a digital space feat. poetry, art, nonfiction, interviews, and reviews by marginalized creators

This is a world in which the loudest voices are the marginalized. This is a world of poetry, prose, art, reviews, and interviews that fits outside the mainstream literary scene, yet still of significant literary merit.

We actively seek work from authors and creators from diverse and marginalized backgrounds and identities. We don’t care who has (not) published your work in the past. We are interested in hearing from those who are drowning.



Alana King

Nicole-Anne Bales Keyton

Christian Bañez

Ola Faleti

Clair Dunlap

Vagabond City Literature

We don’t accept works that play into the traditional oppressiveness of the literary canon, i.e. voicing the stories we hear often from the perspectives of cishet, white, upper-class able-bodied males. No slurs, unless you’re reclaiming them; if this is the case, please be sure that these slurs align with identities you’ve told us you have in your bio.

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Molly Harris is a writer, editor, and educator out of St. Louis, MO. She is the deputy editor of Boulevard Magazine, and she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has also attended the Online Kenyon Writers' Workshop. She has been previously published in Barnstorm Journal, A Door is a Jar Magazine, Westwind: UCLA's Journal of the Arts, and elswhere. Read more about her here: www.mollyjaneharris.com.

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Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications in print and online, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. She worked previously as an editor at Hecate Magazine, Wrong Publishing, the Jupiter Review, and Longleaf Review. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

general bio

Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

50-word bio

Dear editors,

Thank you for considering this piece for publication at Five on the Fifth. This is a simultaneous submission and if accepted, I publish work under my first name only. The word count of this piece is 860.

Bio: Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

Warm regards,
Auzin Ahmadi (she/her)

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NSFW cover letter

Becs Tetley is a nonfiction writer and editor based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her personal essays have appeared in The Spinoff, Turbine | Kapohau, Headland, Folly Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from AUT and can be found on social media: @BecsTetley.

NZ bio Aug 24

Encouraged by the special note on my last submission, I’m sending along another piece. Hopefully this one hits the mark!

For encouraging lit mags

Becs Tetley is a nonfiction writer in Wellington, New Zealand. Her personal essays have appeared in The Spinoff, Roi Fainéant, Reckon Review, Vagabond City Lit, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a memoir about living in five countries over five years in search of belonging and a sense of self. She can be found online: @BecsTetley.

USA Bio Mar 25

If mangoes and melons and baby sisters have odes of their own, apples deserve a poem. So do apricots, bananas, and younger brothers ...

Missing Loaf-Middles + Never Land + Pretérito

"I want back the tenderness and joy I felt on the day I got my fallopian tubes removed. I want to hold myself like a soft fluffy thing again. Skin clamped down by faith and black polymer."

A More Private Pain

The Honey Badger

watch        we said        how each of us becomes 
more precious in death               and even more deadly.

TWO POEMS: high water & WITNESS

A Jinx, A Charm, A Broken Curse

A poem about my decade-long struggle with chronic headaches and migraines, especially about my struggles understanding myself in relation to my illness.

i tried to write a poem about my body. my body wrote a poem about me.

Untitled #1

Gaby, Have You Done Your Best?

"It’s been three years since you took me to lunch at that bistro for my birthday. We’d spent weeks flirting in the office, but it wasn’t until we were sitting at that table, a plate of bruschetta between us, that you confessed to being married."

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