-b...
August 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Irina Tall Novikova’s collage series, “Brown,” is lying in wait in the top bunk. It asks you to play tag in the dark woods behind your childhood home and stick your fingers through the holes of a rotting tree🏵️🐦⬛
View the series here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/irina-tall-b...
View the series here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/irina-tall-b...
Tracy Sidesinger’s debut literary essay, “Hot Springs,” is a shot of Fireball, a plunge in a cold lake, a rallying cry, a reclamation of your younger self🏵️🏛️⛲️
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/tracy-sidesi...
Follow Tracy on Substack: tracysidesinger.substack.com
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/tracy-sidesi...
Follow Tracy on Substack: tracysidesinger.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tracy Sidesinger’s debut literary essay, “Hot Springs,” is a shot of Fireball, a plunge in a cold lake, a rallying cry, a reclamation of your younger self🏵️🏛️⛲️
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/tracy-sidesi...
Follow Tracy on Substack: tracysidesinger.substack.com
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/tracy-sidesi...
Follow Tracy on Substack: tracysidesinger.substack.com
we’ve been working on an archive project👀 SHOUTOUT your favorite STS editors in the comments!! full list @ www.sotospeakjournal.org/previous-edi...
August 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
we’ve been working on an archive project👀 SHOUTOUT your favorite STS editors in the comments!! full list @ www.sotospeakjournal.org/previous-edi...
NEW POETRY by Sarah Giragosian 🪷 “Salvation” is a fish-eye lens, a candle when the power goes out, a gardener in a historical park — Salvation will save you if you let it.
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sarah-girago... 🌸🌱
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sarah-girago... 🌸🌱
August 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
NEW POETRY by Sarah Giragosian 🪷 “Salvation” is a fish-eye lens, a candle when the power goes out, a gardener in a historical park — Salvation will save you if you let it.
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sarah-girago... 🌸🌱
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sarah-girago... 🌸🌱
WHY ARENT YOU CALLING 911? by Zoé Mahfouz is a quick dip in a hotel pool, an inch of dust on a medical textbook, thick smoke that follows you around a campfire🐁✈️🚑
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/zoe-mahfouz-...
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/zoe-mahfouz-...
July 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
WHY ARENT YOU CALLING 911? by Zoé Mahfouz is a quick dip in a hotel pool, an inch of dust on a medical textbook, thick smoke that follows you around a campfire🐁✈️🚑
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/zoe-mahfouz-...
Read here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/zoe-mahfouz-...
Kale Hensley’s “Blunt Annunciation” is a roach held between your pinky and thumb. It asks you to roll each of its thousand words on your tongue. View it live in chef’s-knife 8k (whatever that means) @ sotospeakjournal.org/kale-hensley-blunt-annunciation & more collages at kalehens.com🔪🩸
July 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Kale Hensley’s “Blunt Annunciation” is a roach held between your pinky and thumb. It asks you to roll each of its thousand words on your tongue. View it live in chef’s-knife 8k (whatever that means) @ sotospeakjournal.org/kale-hensley-blunt-annunciation & more collages at kalehens.com🔪🩸
“Coin” is the orange glow on the metal coil of a vintage portable heater, rivulets of mountain water trailing down mossy stone, the quiet of waking up before everyone else. 🌅⭐️
Read Sebastian Bronson Boddie’s poems, “Coin” and “280 to Ithaca” here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sebastian-br...
Read Sebastian Bronson Boddie’s poems, “Coin” and “280 to Ithaca” here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sebastian-br...
July 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“Coin” is the orange glow on the metal coil of a vintage portable heater, rivulets of mountain water trailing down mossy stone, the quiet of waking up before everyone else. 🌅⭐️
Read Sebastian Bronson Boddie’s poems, “Coin” and “280 to Ithaca” here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sebastian-br...
Read Sebastian Bronson Boddie’s poems, “Coin” and “280 to Ithaca” here: www.sotospeakjournal.org/sebastian-br...
NEW FICTION🌵🌾 🪩
Katie Field says, “The first image I had of the story was of a queer person, perhaps myself, making a spectacle of themself as they chased a chicken through a sea of macho cis men. Eventually it grew into a love story” 🐓
Read here:
www.sotospeakjournal.org/katie-field-...
Katie Field says, “The first image I had of the story was of a queer person, perhaps myself, making a spectacle of themself as they chased a chicken through a sea of macho cis men. Eventually it grew into a love story” 🐓
Read here:
www.sotospeakjournal.org/katie-field-...
June 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NEW FICTION🌵🌾 🪩
Katie Field says, “The first image I had of the story was of a queer person, perhaps myself, making a spectacle of themself as they chased a chicken through a sea of macho cis men. Eventually it grew into a love story” 🐓
Read here:
www.sotospeakjournal.org/katie-field-...
Katie Field says, “The first image I had of the story was of a queer person, perhaps myself, making a spectacle of themself as they chased a chicken through a sea of macho cis men. Eventually it grew into a love story” 🐓
Read here:
www.sotospeakjournal.org/katie-field-...
June 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM