About Eckleburg

Eckleburg is a New York City-based literary and arts journal. You can purchase our new print issue here. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta-realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets Moira Egan and David Wagoner, and actor/comedian Zach Galifianakis.

Currently, Eckleburg runs online, daily content of original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, and more with featured artwork—visual and intermedia—from The Eckleburg Gallery. We run annual print issues, the Eckleburg Reading Series (DC, Baltimore and New York) as well as the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction, first prize $1000 and print publication, guest-judged by award-winning authors such as Rick Moody and Cris Mazza.

Eckleburg was founded by Rae Cline while a graduate writing student at Johns Hopkins University and has collaborated with literary, art and intermedia organizations in DC, Baltimore and New York including Epiphany Magazine, Split Lip Magazine, The Poetry Society of New York, KGB Bar, Brazenhead Books, New World Writing, The Hopkins Review, Boulevard, Gargoyle Magazine, Entasis Press, Barrelhouse, Hobart, 826DC, DC Lit and Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival. We like to promote small presses, galleries, musicians and filmmakers alongside globally recognized organizations, as well as our local, national and international contributors.

Rarely will readers/viewers find a themed issue at Eckleburg, but rather a mix of eclectic works. It is Eckleburg’s intention to represent writers, artists, musicians, and comedians as a contemporary and noninvasive collective, each work evidence of its own artistry, not as a reflection of an editor’s vision of what an issue “should” be. Outside of kismet and special issues, Eckleburg will read and accept unsolicited submissions based upon individual merit, not theme cohesiveness. It is our intention to create an experience in which readers and viewers can think artistically, intellectually, socially, and independently. We welcome brave, honest voices. To submit, please read our guidelines.