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Tomorrow, 3/5, in Baltimore at #awp2026: our panel "Global Words in a Time of Crisis" w/ Guernica & @asterixjournal.bsky.social!

And looking ahead, our online Again Book Club with Anna Badkhen on WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is on 4/7: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

new story out today! it’s about a magical library, an immortal librarian, and a social worker who uses the library’s magic portals to help a victim of domestic violence escape a bad situation. thank you for reading! libraries rock!

Re-opening: Adi Magazine Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/adi-magazine-33704 #amwriting

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Lost and Found - Adi Magazine I. A red umbrella Its thin, battered nylon is as translucent as a membrane when Aurelia unfolds it over her head. One of her students must’ve forgotten

"In the dark, where no one can see what magic is at work, she slips behind a bookcase and through a portal to another world."

"Lost and Found," new fiction by Ruth Joffre (@ruthjoffre.bsky.social), is up today on the Adi site!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/los...

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Open call alert!! Adi is open for fiction submissions from 3/1 - 3/31!

Submissions are free, and we pay $500 per story.

Read the guidelines and submit here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

African Dodging through the Coal Mine Dressed as a Chemist - Adi Magazine

"The question is, how many daydreams do you get? / The question is, You ever heard your lungs crackle like foil before?"

New poetry by Justin A. Davis is live today on the Adi website, with art by Larissa Ribeiro!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/afr...

cento for all the things we said when they realized they should have believed us - Adi Magazine Editor's note: due to formatting, this poem is best viewed on a desktop. in most nyc public schools, k-12 students are not informed of their title ix

"i didn’t know him. i thought i knew him. i never knew him before. i never knew him like this."

New poem up today, "cento for all the things we said when they realized they should have believed us" by Deni Igusti, with art by Kaya Joan.

Read: adimagazine.com/articles/cen...

Issue 16: Omens - The Recurring Dream of the Water Mothers - Adi Magazine My past, / is a testament beyond erasure, beyond myth / or narrative revisioned.-Airea Dee Matthews For the penultimate issue of our Omens volume, we

Peruse poetry by Airea Dee Matthews and photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn in @adimagazine.bsky.social!

Their ten-part series “weaves mythic portraiture and epic poetry to visit with the water spirits of the African diaspora and transmit their healing properties.” adimagazine.com/issues/16/

Evidence - Adi Magazine That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking. Was making a proposal in fact.

"That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking."

A new short story, "Evidence" by Khaddafina Mbabazi, is up today on Adi's website, with artwork by Larissa Ribeiro!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/evi...

All the Others Have Won Their Wars: Three Poems by Heba Abunada - Adi Magazine O! How alone we are! All the others have won their wars and you were left in your mud, barren. Darwish, don’t you know? No poetry will return to the

"When I say Yafa,
a yacht sails
between my fingers,
and into my words
a crescent moon
falls."

Three new poems by Heba Abunada, translated with commentary from Huda J. Fakhreddine, are live on the Adi site today!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...

Almost Nothing I Wrote Exists - Adi Magazine One morning in the spring of 2019, I disappeared a little. I was at home in Havana, having coffee and googling my name as if I were flipping through a

"You don’t need to burn books when you can edit the metadata."

There's a new essay up today on the Adi site by Jesús Jank Curbelo entitled "Almost Nothing I Wrote Exists." Curbelo writes about censorship in Cuba and the fragility of digital archives.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/alm...

front cover of TAMIL TERRAINS with bw photo of boats (trace, 2025).

back cover of TAMIL TERRAINS with description & names of contributors. (trace, 2025)

Thanks to all who attended recent TO & online events for #TamilTerrains! An excerpt from Nedra Rodrigo's essay is up at @adimagazine.bsky.social & poems translated by Subhanya Sivajothy & Yalini Jothilingam are on @alllitupcanada.bsky.social poetry blog.

Islands in the Sky - Adi Magazine As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories.

“Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention.”

Read Ashia S. Ajani's essay “Islands in the Sky” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #BlackHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/isl...

An image of Adi Magazine's new website home page, with the words "Adi Magazine, rehumanizing policy" at the top. The design showcases six of the latest pieces and illustrations Adi has published against a tan background.

Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators.

Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!

River Humanism Taking a walk near home, no one expects to find a dead man in a corn field. When my neighbor here in Northern California did, he called 911 first and then uploaded the corpse’s photo to our housing co...

New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...

Again: Crossing the Mangrove How do we return to the same texts for inspiration, for teaching? Such returns, at times, feel tedious. I will admit that even when not engaged in revisiting texts, I'm often bored, making rereads eve...

The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

"...we lingered on those moments where the literary text acts as an archive of a cultural, historical, or artisanal experience. To translate them with a reverence for the archive seemed to be a form of resistance against the monolithic identities we are compelled to occupy in diaspora."

To Translate is to Resist I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...

We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...

Two upcoming free events in the next weeks! Join us on Zoom for:

➡️ On the Politics of Translation: 1/20/26 @ 5 PM ET, ft. Chenxin Jiang, Alaa Alqaisi, Nedra Rodrigo, & Heather Cleary!

➡️ Again Book Club: The Wretched of the Earth: 2/3/26 @ 7 PM ET!

REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/o/adi-magazi...

i suppose this is the aftershock, some things have always been / flammable

Marta’s Blues Already, she was in a mood. The surly guard didn’t help.  “You people are always late,” he barked.  And you people are always rude, Marta thought, knowing better than to say it, not to a thick-n...

"Already, she was in a mood. The surly guard didn’t help. “You people are always late,” he barked. And you people are always rude, Marta thought, knowing better than to say it."

New fiction by Sara Campos is out today!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/mar...

The Women’s Anaphora grab ‘em by the pussygrab the last speck of butter when he’s lookinggrab the keys, the telfar, the travel spraygrab your grandmother’s voice, promise it redemptiongrab the umbilical cord and braid it ...

"grab your own hand for no reason at all / grab history by the collar, before it flushes down the toilet"

A new poem by Shams Alkamil, "The Women's Anaphora" is live today on the Adi site! Art by Candice Evers

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

EVENT ALERT! We're thrilled to have a virtual panel, "On the Politics of Translation" upcoming on January 20, 2026, featuring Chenxin Jiang, Alaa Alqaisi, Nedra Rodrigo, and Heather Cleary!

Join us on 1/20/26 at 5 PM ET!

Free sign-ups: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-pol...

I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid i long for this ordinary apocalypse, my hands still as i kneadflour, wet with oil, as i watch the yeast rise asit wants for water,there are children outside playing in the asphalt, they arethrowing me...

"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..."

Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan.

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...

My last poem to share for 2025 is the first poem in "Beauty Talk" which comes out next fall with @noemipress.bsky.social! Thank you so much to Ladan Osman and Genevieve Hartman for including this poem in this month's curation!

I am the only person who can tell the story / of my departure

A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month.

Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!

What Migration Will Do To You This is the most she has ever said about the year she left. (I pointto what I can’t say.) And, to complete the story she reminds me, this is the mostshe’s ever told me. This December, she ...

"This country / doesn't exist for me without the story / of how we come to it."

We're so pleased to share our last piece of the year, Asa Drake (@asaldrake.bsky.social)'s gorgeous poem "What Migration Will Do to You!"

Art by Jinhwa Jang.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/wha...

Again: The Wretched of the Earth This essay marks the beginning of a new column for Adi Magazine called

NEW COLUMN ALERT!

The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth."

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...