Aster(ix) Journal
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A transnational, feminist literary arts journal where womxn of color are at the center of the conversation.
Pittsburgh & the world
Joined November 2015
We are back! Our summer hiatus was filled with writing, reading, exploring, and gathering. We are excited to get back into the work. We’d like to announce an open call for submissions for a special DEBUT FICTION ISSUE guest edited by @cleyvisnatera, author of Neruda on the Park.
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We are seeking short stories from writers never published in-genre and standalone chapters from unpublished debut novels. We hope for the intimate, the honest, and the beautiful. Please follow the link for more details on the call and how to submit!.
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Our Debut Fiction Issue, guested edited by Cleyvis Natera, will feature short stories by unpublished writers and excerpts from debut novels. We're also looking for book reviews and interviews!
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@juliandlopera @drovarela @acruzwriter @caroderobertis @VChangPoet @amandajotien @zadri You can also order this beautiful issues in full color in print at a variety of vendors, including at @Bookshop_Org!
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The Spring 2024 issue of Aster(ix), BENDING, features work Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Julian Delgado Lopera, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Courtney Faye Taylor, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chinelo Okparanta, Shana L. Redmond, Lilliam Rivera, and Alejandro Varela.
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Our new issue, BENDING, is live! @acruzwriter solicited 12 writers to respond to artwork by Laylah Ali. They wrote back in micro-fictions, creative nonfiction, and poems. Drawings by Ali are interspersed throughout. Read for free at
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Our Spring 2024 issue, BENDING, is launching in a few weeks! If you're in Pittsburgh on April 10, please join us for a conversation @acruzwriter, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Laylah Ali. @PittWriters @CAAPPoetics @pittarts2pitt @pghwriterseries RSVP here:
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Come say hi at Table T1430 at #awpwriter! Free Aster(ix) print issues and postcards, and free tote bags from @CAAPPoetics. Plus don't miss @steffantriplett's book signing tomorrow Friday Feb 9 at 1pm. Pictured: Steffan with @BlackAndOutside and @amandajotien.
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Want a free print copy of Aster(ix)? Come by our Book Fair Table with @CAAPPoetics at #AWP24! Plus, catch @acruzwriter and @tashiraz on panels with @CleyvisNatera, @MitchSJackson, @NK_Adjei, @likaluca, @Maegan_Poland, @meadwriter, @yodelnyc, and @mpnye. See you in KC!
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Our 10-Year Anniversary Issue: Fiction & Interviews is out now! Read free online or order in-print. Feat @IvelisseWrites, @katie_gutz, @KiannyNAntigua, @UtushimiTwandi, @nathaliephandal, @sejalshahwrites, @vikhinao, @yalitzawrites! Edited by @acruzwriter
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We are thrilled to share the second part of our tenth anniversary double issue, highlighting some our best short fiction and interviews.
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Thank you to everyone who worked hard to make these issues (much less Aster(ix)!) a reality including but not limited to @acruzwriter, @zadri, @amandajotien, @tashiraz, @meganevalley, @SangiLama, @KiraWitkin, @paolawrites, @dawnlundy, @oinkness, @emilyraboteau and many more!
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The issue features work by. (We're going to hit the tag limit so fast with all these beautiful faces!) . @MarieMyungOkLee, @FluentMundo, @karenanhweilee, @shaylalawz, @lorgia_pena, @locasdelima, and many more not in the Twitterverse!
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Popping in from our summer hiatus 🌴🌊✍️🏽📖 to share the digital version of our 10th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE PART I: POETRY & NONFICTION! (Yes, Aster(ix) was really founded in 2013, can you believe?) Edited by @acruzwriter & Marta Lucia Vargas. Read here:
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Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue.
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Mothers are powerful, and they're great writers. Publish more moms! Happy mother's day to all the moms (however you may be defined!) out there; thank you for your hard work. Check out our collection of writing for #MothersDay2023 here:
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@AmarisCastillo @zafatista @poddar_namrata @AidaWrites Moms talk #climate 🌎 in our MOTHERS UNEARTHED ISSUE edited by @emilyraboteau & @tashiraz. Feat: @MarieMyungOkLee, @SujathaTF, @StacyLeMelle, @KiannyNAntigua, @nimmideviarchy, @Vanessa_LaLoba, @CarolynF21, @DeeshaPhilyaw and more: #MothersDay2023.
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Wildfires, pandemic. Loss, hope. All women writers. Curated pieces of inherited injustices compounded with immediate loss.
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@AmarisCastillo @zafatista @poddar_namrata @AidaWrites "My long-held aspirations did not stop existing when my children were born. I still want to tend to my dreams, to see if I have it in me to work on them until they’re solid and true. Does that make me selfish?" @AmarisCastillo writes in #MothersDay2023.
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My long-held aspirations did not stop existing when my children were born. I still want to tend to my dreams... Does that make me selfish?
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@AmarisCastillo @zafatista @poddar_namrata @AidaWrites ¡AY MAMÁ! A #TarotReading for #MothersDay2023 from Marlène Ramírez-Cancio: "The comforting mother might not be here, but El Desmadre is the most radical. ‘Approvechate’ this moment, take stock, and—when the time comes—rebuild from the ground up."
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In Spanish, a “desmadre” is not just any chaos, it is the mother of all chaos—a disorder so profound, it’s as if all our mothers suddenly disappeared...
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How do you be a mom AND a writer? @AmarisCastillo answered this question by interviewing @zafatista (WHAT'S MINE AND YOURS), @poddar_namrata (BORDER LESS), & @AidaWrites (JOVITA WORE PANTS). Hint: Step #2: Don’t wait. The optimal time will never come.
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How do they do it? I reached out to a few mother-writers who I admire – published authors who are doing the difficult yet rewarding job of raising children.
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Celebrating mothers who write this #MothersDay2023! @Lupita_Reads starts us off with a short essay + a beautiful list of 5 novels by @CleyvisNatera, Jhumpa Lahiri, @melissa_rivero, our own @acruzwriter, and @ndennis_benn. See thread for more. 🧵
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The thing I never expected after going viral on TikTok, was how emotional I would become. It was a simple video, less than 15 seconds. I’m holding a book, the title obscured. I overlaid text that...
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New #shortstory, "How You Mourn Zara," by Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam @ChiomaIwunze_ on our digital journal! Read online now at:
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Christina Vo’s new memoir, THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS*, explores how that path towards healing and self-love is never direct. Check out our book review by Sandra Lee. *out today from @shewritespress! Happy #pubday! .
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Christina Vo’s new memoir, THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, explores how that path towards healing and self-love is never direct.
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