Primal

“Paint your own pictures. Masterpieces. Hang them. Invite him over to see. Watch his jaw hang. So you’re good, he says. Threatens to steal. Your creations. Your life.”

Flash FictionSubmissionApril 27, 2020katie nickas, flash fiction, writing, women who write, women authors, read women, womxn who write, wild women, wild womxnComment

Iconoclastic

It wasn’t supposed to feel like this.

Creative Non-FictionSubmissionApril 20, 2020exodus oktavia brownlow, writing, creative non-fiction, CNF, women who write, witches who write, read women, storytelling, fill in the blank, interactive writingComment

Osun's Offerings

I braid these waves into a still water crown/ each braid, boxed at the root, a singular wish/ wrapped together like a promise

PoetrySubmissionApril 13, 2020poetry, osun, oshun, goddess, goddess osun, black women, black women writers, read women, witches who write, zora satchell, writingComment

someone else's boyfriend

“but of course / that’s all we do on the / aihland / drink lukewarm rum out of coconuts / that I suction onto my breasts / to let you rip off / & drink / the liquor sweating, glowing”

Poetry, Short StorySubmissionDecember 9, 2019prose, short story, poetry, Latinx art, latinx poetry, writing, creative writing, women who write, womxn who write, laura andreaComment

Back From the Dead Red

“The fire crept along the sides of her sleeping chamber. The blooming obsidian smoke choked the air from her quarters. Her screams for help were answered by a soot covered man with a receding hairline and ugly intentions.”

Short StoryKrizia BrunoApril 11, 2019novel excerpt, graphic novel excerpt, writing, creative writing, women writers, krizia i brunoComment

out of the city

Poems by Silvia La Rote

PoetrySubmissionMarch 25, 2019poetry, poems, women's poetry, women who write, silvia la rote, writing, creative writingComment

Touch

Two flash fiction pieces by Jessica Bergquist

Flash FictionSubmissionMarch 11, 2019flash fiction, writing, creative writing, creative non-fiction, fiction, prose, jessica bergquist, touch, fling, women writersComment

Ritual For When It’s Ash Wednesday & Mercury Retrograde & Your Idols Keep Dying

“Today the only fires you should start are on your altar.”

Tea with Hera During Venus Retrograde

“I wondered if there were ever times she forgot who she was; / if just knowing Zeus chased others— / made her find faults and want to carve them into her skin / so that each scar bellowed: Is this why I’m not enough?”