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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: TAKING POWER: A Special Issue

TAKING POWER: A Special Issue Call for submissions, women writers. Eckleburg invites writers who identify as women to submit fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid and experimental work for TAKING POWER, a special print issue. We want work that looks the world in the eye. As Gloria Steinem wrote: “Power can be taken, but not given. …

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The Editors
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. 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.
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On Watching a YouTube Video of a Couple Cutting Cake & Other Poems

Portrait of Jonathan Fletcher, Eckleburg contributor
“What is bread without blood?”

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Jonathan Fletcher
Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines, and he has won or placed in various literary contests. A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominee, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023, for which his debut chapbook, This is My Body, was published in 2025. Currently, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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Harpy Feathers

“The purest distillation of white, a divining wisp.”

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Jennifer Foxhoven
Jennifer Foxhoven is a playwright and fiction author currently studying to get her MFA in playwriting at NEOMFA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from The University of Houston. She has had short fiction published in multiple literary magazines including Quail Bell and Dark Horses and has short fiction forthcoming in The Literary Hatchett. She currently lives in Ohio with her wife and two corgis.
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More Trouble Than She’s Worth

“I hated baths long before I watched The Shining.”

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Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Sarah Terez Rosenblum’s work has appeared in literary magazines such as The Hopkins Review, The Pinch, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner (Shortlisted for Prairie Schooner’s Summer 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize.) and Calyx Press among others. Sarah’s nonfiction can be found at sites including Salon and Pop Matters. Sarah’s first novel Herself When She’s Missing was called “poetic and heartrending" by Booklist.
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Four Walls: Bastian Cities or Trace Italienne

Gunpowder changed everything.

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Michael Martone
Michael Martone’s newest book is Table Talk & Second Thoughts (Cornerstone Press, 2025), a memoir in flash. Martone has won two Fellowships from the NEA and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His stories and essays have appeared and been cited in the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Stories and The Best American Essays anthologies. He received his Master of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University where he studied under John Barth. Recently retired after teaching creative writing at four universities including the University of Alabama, he now lives in Tuscaloosa, below the Bug Line, where he putters in his gardens and works on his new book, Fort Fort Wayne. Read more at fourforaquarter.com.
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I Am Not Antigone: Notes on Losing My Brother

“Mike was the blue sky and I lost my breath.”

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Jessica Lanay
Jessica Lanay is a poet and short story writer originally from the Florida Keys. She is interested in writing towards the incalculable nature of human emotions, psychology, and metaphysical dilemmas. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and works at the Center for African American Poetry And Poetics. Her work can be found in Salt Hill Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Sugar House Review, and others. She is excited to have her work featured in Eckleburg, as she has been a fan for quite some time. Read more at lanay.me.
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Couples

"These portraits have a secondary meaning: when the male is spliced together with the female—a representation bi-sexual being is created. The composite Couples image represents the male and female qualities in all of us."

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Bobby Neel Adams
Bobby Neel Adams was born in Black Mountain, North Carolina and presently resides in Arizona on the Mexico Border. Adams has exhibited worldwide and his photographs are in the permanent collections of: International Center for Photography, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Station Museum, diRosa Foundation, and the Norton Family Foundation to name a few. Adams has received grants and awards from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, LEF Foundation, MacDowell Art Colony and the Hermitage. His book Broken Wings was published by the Greenville Museum in 1997. Adams is currently working on a series of Memento Mori photographs of insects, birds, and mammals. He is the Eckleburg No. 22 featured artist. Read more at bobbyneeladams.com.
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Rikki Ducornet

In her new collection of essays, The Deep Zoo, artist and writer Rikki Ducornet looks at where imagination, violence, dreams, and fairy tales represent the deep zoo at the core of humanity. Here, Ducornet discusses further the ways in which art and the written intersect in our lives and relations with one another, where the …

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Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer is the author of the award-winning essay collection, Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017) and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Hobart, Brevity, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Normal School and Black Warrior Review. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women On Writing and is a freelance editor. Her next collection of essays, Human Heartbeat Detected, is forthcoming (Fall 2022) from Red Hen Press. www.chelseyclammer.com
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Anorgasmia, Love and Something Wrong with Her: A Discussion with Cris Mazza

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Rae Cline
Rae Cline, Author of Precious Ugly
Rae Cline is the author of Precious Ugly, her debut novel (7.13 Books, 2026), and the story collection The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, North American Review and StoryQuarterly. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and lives in New York City. Rae Cline previously published as Rae Bryant.
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Stochasticism, Ambition and John Cage: A Discussion with Rick Moody

Portrait of Rick Moody, Eckleburg contributor
The below discussion on writing, music, stochasticism, David Bowie and John Cage took place in the Spring of 2013 over several weeks.

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Rae Cline
Rae Cline, Author of Precious Ugly
Rae Cline is the author of Precious Ugly, her debut novel (7.13 Books, 2026), and the story collection The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, North American Review and StoryQuarterly. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and lives in New York City. Rae Cline previously published as Rae Bryant.
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God Bless America, Independent Voters and Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal (Atlantic/Grove, 2002), The New York Times bestseller, Candyfreak (Algonquin Books, 2005), and God Bless America (Lookout Press, 2011).  His short fiction and essays can be found in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, Playboy, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares.

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The Editors
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. 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.
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Eckleburg Readers’ Favorite Line of the Week: Wendy BooydeGraaff’s “Check Out Line at All-Eyes On You Ophthalmology and Retinal Surgery Associates” and m.e. gamlem’s “Anonymous, 1987”

Eckleburg Readers’ Favorite Line of the Week: "Civil service, folks, we’ve got to help when we can!"
Eckleburg Readers' Favorite Line of the Week: "Civil service, folks, we’ve got to help when we can!" from Check Out Line at All-Eyes On You Ophthalmology and Retinal Surgery Associates by Wendy BooydeGraaff.

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The Editors
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. 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.
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Eckleburg Weekly: October 5-11, 2026

Eckleburg Weekly, the Sunday newsletter from Eckleburg
Eckleburg Weekly, October 5-11, 2026: new fiction, poetry, essays, art and interviews from Eckleburg, plus the literary week ahead in New York.

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Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. 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.
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Lit Up NYC: October 11-18, 2026

Lit Up NYC: a pen-and-ink drawing of the Empire State Building glowing over Murray Hill rooftops
Eckleburg's weekly guide to literary New York: readings and launches for the week ahead and next weekend, October 11-18, 2026.

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Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. 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.