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Did someone say free submissions? We are now accepting subs for a "Reversal" themed web edition of Ninth Letter. Send us work that portrays reversal in form or content (or both)! Submissions will close when we hit our cap of 325 subs per genre. Link in bio for more!

We are proud to announce the Winter 2025 web edition of Ninth Letter, "de/composition," is now live on our website. Thank you to our contributors for trusting us with their work and to our team for their efforts. Always free, always fantastic, give it a read today. Link in bio!

Excited to have a new essay out in Ninth Letter ninthletter.com/2025/02/28/lau…

Will you be at AWP? We will! Put us on your calendar of events for that Saturday night! We have a stellar lineup, partnered with Ninth Letter, we’ll have free drink tickets and we’re pretty excited about this venue!! Hope to see you there!

📣 Announcing our annual Literary Awards and this year’s fantastic judges 📣 Send us your unpublished work and get a free 1-year subscription to Ninth Letter—oh and the chance to win $1,000! Deadline: Midnight, April 30th. For more information, link in bio ✨

Thank you to our the Univ. of IL for choosing 9L to participate in the #OrangeAndBlue crowdfunding drive. If you love lit mags or creative writing, please consider donating until Mar 9 so we can keep creating unique publications to share with the world. bit.ly/4hdUuV1

We are excited to continue our partnership with Disquiet ILP and publish Tylea Richard’s winning piece at ninthletter.com this summer!

Come see the Ninth Letter team at booth 610 at #awp2025 in LA! We can’t wait to meet you! Exclusive discounts, candy, and more 😎

Only one week left to submit! Send us your work by April 30th 💌 First prize is $1,000 for each genre, print and web publication, and bragging rights! Every U.S. entrant receives a free, one-year print subscription per submission. Full guidelines on our website + link in bio ✨

Today's the day! Send in your last minute submissions for a chance at $1,000. ✨ Link in bio ✨

New story just dropped! Read "Three Plagues" by Ivy Grimes for free on our website. Link in bio!

The 2025 9L Literary Awards deadlines is extended until May 10 at 11:59 p.m. CDT! Last chance to win 1 of 3 $1000 prizes + publication. Stay tuned as we drop free web access to 2024 winning pieces all week. Link in bio for full details.

Hi, poets! Ninth Letter is open for submissions to our annual literary awards contest until May 10. We award $1,000 and print publication to the winning poet. You can submit up to 8 pages of work. Link in bio for full details. We hope to read your work!

Hi, writers! Ninth Letter is open for submissions to our annual literary awards contest until May 10! We award $1,000 and print publication our winter issue to the winner in fiction, cnf, and poetry. Check out our link in bio for full details, and we hope to read your work!

We're proud to share this fantastic poem by Michelle Phương Hồ which will appear in print in Volume 21, Issue 02. Check out "Facing It," and stay tuned all week for more work from out 2024 contest winners! Link in bio.

We're thrilled to feature the work of Daniel Uncapher whose three collage essays won the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction selected by Kristen Millares Young. Check out this genre-bending work live on our website & in print soon in Vol. 21.2. Link in bio!

We’re back to share more incredible writing! Don’t miss Anne Pritikin's short story “Hold Hands, Children,” which received an honorable mention for fiction in our 2024 Literary Awards chosen by Lena Valencia. Live now on our website. Link in bio!

Today is your last chance to submit to the 2025 Literary Awards! Check out our website for inspo, guidelines, and send us your best! Link in bio ✨

Ninth Letter, in partnership with I-Regen, is accepting submissions to the 2025 Regeneration Literary Awards. The great Scott Chaskey serves as our guest judge. Submit your work that explores the “regeneration,” specifically as it relates to food and food systems. Link in bio!

Ninth Letter is honored to feature Tylea Richard’s essay “Caribbean Gothic,” which is the Disquiet ILP Literary Award’s Nonfiction Prize winner for 2025. Read it for free at ninthletter.com. Link in bio!