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The Argyle Literary Magazine is BACK with Issue #4. NEW LOOK! NEW FOCUS! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART! STILL VERY COOL AF!!! Stay tuned for shared content and updates!
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General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!
The Argyle's 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees!!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Argyle's 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees!!!
Give some of our Best Microfiction 2026 Noms a read now, and some this December, why don't ya?
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November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Give some of our Best Microfiction 2026 Noms a read now, and some this December, why don't ya?
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BEST MICROFICTION 2026 NOMINEES!!!
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
BEST MICROFICTION 2026 NOMINEES!!!
Book Review "The Russian Brontosaurus-Cow as Seen with Faceted Vision: On Vladimir Sorokin’s The Sugar Kremlin" by Eric Vanderwall
“The Sugar Kremlin presents another fine entry in the catalogue of Sorokin’s works available in English.”
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“The Sugar Kremlin presents another fine entry in the catalogue of Sorokin’s works available in English.”
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The Russian Brontosaurus-Cow as Seen with Faceted Vision: On Vladimir Sorokin’s The Sugar Kremlin — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by Eric Vanderwall “ The Sugar Kremlin presents another fine entry in the catalogue of Sorokin’s works available in English. Although The Sugar Kremlin is a sequel in a loose sense, it is not a b...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Book Review "The Russian Brontosaurus-Cow as Seen with Faceted Vision: On Vladimir Sorokin’s The Sugar Kremlin" by Eric Vanderwall
“The Sugar Kremlin presents another fine entry in the catalogue of Sorokin’s works available in English.”
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“The Sugar Kremlin presents another fine entry in the catalogue of Sorokin’s works available in English.”
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Poetry Submissions for Issue #6 are now CLOSED!!! Thanks to all of those who submitted their work!
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Still accepting subs for CNF and Digital Art, so keep 'em coming!!!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Poetry Submissions for Issue #6 are now CLOSED!!! Thanks to all of those who submitted their work!
Still accepting subs for CNF and Digital Art, so keep 'em coming!!!
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Would LOVE to see some more Digital Art subs coming in for Issue #6 (coming December 15th)!!!
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Fiction subs for Issue #6 are currently CLOSED!!! So many quality subs!
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Still accepting subs for POETRY, CNF, and DIGITAL ART, so keep 'em coming!!!
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Fiction subs for Issue #6 are currently CLOSED!!! So many quality subs!
Still accepting subs for POETRY, CNF, and DIGITAL ART, so keep 'em coming!!!
Still accepting subs for POETRY, CNF, and DIGITAL ART, so keep 'em coming!!!
Due to an OVERWHELMING response of amazing poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art, subs for THEME 05: "GHOSTS" are now CLOSED.
While the submission window has breathed its last breath, "Ghosts" will be coming back for you on 12/15.
Might be our BIGGEST theme page yet!!!
While the submission window has breathed its last breath, "Ghosts" will be coming back for you on 12/15.
Might be our BIGGEST theme page yet!!!
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Due to an OVERWHELMING response of amazing poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art, subs for THEME 05: "GHOSTS" are now CLOSED.
While the submission window has breathed its last breath, "Ghosts" will be coming back for you on 12/15.
Might be our BIGGEST theme page yet!!!
While the submission window has breathed its last breath, "Ghosts" will be coming back for you on 12/15.
Might be our BIGGEST theme page yet!!!
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I've got three odes up in the @theargylelitmag.bsky.social latest realease: www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/hor...
Three Poems — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by David Harrison Horton “There are workers up and down / the block again. / Construction never ceases / in this city.”
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October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I've got three odes up in the @theargylelitmag.bsky.social latest realease: www.theargylelitmag.com/poetry-3/hor...
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I missed it when it first came out, but I have a flash essay at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social (published 9/15/25); while the title is about Spam, it's actually about Treet (and more, of course): www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...
Ten Cents Cheaper than Spam — The Argyle Literary Magazine
Creative Nonfiction by Kevin Brown “Treet was difficult to describe. Canned meat, sure, but also my 70s suburban satisfaction. Satiation, even.”
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October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I missed it when it first came out, but I have a flash essay at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social (published 9/15/25); while the title is about Spam, it's actually about Treet (and more, of course): www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...
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"She regifted all, a painless sloughing of skin. Vulture breeze, numb in the wreckage, stripped to bone, oblivious of the price tag dancing from his sleeve."
Read IALA member @jeffire.bsky.social's four poems published in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social! ✍ ✨
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Read IALA member @jeffire.bsky.social's four poems published in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social! ✍ ✨
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Four Poems — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by John Jeffire “Vulture breeze, numb in the wreckage, stripped to bone…”
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"She regifted all, a painless sloughing of skin. Vulture breeze, numb in the wreckage, stripped to bone, oblivious of the price tag dancing from his sleeve."
Read IALA member @jeffire.bsky.social's four poems published in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social! ✍ ✨
Find them here: bit.ly/3JtLZu8
Read IALA member @jeffire.bsky.social's four poems published in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social! ✍ ✨
Find them here: bit.ly/3JtLZu8
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October 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Congrats to our 2026 Best of the Net nominees!!!!
October 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Congrats to our 2026 Best of the Net nominees!!!!
General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!
October 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
General submissions are now OPEN for Issue #6, scheduled for publication December 15, 2025 @ 6 PM CST. Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!!
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BIG thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social for accepting my two micros, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost"!!! 🐂
"Kill me softly with your lipstick mouth, glistening like bloodhoney—haunted by spirits— under the slow burn of this bar light sun."
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September 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
BIG thanks to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and EIC @thedrevlow.bsky.social for accepting my two micros, "Black Cherry" and "Ghost"!!! 🐂
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If you’d like to read my new flash fiction story, check it out in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social issue 5!
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Vicious Fishes — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by Daniel Ruefman “Two days after Dovishaw went missing, Tony Banister’s third grade class lined up on the bridge over the spillway along the southern shore of Lake Guyasuta.”
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September 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you’d like to read my new flash fiction story, check it out in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social issue 5!
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Snapshots from my life in Hungary. You can read the entire piece in the latest issue of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Snapshots from my life in Hungary. You can read the entire piece in the latest issue of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social
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@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social with 5 food poems in her particular, startling vernacular “collateral scattered as cumin seeds/for flatbread.”
“its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased”
“You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god”
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“its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased”
“You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god”
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September 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social with 5 food poems in her particular, startling vernacular “collateral scattered as cumin seeds/for flatbread.”
“its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased”
“You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god”
🧡🧡🧡🔥🔥🔥
“its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased”
“You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god”
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If you have done youth work... you have met someone like Adrian. You agonize and you love them. Thank you so much @theargylelitmag.bsky.social ! You can read the entire piece in the latest issue. #WritingCommunity
September 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
If you have done youth work... you have met someone like Adrian. You agonize and you love them. Thank you so much @theargylelitmag.bsky.social ! You can read the entire piece in the latest issue. #WritingCommunity
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forgot to share yesterday but I'm excited to have 3 artwork pieces in this issue 🖤
Surprise! Issue #5 of The Argyle just dropped!!! Many thanks to all our amazing contributors, especially digital artist Paul Warren for yet another awesome cover.
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The Argyle seeks to blur the lines between genres and strips the labels off your “little darlings,” offering an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and distur...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
forgot to share yesterday but I'm excited to have 3 artwork pieces in this issue 🖤
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Happy to see my story Intersections in issue 5 of
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Intersections — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by Elizabeth Murphy “… their relationship one of convenience, he merely the provider, up until now, bankrupt in all the ways that matter, the damage done, the only hope that at least his lover Carte...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Happy to see my story Intersections in issue 5 of
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Hey, #writingcommunity. A couple of short stories by me made their way into @theargylelitmag.bsky.social’s recent “Gastronomy” issue. Check out “The Things My Father Used to Eat” and “The Things Our Mother Made Us Eat.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...
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The Things My Father Used to Eat — The Argyle Literary Magazine
Fiction by Andrew Careaga “And now, I think, perhaps that was why he ate those strange organs with such vigor. Perhaps they were some curandero’s remedy, some potion, some magic to inoculate him fro...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hey, #writingcommunity. A couple of short stories by me made their way into @theargylelitmag.bsky.social’s recent “Gastronomy” issue. Check out “The Things My Father Used to Eat” and “The Things Our Mother Made Us Eat.” www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...
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@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Special Velvet Underground Issue! Excited to be Guest Editor alongside Blood + Honey Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Tell us how the never-ending drone of an electric viola warms your heart🎵🎵🎵🎻
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Special Velvet Underground Issue! Excited to be Guest Editor alongside Blood + Honey Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Tell us how the never-ending drone of an electric viola warms your heart🎵🎵🎵🎻
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@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Special Velvet Underground Issue! Excited to be Guest Editor alongside Blood + Honey Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Tell us how the never-ending drone of an electric viola warms your heart🎵🎵🎵🎻
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Special Velvet Underground Issue! Excited to be Guest Editor alongside Blood + Honey Poetry Editor @hubbsd.bsky.social
Tell us how the never-ending drone of an electric viola warms your heart🎵🎵🎵🎻
Featured CNF "Junkie Horror Story" by Amanda Izzo
“As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”
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“As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”
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Junkie Horror Story — The Argyle Literary Magazine
by Amanda Izzo “As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”
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September 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Featured CNF "Junkie Horror Story" by Amanda Izzo
“As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”
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“As soon as we turned the corner, I apologized to the Edie Falco look-alike on my new roommate's behalf, and in the same breath immediately inquired about that free government dope.”
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