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Womxn’s History Month Special Issue: Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural Womxn's History Month Special Issue, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. We...
The Winners of the 2019 Winter Contest!
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2019 Winter Contest, which was judged by Ruth Madievsky, Ada Calhoun, and Ottessa...
Four Poems by Jay Besemer
"its / note / a / common name."
Review: The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
Despite the fact that it takes place in 1871, The Illness Lesson feels eerily contemporary.
Animal Instincts
Everything feels like a death. I climb the tree and my husband hands me the bird.
Delusion: A short story by Ibrahim N. Al-Huraiyes translated from the Arabic
Pointing toward the carousel ride, where the child’s attention was fixed, he asked, “Why don’t you play with the other kids?”
Review: Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
Irby’s signature sardonic voice nibbles playfully at your ear from the first page, where she dedicates the collection to Wellbutrin.
“Red’s Shrewdness” by Lauren Camp
"Red goes on / in my cavernous eyes."
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Runner-Up: “The Washing Society”
"The poem wants to try on her voice, / saying I did this work...."
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Runner Up: “Claiming Honey”
"My mother knows how / to choose the best: the ones / with smooth pale skin. / She presses a honeydew / to her cheek,...
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Winner: Poems by Winniebell Xinyu Zong
"oh what if / I / will be the reason / you are re- / membered."
Review: Bird Summons by Leila Aboulela
This novel is at its best in its moments of careful consideration of the anxieties of its main characters.
Two Bijan Elahi poems translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
It is neither strange/ nor fun/ when they knock on the door.