A literary journal for voices between cultures, languages, and belonging. Issue II: After seeks poetry, fiction, and nonfiction exploring what remains, transforms, or begins again. $100 per contributor. Deadline September 1.

Liminal Lit is an advocacy-focused literary journal for writers navigating the complexities of multiple identities. We exist because the most powerful stories often live in the "in-between," the friction of existing at the intersection of different cultures, religions, languages, or the experience of being a minority in your own community.

Whether you are writing about what lingers, what disappears, or what begins again, we want your raw perspectives. We are interested in the ways people make meaning from what came before and navigate who they become after.

Issue II: After is now open for submissions. We are seeking poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction exploring change, loss, migration, rupture, growth, departure, becoming, and wherever else the theme takes you. Interpret After broadly.

Payment: $100 per selected contributor.

Deadline: September 15th, 2026. Decisions by late September. Publication in October.

Simultaneous submissions welcome. We strongly prioritize voices from diaspora and marginalized backgrounds.

Liminal Lit

Liminal Lit is an independent literary journal dedicated to work that explores the spaces between identities, cultures, languages, places, and ways of belonging. For Issue II: After, we’re looking for writing that considers what remains, changes, or begins after something else has ended. “After” can mean aftermath, memory, transformation, inheritance, survival, departure, return, or something entirely unexpected. We welcome emerging and established writers from anywhere in the world and especially love work that approaches the theme in surprising, personal, or unconventional ways. Submissions are completely free, and each contributor selected for Issue II will receive $100.

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