an online literary journal run by people who are directly and indirectly impacted by violent conflict and military service

We’ve been publishing two issues per year—every May and November—since 2016. Every issue includes poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and an interview with one featured visual artist. 

Our editorial vision is to be as inclusive as possible and ideologically diverse. We are interested in amplifying voices of minorities and the marginalized, and we recognize that our archives don’t yet reflect the full diversity of writers in the world. That said, we especially encourage submissions from artists of historically silenced backgrounds.

We don’t charge reading fees, we read year-round, and we don’t filter submissions through readers; our editors read and consider every submission carefully—and with gratitude

Creative nonfiction

We especially encourage submissions from artists of underrepresented backgrounds, including LGBTQ, veteran, and artists of color.

Abby E. Murray

Jacqlyn Cope

Mariette Kalinowski

Jennifer L. Miller

Collateral Journal

we do not accept previously published poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction, we do, however, consider previously published visual art

General call

BIO: Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – MFA

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss living and working in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read her latest work in The Disappointed Housewife, Subnivean, The Woolf, and forthcoming in Across the Margin and The Vincent Brothers Review. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an award-winning and anthologized American-Swiss writer who lives in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her long-form fiction in publications including As You Were, Collateral, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Litbreak Magazine, Longleaf Review, Subnivean, New World Writing, and upstreet. Her flash fiction has appeared in publications including The Woolf, The Disappointed Housewife, Bandit Fiction, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Flash Boulevard, Fudoki Magazine, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, Lunate, Reflex Fiction, and Orca Lit. Her monthly musings about life and her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her short stories in a variety of publications, including As You Were: The Military Review, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Longleaf Review, New World Writing, Subnivean, and upstreet. Her flash fiction appears in Bandit Fiction, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, and Orca Lit. She’s at work on a collection of short stories, a collection of flash fiction, and a campus novel involving misogyny and plagiarism. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – at work on . . . 

A border station on the radio played its early-bird program, new albums in their entirety. Gloria rocked her hips to Barbara Lynn’s bluesy “You’ll Lose a Good Thing.”

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